Game Notes

Date: January 25, 2021
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas City, Mo. - Southwest Baptist will go on the road to Kansas City for the first of a three game road trip. The Bearcats will face Rockhurst for the second time this season. 

SCOUTING THE BEARCATS
In their first year as full-time members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference, the SBU Women's Basketball team finished 15-13 (9-11 GLVC) on the year. The GLVC allows just 8 teams to make the conference tournament. Finishing 10th out of 16 teams in the GLVC, the Bearcats narrowly missed the conference tournament for the second straight year.

The Bearcats are being led by the trio of senior's Kyleigh Vaught, Sydney Bandy, and Regan Tibbits with a combined 38.0 points per game between them. SBU as a team is averaging 7.2 made three pointers per game on an impressive 34.4% shooting. The Bearcats are also leading the GLVC in free throw percentage with a 80.2% mark along with currently being 5th in the conference in 3-point field goals made with 7.2 per game.

Southwest Baptist is coming off an overtime victory over Missouri S&T where 5 different Bearcats scored in double figures. Bandy, Foster, Tibbits, Tippens, and Vaught all finished with 12 or more points. Natalie Basham also had a career day with 9 points on 3-3 shooting coming off the bench

SCOUTING THE ROCKHURST HAWKS
The Rockhurst Hawks are averaging 65.5 points per game as a team while allowing 63.9 points per game. The Hawks are currently leading the conference in defending the three, holding their opponents to a 25.3 3-point percentage. Rockhurst is led by senior Daly Sullivan in both points (14.9) and assists (2.0) per game. Keegan Sullivan, sister of Daly Sullivan, is making an immediate impact as a freshman with an immpressive 10.2 points per game off the bench. Junior Monika Faerber helps to crash the boards and bring in 8.1 rebounds per game.

THE COACHES

SBU head coach Kelsey Keizer begins her seventh season on the SBU bench after compiling a 81-90 (44-74 conf.) record while at SBU. Coach Keizer led two Bearcats to All-GLVC honors last season, and fell just short of the conference tournament as the GLVC takes only 8 teams to the postseason tournament.

Larry Park is in his 12th season of coaching the Hawks. In 2016-17 Park led the Hawks to their first back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 1997-98. Park has received the Walt Tylicki Memorial Award from the Greater Kansas City Basketball Coaches Association for the many successful years he has coached in the area.

ALL-TIME SERIES
Southwest Baptist leads the series 13-8 tracing back to both school's NAIA days. The Bearcats split the season series in 2019-20 with a 54-98 loss and 81-62 win, followed up with the Hawks taking the game earlier this season 49-73