Alabama Women’s Basketball Closes out Non-Conference Slate on Wednesday with Florida A&M

Wednesday, December 28

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

7 p.m. CT

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Florida A&M University

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Alabama Women’s Basketball Closes out Non-Conference Slate on Wednesday with Florida A&M

12/27/2016 5:09:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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Crimson Tide and Rattlers to tip off at 7 p.m. CT in Coleman Coliseum

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women's basketball team (11-1) will play its final non-conference game of the season on Wednesday when it welcomes Florida A&M (1-10) to Coleman Coliseum. The matchup is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. CT on SEC Network +.

THE BROADCAST

Wednesday's game will be streamed on SEC Network + via the WatchESPN app and broadcasted on the radio via the Crimson Tide Sports Network on 100.1 FM locally. Roger Hoover and Tyler Williams will provide the call on both outlets.
Fans will be able to follow along with live scoring on RollTide.com and game updates will be available on Twitter at @AlabamaWBB.

PROMOTIONS

8 Hoo's Q 30 for 30: If the team scores 30 points in the first quarter of the game, everyone in the stands will receive 30 percent off from Hoo's Q.
Tuscaloosa Toyota Season Long Giveaways: Throughout the season, Tuscaloosa Toyota will be giving away prizes such as an iPad Pro 9.7", Beats headphones, $50 iTunes gift cards, $50 American Express gift cards and 43" LCD televisions.

OPENING TIP

The Crimson Tide and Rattlers are meeting for the fifth time in the series and third in Tuscaloosa. The two teams first met on Nov. 28, 1986 in the 1986-87 season opener, which was being played at the Southern Invitational in Atlanta. Alabama came away with an 81-60 victory in the initial matchup. The series would resume on Dec. 17, 2008 in Tuscaloosa where the Tide won 70-68 in overtime. The next year, Alabama traveled to Tallahassee and fell 61-52 to the home Rattlers. In the last meeting, the Tide came away with a 16-point victory beating Florida A&M, 60-44.
Junior Meoshonti Knight leads four in double figures with 12.9 points per game. She is followed by fellow junior Hannah Cook (12.8 ppg), sophomore Shaquera Wade (11.7 ppg) and freshman Jordan Lewis (10.7 ppg). Wade averages a team-best 7.4 boards per game, while Lewis has dished out a team-high 4.4 assists per contest.
Alabama stands at 11-1 thus far in non-conference play, which is its best mark since it went 12-1 prior to Southeastern Conference play during the 2000-01 season.
Jordan Lewis earned her second SEC Freshman of the Week honor on Tuesday after recording a 2:1 assist/turnover ratio, finishing with six assists and only three turnovers in 32 minutes played against UTEP. Lewis also scored 17 points, 12 of which came in the first quarter to spark the Alabama offense.

FAB FROSH

Alabama's freshmen, Ashley Knight and Jordan Lewis, have made an immediate impact in the Tide's lineup.
Lewis, who has started at point guard, leads the team, and ranks fifth in the Southeastern Conference, in assists (4.4 apg) and is fourth in scoring (10.7 ppg).
Knight, the 6-5 post, averages a team and league-best 2.4 blocks per game while adding 8.8 points and 6.9 rebounds per contest.

ALABAMA FRESHMEN TAKE HOME THREE SEC FoW HONORS

Alabama has won three Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week honors already this season, which is just two shy than it has won in its program history overall heading into the year.
Point guard Jordan Lewis picked up the league honors on Nov. 15 and Dec. 27, while Ashley Knight earned her award on Dec. 20.

GETTING TO THE LINE

Alabama finished the 2015-16 season ranked 73rd in the nation in free throw attempts (615) and 77th in free throws made (430) while averaging 69.9 percent made per game.
The Crimson Tide is off to another strong start getting to the line a total of 312 times, 165 more times than its opponents (147). Alabama ranks second nationally, and leads the SEC, in free throw attempts.

WILLIAMS CLOSING IN ON 1,000

Junior Ashley Williams is 115 points away from becoming Alabama's 25th 1,000 point scorer in program history.
Should she reach that number this season, she would be only the 13th Crimson Tide student-athlete to reach the milestone in three years or less.

WILLIAMS EARNS UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE

Junior Ashley Williams completed her undergraduate degree in criminal justice in December and will begin work on her master's degree in January. Her jersey now has an SEC Graduate patch to signify her accomplishment.

FIRST HALF DOMINATION

Alabama has scored 451 points in the first half of games this season, while its opponents have put up only 280.
That averages out to 37.6 points at the half for the Tide compared to 23.3 for the opposition, a difference of 14.3 points.

BALANCED OFFENSE

One of Coach Curry's team goals for the season is to have at least four in double-figure points each outing.
The Crimson Tide reached that goal in eight of its 12 games this season as five recorded 10 or more points four times and four did so on four occasions.
Alabama was just shy in its games against Georgia Southern, as three finished in double figures and one had eight, and Alcorn State, where three had double figures and two had nine points.

ALABAMA DOMINATING POINTS IN THE PAINT

Through 12 games, Alabama has outscored its opponents 478-254 in points in the paint.
That averages out to 18.6 more points in the paint (39.8-21.2) for the Crimson Tide per game than the opposition.

ABOUT FLORIDA A&M

Florida A&M enters Wednesday's game at 1-10 overall, including an 0-2 mark in true road games. The Rattlers played a pair in Orlando before the break at the Florida Sunshine Classic, falling 80-49 to Stony Brook and 78-65 to Florida.
Florida A&M is led in scoring by junior Florence Ouattara, who averages 12.2 points per game, while junior Shakerrya Morrison leads the team in rebounds with 7.6 boards per contest.
The Rattlers have 11 newcomers on the team this season.
Florida A&M is under the direction of LeDawn Gibson, who is in her ninth season as head coach of the Rattlers. She has compiled a 122-130 record in Tallahassee during her tenure while advancing to the semifinals of the MEAC tournament twice, first in 2009 and then again in 2012.