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Nov. 21, 2008
CLEMSON, SC - The Clemson women's basketball team will play host to Georgia State on Saturday afternoon at Littlejohn Coliseum. Tip off is slated for 3:00 p.m., a change for the originally scheduled time of 7:00 p.m.
Broadcast Notes
* The game will be aired on the radio on an Internet-only basis on www.clemsontigers.com
* Dan Scott will call the play-by-play with Kanetra Queen providing color commentary
* The game will be video streamed on the Internet at ACCSelect.com
* Livestats will be available on www.clemsontigers.com
Clemson Quick Notes
* Clemson and Georgia State last met over 20 years ago, during the 1987-88 season. The Lady Tigers won that game, 96-64, to take a 4-1 lead in the series score.
* Saturday's game will be the first for the Panthers this season while Clemson will be playing its fourth of the 2008-09 season.
* Georgia State will be the Lady Tigers' first out-of-state opponent this season.
* Tasha Taylor currently ranks 9th in school history with 345 career assists
* Taylor and Christy Brown both rank in the top six for career assists per game
* Lele Hardy's 196 career steals are seventh in school history
* Hardy holds the school record with a 3.06 career steals per game average
* Clemson has nine players from the state of Georgia on its roster, which is tops in the nation for a school in a different state, according to a survey by the SID at George Mason
* The Lady Tigers were predicted to finish ninth in the preseason ACC poll
* Clemson returns nine letterwinners and has six freshmen for the 2008-09 season
* Sthefany Thomas spent her offseason traveling with the Argentinean national team to the South America Championships and the FIBA Olympic Qualifier
* The 2008-09 Clemson women's basketball roster has quite the athletic lineage. Six players have parents and/or siblings that also played a sport at the Division I level
* McKinney and her staff signed North Carolina point guard Keyrra Gillespie on Nov. 12. Gillespie will join the Lady Tiger program for the 2009-10 season.
Series Notes
* Clemson leads the all-time series score, 4-1, over Georgia State
* Although the Panthers claimed the first match-up, an 83-78 decision in 1977, the Lady Tigers have won the last four meetings
* The two teams have not faced off in over 20 years, when Clemson defeated Georgia State 96-64 during the 1987-88 season.
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