No. 2 JMU to Battle No. 1 Elon for CAA Title Saturday Night

CAA Finals
Doors open at 6 p.m.

No. 2 James Madison vs. No. 1 Elon
Convocation Center | Harrisonburg, Va.
Saturday, March 11, 2017 - 7 p.m.

24-7 (15-3 CAA)
@JMUWBasketball | #GoDukes
JMUSports.com | Game Notes

26-6 (16-2 CAA)
@CAABasketball | #CAAChamps
CAASports.com | Game Notes

QUICK HITS

No. 2 JMU advanced to the CAA championship game for the fourth straight season with a 76-68 semifinal win over No. 3 Drexel.
JMU shot 57 percent (26-46) for the game, which included a tremendous 82 percent mark (9-11) in the third quarter, in which the Dukes doubled up Drexel 22-11 to take their first lead since the opening stanza. JMU took control in the second half, outscoring the Dragons 48-33 to advance.
Redshirt senior guard Precious Hall dropped 37 points in Friday's CAA semifinal contest, the most by a JMU player in any CAA tournament game.
The Dukes and Phoenix have done battle in the CAA tournament once before - the 2015 CAA semifinals, which JMU won 63-60.
JMU has won all seven meetings with Elon as conference foes, including the only two CAA losses for the Phoenix during the 2016-17 regular season.

.@Its_PHall & Co. are headed to the 'ship!

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— JMU Dukes WBB (@JMUWBasketball) March 11, 2017

CAA WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: March 8-11 in Harrisonburg, Va.
All-session ticket packages for the 2017 CAA Women's Basketball Championship, held at the JMU Convocation Center, are on sale now! Each ticket package includes a gameday parking pass. To purchase tickets, please click here. Any questions can be directed to the JMU Athletics Ticket Office, 540-568-3853.

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.

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