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Women's Basketball Returns to #MACtion Saturday at Eastern Michigan
February 13, 2025 | Women's Basketball
The Cardinals bring an 11-0 league ledger to Ypsilanti
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Opening Tip:
- Saturday's game against Eastern Michigan will mark the 92nd time in program history the two schools have met with the Cardinals leading the all-time series record, 46-45. Head coach Brady Sallee holds an overall record of 17-9 against Eastern Michigan from 2012-13 to present.
- The Eagles have not beating the Cardinals in Worthen Arena since the 2020-21 season. That year Eastern Michigan defeated Ball State 77-58 on Dec. 2, 2020.
- Ball State recently fell to James Madison in its MAC/SBC Challenge game on the road last Saturday by a score of 78-74. The game was close for the entire contest. Alex Richard led the squad with 22 points and nine rebounds.
- Ball State set a program record for best MAC start improving to 11-0 in league play after defeating Bowling Green 71-51 in Worthen Arena on Feb. 5.Â
- The Cardinals are one of two schools in the nation that remain undefeated in conference play.
- The Cardinals have been road warriors the past four years during Mid-American Conference action. Ball State owns a 33-10 (.767) ledger when playing league games on the road dating back to the 2021 MAC season with its best showing being in 2021 when the Cardinals went 9-1 that year.
- Ball State has won 15-straight MAC regular season games. The Cardinals haven't lost a regular season league contest since Feb. 24, 2024, which was at Toledo.Â
- The Cardinals rank in the top 50 in the nation in these statistical categories; 39th in assists per game (16.4), 41st in blocks per game (4.3), 42nd in winning percentage (79.2), 44th in scoring margin (14.3), 47th in field goal percentage (45.2), 48th in assist/turnover ratio (1.13) and 49th in 3-point field goal attempts (23.9).
- Ally Becki ranks sixth in the nation in assists (148), eighth in assists per game (6.2), 31st in steals (60), 37th in steals per game (2.50) and 5th in double-doubles while Marie Kiefer sits at 30th in blocks (45) and 41st in blocks per game (1.88).
- Another MAC win for the Cardinals will earn Ball State a 12-0 conference ledger which is the best conferene start amongst league members since Central Michigan did it in 2017-18.
- Ally Becki has made the ESPN top 10 plays twice this season. The senior is on pace to become the lone Division I player ever to average at least 10 points, 4.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists in every season since her freshman year in 2021-22.
- Madelyn Bischoff became the 35th women's basketball player of all-time to reach the 1,000 point plateau and the 14th player under Ball State 13th-year head coach Brady Sallee at James Madison on Saturday, Feb. 8. Bischoff drained a 3-pointer at the 2:16 mark for her 1,000th point to put Ball State up by three (74-71).
Another 20-Win Season is on the Horizon:
The Cardinals are one win away until they hit the 20-win plateau for their third-straight season. It will be the eighth time in Sallee's career at Ball State to have reached that milestone. Sallee's 20-win seasons at Ball State were — 22-10 (2015-16), 21-11 (2016-17) 25-7 (2017-18), 21-10 (2019-20), 20-13 (2021-22), 26-9 (2022-23) and 20-2 (2023-24).
BSU on ESPN | FEB. 22 vs. Kent State:
The Ball State women's basketball team will play in a nationally televised regular season game on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 12 p.m. ET when it hosts Kent State in Worthen Arena. The Cardinals are the only league school to have been chosen to play on ESPNU three years in row.Â
The contest will be a rematch of a game played on Jan. 15, with the Cardinals defeating the Golden Flashes, 66-57, at the M.A.C Center.Â
With eight games remaining in the MAC regular season, the Cardinals (18-4, 10-0 MAC) remain atop of the league standings two games ahead of their counterparts. Ball State is the only team in conference play that is undefeated, and the Cardinals currently have won 12 in a row.Â
This is the second time this season that the Cardinals will have played on a national stage. Ball State played on the CBS Sports Network on Jan. 20 and will now be on ESPNU.
Scouting Eastern Michigan:
- First year head coach Sahar Nusseibeh is familiar with the MAC as she was an assistant coach at Bowling green from 2013-16.
- With her 14 points at Georgia State (Feb. 8), Sisi Eleko brought her season total to 403 points. She is the first EMU player to record 400+ points and 200+ rebounds in the same season since Natachia Watkins tallied 405 points and 2018 rebounds in the 2011-12 season.
- Sisi Eleko has 11 doubles-doubles this season (18th in the NCAA) and 31 for her career, which ranks 31st among all NCAA Division I players. She also ranks 20th in rebounds per game this season (10.0) while her 8.70 career average is 17th among active NCAA Division I players.
- Through 22 games, the Eagles have scored 159 three-pointers for an of 7.2 per game. If the team continues that pace, it would wind up in the program's all-time top 10 as 208 would rank seventh.
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