Feb. 17, 2006

Washington, D.C. -- The Georgetown University women's basketball team (10-13, 3-9 BE) visits Marquette (16-7, 7-5 BE) on Sunday afternoon in a key BIG EAST Conference match-up. Tip-off is set for 3 p.m. (EST).

Georgetown currently stands in 13th place in the BIG EAST standings with four league games remaining. The Hoyas hold tiebreakers over Seton Hall, Syracuse and Providence. GU still has games with teams in the middle of the pack, Marquette, Villanova, Cincinnati, and USF so every game still has a lot of meaning. The BIG EAST Tournament consists of the league's top 12 teams and will tip-off from March 4-7 at the Hartford Civic Center.

Georgetown is coming off a 64-58 loss to No. 16 DePaul on Wednesday night.

The Series...

This is the first-ever meeting between Georgetown and Marquette in the sport of women's basketball.

Three Hoyas in Familiar Territory...

Georgetown sophomore guard Kristin Heidloff (Chicago, Ill.Fenwick) is a Chicago native, about 100 miles from Milwaukee, and played her scholastic ball at Fenwick. Heidlof sometimes squared off with Marquette's Christina Quaye, also a Chicago native who played at Regina Dominican HS.

Hoya senior guard Leslie Tyburski (Hammond, Ind./Gavit) hails from Hammond, Ind., about 125 miles from the Marquette campus.

First-year Georgetown assistant coach Ty Evans, played his collegiate ball at Wisconsin-Whitewater, graduating in 1995 before spending time coaching basketball at his alma mater, Beloit Memorial HS as well as Turner HS in Beloit, Wisc. Evans also founded Krossover Basketball, Inc., based out of Janesville, Wisc. helping to promote the game of basketball.

Quick Notes...

--- Sophomore point guard Kristin Heidloff (Chicago, Ill./Fenwick) leads the BIG EAST in assist to turnover ratio (+2.2) and ranks fourth in the BIG EAST with 4.3 assists per game. Heidloff has scored in double-figures in six of the last eight games. The Chicago, Ill. native notched her first career double-double with 13 points and career-high 11 assists in the win over American. Heidloff's 11 assists is the third best output by a BIG EAST player this season. The last time a Hoya dished out double-figure dimes was Nov. 11, 2004 when Mary Lisicky did it in a win over Delaware.

Heidloff has already led the team in assists on 13 occasions this year after accomplishing the feat ten times all of last season. Heidloff ranks third on the team averaging 10.0 points and has made 46 percent of her three-pointers (18-39) in the last six games to go along with 24 assists vs. only eight turnovers (3:1).

--- Georgetown has trailed at halftime in all nine of their BIG EAST losses. In all three of their BIG EAST victories, the Hoyas have held a lead at intermission.

--- GU is 9-0 this season when leading at halftime.

--- The Hoyas have made 79% of their free throws in the last five minutes of games (91-114). As a team, Georgetown ranks fourth in the BIG EAST, shooting 71.0 percent from the stripe.

--- The Hoyas have made at least ten free throws in 12 of the last 14 games. In the last 14 games, Georgetown has knocked down 220-290 from the stripe (75%) while their opponents have attempted just 192.

--- Sophomore forward Kieraah Marlow (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) has tallied 20 or more points in six of the last 14 games. Marlow ranks fourth in the BIG EAST with eight 20-point games this season. She notched three straight 20+ point efforts from December 28-January 4, the longest such stretch of her career. Marlow, who was named to the All-BIG EAST Rookie Team a year ago, ranks seventh in the BIG EAST with 16.4 points per game and while ranking eighth in the league, shooting 44.3 percent from the floor.

Marlow has recorded four double-doubles in the last six games.

--- Senior Bethany LeSueur (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City), who is playing in her 102nd career game, ranks second on the team, averaging 12.3 points and 3.5 assists. In her third season on the Hilltop after spending her freshman year at the University of Virginia, the Garden City, N.Y. native is now just the seventh player in Georgetown women's basketball history to surpass the 800-point, 200-assist and 400-rebound milestones. LeSueur set new career-highs with 24 points and ten free throws in the victory over Providence and LeSueur recorded her second double-double of the season (5th of her career) with 19 points and 11 rebounds vs Notre Dame.

--- After scoring in double figures in two of the first six games, freshman Katrina Wheeler (Washington, D.C./T Roosevelt) has scored in double figures in six of the last 14 games. Wheeler was named BIG EAST Rookie of the Week on January 3 after averaging 14.5 points and 10.5 rebounds in victories over Florida Atlantic and Clemson. The 6-4 McDonald's All-American averages 8.9 points and ranks seventh and leading all BIG EAST freshmen with 8.7 rebounds. Wheeler is tied for third in the BIG EAST with seven season double-doubles.

---Freshman Nikki Bozeman (District Heights, Md./Bishop McNamara) has started in each of the last five games. The District Heights, Md. native is averaging 2.7 points and is shooting 38 percent from the floor in 20 minutes per game. Bozeman played her prep ball at Bishop McNamara High in District Heights, Md., which was receiving votes in the latest USA Today poll. Bozeman had her best collegiate game vs Seton Hall, setting career highs with nine points, six rebounds and matching a career-high with five assists.