Edward Waters is allowing just 49.4 points per game \u2014 the best mark among Division II programs.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Year two at the Division II level has turned into a breakthrough season for Edward Waters University women\u2019s basketball.<\/p>\n
The Lady Tigers are ranked No. 24 nationally in the WBCA Coaches Poll, the first Top 25 ranking since the program transitioned to Division II. EWU sits at 23-4 overall with a 21-3 mark in Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play. Along the way, they captured their first SIAC East Division title and set a new single-season program record with a 14-game winning streak.<\/p>\n
The tone for the season shifted in December when EWU knocked off Division I opponent Bethune-Cookman University 55-46 at the HBCU Hoops Invitational in Orlando. Since then, defense has become the Lady Tigers\u2019 calling card.<\/p>\n
Edward Waters is allowing just 49.4 points per game \u2014 the best mark among Division II programs and ranks among the national leaders in opponent field-goal and three-point percentage. Over their last 10 games, nine opponents have failed to reach the 50-point mark.<\/p>\n
Offensively, balance has fueled the surge. Tan Brown leads the team at 14 points per game and tops the SIAC in three-pointers made.<\/p>\n
With the conference\u2019s best overall record, EWU earned a first-round bye in the SIAC Tournament and will open play March 4 at the Clayton County Convocation Center in Morrow, Georgia.<\/p>\n
What began as a transition season has quickly evolved into one of the most significant campaigns in program history, and the Lady Tigers aren\u2019t finished yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edward Waters is allowing just 49.4 points per game \u2014 the best mark among Division II programs. JACKSONVILLE,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-175919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}