ROCHESTER, Mich. - The Oakland women's basketball team will spend the holiday weekend in Miami, Fla. for a pair of games at the FIU Thanksgiving Classic. The Golden Grizzlies will play host FIU on Friday, Nov 29 at noon with the game being broadcast live from the Ocean Bank Convocation Center on C-USA TV for paid subscriptions only. Oakland will then play Jacksonville State on Sunday, Dec. 1 at noon.

Notes:
Series History: This is Oakland's first meeting against FIU and Jacksonville State.
 
A look at the Panthers: FIU is 1-3 on the season and is led by junior Jiselle Thomas (15.3 ppg) and redshirt senior Chelsea Guimaraes (12.0 ppg) who also leads the team in rebounds (7.3).
 
Scouting the Gamecocks: Jacksonville State is 3-3 on the year and is led by junior Taylor Hawks (13.2 ppg) and grad student Destiney Elliott (13.2 ppg).
 
Last Time Out, Guingrich Returns: In her first game back from injury this season, Chloe Guingrich recorded a double-double scoring a team-high 14 points with 12 rebounds as Oakland had a 77-63 setback at Niagara on Monday night. Teneea Heston also just missed a double-double adding 11 points while grabbing a career-high nine rebounds.

Magic number 800: Oakland currently sits at 797 overall program wins needing just three more to reach 800.
 
Charity Stripe Production: Oakland leads the Horizon League in free throw percentage (77.6) while Jalisha Terry is tops in the league (92.3) and ranks 23rd nationally. Kayla Luchenbach also ranks sixth (84.2).
 
Guard the Arc: Oakland leads the league in 3-point field goal percentage defense (26.0).
 
Pass/Protect the Rock: Brianna Breedy leads the conference in assist/turnover ratio (3.50) followed by Terry in third (2.33) while the team ranks fourth in turnover margin (3.00) and third in assist/turnover ratio (1.04).
 
Gettin' Buckets: Oakland ranks fourth in the league in scoring (70.2 ppg) while individually, Terry (12.6) and Luchenbach (11.6) rank ninth and 13th respectively.
 
Lockdown D: Defensively, the Golden Grizzlies rank second in field goal percent defense (37.7) and rank fourth in points-per-game defense (67.8) and steals (8.20).
 
Droppin' Dimes: Oakland ranks third in assists (14.80) while Terry ranks sixth in the league in assists per game (3.5).
 
Crash the Boards: The Golden Grizzlies are second in the league in rebounds per game (41.6) while Luchenbach (6.8) and Sydney Gouard (5.4) rank seventh and 16th respectively.




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