Game 14
Opponent: vs. UMass Lowell (4-8, 0-0 America East)
Date: Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018
Site: Baltimore, Md. | Hill Field House
Tip-Off: 2 p.m.
Series Record: MSU leads, 1-0
TV: None
Live Video: N/A
Live Audio:
Live Stats: morganstatebears.com
 
Gameday | MSU Notes | UMass Lowell Notes
 
BALTIMORE, Md. (Dec. 28, 2018)-The Morgan State women's basketball team returns to action after a nine-day layoff, when it plays host to UMass Lowell on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 2 p.m. at Hill Field House. It will be the final contest of 2018, as well as the last non-conference game of the season for the Lady Bears.
 
BEAR CLAWS: The Lady Bears (1-12) are coming off a 73-68 heartbreaking loss to visiting Maryland Baltimore County on Dec. 20. Adre'onia Coleman scored a career- and game-high 26 points, while Jihayah Chavis scored 18 points and had a game-high three steals. Ashia McCalla fell shy of a double-double with 14 points and a game-high nine rebounds. Coleman has paced the Lady Bears this season, averaging 15.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. Chavis is scoring 8.2 points, while McCalla is adding 8.0 points per game. Morgan State is scoring 47.8 points per contest, while surrendering 66.3 a game.
 
A LOOK AT UMASS LOWELL: The River Hawks (4-8) ended a four-game losing streak with a 62-59 road victory over the University of Massachusetts (12/21). UMass Lowell used a 15-2 run in the fourth quarter to complete the come-back win. It was the program's first win over the Minutewomen. Brianna Rudolph recorded a double-double with a game-high 22 points to go with a game-high 12 rebounds. Kharis Idom and Ren'Cia Rolling each came of the bench to score 13 and 10 points, respectively. The River Hawks forced Massachusetts into 15 turnovers. Rudolph leads the team in both scoring (11.2) and rebounding (5.3). Smith is adding 9.2 points, while Rolling is scoring 8.3 points a game.  
 
SERIES NOTES: Morgan State leads the all-time series, 1-0. Last year the two programs met for the first time with the Lady Bears defeating UMass Lowell, 65-59 in Lowell, Mass. (12/28).
 
NEXT UP: Morgan State will welcome UMass Lowell to Hill Field House on Dec. 29 at 2 p.m. It will be the final non-conference game of the season.
 
COLEMAN HAS CAREER DAY: Senior Adre'onia Coleman scored a career-high 26 points in the Lady Bears' loss to UMBC (12/20). The 5-foot-10 forward, shot 8-of-16 from the floor, while adding six rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block against the Retrievers.
 
DAVIS CLOSING IN ON 370 VICTORIES: Morgan State head coach Ed Davis Jr. is one win away from picking up career coaching victory 370. Davis, who enters his seventh season with the Lady Bears and third as head coach, has an overall record of 369-291, following a 60-43 win over Washington Adventist (11/7). He has guided his teams to a total of four NCAA Tournament appearances, while at Bowie State (3) and Delaware State (1) and two Division II Sweet 16 appearances.
 
REMATCH: Five of the Lady Bears' non-conference opponents (Lincoln-Pa., Central Connecticut, Florida International, West Virginia, UMass Lowell) will be rematches from the 2017-18 campaign. Morgan State went 4-1 a year ago against those opponents with its lone loss coming at then 10th-ranked West Virginia. Saturday's contest against UMass Lowell will be the last rematch this season for the Lady Bears. Morgan State is currently 0-4 this season in those rematch games.
 
LADY BEARS TAKE IN NBA GAME IN MOTOWN: The Lady Bears concluded their trip to Ann Arbor, Mich., by attending the Boston Celtics-Detroit Pistons game on Saturday, Dec. 15 at the new Little Caesars Arena in downtown Detroit. Following the game the team got to go on the court and attempt a free throw shot, before meeting and taking pictures with Celtics players Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. The host Pistons defeated Boston, 113-104. It was the first time the program caught an NBA game since 2014, when they went to Phillips Arena to see the home team Atlanta Hawks take on the Utah Jazz, prior to the Lady Bears' season opener at the University of Georgia.
 
GRAHAM RETURNS TO MORGANTOWN: Morgan State assistant coach Donchez Graham made his second consecutive return to WVU Coliseum when the Lady Bears took on West Virginia (12/18). Graham served as an assistant coach on the Mountaineers' staff during the 2009-10 season. WVU would finish the season with a 29-6 record, including a berth in the Big East Conference Championship game and a second round appearance in the NCAA Tournament. At the time it was the winningest season in school history.
 
HOMECOMING FOR HORN: Morgan State's game at Michigan (12/18) marked a homecoming of sorts for senior guard Kayla Horn. A native of nearby Romulus, Mich., Horn, who never attended a Michigan basketball game while growing up, will now play against the hometown Wolverines in front of family and friends. The game was extra special for Horn, as it was the first collegiate game her parents got to see her play.
 
13-DAY LAYOFF: The Lady Bears ended a season-long 13-day layoff when they took the floor against the University of Michigan (12/18). It was Morgan State's first game since playing at Florida International on Dec. 2. The layoff was so that Morgan State could focus on final exams.
 
SOMEONE NEW: Morgan State will square off this season against two first-time opponents in Western Kentucky (11/28) and Michigan (12/15). Both contests will be on the road.
 
DAVIS A THREE-TIME HALL OF FAMER: Morgan State head coach Ed Davis Jr. was inducted into his third Hall of Fame in September 2017, when his 2006-07 Delaware State women's basketball team was inducted for capturing the 2007 MEAC title. Davis was also inducted into the Bowie State University Hall of Fame in 2014 as a coach, where he guided the Lady Bulldogs to three CIAA titles and a pair of Division II "Sweet 16" appearances and in 2008 he was inducted into the West Virginia State University Hall of Fame as a basketball player.