WOMEN'S BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK
The Catamounts return to Patrick Gym Wednesday evening for their penultimate regular season home game. Vermont hosts first place Stony Brook at 6 p.m. Wednesday's game will be broadcast live on ESPN+. The action can also be heard on WVMT AM 620/FM 96.3 with the voice of the Catamounts Maura Sheridan on the call.
 
RELATED LINKS
Live Video | Live Stats | Listen Live | Game Notes (.pdf)
 
UNDEFEATED IN AMERICA EAST PLAY
The Seawolves are looking to become the eighth team in league history to complete an undefeated regular season campaign. The last team to do so was UAlbany in 2013. Vermont was the first program to achieve the feat doing so in the back-to-back campaigns of 1992 and 1993. Two of the three teams in league history to finish the conference slate undefeated and not win the America East Tournament were Hartford (2010) and Boston University (2009). The Terriers and Hawks lost to Vermont in the championship game those years.

CRYMBLE CLOSING IN ON SIXTH ALL-TIME
Senior forward Hanna Crymble is one point away from tying Morgan Hall '03 for sixth all-time in Vermont scoring with 1,689 points. Crymble needs 84 points to move into the top-five. She is one of 30 players all-time in America East history to reach 1,500 points.
 
BLOCK PARTY
The Catamounts lead America East in blocks with 115. They are tied for 33rd in the NCAA in the category. Hanna Crymble is the individual leader in America East with 47 blocks this season, which is tied for 38th in Division I. She is 11 blocks away from surpassing her total blocks from the last three years combined.
 
VALUE THE BALL
The Catamounts are 35th in the NCAA averaging only 13.4 turnovers per game. The Catamounts are 10-5 this season when they have 13 or fewer turnovers.
 
40-PERCENT AN INDICATOR FOR SUCCESS
When the Catamounts shoot 40% or better from the field they are 9-3 this season. Vermont also has a 4-3 record when shooting 40% or better from three-point range. Catamount starters Hanna Crymble, Delaney Richason, and Josie Larkins are all individually shooting above the 40% mark.
 
SCOUTING THE SEAWOLVES
The Seawolves enter tomorrow's contest with a 21-game winning streak the longest in the nation. Stony Brook sits at 12-0 in league play, 3.5 games ahead of UMass Lowell and Maine who are tied for second place at 9-4. In the Seawolves winning streak their average margin of victory has been 12.4 points. Stony Brook's margin of victory has been five points or fewer five times, but two of those came in Stony Brook's last two games. The Seawolves defeated UNH (2/8) by two and Binghamton (2/12) by four in their last two home games.
 
India Pagan and Kaela Hilaire are tied for the team lead in scoring with 13.4 points-per game. Pagan had a game-high 20 points in just 19 minutes of game action in the Seawolves 67-49 win over Vermont on January 8.
 
Stony Brook is receiving three votes in this week's AP Top 25 poll. By virtue of votes earned they are technically tied for 30th with Central Michigan. The Chippewas are also 12-0 in their league.
 
Stony Brook and Central Michigan are two of the 11 teams in the country who are undefeated in league play this season. UConn, Baylor, South Carolina, South Dakota, Dayton, Florid Gulf Coast, Princeton, Fresno State, and Robert Morris are the other nine.
 
SERIES HISTORY
After 17 years of the Catamounts battling the Seawolves, Stony Brook holds a 20-19 edge It has been a streaky series, Vermont won eight consecutive meetings from 2008 to 2011. Stony Brook has won each of the last six. Vermont's last win over the Seawolves was in February of 2017 on Long Island.
 
CATHY INGLESE PATCHES
This season the Catamounts are wearing jersey patches to honor our former Head Coach Cathy Inglese. Inglese was the head coach at Vermont for seven seasons, from 1986 to 1993. She led UVM to unprecedented success with its first two conference titles, in 1992 and 1993, and its first two trips to the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship.
These patches will be worn at home and on the road this season to honor the memory of Coach Inglese who tragically passed away this summer.
 
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