GAME 8
Eastern Illinois will play its fourth game of the season against a member of the Ohio Valley Conference on Wednesday evening when the Panthers travel to Peoria, Ill., to face Bradley.  EIU has already played MVC members Evansville, Indiana State and Loyola-Chicago this season with a 1-2 record.  Following the game at Bradley, EIU will return to action on Dec. 16 at Southern Illinois for the Panthers fifth game against the MVC.  EIU is 2-5 on the year having lost a pair of weekend games at the UMKC Plaza Lights Classic.  The Panthers two wins this season have come at home in Lantz Arena.  Bradley is 2-4 on the year with four straight losses after opening the season at 2-0 including a win over Illinois in the season opener.

OROSZOVA NAMED TO ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
Junior Sabina Oroszova was named to the UMKC Plaza Lights All-Tournament team after scoring 26 points in the final game of the tournament.  Oroszova scored 33 points for the weekend with five blocked shots.  She leads the Panthers in scoring at 15.4 points per game which ranks 10th in the OVC while her 7.9 rebounds per game rank seventh.  Oroszova has 15 blocks this season which ranks first in the OVC. 

EIU SWATS AWAY SHOTS VERSUS UAB
Eastern Illinois blocked 12 shots in the loss versus UAB over the weekend as the Panthers had three different players finish that game with three blocked shots.  As a team EIU is blocking 5.4 shots per game which ranks 23rd in the NCAA and first in the Ohio Valley Conference.  Sabina Oroszova is ranked 51st in the NCAA in blocked shots as an individual.  EIU has blocked two or more shots in every game this season.

UP NEXT
Monday - December 16 at Southern Illinois (6 p.m. @ Carbondale, Ill.)

LAST TIME OUT
Eastern Illinois lost both of its weekend games at the UMKC Plaza Lights Classic falling to both UAB and UMKC.  The Panthers were cold from the field in the opener against UAB shooting 21 percent in the first half as they trailed 45-20 at the half.  EIU lost 79-46 as Katlyn Payne led the Panthers with 15 points.  In the final game EIU led 32-29 at the half but a 22-2 run by UMKC to open the second half sent EIU to a 69-62 defeat.  Sabina Oroszova scored 26 points with most of them coming in the second half as she earned All-Tournament team honors.

SCOUTING BRADLEY
Eastern Illinois will play a Bradley team that has lost four straight games after opening the season with a pair of wins.  The Braves have four players averaging in double figures led by Michelle Young with 20.7 points per game.  Catie O'Leary is the team's leading rebounder as she averages a double-double with 10.5 points and 10.2 rebounds per game.  Bradley averages 74.8 points per game.

SERIES INFORMATION
This will be the 33rd meeting between Eastern Illinois and Bradley with the Panthers holding a slight 17-15 all-time series lead.  Bradley won last year's meeting in Charleston, 66-65, and has won four of the last five match-ups.  EIU did win its last game in Peoria picking up a 59-58 win in November of 2011.  The two schools were former members of the Gateway Athletic Conference from 1983-1992. 

IN THE PAINT
• Senior Jordyne Crunk leads the Panthers in free throws this season as she ranks 60th in the NCAA in free throw percentage knocking down 88.2 percent.  Crunk has made 30-of-34 this season and needs 28 more free throws to crack the EIU career top ten for free throws made.

• Junior Katlyn Payne scored in double figures in both games at the Plaza Lights Classic finishing with 15 against UAB and 10 against UMKC.  After ranking third in the OVC in field goal percentage entering the weekend, she did cool off and is now shooting 42.9 percent from the field and 36.2 percent from 3-point range.

• Freshman Kaycee Kallenberger scored her first career points at EIU from the free throw line against UAB.  She then turned in her best performance to date against UMKC scoring six points with five rebounds.  Kallenberger was 3-of-6 from the field against UMKC while four of her five rebounds were on the offensive glass.

• Freshman Erica Brown broke into the scoring column for the first time this season with four points against UAB.  Brown made her lone field goal and was 2-of-2 from the free throw line against the Blazers.  She played a season high 13 minutes against UMKC finishing with five rebounds.

• Freshman Georgia Danos took over some of the ball handling duties at the Plaza Lights Classic finishing with ten assists at the tournament.  She played 20 minutes in each game.  Against UMKC she had seven assists and four rebounds.  Danos has three steals and three assists against UAB.

• EIU dominated play on the glass against UMKC as the Panthers finished with a 43-29 rebound edge.  EIU pulled down 19 offensive rebounds which they converted into 14 second chance points.  This season EIU has pulled down 30 percent of its rebounding total on the offensive glass with 75 total offensive rebounds and 252 overall.  EIU is still at negative 2.6 for season rebounding margin.

• DeAnna Willis pulled down six rebounds over the weekend at the Plaza Lights Classic as she has eight rebounds in the last three games.  Against UAB Willis had a career high three blocked shots as three EIU players (Sabina Oroszova and Katlyn Payne) finished with three blocks each.  Willis scored her first points of the season against UAB going 1-of-3 from the field.

EASTERN ILLINOIS HEAD COACH DEBBIE BLACK
Debbie Black enters his first season as head coach of the Eastern Illinois women's basketball team.  Black was hired May 16, 2013 to take over the program following a long career as an assistant coach, most recently at Ohio State.  While with the Buckeyes program Black helped coach the team to seven straight NCAA Tournament appearances including six Big Ten Conference Championships.  Black has been part of 34 consecutive winning basketball seasons both as a player and a coach.  She began her playing career at Saint Joseph's University helping the Hawks make four straight NCAA Tournament appearances.  After graduation in 1988, she played professionally overseas in Tasmania (1989-96).  She played in the WNBA from 1999-2005 earning WNBA Defensive Player of the Year honors.  Nicknamed "The Pest" Black is the only women's professional player to record a quadruple double with 10 points, 14 rebounds, 12 assists and 10 steals in a game.