GAME 5: Kennesaw State (1-3) at Florida A&M (1-3)
DATE: Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 7 p.m. ET
LOCATION: Al Lawson Center | Tallahassee, Fla.
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A LOOK AT FAMU ON TUESDAY…
The Kennesaw State women's basketball program will wrap-up its three-game road trip in Tallahassee, Florida facing Florida A&M on Tuesday, Nov. 24 at 7 p.m. The Owls are still searching for their first win on the road for the 2015-16 campaign and is averaging 55 points per game while pulling down 36 boards per contest. Jasmine McAllister leads the Owls, averaging 11.8 points per game and 7.5 rebounds and also has four steals on the season.
 
A LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE…
- 15 home games at the KSU Convocation Center.
- 15 road games.
- Five non-conference tilts with in-stat Georgia schools
- Season opener versus Georgia State on Friday, Nov. 13
- Atlantic Sun opener on Jan. 9, welcoming Lipscomb to the KSU Convocation Center

STATS LEADERS…
Points: Jasmine McAllister, 11.8
Rebounds: Jasmine McAllister, 7.5
Assists (total): Karly Frye, 22
Blocks (total): Jasmine McAllister, 6
Steals (total): Jasmine McAllister, 4
 
LAY-UPS…
- The Owls and Rattler have meet exactly once, meeting a season ago.
- Kennesaw State won the only meeting in 2014-15 with a 79-58 win.  
- Head Coach Nitra Perry is entering her fourth season with the Owls
- Coach Perry is 31-64 overall as a head coach, but won a program-best 17 wins in 2014-15
- The Owls' 17 wins in 2014-15 marked the first winning season since 2008-09, including a program-best 12-game start at 10-2.
- The Owls are averaging 7.25 players per game that have scored at least two points in all four contests.
- Coach Perry has seen a balanced attack in four games, with players of 7, 6, 7, and 9 scoring in the first four games, respectively.
- Stacey Franklin, Janie Mitchell and Nicci Kelly will help Coach Perry on the bench as the assistants in 2015-16.

KSU BY THE NUMBERS…
1 – The Owls won their first game of the 2015-16 season with a 49-47 win over Presbyterian.
6 – Kelly Dulkoski's six 3-pointers marked a new career-high for a single game.
7 – KSU will return seven key players from a season ago, while also welcoming seven newcomers to the team to compete in the 2015-16 season.
11 – Clara Young scored 11 of her 13 points in the second half against Florida on Nov. 21.
12 – Iceis Walker scored 12 points in her debut in the starting lineup against Florida.
18 – Kelly Dulkoski's 18 points against Presybterian was one point shy of tying her single-game career high.
26.7 – Kennesaw State's defense is holding opponents to 26.7% shooting from 3-point land
36- KSU is averaging 36 rebounds per game, almost a rebound per minute.
55- KSU is averaging 55 points per game through four contests.
 
SCOUTING FAMU …
- The Rattlers are led by head coach LeDawn Gibson, who is in her eighth season at the helm with a 106-108 overall record.
- FAMU is coming off a loss to ACC foe North Carolina and is 1-3 overall this season.
- FAMU full institution name is Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
- FAMU is located in Tallahassee, Florida and was founded in 1887.
 - An enrollment of 10,750, FAMU also has colors of Orange and Green and is nicknamed the Rattlers.
- The Rattles play in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).
- Florida A&M went 8-21 overall in 2014-15 and finished ninth (5-11) in the MEAC.
- FAMU returns seven players and lost five from a season ago. They have three starters returning from a season ago.
- Coach Gibson reached the 1—career win milestone in December with a road win at South Carolina State.

A LOOK AT THE RATTLERS' PLAYERS…
-  Key newcomers for the Rattlers include: DeAnn Whitlow (6'2, Hermitage, Tenn.), Cedricka Sweeting (5'5, Hollywood, Fla.), Jasmine Robertson (5'6, Conyers, Ga.), Florence Ouattara (5'10, Tiassale, Ivory Coast), Victoria Nguyen (5'5, Winshester, MA.), Jessica Njoku (6'2, Gardena, Cali.), London Holland (5'9, McKinney, Texas).
- Key returners from a season ago include: F 21-Olivia Antilla, 6-0, Sr.,Minneapolis, MN @ 13.3 ppg, 4.8 rbs, 52 3-pointers, 42 assists; F 11-Khaderja Young, 5-8, Sr., Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ 10.0 ppg, 5.1 rbs, 95 assts, 81 steals; G 2-Dawn King, 5-9, So., Waxahachie, TX  @ 7.9 ppg, 2.5 rbs, 30 3-pointers
- Olivia Antilla is leading the team with 14.7 points per game and 5.7 rebounds after three games.
- Cedricka Sweetings has totaled 13.3 points per game and five steals.
- The Rattlers are scoring 63.0 points per game and is shooting 34.5 percent from the field.
- They are also averaging 6.0 3-pointers made per contests and is shooting 28.6 percent from beyond the arc per game.
- FAMU has tallied 10.0 steals per game and 11.0 assists per game, while pulling down 34.7 rebounds per game.
 
No.     Name                                  Cl.     Ht.      Pos.                               Hometown/Previous School
21      Antilla, Olivia                           F      6-0      Sr.          Minneapolis, Minnesota (Anoka-Ramsey CC)
40      Burney-Robinson, Shalaunda   C       6-4     So.                           Palmdale, California (Knight HS)
34      Dixon, Kenya                         G       5-10    Jr.                       Baton Rouge, La. (Scotlandville HS)
22      Holland, London                     G       5-9      Fr.                                                        McKinney, TX
2        King, Dawn                           G        5-9      So.                    Waxahachie, Texas (Waxahachie HS)
15      McCray, Alicia                       F        5-11    Jr.     West Palm Beach, Florida (Trinity Christian HS)
3        Nguyen, Victoria                   G        5-5      Jr.                                                    Winshester, MA
4        Njoku, Jessica                      F        6-2      Jr.                                                         Gardena, CA
24      Ouattara, Florence                G        5-10    Jr.                                              Tiassale, Ivory Coast
23      Reynolds, Mariah                  F        6-0      Jr.                                                              Miami, FL
5        Robertson, Jasmine              G        5-6      Jr.                                                          Conyers, GA
1        Sweeting, Cedricka              G         5-5      Jr.                                                         Hollywood, FL
30      Whitlow, DeAnn                    F         6-2      Fr.                                                        Hermitage, TN
11         Young, Khadejra                G         5-8      Sr.                   Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Hillsborough CC)
 
 
WIN WOULD…
- Give the Owls their first win on the road for 2015-16.
- Snap a two-game losing skid and improve Kennesaw State's record to 2-3 overall on the young season.
 
KEY TEAM NOTES THROUGH FOUR GAMES!…
- Kennesaw State is first in the Atlantics Sun Conference in free throw percentage, shooting 73.8 percent. The Owls have made 45-of-61 FT.
- The Owls defense has been tough to score on through three games, holding opponents to just 37.6 shooting (96-of-255) against Georgia State, Presbyterian, Jacksonville State and Florida.
- Clara Young came off the bench for the first time this season against Florida, totaling 11 of her 13 points in the second half.
- Young hit two 3-pointers in the second half against the Gators, marking the fourth consecutive game she has hit at least one 3-pointer.
- Iceis Walker earned her first start in her young Owls' career, pouring in a career-high 12 points and grabbed a career-best eight board in the loss to Florida.
- Kennesaw State is getting out to a fast start to games, outscoring opponents 58-53 in the first quarter. The Owls are averaging 14.5 points in the first 10 minutes of play.
 
COACH PERRY FACTS…
-Head coach Nitra Perry is 22 wins away from moving into sole possession of third-most wins in program history - the all-time winningest coach is Colby Tilley with 290.
- Coach Perry has 31 wins in three-plus seasons, including a breakout 17-win campaign just a season ago.
- Coach Perry is the second Owls' head coach in the Division I era.
 
KSU WOMEN BASKETBALL FACTS…
- Kennesaw State will enter its 34th season of competition, as the first year of play was the 1982-83 season.
- The first year of competition in the Division I era was in 2005-06.
- The Owls' all-time NCAA record is 335-280 (.544) in 21 seasons.
- Kennesaw State holds a 204-143 (.588) record at the NAIA level.
- KSU holds a 69-113 (.379) record all-time in the Atlantic Sun.
- The Owls are 68-78 in 10-plus seasons at the KSU Convocation Center since becoming a Division I member with the ASUN.
- The Owls have made three NCAA postseason appearances in 1007, 1999, and 2000.
 
THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR…
-The Owls are 11 wins away from reaching the 300-win mark at the KSU Convocation Center.
-Kennesaw State is 15 wins away from reaching 350 wins in the NCAA (335-281) all-time.
-Deandrea Sawyers has made 121 3-pointers over her first two seasons with the Owls. The most made 3-pointers in a season was 78 by Taylor Mills in 2011-12, which Sawyers fell just 15 shy of breaking that record. Sawyers has yet to make a 3-pointer in four games.
-Deandre Sawyers is 222 points (7.4 points per game needed this season) away from reaching the 1,000 point plateau in 2015-16. She would be only the third player to accomplish the milestone since the Owls turned Division I in 2005-06. Sawyers is averaging 8.0 points per game in four games.
-Jasmine McAllister's 413 points last season fell just 46 points shy of the most points in a single season record by a player for Kennesaw State. Kristina Wells posted 459 points in 2013-14, which is the most in the Division I era.
-Jasmine McAllister also recorded 317 rebounds a season ago, which fell seven shy of the single-season record of 324 by Sametria Gideon in 2012-13.
-Jasmine McAllister, who was named the 2014-15 Atlantic Sun Conference Newcomer of the Year, averaged 13.8 points per game and 10.6 rebounds per game. She was named to the 2015-16 Preseason All-Conference team before the new campaign begins against Georgia State.
- Through four games, Jasmine McAllister is averaging 11.8 ppg and 7.5 rpg, while shooting 64 percent from the field and 75 percent at the free throw line.
-As a team, the Owls totaled 1,903 points (30 games) in 2014-15, which is just 42 points off the all-time Division I record of 1,945 posted in the 2011-12 season.
- As a team through four games, the Owls are shooting 38 percent from the field and has totaled 220 points (55 per game).
-Kennesaw State held a .313 (157-501) 3-poing field goal percentage in 2014-15, which marked the best shooting percentage in D-I program history from beyond the arc.
- The Owls are shooting 23-76 (30 percent) from 3-point land through four games.
-The Owls also held a .398 (686-1722) field goal percentage as a team, which also marked the best shooting percentage overall as a team in program history in 2014-15.
 
SUMMARIZING FLORIDA…
The Kennesaw State women's basketball team dropped a non-conference matchup with SEC foe Florida, 84-57, at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center on Saturday (Nov. 21) evening.
 
The Owls (1-3) were paced by a balance attack offensively, as nine KSU players totaled at least two points in the game and each player logged minutes in the game. Redshirt sophomore Clara Young led the
Owls with 13 points, hitting 2-of-2 from deep and Iceis Walker chipped in with 12 points in her debut in the starting lineup.
 
The Gators (2-1) had four players total in double-figures.
 
Kennesaw State's energy was strong out the gate, hitting 4-of-5 shots in the opening minutes to keep pace with the Gators. Two 3-pointers from Walker and Aareon Smith pulled the Owls within 14-12 after the first media timeout, and finished the quarter with 17 points – its second-most points totaled in a single quarter this season.
 
AAREON SMITH CAREER NIGHT…
- Aareon Smith poured in a career-high 20 points in an Owls uniform in their home-opening loss to crosstown Rival Georgia State.
- Smith finished with a game-high in points (20) and 3-pointers made (4) against the Panthers.
- Smith went 4-for-9 from beyond the arc and 5-for-11 overall from the field.
The junior forward is from Louisville, Kentucky and is in her third season with Kennesaw State.
 
DULKOSKI FROM DEEP!…
-Kelly Dulkoski made a career-high six 3-pointers in a single game against Presbyterian on Monday (Nov. 16) night.
- The redshirt sophomore poured in 18 points – one point shy of tying her career high of 19.
- Dulkoski made six of the Owls seven 3-pointers made in the game, making three in each half.
- All of Dulkoski's 3-pointers have come on the Owls' home floor (6-of-19) and has yet to make one on the road.
- In fact, Dulkoski's shots from the field have all come from beyond the arc and not one inside the 3-point line.