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HIGHLANDERS SET TO COLLIDE WITH MIAMI IN TITLE TILT

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Coming off its highest offensive output of the season (85-62) over Southern Illinois in the semifinals of the UM Thanksgiving Tournament, the Radford women's basketball team earns a date with the host Hurricanes at 7:00 p.m. Saturday at the BankUnited Center.
 
MEET THE HURRICANES                                                                                                        
♦ Miami returns two All-ACC players for the 2012-13 campaign. Sharp-shooting point guard Stefanie Yderstrom earned third-team conference honors last season, leading the ACC with 68 3-pointers. Morgan Stroman was well on her way to earning conference honors for the second consecutive season. However, midway through the season, the 2009 McDonald's All-American tore her Achilles tendon, ending her junior campaign. As a sophomore, the forward earned third-team honors. She surpassed the 1,000-point plateau Friday against Florida Atlantic, becoming the 22nd Hurricane to do so.
♦ Sophomore Michelle Woods leads Miami in scoring (15.0 ppg) while shooting 46 percent from the floor. Yderstrom (11.0 ppg) and Stroman (10.8) also contribute double-figure scoring for the Hurricanes. Stroman attacks the glass for a team-best 9.5 rebounds per game.
♦ In 2012-13, UM advanced to the NCAA tournament second round for the second consecutive season, finishing second in the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 14-2 record. Overall, Miami finished with a 26-6 record, the third straight 20-win season for head coach Katie Meier.
♦ Prior to their Nov. 18 loss vs. No. 20 Tennessee, the Hurricanes held the nation's second-longest home win streak at 41 games. Miami had gone 1,001 days without dropping a game inside the BankUnited Center.
♦ Meier is in her 12th season as a head coach and eighth at Miami. She has a 205-141 overall record and is 129-96 at UM.
 
SERIES HISTORY                                                                                                                     
♦ The Highlanders and Miami have only hooked up once prior to Saturday's meeting. The lone encounter occured Jan. 2, 2001 with the Hurricanes winning 83-48 at home.
 
WHAT'S NEXT                                                                                                                          
♦ Radford opens Big South play with preseason favorite Liberty (2-3) Saturday, Dec. 1 inside the Dedmon Center. The Lady Flames went 0-2 during their Texas swing, falling  to No. 24 Texas A&M (70-55) and No. 3 Baylor (92-60). Liberty is scheduled to play UNCG Tuesday, Nov. 27. Radford downed the Spartans, 76-64, on the road last week.
 
LAST TIME OUT                                                                                                                      
♦ Radford women's basketball visited the free-throw line a season-high 44 times and used a relentless up-tempo offense to dispatch Southern Illinois, 85-62, in the nightcap on the first day of the UM Thanksgiving Tournament inside the BankUnited Center.
♦ Ashley Buckhannon tallied 17 points, including a 3-of-6 performance from downtown to lead the Highlanders. Breshara Gordon added a career-high 15 points, while Sara Tabb contributed 14 points and a game-high nine rebounds. Victoria Hamilton finished with nine points, seven rebounds and a game-high four steals.
♦ For the third consecutive outing, the Highlanders shot over 40 percent (42.4) from the floor and out-rebounded their opponent (44-32). Radford held the advantage in points in the paint (32-18), points off turnovers (25-14), second-chance points (14-6) and bench points (28-21).
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