The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
UAB Set for Final Road Swing of the Year
2/24/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
UAB Notes
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The UAB women’s basketball team kicks off its final road trip of the 2015-16 regular season as it heads to Marshall and WKU on Thursday and Saturday, respectively. Tip for the Blazers and the Thundering Herd is slated for 10:30 a.m. CT.
UAB (13-12, 6-8) heads to Huntington, West Virginia, following a heartbreaking overtime loss to the second-ranked team in the C-USA, Middle Tennessee. The Blazers were led by senior forward Brittany Winborne’s 16th career double-double, her 13th of the season, as she reeled in the second-most rebounds in a single game in UAB history, 23, while adding 14 points. Freshman guard Deanna Kuzmanic was 1 point shy of a career high as she paced the UAB offense with 19 points. Chelsee Black chipped in 13 points and is now 10 points shy of 18th place on UAB’s all-time scoring list.
The Blazers are all about rewriting UAB’s record books. Last time out, Kuzmanic passed fellow teammate Black on UAB’s single-season 3-pointers made. The Wheeling, Illinois, native currently ranks seventh with 66 treys made thus far. Kuzmanic is also just five attempts shy of cracking the top 10 for triples attempted in a season.
Winborne’s domination of the glass this season has her ranked on UAB’s all-time single-season list of rebound average. The Baltimore, Maryland, native is reeling in 10.9 per night, good for the eighth-best in school history.
Kayla Anderson, UAB’s all-time blocks leader and single-season blocks frontrunner, has cracked the top 10 again in blocked shots in a single season. Anderson has tallied 38 blocks in 2015-16, the seventh-most. The Hoover, Alabama, native is one of three Blazers to make the list twice in their careers.
On the season, Kuzmanic averages 13.2 points a night, the most by a freshman in the league. She drains 2.64 treys a night, the fourth-most in the nation, and is shooting the eighth-best percentage by a freshman in the country (38.2 percent). Winborne ranks 14th in the nation with 10.9 rebounds per contest, and is reeling in 4.5 offensive boards a night, the eighth-most in the NCAA. She also leads the league in double-doubles (13), the 20th-most in the country.
Marshall (16-9, 6-8) is looking to break a three-game slump after falling in back-to-back road contests, following a tightly contested 80-76 game at home against WKU. The Thundering Herd is led by Leah Scott, who pours in 16.7 points a showing. On the glass, Scott secures a team-high 6.6 boards a night. The Blazers’ top-ranked league defense will look to contain Marshall’s top-tier offense as it totals 72.4 point per night, the second-most in the league and the 47th-most in the nation.
UAB and Marshall are meeting for the 23rd time in the program history. The Blazers hold a slight 12-11 lead in the series history. The Blazers and Herd are knotted at five-all in meetings in West Virginia. In their latest meeting earlier this season, Marshall squeaked by UAB 64-61 in Bartow Arena. The Blazers’ last win against the Herd was on March 12, 2014, 79-63 in a neutral-site game in El Paso in the C-USA tournament.
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