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OWENS EXPRESS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
10-TIME OCCAC CHAMPIONS 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
6 NJCAA All-Americans --- 7 NJCAA National Tournament Appearances --- 2015 NJCAA Final 4
TODAY’S MATCHUP
NOTES
- Welcome to this evening’s matchup between your No. 3 Owens Express and the visiting Oakland Raiders. Tonight’s game will be broadcasted by BCSN, and it will be streamed live through the department’s YouTube page, which can be found by searching Owens Express Athletics. - Oakland enters tonight’s game with an 0-10 record. They feature a freshmen heavy roster that only includes one sophomore and a first-year head coach. They do not have complete stats entered on the NJCAA website. - Owens and Oakland do have one common opponent this year in Grand Rapids and Lansing. Oakland fell 80-48 to GRCC and 71-39 to Lansing, while Owens defeated GRCC 92-34 and Lansing 107-55. - With a win tonight, Owens would break the 2010-11 team’s record for the best start to a season in program history. Owens has won its first 11 games by an average margin of 45 points per game. In fact, they haven’t won a Head Coach: Head Coach: game by fewer than 22 points, and their total margin of Mike Llanas (13th Yr.) Danielle Johnson (1st Yr.) victory (496) is just 19 points fewer than the total amount of points they have given up (515). Defensively, the team hasn’t allowed more than 56 points in a single game this Career Record: Career Record: year. 304-96 0-10 - Owens is now 64-1 at home since February of 2012. - Owens has now won 25 consecutive regular season Career OCCAC Record: Career MCCAC Record: games dating back to Jan. 6 of last season. That is just four short of tying the program’s record, which is currently 128-29 0-0 held by the 2014-15 team, which won its final 29 games after losing the season opener. - Owens has the following players in the top 25 in statistical categories - Ariel Bethea is 11th in steals at 4.0 per game, Haili Mossing is 19th in assist/turnover ratio at 3.2 PPG: Bethea 13.6 PPG: n/a and Essence Cowan is 18th in 3-point field goal percentRPG: Ivey 8.7 RPG: n/a age at 44.8 percent. APG: Pennington 397 APG: n/a SPG: Bethea 4.0 SPG: n/a - As a team, Owens is in the top 10 in the nation in the BPG: Troike 2.0 BPG: n/a following statistical categories - points per game (2), FG%: Reese 56.0 FG%: n/a blocks (5), assists (5), rebounds (2), defensive rebounds 3PT FG%: Mossing 47.6 3PT FG%: n/a (3), offensive rebounds (9), FT percentage (5) and FG FT %: Troike 88.2 FT %: n/a percentage (8). - Owens is 12-3 all-time against Oakland, including a 10-2 record on its home court. The two teams met last year with Owens coming out on top 94-91 on the road Nov. 7. Head coach Mike Llanas is 3-1 all-time against Oakland. The series featured an eight-game winning streak for Owens from Nov. 22, 1994 to March 7, 2003. - Owens enters today with a 36-game regular season winning streak in conference play, although today is a non-league game. - To view the schedule and results, along with links to recaps, photo albums and videos this year, visit OwensExpress.com and select women’s basketball from the sport dropdown. Once there, click on schedule/results dropdown and then the corresponding links will appear next to each game. - You can follow live updates on Twitter by searching thehandle @owensexpress, and you can find us on Facebook by searching Owens Express Athletics. We also have an Instagram page you can find by searching Owens Express Athletics.
No. 3 OWENS
VS
OAKLAND
THE BASICS
STATISTICAL LEADERS
2016-17 Oakland Raiders Roster No. Name Ht. Yr. Pos. Hometown 1 Ariyana Jordan 5-6 SO G Romulus, MI 2 Shannell Gordon 5-7 FR G River Rouge, MI 3 Khadiah Lucas 5-5 FR G Oak Park, MI 5 Alisha McCain 5-6 FR G Commerce, MI 10 Parys Fuller 5-3 FR G Detroit, MI 15 Marisa Wade 5-5 FR G Grand Blanc, MI 34 Cheyenne Sterling 5-8 FR F Lake Orion, MI HEAD COACH: Danielle Johnson (1st Season) ASSISTANT COACH: Duran Franklin (1st Season)
2016-17 RECORD IN DEPTH OVERALL RECORD: 11-0 OCCAC Region XII Home Away Neutral
2-0 10-0 6-0 4-0 1-0
2016-17 SCHEDULE/RESULTS DATE
11/01 11/09 11/16 11/18 11/19 11/22 11/30 12/03 12/14 12/17 12/20 12/21 12/29 12/30 01/07 01/11 01/14 01/18 01/21 01/25 01/28 02/01 02/04 02/08 02/11 02/15 02/18 02/22 02/25 03/04 03/07 03/10 03/11 03/21 03/22 03/23 03/24 03/25
OPPONENT
RESULT
@ Mercyhurst North East W 86-40 WAYNE COUNTY W 122-46 @ No. 15 Schoolcraft W 81-42 @ No. 12 Kalamazoo Valley# W 75-55 Grand Rapids# W 92-34 LANSING W 107-55 No. 15 SCHOOLCRAFT W 92-50 MUSKEGON W 86-55 CUYAHOGA* W 86-51 @ No. 20 Sinclair* W 78-56 KELLOGG W 103-31 OAKLAND 5:30 PM MACOMB 5:30 PM JACKSON 5:30 PM @ Hocking 1 PM LORAIN COUNTY* 5:30 PM @ Columbus State* 1 PM EDISON* 5:30 PM CLARK STATE* 1 PM @ Lakeland* 5:30 PM @ Cincinnati State* 1 PM @ Cuyahoga* 5:30 PM HOCKING 1 PM @ Lorain County* 5:30 PM SINCLAIR* 1 PM @ Edison* 5:30 PM COLUMBUS STATE* 1 PM LAKELAND* 5:30 PM @ Clark State* 1 PM CINCINNATI STATE* 1 PM District I Quarterfinals^ 5:30 PM District I Semifinals TBA District I Finals TBA NJCAA D-II Nationals TBA NJCAA D-II Nationals TBA NJCAA D-II Nationals TBA NJCAA D-II Nationals TBA NJCAA D-II Nationals TBA TBA ALL CAPS - HOME GAMES * CONFERENCE GAMES # KVCC Classic @ KVCC ^ If necessary