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OPENING TIP
For the sixth time in the last seven games, the New Haven women's basketball team will hit the road for a Saturday afternoon tip against Saint Michael's, as the Chargers resume Northeast-10 Conference play for the rest of the season.
 
INSIDE THE SERIES
-   New Haven is 10-9 all-time against the Purple Knights, and have won seven straight in the series dating back to 2013.

SCOUTING NEW HAVEN
-   Off to a 10-3 start, the Chargers enter Saturday in an unusual position, having lost consecutive games for the first time this season. After nearly pulling off a dramatic comeback last Saturday at No. 15 Adelphi, during which the Chargers trimmed a 21-point deficit down to two in the final minutes, New Haven followed up with their roughest game of the season at Saint Thomas Aquinas on Wednesday, falling 60-41.
 
-   The team has played strong defense through the first half of the season, allowing a conference-low 52.9 points per game. The Chargers are also leading the NE10 in field goal percentage defense (.339) and are seventh in 3pt FG% defense at 29.2 percent.
 
-  Wednesday's game at STAC was the first time in six games New Haven did not score at least 65 in six games. Previously, the team only cracked the 60-point plateau twice through their first six games.
 
-   The Chargers have climbed to fourth in the conference by shooting 42.9 percent overall and are shooting 30.9 percent from the arc, which sits 10th in the NE10.
 
-     Senior Micah Wormack (Cumberland, Md./Allegany) is scoring 12.1 points per game and leads the team with 7.2 rebounds per game. She scored a season-high 27 points at American International on Dec. 10. She had a season-high 14-rebound, five-block performance on Nov. 23 against Le Moyne.
 
-   Freshman Aurora Deshaies (Syracuse, N.Y./Bishop Ludden) leads the NE10 in field goal percentage at 60.5 percent (72-for-119). She has moved into the team lead with 12.4 ppg and is second with 6.2 rebounds per game.
 
-   Sophomore Camryn DeBose (Wellington, Fla./Wellington Community) is scoring 10.0 ppg. She scored at least 13 points in four straight games from Dec. 7-19 and has 4.9 rebounds per game this season.
 
-     Brie Pergola (Torrington, Conn./Torrington) is second in the NE10 with a .469 3FG percentage. She also averages 3.9 assists per game, eighth in the NE10. She has jumped her scoring average up to 10.9 points per game.
 
-     Redshirt sophomore point guard Luzdali Ocasio (Davenport, Fla./New Hampton) is sixth in the NE10 with 4.2 assists per game. She had a career-high 10 assists at Chestnut Hill on December 11 and has registered at least six assists in three of the last six games.
 
SCOUTING SAINT MICHAEL'S
-   Holding a 7-5 mark overall and a 1-5 record in NE10 play, the Purple Knights are coming off a 70-50 loss at home to No. 19 Bentley on Wednesday.
 
-   The matchup will be the first cross-divisional contest for both teams this season.
 
-   Averaging 69.3 points per game, SMC is fourth in the NE10 in scoring, while their defense is allowing 63.3 points per game, 10th in the NE10.
 
-   The team is shooting 38.3 percent from the floor along with a 31.1 percent mark from three-point range.
 
-   Senior forward Taylor Miller is the third-leading rebounder in the NE10, averaging 9.7 boards per game.
 
-   Three Purple Knights are averaging in double figures with Nicole Anderson leading the way at 15.6 ppg. Brianna Purcell (13.0) and Emma MacDonough (10.7) follow, with Miller coming in at 9.8 ppg.
 
-   Purcell ranks among the NE10 leaders in multiple categories: she leads the conference with 7.9 assists per ballgame, and is sixth in the NE10 with 8.8 rebounds per game.
 
LAST TIME THEY MET
Micah Wormack (Cumberland, Md./Allegany) tallied her second straight double-double, departed senior Alexandria Kerr (Montclair, N.J./Montclair) scored 20 points and Camryn DeBose (Wellington, Fla./Wellington Community) notched 19 points to help lead the New Haven women's basketball team past Saint Michael's 69-57 on January 16, 2019 at Charger Gymnasium. Full recap available here.
 
The Chargers shot over 48 percent from the field (27-for-56), while holding to Saint Michael's to just 32.8 percent shooting.
 
LAST TIME OUT
New Haven suffered a 60-41 defeat on Wednesday evening in their final non-conference matchup of the season at Saint Thomas Aquinas. Full recap available here.
 
NEXT ON TAP
The Chargers will return home when they host Bentley for New Haven's annual Class at the Court game on Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 1 p.m.