Bearcats Take to the Road to Battle Villanova

Feb. 14, 2011

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THE GAME
The University of Cincinnati women's basketball team will play in its second straight Pink Zone contest supporting breast cancer awareness on Tuesday, Feb. 15, at Villanova. Tip off between the Bearcats and Wildcats is set for 7 p.m. in the Pavilion in conjunction with the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Pink Zone initiative, a unified effort by the WBCA to raise breast cancer awareness in campus communities and beyond.

THE SERIES
Villanova leads the all-time series, 3-2. Villanova topped the Bearcats, 60-57, on Feb. 20, 2010, in Cincinnati. UC is 0-2 at the Pavilion against the Wildcats.

THE COACH
Jamelle Elliott enters her second season as a head coach, taking over the Cincinnati program after 12 years as an assistant coach at Connecticut, her alma mater. She was a six-time national champion with the Huskies, including helping UConn to its first championship as a student-athlete in 1995. One of the most accomplished players in the distinguished history of the Connecticut program, Elliott finished her career ranked No. 2 among UConn's all-time rebounding leaders (1,054), No. 5 in BIG EAST career rebounding (558), and No. 11 in UConn career scoring (1,387).

• Senior guard Shareese Ulis is UC's leading scorer, averaging 13.7 points per game, which is 13th in the BIG EAST. She has scored in double figures in all but six games this season.
• Ulis has knocked down a three-pointer in each game this season and 25 straight games dating to 2009-10.
• Chanel Chisholm returned to the lineup after missing five games due to injury. During that span, Cincinnati dressed only seven players.
• Since being inserted into the starting lineup three games ago, Bjonee Reaves is averaging 13.7 points per game.
• The Bearcats start two freshmen, a sixth-year senior, a first-year junior college transfer, and a second-year junior college transfer.
• Head coach Jamelle Elliott, the only BIG EAST head women's basketball coach to also play in the league, enters her second season on the Bearcats bench.
• Elliott spent 12 seasons as an assistant at Connecticut following a four-year playing career for the Huskies, where she won a combined six national championships as a player and coach.
• Cincinnati started the season 5-0 for the first time since the 2006-07 season before falling at Dayton on Dec. 2.
• UC went 1-1 at the Maggie Dixon Surf N Slam Classic, topping Hofstra after falling to No. 23/rv Texas.