Game No. 11 Canisius College (5-4) at Rhode Island (5-5)
Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
Time: 12 p.m.
Site: Thomas M. Ryan Center Gymnasium (7,657)
Internet Broadcast: All Canisius College women's basketball games will have free Internet audio broadcast through GoGriffs.com. Mike Scott will be on the play-by-play for the 2008-09 season
Webcast: Available through www.gorhody.com

QUICK HITTERS

• Canisius plays its second road game in three days, taking on Rhode Island Monday,
• Canisius has won three straight and five of six after a 64-37 win at New Hampshire Saturday.
• The 37 points allowed by the Griffs were the fewest allowed in a road game since the program went to the Division I level for the 1986-87 season.
• Canisius has held its opponent without a field goal for four minutes or longer seven times in the last two games and 20 times during the season.
• Canisius leads the MAAC in 3-point field goal percentage at 40.7 percent.
• Senior Marie Warner has scored in double figures nine times this season. Warner leads Canisius and ranks fourth in the MAAC in scoring at 15.9 points per game. Warner is one of three players in the league to be in the top 10 in scoring and rebounding (6.2).
• Warner's 159 points through the opening 10 games are the most by a Golden Griffin since J?nel Stevens had 219 points through the opening 10 games of the 2002-03 season.
• Junior Brittan? Russell is leading the MAAC with 2.9 steals per game and has at least two steals in 14 of the last 16 games.
• Senior Amanda Cavo ranks second in the Canisius record books in made 3-point field goals with 215 in her career.
• Canisius has the top three players in the league in 3-point field goal percentage ? Warner and Russell at 50 percent with sophomore Micayla Drysdale at 47.6 percent.
• Canisius holds the NCAA Division I record for consecutive games with a made 3-pointer, having made a 3-pointer in 431 consecutive games.
  

CANISIUS VS. RHODE ISLAND

• Canisius and Rhode Island are meeting for the second consecutive season and third time overall. The Golden Griffins have won both games, including a 70-63 victory at the Koessler Athletic Center on Jan. 2, 2008.
• Monday's matchup is the first between the teams in Kingston, R.I.
• Canisius is playing a team from the Atlantic 10 conference for third time this season, losing to St. Bonaventure and defeating Saint Louis.
• Monday's game is the first in the state of Rhode Island for Canisius since Dec. 3, 2000, when the Golden Griffins took second place in the Providence Bank Classic.
  

RHODE ISLAND SCOUT

• Rhode Island enters Monday's game with a 5-5 record after a 62-50 victory over Sacred Heart on Saturday. The Rams have won two straight.
• Megan Shoniker leads the team at 11.2 points per game. The 5-foot-9 sophomore guard is shooting 44.7 percent from the field and 40 percent from behind the arc. Shoniker is the only Rhode Island player to make more than five 3-pointers this season as Shoniker has made 14.
• Senior Sierra Cooper leads the team with 6.6 rebounds per game and is second on the squad with 10.4 points per game while shooting 50 percent from the floor (45-for-90).
• In the 14-team Atlantic 10, Rhode Island ranks 13th i scoring offense, 11th in scoring defense, eighth in field goal percentage, 14th in field goal percentage defense, 14th in 3-point field goal percentage, 10th in rebounding margin and fourth in turnover margin.
• Tom Garrick is in his sixth season at his alma mater as the head coach of the women's team. Garrick served as an assistant for both the women's teams and men's teams previously. Garrick scored 1,573 points in his career at URI.
  

DEFENSE NOT IN THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT

• The Golden Griffins have locked down opposing offenses in the last two games.
• Here's a quick look at some combined stats from the last two games.
• 75 points allowed
• 59 turnovers forced
• 29.4 percent (25-for-85) field goal percentage defense
• 29 steals
• Seven field-goal droughts of four minutes or more