Women's Basketball | 3/10/2016 9:25:00 AM
Complete Game Notes (PDF)
VS. THE LAKERS - Lewis is 8-10 all-time against Grand Valley State. The Lakers handed Lewis one of their only two losses this season, defeating the Flyers 71-63 on Nov. 25, 2015. The Flyers were doomed by a second quarter that saw them outscored 25-12. The Lakers and Flyers have one previous meeting in the NCAA Tournament. Lewis fell to GVSU 73-58 in the opening round in 1998.
TOUGH STUFF - Five of the eight teams in the Midwest Region are ranked in the WBCA NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll. Only the Central Region, with six, has more teams ranked in the top 25. The Midwest Region winner is matched up with the Central Region winner in the Elite Eight. Thus, if you combined the two region as one, that means 11 of the top 25 teams in the nation are in the same quadrant.
VS. THE FIELD - Lewis' record against teams in the regional: Ashland (9-14), Ursuline (0-0), Drury (7-9), Quincy (18-25), Grand Valley (8-10), Bellarmine (24-39), Saginaw Valley (7-3)
ALL-TIME IN NCAA PLAY -Â Lewis is 7-10 all-time in NCAA Tournament play.
1983-84Â Â Â vs. Northwest Missouri State L 63-81
1984-85Â Â Â vs. Clarke L 63-64
1997-98Â Â Â vs. Grand Valley State L 58-73
2004-05Â Â Â vs. Southern Indiana W 64-32
   vs. Indianapolis L 56-63
2005-06Â Â Â vs. Lake Superior State W 89-66
   vs. Drury L 68-85
2006-07Â Â Â vs. Bellarmine W 82-62
   vs. Drury L 62-67
2010-11Â Â Â vs. Michigan Tech L 56-72
2012-13Â Â Â vs. UW-Parkside L 49-59
2013-14Â Â Â vs. Missouri-St. Louis W 69-64
   vs. Wayne State L 80-87
2014-15Â Â Â vs. UW-Parkside W 80-66
   vs. Wayne State W 71-63
   vs. Ashland W 83-76
   vs. Limestone L 58-61
WITH A WIN - Should Lewis win on Friday, they would play the winner of No. 3 seeded Bellarmine and No. 6 seeded Saginaw Valley State on Saturday at 5:00 p.m.
JUST THREE MORE! -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) has scored 1,966 career points. She is second all-time in Lewis history. Darcee Schmidt (2003-07) is Lewis' all-time leading scorer with 1,968 points.
MAJOR AWARDS - The Flyers received three major GLVC awards in 2016.
Kristen Gillespie (Chuck Mallander GLVC Coach of the Year),
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) (GLVC Player of the Year) and
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) (GLVC Freshman of the Year) were all honored. It is the first time in league history one team has earned all three honors in the same season. Brawner-Henley and Kelliher also took home All-GLVC First Team accolades. Brawner-Henley is now the first in program history to earn All-GLVC First Team honors three times in her career. Kelliher is the first freshman to earn First Team accolades since Northern Kentucky's Michelle Cottrell in 1999.
HISTORY - Lewis went 18-0 in GLVC play this year, becoming just the third team in league history to do so. The 2005-06 Drury Panthers went 19-0. The 1996-97 Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles went 20-0 in the GLVC.
DIVISION CHAMPS - Lewis' East Division Championship this year is their fourth straight.
FIELD GOALS FOR MBH -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) owns 805 career field goals, the most in Lewis history. She became the all-time leader in the category on Feb. 11 at Quincy.
SINGLE SEASON POINTS - Brawner-Henley owns 609 points this season. After last year's total of exactly 600, she is now the first Flyer in school history to record two 600-point single seasons. Â
CAREER REBOUND RECORD - Brawner-Henley owns 1,262 career rebounds, the most of any GLVC player in league history.
QUITE THE DUO -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) and
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) are the second best scoring pair in the nation with Brawner-Henley at 13th (20.3 ppg) and Kelliher at 38th (18.2 ppg). Their 38.5 combined points per game fall just behind Texas A&M Int'l's Keiona Mathews (20.9) and Jessica Prieto (19.4).
NINE IS TOPS -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) owns nine career GLVC Player of the Week Awards, including four this year. Her nine career awards are the most for any player in league history. That total is impressive considering at 16 schools the GLVC is one of the largest conference in DII. It also doesn't do divisional (East Division Player of the Week, etc) awards like many conferences do.
TWO YEARS IN THE GLVC - The Flyers suffered only one loss last year in GLVC play. Only one other school, the 1996-97 and 1997-98 Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles, went two straight years with only one conference loss. The 1996-97 team was 20-0 while the following year USI went 19-1.
GLVC WINS - Thanks to Lewis' 18-0 mark in the GLVC this year, the Flyers closed the season on a school-record 22-game GLVC win streak.
OPEN 23 HOURS - 23 is a lucky, or an unlucky, number for the Flyers. Lewis won 23 consecutive games this season before falling to Quincy last week, matching the streak set last season when the squad opened the season 23-0.
CENTURY MARK - Since the 2012-13 season, Lewis is 106-17. Only four other GLVC teams have won 100 games in a four year span. 1998-02 Northern Kentucky won 113, 1987-91 Saint Joseph's won 103, 2005-09 Drury won 102 and 1994-98 Southern Indiana won 100.
20/20 VISION - The Flyers are in the middle of their 10th 20-win season in program history. Lewis has won 20 plus games for four straight years. The only other time Lewis recorded consecutive 20-win seasons was 1983-84 & 1984-85.
TIME IS ON MY SIDE - The Flyers have held a lead for 30 minutes or more in 19 of their games. On the season, Lewis has held a lead for 934:05 of a possible 1190 minutes. That means the Flyers have spent 78.4 percent of the season in the lead.
IT IS A SIMPLE GAME - Lewis has recorded a better field goal percentage than their opponent in every game this season.
DEFENSE, DEFENSE - Only four opponents have reached 40 percent shooting against the Flyers this season. Rockhurst put together the best shooting performance against Lewis this year, finishing with a 48.3 percentage.
DEFENSE LIKE IT'S 1998 - Lewis is limiting opponents to 56.6 points per game. The last time Lewis finished a season with opponents averaging in the 50's was the 1997-98 season when Lewis gave up 55.4 points per game.
TOP 10 OR MORE -
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) has recorded double-digit points in 28 consecutive games and 29 of the 30 contests this year.
THAT'S DECENT - How dominating of a rebounder was Brawner-Henley compared to the rest of the GLVC in the regular season? She grabbed the same amount of defensive rebounds (243) than the second best rebounder in the league (UIS' Syerra Cunningham)grabbed total rebounds (243).
"MO" BLOCKS -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North), or Mo to her teammates, ranks second all-time in Lewis career blocks with 141. Julie Fruendt's (1981-85) 215 is first.
SINGLE-GAME BOARDS - Lewis senior
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) grabbed a career-high 23 rebounds on Jan. 7 vs. Drury. It also tied the Lewis school record for single-game rebounds. Julie Fruendt also grabbed 23 rebounds in a game against Valparaiso during the 1984-85 season.
1,500 & 1,000 -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) recorded her 1,500th career point and 1,000th rebound in the contest vs. Indianapolis (Dec. 5). She is one of only four active women's basketball players in NCAA DI, DII or DIII with 1,500 points and 1,000 rebounds.
HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE - Since the start of the 2012-13 season, Lewis is 50-2 at home.
WBCA POLL - Lewis has been ranked in the USA TODAY/WBCA NCAA DII Poll for 40 consecutive polls, dating back to Jan. 14, 2014.
FREE FOR THE FROSH - Freshman
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) has shown a propensity for getting to the free throw line. Of her 547 points on the season, 129 have come from the charity stripe. She had a 10-of-10 performance against Ferris State on Nov. 29, 2015.
FROSH FROM THE FLOOR -
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) has been nearly as effective when being guarded, as she ranks fifth in the nation in field goal percentage at 60.4 percent (209-of-346).
AS A MATTER OF FACT... -
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North)'s field goal percentage this year is nearing the best shooting performance in school history. The current record for single-season shooting percentage is 61.0 by Gloria Robinson from 1988-89.
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FRESHMEN FLYERS -
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) is averaging 18.2 points per game. She is in rare territory as the last Lewis freshman to average that many points was Chris Toscas' 23.7 points per game in 1988-89. No freshman has averaged 14.0 points or more since Toscas.
NATION'S BEST -
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) is NCAA Division II's leading freshman scorer, averaging 18.2 points per game.
QUARTER OR MORE - Lewis has won 18 games by 25 points or more since the last time they lost a game by 25 points (94-59 at Central Missouri on Dec. 16, 2011).
IN THE NATION - Lewis is...
3rd in field goal percentage (49.1)
6th in opponent field goal percentage (33.9)
14th in points allowed (56.6)
18th in scoring margin (14.1)
21st in rebound margin (6.9)
33rd in 3-point field goal percentage (35.8)
10 OR MORE -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) has started 91 games in her Lewis career. She has scored in double-digits in 89 of them. Her two starts where she came up short, she had eight points.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE QUEEN -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) won the NCAA DII double-double title with 23 in 2013-14 and shared it in 2014-15 with 25. This year she has 21, in third. Jordyn Nuerenberg (Northwood (MI)) and Taylor Mann (Dixie St.) both have 22.
DOUBLE TROUBLE -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) owns 71 career double-doubles. Second most in NCAA DII history. That is where she will stay, as even if she records a double-double in each game all the way to the NCAA National Championship game, she can't catch the all-time leader Celeste Trahan (Elizabeth City St.) who had 84 from 2005-08.
MAKING BASKETS -
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North)'s 257 field goals this season are the second most in NCAA DII.
WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART -
Alyssa Dengler (Chicago, Ill./Trinity) has played in 123 career games, but her first career start didn't come until her 99th career game on Nov. 25 against GVSU.
SPEAKING NATIONALLY - Of all current players in NCAA Division II,
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) leads the nation in career double-doubles (71), rebounds (1,260) and made field goals (805). She is third in scoring (1,966).
PERFECT X2 - A pair of Flyers put together perfect shooting games in consecutive days. Freshman
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) was 7-of-7 from the floor and 6-of-6 from the free throw line against Davis & Elkins (Nov. 21). The following day
Alyssa Siwek (Palos Heights, Ill./Mother McAuley) shot 7-of-7 from the floor and 1-of-1 from the free throw line against Alderson Broaddus (Nov. 22).
20/20 -
Jessica Kelliher (Waukesha, Wis./Waukesha North) wasted little time earning her first career 20-point game, doing so in her fifth career contest with 20 against Davis & Elkins (Nov. 21). She earned her first 20-point contest well before her current All-American teammates did.
Mariyah Brawner-Henley (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) did so in her eighth career game, but it was her only 20-point game of her freshman year.
Jamie Johnson (South Holland, Ill./Marian Catholic) didn't have a 20-point game in her freshman year of 2011-12. She redshirted due to injury in 2012-13, and then it took another 10 games as a redshirt sophomore in 2013-14 before she scored 20 points. It was Johnson's 38th career contest.
FOUR IS ENOUGH - Lewis attempted only four 3-pointers on Wednesday (Dec. 30) against Cumberland. They made all four. The last time Lewis attempted four or fewer 3-pointers in a game was Jan. 25, 2014 at Bellarmine. In that game, Lewis missed all four attempts.
SEEING DOUBLE - Junior
Alyssa Siwek (Palos Heights, Ill./Mother McAuley) recorded 11 points and 10 assists at Wayne State (Mich.) on Dec. 20, 2015. The last time a Flyer recorded a double-double in points and assists was
Nikki Nellen (New Berlin, Wis./Pius XI) on Jan. 23, 2014 at home vs. Southern Indiana. Nellen, Lewis' all-time assists leader, had 11 points and 10 rebounds in Lewis 95-85 win over the Screaming Eagles.
50 IS ENOUGH - Lewis picked up a 54-41 win over Drury on Jan. 7. It was the first time Lewis won a contest while scoring less than 60 points since defeating Missouri S&T 50-42 on March 8, 2013 in the GLVC Tournament in Evansville, Indiana.
RECORD HIGH - Lewis' 111 points against Alderson Broaddus on Nov. 22 marked the most in a regulation game for the Flyers in program history. Lewis matched the number in an 111-105 triple-overtime win at Indianapolis on Jan. 30, 2014, but in 40 minutes of basketball, the Alderson Broaddus total is the best. The previous high for a regulation game was a 110-105 win over Chicago State in 1981.
FETED FLYER – Earlier this year,
Jessie Tennant (Algonquin, Ill./Jacobs) won the Lincoln Academy of Illinois Laureate Award, this award honors individuals whose contributions to the betterment of humanity have been accomplished in or on behalf of the State of Illinois, or, whose achievements have brought honor to the state because their dedication exemplifies the great Illinoisan whose name it bears. Only one senior student at each of the four-year institutions in Illinois are honored for overall excellence, in both curricular and extra-curricular programs.
