Game 4: Women's Hoops vs. Hampton - Rutgers Scarlet Knights

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PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Rutgers women's basketball continues non-conference play on Friday, Dec. 18 at 12 p.m. against Hampton at the RAC.

The Scarlet Knights are 2-1 overall with a 1-1 start in Big Ten play and a 1-1 mark at home at the RAC. This is the program's first meeting with Hampton.

• Watch on Big Ten Network + (Play-by-play: Ralph Bednarczyk, Color Analyst: Mark Peterson)
• Listen on WCTC 1450 AM (Play-by-play: Ralph Bednarczyk, Color Analyst: Mark Peterson)
• Listen on WRSU 88.7 FM (Play-by-play: Ronnie Wielenta and Doug Willig)

• Due to COVID-19 safety protocols, there will be no men's and women's basketball general admission single game or season ticket sales to home games at this time.
• Visit shop.fancutouts.com/products/rutgers-university to purchase a fan cutout(s) for all winter sports at the RAC with proceeds benefiting the R Fund student-athlete scholarship campaign.

• The Pirates (0-1) are playing in just their second game of the 2020-21 season, opening with a 67-45 loss at Liberty on Dec. 9.
• Hampton went 18-11 last season with a 14-6 mark in the Big South. They were picked to finish fourth in the conference this season.
• The Pirates return five letterwinners from that squad, including two double-digit scorers in junior guard Laren VanArsdale (15.2ppg) and sophomore forward Nylah Young (12.7ppg).
• VanArsdale was the 2018-19 Big South Freshman of the Year and a 2019-20 First Team All-Big South selection, while Young made the Big South All-Freshman Team last year.

 
  WATCH OUT: Redshirt senior guard Arella Guirantes, the returning Big Ten scoring champion, was selected the Big Ten Coaches Preseason Co-Player of the Year and was unanimously voted to the Preseason All-Big Ten Team by the coaches and media. She is on four national watch lists: the Wooden Award for Most Outstanding Player, the Naismith Trophy and Wade Trophy for National Player of the Year, and the Meyers Award for the top shooting guard.

SHINE ON: True freshman Diamond Johnson, the No. 6 overall recruit in the nation according to ESPN, is one of 20 named to the Nancy Lieberman watch list for the country's best point guard. The Neumann Goretti product scored 15 points against Monmouth, the most in a Rutgers freshman debut since Betnijah Laney recorded 18 points against California in 2011. Johnson followed it up with 17 at Wisconsin and 18 against No. 14 Maryland.

THOU SHALL STEAL: Rutgers ranks second in the country with 16.0 steals per game and 12th in the nation in turnover margin at 9.0 through three games. RU's 22 steals at Wisconsin were its most in a game since 23 against FDU in 2017 and the most in a conference game since 22 against Penn State in 2015.

TRAPEZOID OF TERROR: Since the 2002-03 season, the Scarlet Knights have gone 220-51 (.812) at the RAC. RU is 41-8 (.851) over the last three+ seasons at home, including 13-2 and 14-2 marks in 18-19 and 19-20, respectively.

RARE, YET FAMILIAR, COMPANY: Arella Guirantes' 20.6 points per game last season marked one of five recorded 20+ point averages for a single season under C. Vivian Stringer since 1981. One of the other four? Current Rutgers assistant coach Michelle Edwards' 20.0 points per game at Iowa from the 1987-88 season. 

WELCOME TO THE B1G: Rutgers is one of the youngest teams in the nation with eight newcomers and 71 percent of the roster starting the season with two years experience or less in Division I. RU is one of just 32 teams across the nation with 10 or more players on the roster with two years experience or less.

IN THE POLLS: Rutgers began the season receiving votes in both national polls: 1 point in the AP media poll and 7 points in the coaches poll. RU is up to 12 points in this week's coaches poll.

FUTURE IS NOW: C. Vivian Stringer and her staff have secured the No. 8 nationally ranked recruiting class for 2020 according to ESPN, led by the signing of No. 6 ranked prospect Diamond Johnson out of Neumann Goretti in Philadelphia, one of four recruits ranked in the Top 55 - Sakima Walker (#21), Chyna Cornwell (#48) and Liz Martino (#53). Blue Star Basketball ranks the class No. 5 in the nation.

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