Dec. 21, 2013
FINAL SCORE: WKU 57, Georgetown 55
Team Records, Game Notables and Series Information
- WKU finished non-conference play with an 8-3 record while Georgetown is now 6-5.
- WKU won the first ever meeting between the teams.
- WKU improved to 11-2 all-time against the current alignment of the Big East Conference with the win.
- WKU returns to action on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014 when WKU faces South Alabama in Mobile, Ala. in the Sun Belt Conference opener for both teams.
- WKU returns home on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014 when the Lady Toppers face Georgia State for the Spread the Red Education Game at 11:30 a.m. CT. Tickets for the general public are just $1 for the game as part of the NCAA Pack the House Challenge.
- WKU used the lineup of Chastity Gooch, Alexis Govan, Micah Jones, Bianca McGee and Bria Gaines for the first time this season. It is the sixth consecutive game that WKU has used a different lineup.
- WKU shot just 18.9 percent in the opening half, hitting just 7-of-37 shots. WKU was 6-of-36 (16.7 percent) before Alexis Govan hit a basket with 21 seconds remaining in the half.
- WKU had an assists on five of seven field goals during the first half of play.
- WKU committed just eight turnovers in the first half, but Georgetown scored 15 of their 28 points in the opening stanza off the WKU miscues.
- WKU held Georgetown to 31.6 percent shooting in the first half on 12-of-38 shooting.
- WKU trailed by as many as 16 points in the game at 35-19 and 37-21.
- WKU has overcome a deficit of eight points or more on eight times during the Michelle Clark-Heard era to win, including three times this season.
- WKU trailed by as many as 13 points in the first half at 28-15 following a basket with 2:24 remaining in the first half.
- WKU trailed 55-50 before a Bria Gaines basket with 14.1 remaining.
- WKU trailed 50-40 until a Bria Gaines basket with 5:08 remaining.
- Junior guard Alexis Govan hit the game winning shot in the final seconds after getting a steal at midcourt and completing an open drive to the basket.
- Govan had 17 points, seven rebounds, four assists and four steals.
- In addition to Govan's game winner, she had the assist on the three-point field goal to tie the game at 55.
- Govan continued to build on her career point total after recently becoming the 34th member of WKU's 1,000 point club. Govan is now in 33rd place on WKU's all-time scoring list, surpassing Jamie Walz today. Govan now has 1,050 in her career.
- Govan has scored in double figures in 47 consecutive games, tying her with Crystal Kelly for the third longest double-figure scoring streak at WKU since the start of the 2000-01 season. The streak is the second longest such active streak in the nation.
- Govan has started 52 consecutive games, the longest active streak on the team. She started the final nine games of the 2011-12 season and every game of the 2012-13 season.
- Senior guard Bianca McGee tied her career high by hitting five three-point field goals in the game.
- McGee had 19 points to lead all scorers.
- Freshman center Bria Gaines had 10 points and 12 rebounds for WKU.
- Gaines had nine rebounds in the first half and finished with 12 for the game.
- Gaines had her second career double-double and second in the last three games for WKU.
- Gaines made her second career start.
