WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue women's basketball team will wrap up its West Coast swing on Saturday with 5 p.m. ET tip at Washington. The game will be televised on the Big Ten Network with A.J. Kanell and Elise Woodward on the call.
Tim Newton will be courtside at Alaska Airlines Arena calling the game on the Purdue Global Radio Network on 95.3 BOB FM and Purdue Stretch Internet.
GAMEINFORMATION
Purdue (7-10, 0-6) at Washington (12-6, 3-3)
Saturday, Jan. 18
Time: 5 PM ET
TV/Stream: BTN
Radio: 95.3 BOB FM
Audio: Purdue Stretch Internet
Live Stats: Purduestats.com
LAST TIME OUT
The Boilermakers could not overcome first half turnovers in a 69-53 loss to Oregon on Wednesday night. Rashunda Jones paced the Boilermakers with 17 points on 8-of-10 shooting. McKenna Layden finished with nine points and nine rebounds in her first career start at Purdue.
NOTES
• Purdue leads the all-time series 3-1. It will be the first meeting since the 2007-08 season.
• Head coach Katie Gearlds dropped 31 points on 11-of-18 shooting and 5-of-8 3-pointers in Purdue's win at Mackey Arena on Nov. 17, 2006.
• The Boilermakers have the hardest NET strength of schedule in the nation.
• Destini Lombard and USC's JuJu Watkins are the only players from the Big Ten averaging over 11 PPG, 3 RPG, 2 APG, 2 SPG and shooting 45% or better.
• McKenna Layden and Destini Lombard are tied for 11th in the Big Ten with 1.8 made 3-pointers per league contest.
• Purdue head coach Katie Gearlds returns to Seattle for the first time her three seasons as a member of the Seattle Storm. Gearlds was Purdue's highest draft pick in program history, going seventh overall to the Storm in the 2007 WNBA Draft.
• The Boilermakers continue to own the hardest schedule in America and will face their first team outside the top 50 of the NET since Dec. 21 against Indiana State.
• On Wednesday at Oregon, Purdue faced its first unranked opponent of the Big Ten season, snapping the longest stretch of games against ranked league teams in conference history.
• McKenna Layden had a career day in her first career start with nine points on three 3-pointers with nine rebounds in 37 minutes of work at Oregon. Her older sister Madison made 93 starts over four years for the Boilermakers.
• Layden has stepped up over the last three games, averaging 7.7 points and a team-high 6.0 rebounds per game. She is one of six players from the Big Ten to connect on seven 3-pointers since Jan. 7.
• Reagan Bass ranks 12th in the Big Ten in blocks and blocks per game with 18 and 1.1, respectively.
• Rashunda Jones is the lone Boilermaker to average double figures since the start of the new year. Jones is averaging 10.8 points at a 56.5% shooting clip with a team-high 16 assists in her last four outings.
• For the season, Jones is third on the team in scoring with 8.1 points and has a team-high 54 assists.
• Destini Lombard enters the weekend third in conference in steals with 40 and fourth with 2.4 steals per game. She has posted two or more steals in a game 12 times this season, tied for the league lead with USC's JuJu Watkins and Jaddan Simmons from Michigan State.
• After leading the Big Ten in scoring by a freshman class last season, Purdue's sophomores are averaging a combined 17.1 points per game, including a season-high 33 points against Oregon on Wednesday night.
• Purdue has a 34.8% clip from distance The Boilermakers are one of five teams from the Big Ten shooting 33% or better from behind the arc since the return of the holiday break on Dec. 28. McKenna Layden has hit a team-high nine triples during that span.
• Lana McCarthy is one of 17 players from the Big Ten, and the only freshman, to average better than 7.0 points (7.3) and 5.0 rebounds (5.3) per game, while shooting 50% or better (51.3%).