Storm Women in Alva for GAC/MIAA Challenge

Women's Basketball | 11/12/2015 11:30:00 PM

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern will open the 2015-16 women's basketball season by taking part in the GAC/MIAA Classic in Alva, Okla. on Nov. 13-14.
 
The Savage Storm open with a 6 p.m. matchup with Central Oklahoma on Friday and will finish the event at 6 p.m. on Saturday against Northeastern State.
 
SE enters the year after a 20-win season in which Darin Grover took home the league's Coach of the Year honors and advanced to the semifinals of the GAC tournament.
 
The Storm return all-conference honorees Kaylie Baxter and Olivia Potter, but will be looking to replace top-scorer and first team selection Emily Williams.
 
The team was picked to finish fifth in the Great American Conference preseason poll, but could very easily have been as high as third as a group including the Storm, Southwestern Oklahoma State and Arkansas-Monticello were within three points of one another in the final tally.
 
While Williams departs as the team's top scorer, SE does bring back its next three highest scorers as well as well as six players who started at least one game a year ago, including two who started all 30.
 
Baxter and Shelby Hill started in all 30 contests, while more than half of the returning team had a start last season.
 
The Storm shot 40.5 percent from the field a season ago and 35.7 percent from three point range while scoring 72.7 ppg and holding opponents to 65.0 per outing.
 
Southeastern picked up a pair of wins over UCO and NSU to open the 2014-15 season in the inaugural GAC/MIAA Challenge, downing the Bronchos 69-66 and the RiverHawks 59-54.