MICHIGAN STATE SPARTANS

Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 4:00 p.m.
East Lansing, Mich. - Breslin Center
Audio: www.rmucolonials.com
Adam Gusky, play-by-play
Video: Big Ten Digital Network (www.btn.com)
Live Stats: www.msuspartans.com

The Capsule

The Robert Morris University women's basketball team wraps up a four-game road trip by traveling to East Lansing, Mich., to take on the Michigan State Spartans (4-0) in a 4:00 p.m. game Sunday, Nov. 25. The Colonials are coming off a tough loss at Iowa where they were within eight points of the Hawkeyes late in the second half. The Spartans have won their first four games, three at home.

The Series

Sunday's contest will mark the first meeting between Robert Morris and Michigan State. The Spartans are the third of four teams that RMU will be playing for the first time this season. The others are Colgate, Michigan State and Minnesota. The Colonials lost at Colgate and Iowa in their first two inaugural meetings this season.

Musket Shots

• Junior forward Artemis Spanou was named to the All-NEC Preseason team
• Spanou averaged a double-double last season and finished fourth nationally with 20 of them
• Spanou joined the 1,000-point club with nine points at Iowa Tuesday. She has 1,006 points.
• Spanou also tied her career-high with 16 rebounds against the Hawkeyes
• Senior forward Anna Gailite is tied for second all-time at RMU with 116 career blocks
• Freshman Lou Mataly had a season-high 13 points to lead the team at Iowa
• Robert Morris has made it to the NEC Tournament semifinals in seven of the last eight seasons
• RMU is 92-23 (.800) at the Sewall Center since 2004-05, including 61-12 (.836) in NEC games

Spanou, Gailite Leaving Their Marks in Record Book

Junior forward Artemis Spanou and senior Anna Gailite have left their marks on the RMU career record lits. Spanou is the 11th player in team history to reach both 1,000 career points and collect 500 career rebounds. Gailite is now second all-time at Robert Morris with 116 career blocks. Gailite is averaging 2.0 blocks this season while Spanou is dropping 18.5 points and grabbing 12.8 rebounds per contest.

Road Warriors

Robert Morris is in the midst of a four-game road swing and an extended portion of the Colonials schedule that will see the team play eight of 10 games away from the Charles L. Sewall Center between now and the turn of the calendars. During that span, RMU will travel 6,644 miles. The longest trip is the the 858-mile journey to Minnesota while the shortest is 94 miles to Kent State.

Euro-Stats

The contributions of the Colonials European-born players cannot be overlooked. Three of five starters and five of the team's 10 players were born on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean (junior forward Jolie Olingende is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Those European players are accounting for 74 percent of the team's scoring (39.5 points per game).