Findlay Earns #4 Seed in G-MAC Tournament | Will Host Cedarville on Tuesday
Findlay, Ohio - The University of Findlay women's basketball team, fresh off of its reagular-season ending win against Tiffin on Saturday, Feb. 26, has earned the fourth seed in the upcoming Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Championship Tournament to be held next week. As the four seed, the Oilers have earned the right to host a quarterfinal contest. Findlay will take on the fifth-seeded Cedarville Yellow Jackets who, like the Oilers, finished the regular season with a 12-10 record in conference play.
Seeding for the tournamnet was decided by the conference's point rating system which, in the end, bumped the Oilers ahead of both Cedarville and Malone who each started the day ahead of Findlay in the standings.
The game will be played in Croy Gymnasium in Findlay, Ohio on Tuesday, March 1 at 7:00 pm. Gates will open at 6:00 pm.
Ashland University has earned the top seed in the tournamnet, giving the Eagles a bye in the first round and the right to host the conference semifinals and conference championship.
The tournament will be played as seen below:
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Series Information
Findlay is 28-10 all-time against Cedarville, dating back to the first game which was played in the 1982-83 season. This season the teams split their two meetings with Cedarville winning 77-63 back on December 9 in Croy but the Oilers earning an impressive 68-58 victory over the Yellow Jackets on the road on January 31.
Cedarville has won three of the previous four matchups, including two consecutive wins at Findlay. The Oilers last win at home vs the Yellow Jackets came in January of 2020, a 70-67 win for the Orange and Black.
Findlay (14-14, 12-10 G-MAC)
Findlay has been one of the hotter teams in the conference since a momentum-changing win over Kentucky Wesleyan back on January 20. Since then, the Oilers have won nine of 13 games with two of those losses being nail-biters on back-to-back days against fifth-ranked Ashland.
Sydney Kin has led the way all season long and is scoring 17.4 points per game for an offense that scores 66 points per game. Kin is also the team's leading rebounder at 9.3 per game and now ranks second on Findlay's all-time scoring list with 1,571 points and ranks third on Findlay's all-time rebounding list with 796 rebounds.
Senior Bridget Landin, who on Saturday became the 24th player in program history to reach the 1,000-point mark, has also been a force this season and is scoring 11.4 points per game and grabbing 8.0 rebounds. Landin also is second on the team with 2.2 assists per game. From there the scoring drops off to freshman guard Janae Hoying who scores 6.6 points per game while junior Lauren Hapgood scores 6.1 points per game and is the team's leading three-point shooter, making almost two triples per game.
Cedarville (17-11, 12-10 G-MAC)
The Yellow Jackets have struggled to build momentum this season after a solid start to the non-conference schedule early in the year. The Yellow Jackets lost to #15 Walsh on Saturday, Feb. 26 to end the regular season and send the team down the standings into the fifth seed.
Cedarville scores 70 points per game and shoots 33% from deep, attempting nearly 700 triples this season, making 231. Emily Chapman is the leading scorer for the Yellow Jackets, dropping in 15.7 ppg while Paige Garr scores 12.3 and Allison Mader scores 10.4. Garr leads the team with 5.1 rebounds per game and also leads the team with 58 shots made from three-point range this season. Chapman has made 57 from deep, but shoots a better percentage, leading the team at 44% from range.