Women's Basketball Readies to Take on Robert Morris Monday

• The Colonials hold an all-time advantage, 38-16 against the Blackbirds. RMU has won the last four against LIU, and 12 of the last 13. Robert Morris is 21-6 against the Blackbirds at home.

SCOUTING THE COLONIALS 
• Robert Morris came into the season as the prohibitive favorite, were picked to win the league in the preseason poll, and so far, they have lived up to the billing. The Colonials sit at 15-9 overall, 11-2 in the Northeast Conference. RMU's only two NEC losses this season have come on the road, as they lost at Sacred Heart in January, 71-57, and at Wagner in early February, 67-51. The Colonials avenged the Sacred Heart loss last Monday, as RMU clinched the first NEC playoff berth of the year with a 90-66 routing of the Pioneers. 
• RMU has won nine games in a row at home, and is 107-30 (.781) at the Sewall Center since 2004-05, including 72-15 (.828) in NEC games.
• Senior forward Artemis Spanou leads the team in nearly every possible category.  Spanou has set two NEC and six RMU career records along with three RMU game records so far this season.
• Spanou is averaging 19.1 points per game, fourth in the NEC. She leads the league in rebounds per game, pulling down 14.8, five more than her closest competitor. She's also second in the NEC in field goal percentage, behind LIU's Fanny Cavallo (.517) and just ahead of Cleandra Roberts (.488), as she makes 50.3 percent of her shots taken. Despite the appearance that she does it all, Spanou also shares well. She's sixth in the NEC in assists per game, dishing out 3.78 per game on average. She's also fourth in conference in blocks per game (1.13.), and cleans up the glass on both offense and defense, leading the NEC in offensive rebounds per game (5.48), and defensive rebounds per game (9.09).
• Freshman Anna Niki Stamolamprou had a season-high 20 points against St. Francis Brooklyn, and averages 12.3 points per game. 
• Freshman Rebeca Navarro tied the team record for three-point percentage at .857 (6-7) against Sacred Heart.

MANIC MONDAYS
• Robert Morris has struggled on Mondays, suffering three of the team's nine losses on Mondays, including both NEC losses. The Colonials are also 3-4 in games that start after 6 p.m.

CLE CHASING 1,000
• Senior Cleandra Roberts has been on a scoring tear this season, and she currently averages 19.4 points per game, third in the Northeast Conference. 
• Her scoring output this season has increased so drastically from her first three seasons at LIU that she's quickly closing the gap on the 1,000 point mark. 
• In her freshman year, she averaged 4.1 points per game, scoring 114 all season. In her sophomore season, it was 4.6 points per game, scoring 144 total. In 2012-13, her junior year, she more than doubled those numbers, averaging 9.3 points per game, and scoring 223 over the season. Coming into her senior year, she had 481 career points. 
• Nothing in her past compares to the scoring numbers she has put up this season. So far this year, Roberts has averaged 19.4 points per game, scoring 466 points so far. 
• Her current career total sits at 947 points, just 53 points shy of the 1,000-point mark, with five regular season games left, and the potential of more with the NEC Tournament on the horizon. 
• She would become the 18th player in LIU Brooklyn women's basketball history to surpass the 1,000-point mark. 

LATE SEASON FIRSTS
• LIU's come-from-behind win over Sacred Heart was the first time this year that the Blackbirds won a game when they had been trailing at the half. 
• In the Blackbird win over CCSU on the road, LIU never let CCSU lead. It was the first time this season LIU hasn't trailed in a game. 
• LIU's win over Saint Francis U. was the first time all season that the Blackbirds trailed with 5:00 on the clock, and rallied to take the win.