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Youth will meet experience Sunday afternoon at Roberts Stadium, as head coach Misty Murphy's young University of Evansville Purple Aces will meet an experienced Samford University Bulldogs squad on United Way Day. Tip-off is set for 2:00 p.m.
Evansville, a mix of six returning players and six true freshmen, will try to bounce back from Friday night's 77-68 season-opening loss to Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sunday afternoon. Sophomore guard
Jordan Lewis paced a balanced UE attack with 12 points, but the Purple Aces could not overcome 51 percent shooting from the floor by Milwaukee in the loss. Now, the Purple Aces will face a Samford squad which returns four upperclassman starters and eight players overall from a 22-7 squad a year ago.
"Samford is one of the most efficient offensive teams in the country," said Murphy. "They do not make mistakes, they shoot the ball extremely well and they know how to spread the floor and work as a unit. We need to do a better job of working as a unit defensively on Sunday, or they will make us pay."
Samford is led by junior guard Emily London, who ranked second in the NCAA in three-point field goal accuracy last year at 46.4 percent. London averaged 13.8 points per game last year, including scoring 21 points against Evansville last November in Birmingham. Junior forward Savannah Hill, who ranked second on the team in scoring a year ago at just over 12.4 points per game, paced the Bulldogs in a 59-46 season-opening victory over Jacksonville State on Friday night with a game-high 22 points and nine rebounds. Starting guard Monica Maxwell, one of two redshirt seniors in the Samford starting lineup, also added 14 points in the win.
Evansville outlasted Samford, 58-54, in double-overtime last November thanks to a 10-point, 11-rebound double-double by current UE senior
Amy Gallagher. It is the only meeting all-time between the two schools in the sport of women's basketball.
Sunday's game will be United Way Day at Roberts Stadium, as the UE athletics department has supplied tickets to agencies which receive support from the United Way. Children's book hero Napoleon Peacock and Indiana Fever guard Tully Bevilaqua will be on hand to meet fans on Sunday. UE will also present a check to the United Way to represent the campus' United Way campaign, and halftime entertainment will be provided by the k9 Friz B. Crew which appeared on America's Got Talent. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for youth (17 and under) and seniors (65 and over). Sunday's game can also be heard live on 91.5 F.M.-WUEV.
