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2024 C2C Women's Basketball Championship Preview

2/21/2024 2:45:00 PM

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The fourth-seeded Salisbury University women's basketball team gets ready to chase its fifth conference championship at the 2024 Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) Tournament in Newport News, Va. The Sea Gulls open tournament play against the fifth-seeded Mount Mary Blue Angels on Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Freeman Center on the campus of Christopher Newport University.

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1? Christopher Newport
2? Mary Washington
3? UC Santa Cruz
4? Salisbury
5? Mount Mary
6? Warren Wilson

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Salisbury finished the 2023-24 regular season with an 8-16 record. The Sea Gulls posted a winning record at home, going 5-4 inside the Maggs Physical Activities Center.
The Sea Gulls' eight victories came by an average margin of 22.5 points. SU won all eight games by at least nine points and six of them by double-digit margins.
In Salisbury's home opener against Goucher on Nov. 15, the Sea Gulls put up their highest offensive output since December 2017, besting the Gophers 98-45.
SU closed the regular season with consecutive wins, going on the road to beat Lancaster Bible 81-62 on Feb. 10 before downing Gwynedd Mercy 62-44 at home six days later.

Mount Mary went 12-11 in the regular season, setting a new program records for wins in a single season. MMU enters C2C Tournament play winners of three of their last four contests.
The Blue Angels did not play against a C2C foe during the regular season; MMU faced the now-closed Finlandia twice last year.
Freshman guard/forward Brianna Mendez leads Mount Mary into the tournament averaging 10.2 points and 7.2 rebounds per game, ranking top-10 in the league in both categories. Mendez was recognized as C2C Rookie of the Year and made the All-C2C Second Team.
Sophomore forward Joselyn Gonzalez joins Mendez on the C2C rebounding leaderboard, slotting fourth with a team-best 7.4 boards per game.

This is the first-ever meeting between the Sea Gulls and Blue Angels, who hail from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and boast an all-women's student population of around 1,500.

The winner of the SU-MMU matchup will advance to face top-seeded Christopher Newport in the semifinals on Friday at 5 p.m., with the semifinal winners squaring off in the C2C Championship Game on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Salisbury is seeking its fifth conference championship and first since winning the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC, now C2C) crown in 2015.

The 2023-24 Sea Gulls

#20 Nicole Miller | Fr. Guard | Medford, N.J.

#40 Hailey Ader | Sr. Forward | Califon, N.J.

#35 Alex Bull | Jr. Guard | Eldersburg, Md.

#12 Tori Rumbaugh | Jr. Guard | Shippensburg, Pa.

#32 Sym Deloatch | Sr. Forward | Wilmington, Del.

#42 Abby Plaugher | Fr. Guard | Lansdale, Pa.

Junior guard Alex Bull was named to the All-C2C First Team earlier on Wednesday. Bull was also recognized as C2C Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
The Sea Gulls saw two players take home C2C Player of the Week honors during the year. Alex Bull earned the honor on Nov. 27 after averaging 15.5 points over two games against Wilson and Penn State Abington. Nicole Miller received league recognition on Dec. 11 after averaging 11.5 points over two games against Gallaudet and Marymount (Va.).
All-C2C First-Teamer Alex Bull is a top-20 fixture in the C2C four major categories, including steals per game (1.9, 8th), points per game (10.4, 9th), field goal percentage (.337, 16th), and offensive rebounds per game (1.5, 16th).
Nicole Miller ranks in the top 10 in the C2C in three major categories, including three-point field goal percentage (.294, 6th), points per game (10.5, 8th), and field goal percentage (.382, 10th).
Hailey Ader carries top-20 league rankings in free-throw percentage (.679, 8th), blocks per game (0.8, 8th), offensive rebounds per game (1.9, 10th), total rebounds per game (5.2, 15th), and points per game (7.5, 20th).
Abby Plaugher sports the third-best three-point field goal percentage in the C2C at .344.
Sym Deloatch and Cora Shafer are among the most feared shot-blockers in the conference. Deloatch's 1.2 blocks per game rank second in the league, while Shafer's 1.0 stuffs slot fourth.

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