Lopes welcome ACU to GCU Arena

Monday, Dec. 21 \| 1 p.m. \| GCU Arena

	ARIZONA CHRISTIAN FIRESTORM (5-1)	at	GRAND CANYON LOPES (6-1)

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The Grand Canyon women's basketball team returns to GCU Arena for a Monday matchup against Arizona Christian.

Top-10 defensive ranks: GCU ranks No. 3 nationally in forced turnovers per game (25.3), No. 5 in turnover margin (plus-10.4), No. 4 in total steals (96) and No. 8 in steals per game (13.7).
Scott leads offense: Lopes freshman Katie Scott is averaging a team-high 17.7 points per game.
Freshmen double-doubles: Two Lopes freshmen, Scott and Tiarra Brown, secured their first collegiate double-doubles. Scott posted 21 points and 10 rebounds on Dec. 9 against Northern Arizona and Brown tallied 11 points and 10 rebounds at Eastern Washington on Dec. 14.

Arizona Christian (5-1) has three players averaging double-digit points, including junior Des Gonzales (15.4), junior Emily Vaszary (12) and senior Kirsten Shinske (11.8).
As a team, ACU is averaging 78.5 points per game while holding opponents to 61.2 points per game.
In its previous game, ACU defeated Benedictine Mesa 79-71. The Lopes defeated Benedictine Mesa 80-72 on Dec. 2.

The Lopes won 79-76 at Houston Baptist.
Five Lopes put up double-digit points, led by senior guard Ny'Dajah Jackson with 18 points. The other four Lopes included freshman center Katie Scott (15), junior forward Kennedi Shorts (13), junior guard Laura Piera (12) and sophomore guard Taylor Caldwell (10). Caldwell also tallied team highs for rebounds (career-high eight) and steals (four).
GCU outrebounded the Huskies 40-31 while forcing 20 turnovers with 14 steals.

After the Christmas break, the Lopes return to GCU Arena on Jan. 3 at 2 p.m. against Park (Ariz.).

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