University of Delaware Athletics
Delaware Takes on Georgetown Thursday in Nation's Capitol
12/9/2015 3:33:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Delaware (4-3, 0-0 CAA) at Georgetown (5-2, 0-0 BIG EAST)
DATE: Thursday, December 10, 2015
TIME: 7 p.m. Eastern
LOCATION: McDonough Arena – Washington, D.C.
WATCH 🎥
Thursday's game will be broadcast via the GUHoyas.com.
LISTEN 📻
All Delaware women's basketball games can be heard on the radio at Fox Sports 1290 or 1410 WDOV. Matt Janus will have the call for the Blue Hens while Christine Motta will serve as color analyst. Fans can also hear the broadcast online at http://foxsports1290am.com/ and on smart devices via the iHeart app.
LIVE STATS 📊
Live stat links will be available via www.BlueHens.com.
LAST TIME OUT 🏀
Hannah Jardine posted a career night with 31 points, but it wasn't enough as the Blue Hens fell, 90-83, at George Mason in double overtime at EagleBank Arena Monday evening. Jardine went 5-of-12 from behind the arc, including draining a 3-pointer as time expired in regulation to send the game into overtime at 66-66. The forward added seven rebounds, three steals and two assists in a career-high 48 minutes played. Both the Blue Hens (4-3) and Patriots (4-6) scored just six points in the first overtime, but Mason cruised to an 18-11 advantage in the second overtime off of eight free throws for the win. Erika Brown posted 20 points in the loss while Nicole Enabosi registered 12 points and eight rebounds. Five Patriots recorded double-figure scoring nights and were guided by Taylor Brown's 28 points, 11 of which came from the charity stripe. Tiffany Padgett and Chinyere Brown logged 12 rebounds apiece for Mason.
HEN SCRATCHINGS 🐔
· From November 25 until December 22, the Blue Hens will have logged approximately 6,378 miles round trip through the air and by bus. Thursday's game will be the fifth of six straight away from the friendly confines of the Bob Carpenter Center before Delaware returns home on December 22 to host Vermont.
· The Blue Hens have won two of their last three, but was most recently outlasted, 90-83, in a double overtime thriller at George Mason.
· For more game notes, please click here.
SERIES INFORMATION
· Delaware leads the all-time series between the two teams, 3-2, since the first matchup in 1986.
· UD and Georgetown are knotted up at 1-1 apiece in games played in Washington D.C.
· The Hoyas have won two of the last three meetings.
· In the last matchup, Georgetown came away with the 62-56 victory over No. 11/10 Delaware on Nov. 11, 2012 in the Preseason WNIT.
· Natasha Adair (South Florida '94) is in her second year at the helm of the Hoyas after spending the previous two seasons on the sidelines for the CAA's College of Charleston. She is 9-29 all-time at GU while posting an overall career mark of 44-60. Adair spent 1998-2004 as an assistant at Georgetown.
