Miami Women’s Basketball is 22-5 overall and 13-1 MAC play, good for first in the MAC makes a road trip to face the Eastern Michigan Eagles on Wednesday, Feb. 25. Opening tip is at 6:30 p.m. Game is on ESPN+.
Miami has four players averaging double-digits, led by Amber Tretter (14.2 ppg.). She is joined by Amber Scalia (14.1 ppg.), Ilse de Vries (13.0 ppg.) and Tamar Singer (10.8 ppg.) Miami is currently fourth in the MAC in scoring (71.0) and first in defense(58.3), which results in a 12.7 point margin of victory, second-best in the conference. The RedHawks are second in the MAC in field goal percentage (45.1%), first in three-point percentage (34.8%) and second in free throw percentage (76.5%). Miami is first in turnover margin (5.1), second in blocks (3.6) and third in steals (10.9)
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The Eagles are 12-13 overall and 5-9 in conference play, currently ninth in the MAC standings. Sisi Eleko is tops on the team in scoring (18.1 ppg.) and rebounding (10.1 rpg.). Miami downed the Eagles 69-55 back on Feb. 14. Beyond Eleko EMU doesn’t have much other than Peyton Hill who scores 14 a game.
Miami women starting second half like the men-poorly. Outscored 5-1 to start the half. 49-30 EMU timeout as Singer almost caused a steal scrum on floor EMU calls timeout to keep ball
