DUQUESNE DUKES
Sunday, December 2, 2012 - 1:00 p.m.
Moon Township, Pa. - Charles L. Sewall Center

Audio: WLFP 660 AM
Adam Gusky, play-by-play; Michael Asti, color analyst
Video: www.rmucolonials.com
Live Stats: www.rmucolonials.com

The Capsule

The Robert Morris University women's basketball team hosts crosstown rival Duquesne University in a 1:00 p.m. matinee this Sunday, Nov. 29, at the Charles L. Sewall Center. The Colonials will be looking for their first victory of the season and to avenge a three-point setback to the Dukes last year. Duquesne has won four consecutive games and sit 5-1 on the season.

The Series

Robert Morris and Duquesne have played 39 times with the Colonials holding a 13-26 record in those games. The Dukes have won four of the last five meetings, the last RMU victory coming via 69-61 margin in 2009. Robert Morris is 8-6 at home against Duquesne.

Musket Shots

• Spanou joined the 1,000-point club with nine points at Iowa last Tuesday. She now has 1,028 points.
• Spanou has tied her career-high with 16 rebounds against both Iowa and Stony Brook
• Four players have led the team in scoring over the first six games
• Senior forward Anna Gailite is tied for second all-time at RMU with 118 career blocks
• The Colonials had a season high 10 steals against Stony Brook
• Freshman Lou Mataly had a season-high 13 points to lead the team at Iowa
• Robert Morris has made it to the NEC Tournament semifinals in seven of the last eight seasons
• RMU is 92-24 (.793) at the Sewall Center since 2004-05, including 61-12 (.836) in NEC games

Spanou, Gailite Leaving Their Marks in Record Book

Junior forward Artemis Spanou and senior Anna Gailite have left their marks on the RMU career record lits. Spanou is the 11th player in team history to reach both 1,000 career points and collect 500 career rebounds. Gailite is now second all-time at Robert Morris with 119 career blocks. Gailite is averaging 2.0 blocks this season while Spanou is dropping 16.4 points and grabbing 12.0 rebounds per contest.

Road Warriors

Robert Morris is in the midst of a four-game road swing and an extended portion of the Colonials schedule that will see the team play eight of 10 games away from the Charles L. Sewall Center between now and the turn of the calendars. During that span, RMU will travel 6,644 miles. The longest trip is the the 858-mile journey to Minnesota while the shortest is 94 miles to Kent State.

Euro-Stats

The contributions of the Colonials European-born players cannot be overlooked. Three of five starters and five of the team's 10 players were born on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean (junior forward Jolie Olingende is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Those European players are accounting for 74 percent of the team's scoring (39.5 points per game).