Lady Tigers To Face Winthrop On Tuesday

The game will be the first of a double-header with the Clemson men's team and will start at 5:30 p.m.

Tasha Taylor led the Tigers in scoring and also recorded six steals in Clemson's most recent victory over the Eagles during the 2005-06 season.

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Nov. 24, 2008

Complete Game Notes

CLEMSON, SC - The Lady Tigers will play host to Winthrop on Tuesday night in the first game of a Clemson basketball double-header with the men's team. The women's game is scheduled for a 5:30 p.m. tipoff at Littlejohn Coliseum.

Broadcast Notes
* The game will be aired on the Clemson Tiger Sports Network
* Don Munson 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
* The last time Clemson and Winthrop met, the Lady Tigers won, 52-51, with a buzzer-beater by Susan Yenser
* Tasha Taylor was the team's leading scorer in the last meeting with Winthrop and also had six steals in the game
* Lele Hardy ranks second in the ACC in scoring with a 20.3 average
* Winthrop will be the fourth team from the state of South Carolina that the Lady Tigers have faced in 2008-09
* Lele Hardy's 32 points against Georgia State on Nov. 22 were the most for a Lady Tiger in five years.
* Taylor and Christy Brown both rank in the top six for career assists per game
* Lele Hardy's 199 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 series score, 13-1, over Winthrop in a series that dates back to 1976
* The Lady Eagles won that first game, but Clemson has won the last 13 match-ups, including the most recent during the 2005-06 season
* The Lady Tigers are a perfect 10-0 all-time in home games against Winthrop

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