SLU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL GAME NOTES & INFORMATION
GAME 35	#13 Saint Louis (17-17) at #4 Tennessee (23-11) • NCAA Tournament First Round
WHEN	Saturday, March 18, 2023 • Noon (CT)
WHERE	Thompson-Boling Arena (Knoxville, Tenn.)
WATCH	ESPN3 • ABC
LISTEN	SLUBillikens.com • KFTK 97.1 FM
LIVE STATS	NCAA.com

GAME NOTES: Saint Louis

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Saint Louis is the No. 13 seed in the 2023 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship Seattle 3 Regional and will begin the tournament vs. No. 4 seed Tennessee Saturday, March 18, at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knoxville, Tenn. Tip time is noon Central.

The game will be televised on ABC with Pam Ward and Stephanie White on the call. In addition, fans can follow the action on KFTK-FM 97.1 in St. Louis or on SLUBillikens.com. Colin Suhre will provide the play-by-play, and Billiken Hall of Famer Bob Ramsey will handle analyst duties.

The Billikens, who earned an automatic tournament bid by winning the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship title, are making the first NCAA Championship appearance in program history. SLU tied for third place in the A-10 regular-season standings.

Tennessee was awarded an at-large bid. The Lady Vols finished third in the Southeastern Conference and were runners-up in the SEC Championship.
 
Tennessee leads the series 1-0.
 
KEY STORYLINES
•Saint Louis begins the NCAA Championship as one of the nation's hottest teams. The Billikens have won six straight and 11 of their last 12 games; the only other time a SLU women's basketball team has won 11 of 12 in a season was 1978-79.
•When SLU won the A-10 tournament crown, Rebecca Tillett became only the second head coach in NCAA Division I women's basketball history – joining Lisa Bluder (Drake in 2000, Iowa in 2001) – to lead teams in different conferences to a tournament title in consecutive years. Tillett guided Longwood to the Big South tournament crown a year ago.
•Brooke Flowers and Julia Martinez each have a triple-double, making Saint Louis the only Division I team this season, women or men, to have two players with a triple-double.
•In the Division I national rankings, the Billikens are ninth in blocks per game (5.3), 26th in offensive rebounds per game (14.4), 30th in free throw percentage (.772) and 44th in steals per game (9.5).
•Brooke Flowers is the nation's leading shot-blocker with 3.76 per game. She set SLU's single-season records for blocks (128) and rebounds (318).
•Kyla McMakin enters the NCAA Championship with 591 points, a Billiken single-season record.
•Julia Martinez begins the national tournament with a Saint Louis single-season record 116 steals. Her 3.41 steals per game are sixth in the nation.
•Kennedy Calhoun is shooting 59 percent from the field and averaging 9.7 points – 3.4 above her season average – in the last six outings.
•Peyton Kennedy has averaged 14.4 points off the bench in the last 12 games, and 16.5 points in the last six.