PREVIEW
Opening Tip
The Fighting Illini women's basketball plays its first games away from home this week, traveling to Daytona Beach, Fla., to compete at the Daytona Beach Invitational.
» The first matchup of the tournament pits the Illini against the defending Atlantic 10 regular-season champion Dayton Flyers.
» The Illini then face off against a Middle Tennessee State team that won both the regular-season and tournament titles in Conference USA last season.
» The games will be streamed live on FloHoops.com (and the FloSports App) with Corey Brooks (play-by-play) and Jennifer George (analyst).
» Mike Koon will call the action for the Illini on the Busey Bank Illini Sports Network (1400 AM / 93.9 FM).
» Streaming audio is also available at FightingIllini.com.
About The Illini
Illinois enters the week with a 3-1 record after opening the season with a four-game home stand at State Farm Center.
» The Illini have captured home victories over NC Central (W, 76-53), Miami (OH) (W, 72-65), and UC Riverside (W, 86-82), while suffering their lone setback of the year against SIUE (L, 71-62).
» Offensively, the new-look Illini have opened the season with a much-improved scoring average from last season. Through four games, the Illini are averaging 73.3 points per game, an improvement of 13.7 points per game over last year's season average of 59.6 ppg.
» Leading scorer, sophomore G Aaliyah Nye, is averaging 15.0 ppg, an improvement of nearly 7 points per game from her freshman campaign (8.1 ppg).
» Behind Nye, the Illini's offensive attack has been balanced with seven other players tallying at least one double-digit scoring game so far this season, and five others - Jada Peebles (9.5), Jayla Oden (9.3), Kendall Bostic (8.3), De'Myla Brown (8.3), and Sara Anastasieska (8.0) - entering action at the Daytona Beach Invitational averaging at least 8.0 ppg."
» Sophomore F Kendall Bostic ranks as the team's top rebounder, pulling down 10.3 boards per contest. Bostic enters the week ranked third in the Big Ten and 34th nationally in the category.
» At 3-1, the Illini are also off to one of the best four-game starts in program history. The Illini have opened a season 3-1 or better 26 times in the program's 48-year history.
About Middle Tennessee
Middle Tennessee begins their week in Florida with an unblemished 4-0 record, having recorded home wins over East Carolina (70-49) and Vanderbilt (55-46), while recording road wins at VCU (54-46) and at Tennessee Tech (65-47).
» The Blue Raiders open play in Daytona with a Friday matchup against Marquette before taking on the Fighting Illini on Saturday morning.
» Junior F Courtney Whitson, a 2021 C-USA All-Tournament Team selection, leads Middle Tennessee in scoring at 14.3 points per game and ranks as the team's top three-point shooter with 14 makes on 45.2 percent shooting from beyond the arc in four games.
» Senior G Alexis Whittington leads the team in rebounding at 8.0 boards per game. Whittington also ranks first on the team with 12 steals through the first four contests.
Series vs. Middle Tennessee
Saturday's matchup marks the first in the series between the Fighting Illini and the Blue Raiders
Current Illini vs. the Blue Raiders
Graduate G Sara Anastasieska is the only member of the current Illini roster to have faced the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders during her collegiate career.
» As a freshman at UTSA in 2015-16, Anastasieska tallied five points, all at the free-throw line, and pulled down one rebound in a 74-63 loss for the Roadrunners.
Up Next
The Fighting Illini return home to State Farm Center to host a Big Ten/ACC Challenge matchup vs. the No. 17/22-ranked Florida State Seminoles. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. CT on Thursday, Dec. 2.
Follow The Illini
For more Fighting Illini women's basketball news, stay tuned to FightingIllini.com and follow @IlliniWBB on social media: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook.
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