Game 25  ·  American (10-14, 6-8 PL) vs. Boston University (15-10, 10-4 PL)
Saturday, Feb. 22  ·  2 p.m.  ·  Washington, D.C. (Bender Arena)
All-Time Record: American leads, 13-5

WASHINGTON - The American University women's basketball team (10-14, 6-8 PL) opens its final four-game stretch back at home this weekend with a 2 p.m. tip against Boston University (15-10, 10-4 PL) on Saturday, February 22.

SERIES HISTORY

• The Eagles will look for a bit of redemption this weekend after falling to the Terriers in Beantown on January 5, 59-44. That loss broke a five-game win streak for American that dated back to the 2016-17 season.
• Despite the loss, AU still holds a 13-5 advantage in the young series.
• The two teams first met on Jan. 25, 1981 in Washington where BU came out on top, 78-68. The Eagles and Terriers faced off twice more in the 1980's, then didn't see each other again until BU joined the Patriot League in 2013-14.
• American has dominated the series at home, 9-1, with the only loss being that series debut. 

LAST TIME OUT

• Sophomore Jade Edwards posted her third double-double of the season, fifth of her career, to lead AU to a 48-40 win over Navy.
• Edwards scored a game-high 22 points off 8 of 11 from the field, 2 of 3 from three, and a perfect 4 of 4 from the line. She also added a game-high 11 boards.
• The Eagles led Navy in rebounding with a season-high 44 boards while the Mids were held to 39.
• Junior Indeya Sanders was back in double-figures for the first time since Lehigh (Jan. 29), scoring 10 alongside her 8 rebounds.
• Senior Kaitlyn Marenyi tied her lowest output of the season with four points, but found other ways to contribute - she grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds and added three key steals.
• Sophomore Laura Graytok joined Edwards as the only two Eagles to find success from long range. She went 2-for-2 from three for six points.
• AU had a strong start to the game, gapping Navy 9-0 before the Mids finally got on the board at the 5:05 mark. By the end of the first, the Eagles had built a 14-6 lead behind nine points from Edwards.
• The second quarter flipped the story, though, as American hit a seven-minute drought and Navy took advantage with a 10-0 run to pick up a 16-14 lead. A fastbreak layup from Marenyi after a Sanders steal shifted momentum back to the Eagles and by the end of the half AU had rebuilt a two-point lead at 20-18.
• The two teams were locked at 25-24 for nearly 1:30 midway through the third before Graytok sank her first of two treys to break the drought. A closing 7-2 solo run from Edwards gave AU a 37-30 advantage heading into the final stanza.
• Edwards continued that run into the fourth quarter, sinking a layup to give American its largest lead since the first quarter at 39-30. Once again, a four-minute scoreless stretch halted both teams, but the Eagles held the final advantage with a 4-2 run in the final two minutes to close at 48-40.

THE STARTING FIVE

• Jade Edwards picked up her third double-double of the season, fifth of her career, to lead the Eagles to a 48-40 win at Nay on Wednesday. Edwards scored 22 points - her eighth 20+ point performance of the season - alongside her 11 boards.
• Indeya Sanders was back in double-figures for the first time in five games with 10 points, and,although Kaitlyn Marenyi was held to only four, she found other ways to contribute with a career-high 10 boards and three steals.
• The pairing of Marenyi and Edwards sits as one of the strongest 1-2 scoring punches in the Patriot League. Edwards is fourth in the overall rankings (14.6 ppg) and fifth in the PL slate (13.2) while Marenyi ranks fifth overall (13.7 ppg) and fourth against PL teams (15.0 ppg).
• With four games remaining in the regular season, AU is seventh in the league with a 6-8 record. Holy Cross, Lafayette and Lehigh are all bunched at fourth-sixth with 8-6 records. American will face both Holy Cross and Lafayette next week before closing with Navy.
• BU picked up the 59-44 win in the first meeting between the two teams this season on Jan. 5 in Beantown. Boston currently sits alongside Colgate in second with a 10-4 PL record.

SCOUTING THE TERRIERS 

• Boston University sits with Colgate in second in the current rankings at 10-4 in the league. BU comes into the weekend matinee on a seven-game win streak that dates back to Jan. 25.
• The latest in these victories was a 47-40 win at home against Lafayette on Wednesday.
• Riley Childs led the Terriers with her second double-double in five games, leading the field with 10 rebounds alongside her 11 points. Katie Nelson led BU's scorers with 13 points.
• Nelson leads the team so far this season with 12.9 ppg followed by Maggie Pina's 11.3 ppg. It's been Pina, though, who has led BU in the conference slate, ranking sixth in the PL with 12.9 ppg while Nelson is 15th with 11.2 ppg.
• Childs ranks first on the boards with 7.4 rpg while Maren Durant is averaging 5.8 per game. The pair sit side-by-side in the league-only rankings at seventh with 7.9 rpg against PL teams.
• Pina also remains the top three-point shooter in the league, averaging 2.9 made per game.

UP NEXT...
American will take its final road trip of the regular season on Wednesday, Feb. 26, for a 7 p.m. tip at Lafayette. The Eagles will close the regular season at home against Holy Cross on Saturday, Feb. 29, for the team's Senior Day celebration, and Wednesday, March 4, against Navy.

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