Game No. 6: Canisius College (2-3) vs. Siena (0-6)
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008
Time: 12 p.m.
Site: Koessler Athletic Center (2,176)
TV: Time Warner SportsNet (Tape Delay ? Saturday, 12 p.m.)
Internet Broadcast: All Canisius College women's basketball games will have free Internet audio broadcast through GoGriffs.com. Mike Scott will be on the play-by-play for the 2008-09 season
Webcast: Available through the Golden Griffin Broadcast Network

QUICK HITTERS

• The Canisius College women's basketball team starts a four-game homestand with Friday's Kid's Day matchup against Siena.
• Canisius holds a 5-1 record in its last six Kid's Day games.
• Canisius looks to open its Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference schedule with a win for the second consecutive season.
• Canisius leads the country in 3-point field goal percentage at 51.3 percent, more than five percent ahead of Connecticut, who is second at 45.8 percent.
• In the past three games, Canisius is 28-of-47 (59.6 percent) from behind the arc.
• Sophomore Micayla Drysdale enters the week ranked fifth in the country in 3-point field goal percentage at 65 percent (13-for-20).
• Senior Marie Warner has scored in double figures in four games this season.
• Junior Brittan? Russell is averaging 3.3 steals in the last 11 games and has at least two steals in all five games this season.
• The four-game homestand is the longest homestand of the season for the Griffs and longest since a five-game homestand during the 2006-07 season.
• Siena coach Gina Castelli graduated from Canisius in 1986, and is the program's fifth all-time leading scorer with 1,524 points.
• Canisius holds the NCAA Division I record for consecutive games with a made 3-pointer, having made a 3-pointer in 426 consecutive games.
  

CANISIUS VS. SIENA

• Canisius and Siena are meeting for the 56th time Friday, with the Saints holding a 38-17 advantage in the all-time series.
• Siena has won the last four matchups between the teams, sweeping the season series each of the last two seasons.
• Canisius has won three of the past five between the teams in the Koessler Athletic Center, with the last home win over the Saints coming Jan. 5, 2006, an 80-52 victory on Kid's Day.
• Canisius and Siena have never met in the first conference game of the season.
  

IT'S FOR THE KIDS

• Canisius owns a 5-1 in their last six games on Kid's Day.
• Last season, Canisius overcame a seven-point deficit in the final 75 seconds to defeat Fairfield 58-57 on a traditional three-point play from Ellie Radke with 3.7 seconds remaining.
• The Golden Griffins and Siena have met once previously on Kid's Day, with Canisius winning 80-52 on Jan. 5, 2006. That game had the largest attendance for a Canisius women's basketball game in the Koessler Athletic Center at 1,768.
• The top four attendance marks in program history have come on Kid's Day.
  

BEST IN THE COUNTRY BEHIND THE ARC

• Owners of the longest consecutive games streak with a made 3-point field goal in NCAA history, the Golden Griffins enter this week ranked first in the country in 3-point field goal percentage.
• Through the team's first five games of the season, Canisius is shooting 51.3 percent on 3-point field goals, holding the top spot by more than five percent.
• In the past three games, Canisius is 28-of-47 (59.6 percent) from behind the arc.
• Canisius made 61.5 percent of its 3-pointers at Wisconsin (Nov. 23) and 61.1 percent at Illinois-Chicago (Nov. 25). It was the first time in program history Canisius made 60 percent of its 3-pointers in consecutive games.
• Two Golden Griffins are shooting 60 percent or better on 3-pointers ? Micayla Drysdale leads the team at 65.0 percent (13-for-20) and Marie Warner is second at 60.0 percent (9-for-15).
• Drysdale ranks fifth in the country in 3-point field goal percentage at 65 percent.

• Freshman Stephanie MacDonald had the best game of her young Canisius career in the team's 79-73 victory at Binghamton on Saturday.
• MacDonald scored a career-high 21 points in 25 minutes against the Bearcats.
• In the four previous games combined, MacDonald had 15 points.
• MacDonald leads the Canisius bench in minutes played, averaging 22.2 minutes per game. MacDonald has played at least 20 minutes in four of the team's five games this season.
  

• Siena enters Friday's game with an 0-6 record, dropping three games at home and three games on the road.
• Siena has dropped its last five games by at least 14 points, with one of those losses coming in overtime at Eastern Michigan.
• Siena ranks fourth in the league in scoring offense, ninth in scoring defense, sixth in free throw percentage, sixth field goal percentage and eighth in field goal percentage defense.
• Heather Stec has led the team in rebounding in all six games, highlighted by a 17-rebound effort against Rhode Island in the season opener.
• Stec leads the team at 13.3 points per game and is first in the MAAC at 10.2 rebounds per contest.
• Allie Lindemann leads the Saints from behind the arc, connecting on 20-of-56 (35.7 percent) 3-pointers in the team's opening six games. No other Siena player has more than six made 3-pointers this season.
• Siena has taken 58 free throws through six games, with Stec recording 23 attempts.
• Gina Castelli is in her 19th season at Siena and has a career record of 289-233. Castelli led Siena to the NCAA Tournament in 2001. Castelli graduated from Canisius in 1986.