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POCATELLO, Idaho - Idaho State will play Utah State at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in Logan, Utah. The Bengals will look to rebound from consecutive road losses to Illinois-Chicago and 20th ranked Oklahoma State.
The Bengals currently lead the Big Sky in Field Goal Percentage Defense. Through four games ISU's opponents are shooting just .338.
Lindsey Reed and
Jessica Tingey average in double-figures; Reed averages 11.5 PPG and Tingey averages 10.5 PPG. Tingey also lead the team with rebounds with 7.5 RPG.
LAST GAME: OKLAHOMA STATE
The 20th Ranked Oklahoma State Cowgirls defeated Idaho State 74-45 in women's basketball action Monday night at the Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Okla.
With the win, the Cowgirls move to 4-0 on the season and Idaho State falls to 2-2.
Neither Idaho State nor Oklahoma State could get on the scoreboard early. The game went over two minutes before either team scored a point.
Oklahoma State's Lez Donohoe finally put points on the board when she hit a three pointer with 17:48 left in the first half. Donohoe's basket sparked a 9-2 Cowgirl run that culminated in a jumper by Brittney Martin with 16:03 left in the half. OSU kept the pressure on to take a 38-18 lead into the half.
The Bengals played a much more competitive second half.
Jessica Tingey led the way with 13 of her game-high 17 points coming after the break. She also had six rebounds to lead ISU.
REED HITS THE MILLENNIUM MARK
With 19 points on against Illinois-Chicago
Lindsey Reed surpassed 1000 career points. She is just the17th player in ISU history to join the 100 point club. She also hit the 500 career rebound mark against Black Hills State last Monday.
THE "ROAD" TO BIG SKY PLAY
The Bengals began a tough nine-game schedule at UIC and will not play at Reed Gym until Jan. 9th against North Dakota. Road games include UIC, Oklahoma State, Utah State, Boise State, Drake and Iowa.
The game at UIC was the first game East of the Mississippi for Idaho State under coach
Seton Sobolewski.
A DECADE OF THE BIG SKY CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT
Idaho State has advanced to a school record 10 straight Big Sky Conference Tournaments. In that time the Bengals have advanced to two NCAA tournaments (07 and 12) and four WNITs (04, 06, 08 and 13).
TRIP TO THE WNIT
The Bengals played in their second-consecutive post season national tournament in 2013. The Bengals played Brigham Young in Provo in the opening round of the WNIT. The Bengals fell 69-54 to the Cougars.
Ashleigh Vella scored a team high 15 points and
Jessa Jeppesen grabbed eight rebounds in the loss to BYU.
TWO STARTERS RETURN FOR THE BENGALS
Kara Jenkins and
Lindsey Reed return for the Bengals. Jenkins comes into the season with 580 career points and 479 career rebounds. She has played in 93 games and has 53 starts for Idaho State.
Reed has 970 career points and 492 career rebounds. She has 92 games under her belt including 89 starts in her career at ISU.
OTHER RETURNERS FOR THE BENGALS
The Bengals lack experience, along with the two starters the Bengals have three other seniors, one junior and one sophomore to round out the list of returning players.
Senior
Jessica Tingey, formerly Jessica Jensen, has 64 career points and 65 career rebounds. Senior
Alissa Willard, a JC transfer, played in 15 games in 2012-13 and scored four points. Senior
Sheryl Bitter has the most experience of the last season's non-starters; she had played in 77 games and scored 109 points in her career at Idaho State.
Junior Becca Schimpsher has played in 35 career games and has 46 points. Sophomore
Anna Lee Policicchio played in only six games last season but spent time over the summer with the Canadian U19 National team.
ISU NEWCOMERS
The Bengals have eight newcomers, one JC transfer in junior guard
Jasmine Lemon and seven freshman;
Grace Kenyon,
Sherise Porchia,
Katrina Bacovcin,
April Dawson,
Lindsay Brown,
Natalie Mecham and
Kyndall Adams.
ISU PREPS FOR ANOTHER CHALLENGING NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The 2013-14 non-conference line-up looks to be one of the more challenging seasons for Sobolewski and the Bengals. ISU faces competitors like Illinois-Chicago, Oklahoma State, Drake and Iowa as well as just two official home games in the preseason and nearly two months without a game in Pocatello.
ABOUT UTAH STATE
Utah State is 3-0 on the season with wins against Black Hills State, Loyola Marymount and Utah. All games were played in the Spectrum. In the first two games the Aggies surpassed the century mark, USU topped BHSU 103-46 and Loyola Marymount 100-58.
Two Aggie players average more than 20 points per game. Jennifer Schlott leads USU with 25.7 PPG and Makenlee Williams has 23.7 PPG.
The Aggies were picked to finish sixth in the Mountain West Conference preseason poll. The Aggies were somewhat of a mystery at the beginning of the season with seven new players including four transfers.
USU head coach Jerry Finkbeiner is in his second season at the helm of the Aggie women's basketball program. Overall, Finkbeiner has a 492-256 (.658) record in 24 years as a collegiate head coach at USU, Oral Roberts (1996-2012) and Southern Nazarene (1991-96).
The Aggies and Bengals have each faced Black Hills State. ISU beat the Yellow Jackets 60-41 and Utah State beat BHSU 103-46.
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