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The Bulldog women’s basketball team will begin a stretch of three games in five days with two at home starting on Thursday night when they will battle Fort Hays State in a key conference match-up.

On Saturday, the Bulldogs will host Nebraska- Omaha in the annual “Think Pink” game and on Monday, the Bulldogs will make-up the postponed game with Washburn University that was snowed out on Feb. 2nd.

Truman vs. Fort Hays St. Preview:

Two teams that are among a group of four MIAA squads within one game of each other will face off in Pershing Arena at 5:30 p.m. Of those four teams, three will make the MIAA tournament while one will be at home when the dance begins in Kansas City in March.

Truman is coming off a 76-64 win at home on Saturday against Southwest Baptist University. Nicole Gloor came off the bench again to burn the Bearcats as she scored 17 points after making her first five shots including a pair of three-pointers in the win. Gloor had previously went off for 20 against SBU in the first meeting back in December.

Breanna Daniels leads the team in scoring and is 10th in the conference with a 13.9 points per game average while Amy Galey is the team’s floor general, logging over 34 minutes per game and dishing out 4.5 assists per contest.

The Bulldogs are third in overall scoring defense at allowing 62.5 points per game and second in conference only games at 62.7 ppg.

The Tigers come in as one of the hottest teams in the MIAA after winning a current conference best five straight including an upset over #11 Washburn on Saturday 68-59 at home and an 84-78 win over conference leader Northwest Missouri.

Prior to the five-game winning streak, Fort Hays had dropped eight of nine with a home loss to Truman in the team’s first meeting by a score of 54-45 back on Jan.
3rd.Traci Keyser is the reigning MIAA women’s basketball player of the week after averaging 22.5 points in last week’s wins over Missouri Western and Washburn.

Keyser scored 29 points with 23 coming in the first half over the Griffons and hit a big three-pointer with under two minutes to play to give the Tigers the win over the Lady Blues. Keyser is not ranked in scoring as she averages 10.7 points per game but is the conference leader in free throw percentage (91.5%) and three-point field.

Courtesy TSU Sports