Dukes Ready for Showdown at Rutgers

James Madison at Rutgers
The RAC | Piscataway, N.J.
Monday, December 5, 2016 - 7 p.m.

4-3 (0-0 CAA)
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2-6 (0-0 B1G)
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This will be the first meeting between these two programs on the women's basketball court.
Redshirt senior guard Precious Hall moved into fifth place on JMU's career scoring chart Friday vs. Hampton, now holding 1,661 career points. She surpassed former teammate Kirby Burkholder (JMU '14), who scored 1,647 career points.
The Dukes limited the Lady Pirates to 18.2 percent shooting from 3-point range, their best perimeter defensive performance of the season.
JMU is 1-1 in true road games this season. Rutgers is 2-2 at home, and this marks the fourth straight home game for the Scarlet Knights.
The Scarlet Knights are led by Shrita Parker and Kandiss Barber, both averaging over nine points per game on 40-percent shooting.
Rutgers has won two of its last three games. The Scarlet Knights are coming off a 57-53 win over Bucknell.

NCAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL RULES

FORMAT: Women's basketball games has four 10-minute periods with an intermission between the first and second periods and the third and fourth periods as well as a 15-minute halftime intermission.
FOULS: A player will be awarded two free throws for each common foul committed by a team starting with the fifth team foul in each period - there are no more 1-and-1 situations. Team foul counts will reset at the beginning of each period.
TEAM-CALLED TIMEOUTS: Each team will have four timeouts to be used during the course of the game (three 30-second timeouts and one full 60-second timeout). Three timeouts carry over to the second half; if no timeout is taken in the first half, a team loses one 30-second timeout. If the game goes past regulation, one 30-second timeout is awarded for each extra period, plus the remaining second-half timeouts.
MEDIA TIMEOUTS (2:45 in length): There will be seven media timeouts during regulation time: three prior to halftime and four after halftime. The intermission between the first and second periods as well as the intermission between the third and fourth periods will count as media timeouts. Each period will have one media timeout at either the first team-called timeout of the period OR the first dead ball at or below the five-minute mark. A floating media timeout will take place during either the third or fourth period at the first team-called timeout. This will not eliminate the set media timeout of that period.