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TRINITY INTERNATIONAL TROJANS (0-12, 0-5 CCAC) at ROBERT MORRIS EAGLES (6-3, 2-2 CCAC)
Friday, December 19 | 5:30 p.m.
RMU Athletic Center | Arlington Heights, Ill.
 

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Season Stats: TIU | Robert Morris

Quick Notes
• Trinity International prepares for their last conference matchup of the year, when the Trojans travel to Arlington Heights and faces the Robert Morris Eagles on Friday, December 19. Tipoff from the RMU Athletic Center is set for 5:30 p.m.
• The game will be available live, through an audio-only webcast at EagleSportsNetwork.com.
• TIU will look to snap a 30-game slide, dating back to last season.
• The Trojans are averaging 41.2 points per game, 13th-most in the CCAC; Defensively, they have allowed 79.2 points per game, ranking 11th in the conference.
• Robert Morris has posted an average of 71.9 points per game (4th in CCAC), and 65.6 points allowed (6th in CCAC).
• The Trojans were 5-24 last season, including an 0-18 mark in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
• Trinity returns just 44.3% of its scoring output from last season, as the top three scorers from a year ago graduated at the end of the season. This year's roster consists of just one senior, and included a total of 12 freshmen and sophomores.
• The Trojans had arguably the toughest opening stretch of any team in the NAIA. Trinity faced off against five nationally-ranked programs in the month of November, including each opponent in the first four games of the season. TIU capped that run off with a matchup against No. 1 St. Francis (Ind.).
• Sophomore Basha Ramsey has led the team in the early portion of the season, with 9.9 points per game. Freshman Nika Bracun has been TIU's leading rebounder, averaging 5.9 boards per night.
• Bracun scored a career-high 23 points against Roosevelt on Nov. 19, setting a new season high for any TIU player this year. In just her sixth collegiate game, the freshman became the only current Trojan to score 20 points in a game.

Series History with Robert Morris    
• Trinity International took the first two meetings with Robert Morris, back in 2004-05, but the Eagles have since won seven straight meetings.
• Three of the seven wins for RMU at the expense of the Trojans have been by 20 or more points; Trinity dropped two games by fewer than eight points, with the closest game in the series coming on Nov. 9, 2010, in a 73-70 win for RMU.

Last Time Out vs. Robert Morris    
• In their next-to-last game of the regular season last year, sophomore JaToya Woods led the Trojans with 17 points, but Trinity International was unable to keep pace with the long-range shooting of the Eagles, falling 89-67 on Feb. 28.
• The Eagles took 38 three-point attempts, connecting on 13 (34.2%) on the night.
• Senior Clarissa Woodard posted double-figures with 15 points on the night, while three other Trojans collected seven points apiece. Basha Ramsey led the team with eight rebounds, and senior Abigail Hemmeger dealt out a team-high five assists.
• In the earlier matchup against Robert Morris on Dec. 21, Trinity International held a three-point halftime lead, but ultimately fell to the Eagles, 77-70. 
• Leading all scorers, Woodard posted a new career-high with 28 points on the night, going 12-of-21 from the field. The Kokomo, Ind. native also collected her fourth double-double of the year, pulling down ten rebounds in the loss.
• The Trojans overcame the slow starts that have plagued the offense in previous games, as TIU battled to an early 10-6 lead with six early points from Woodard. Both sides would trade the lead six times in the opening minutes of a back-and-forth first half, until a nine-point run midway through the half gave Robert Morris a 26-17 advantage.
• A 12-4 run from Robert Morris put the Eagles ahead by eight with 6:28 to play; the Trojans would cut the lead down to four points on Woodard's final bucket of the night, at the 3:28 mark, but RMU would close out the final minutes to secure the game.
• Two other Trojans finished in double-figures on the night, with Ramsey collecting 15 points to match her career high, and senior Montanique Washington posted ten points and nine rebounds to nearly secure her second double-double of the year. Hemmeger collected nine assists to lead the offense, a career-high for the senior.

League Leaders    
• Trinity ranks 5th in the CCAC, allowing a .284 three-point shooting percentage to their opponents. (39th in NAIA). As a whole, TIU opponents have been shooting at a .415 clip, the 4th-highest average in the conference.
• The team has a total of 30 blocked shots on the year, placing them 9th among CCAC squads.
• Freshman Nika Bracun sits tied for 18th in the CCAC with 5.9 rebounds per game, and is the third-ranked freshman in the league. Bracun also ranks 8th in the conference in defensive boards, with 4.9 each night.
• Basha Ramsey is the lone Trojan among the top 30 scoring leaders in the CCAC; her 9.9 points per game average places her 30th on the conference leaderboard.
• Arielle Miree ranks among the league leaders in multiple categories. The sophomore from Chicago, Ill. sits 13th in the CCAC in free throw percentage, at 75.7%, and is tied for 14th in assists, dealing out 2.5 per game. Miree has played the second-highest number of minutes on average, seeing 34.1 minutes on the floor each night.

Trojan Program History    
• Head Coach Laurel Wartluft is one of the winningest head coaches in NAIA history; Wartluft has collected 344 wins over her 24 years as a head coach, which ranks 16th on the NAIA's winningest active head coaching list.
• TIU has made two appearances at the NAIA Women's Basketball Championship, in 1992-93, and 1994-95. The Trojans lost in the first round both times, to College of the Ozarks (Mo.) in 1993, and Western Oregon in 1995.
• Since 2003-04, TIU has posted an overall record of 151-209 (.419).
•Trinity International has never appeared in the NAIA Coaches Poll, since it's debut in 1999-00.