RUSTON, La. – The Louisiana Tech women's basketball team hits the road for the first time of the 2022-23 season with a trip down I-20 to play ULM inside Fant-Ewing Colisieum at 2 p.m. in Monroe, La.
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Sunday, Nov. 13 | 2:00 p.m. CT
Location: Fant-Ewing Coliseum (Monroe, La.)
TV/Stream: ESPN+
Radio: KNBB 97.7 FM | LA Tech Athletics app
Stats: LATechSports.com/Stats
ABOUT LOUISIANA TECH (2-0)
Louisiana Tech started 2-0 for the fourth straight season with home wins over Central Baptist (86-30) and Arkansas State (59-56) last week.
Tech used a 53-point second half to rout Central Baptist and a big third quarter to mount a 12-point comeback over Arkansas State, thanks to Salma Bates's career-high tying 17 points.
Keiunna Walker leads LA Tech in scoring with 12.5 ppg and is now No. 25 on the all-time scoring list, passing Jane Ellen Cook, with 1,428 career points.
Anna Larr Roberson is 22 points away from becoming the 44
th member of the 1,000-point club. Roberson is averaging 10.5 ppg and seven rebounds through two contests.
LA Tech's defense is holding opponents to just 25.9-percent shooting from the field and sub-20-percent from three (.196), and has forced 38 turnovers, to go along with six blocks.
The Techsters hold a massive 56-point margin in the paint and have gotten 44 points from their bench.
Tech is looking to start a season 3-0 for the first time since 2017.
ABOUT ULM (1-0)
ULM returns four of their six top scorers from last year's squad (4-25, 0-14 Sun Belt) and added seven newcomers under third-year head coach Brooks Donald Williams.
The Warhawks started their 2022-23 campaign with an 88-58 win over Louisiana College in their home opener last Tuesday night.
Four players reached double figures in the win, led by redshirt senior guard Kierra Brimzy, with 18 points. Katlyn Manuel, a 6-1 sophomore forward, registered a 16-point, 16-rebound double-double.
ULM shot 46.3 percent from the floor (31-67), including 5-11 from three (.455), and hit 21-29 free throws (.729) against the Wildcats.
The Warhawks registered a 2:1 assist-to-turnover ratio dishing out 26 assists to only 13 turnovers while going plus-four in rebounding margin (43-39).
Defensively, ULM forced LC into 27 turnovers, posting 16 steals, and held Louisiana College to 21-56 shooting (.375).
ULM also picked up 35 points from their bench, with 11 of their 12 players scoring in the contest.
THE SERIES
Sunday's matchup will be the 58th overall meeting between the Techsters and the Warhawks, with LA Tech leading 48-9 and 19-7 in games played in Monroe.
The series is the oldest and most played in program history, dating back to the inaugural Lady Techsters' season in 1974.
The two teams played each other five times that season, with ULM taking two of the first three, including the first-ever meeting (84-78 in Monroe).
Between 1975-1984 LA Tech won 20 in a row, the series' longest streak before ULM won three straight (their best streak of the series).
Tech has won the last four since 2016 (two in Ruston, two in Monroe), with ULM's last win coming off a back-to-back in 2006-07 (Monroe) and 2007-08 (Ruston).
The two teams have only played one overtime game that Tech won, 79-77, in Ruston in 1984-85, the closest margin in the series.
Tech and ULM have played 14 games decided by single digits, with LA Tech leading 8-6. The largest margin of victory in the series was in 1994-94 at 56 (LA Tech, 100-44).
Tech has reached the 100-point mark on five occasions, with the high-mark coming in 1974-75 at 116 points (LA Tech, 116-66).
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