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The Mavericks will try to snap a two-game losing streak as they return home to host the UNO Thanksgiving Classic, Friday and Saturday at Sapp Fieldhouse. Nebraska-Omaha (1-2) will take on Oklahoma Panhandle State Friday at 5:30 p.m. and then face Chadron State Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

Southwest Minnesota State will be the fourth team in the classic. The Mustangs will face the Eagles Friday at 3 p.m. and then the Lady Aggies Saturday at 1:30 p.m.

The Mavericks dropped two games last weekend at the Central Missouri Classic. They fell to Minnesota Duluth on Friday and to Texas A&M-Kingsville on Saturday. The Lady Aggies (2-3) are one win shy of tying last year's victory output. They won their first two games but have dropped three straight to NCAA II competition. The Eagles have played just once this year, losing to Montana State-Billings last Saturday.

Heather Pohl leads the Mavericks this year with 14.3 points a game while Alyssa Green is getting 11.7.  They are both second on the team with 5.3 rebounds a game while Kylee Rinehart leads UNO with 6.0 boards a contest.

Following The Mavericks
Live stats will be provided free for all four games in the Thanksgiving Classic and live video will be available for a fee for the two UNO games. Fans can find links to both at www.omavs.com/ThanksgivingClassic. Radio and audio webcasts will not be available for the UNO games this weekend.

Most games throughout the year will be available through KVNO 90.7 FM or KVNO 90.7-2 HD on a high-definition radio tuner. Live video and live stats will be available for all home games and many away games. Fans can find links to all live video, audio and stats through www.omavs.com/wbb on the schedule page.

The Coaches
UNO head coach Patty Patton Shearer is 83-63 (.568) as she starts her sixth season with the Mavericks. She is also beginning her 10th year overall as a head coach with a 143-112 (.561) record. She is the school's leader in career winning percentage. Patton Shearer is a 1990 graduate of Rocky Mountain College. She played one year for the Bears after playing two years at Northern Arizona. Patton Shearer coached for four seasons at Fort Lewis before coming to UNO.

Tim Connealy is in his second season coaching Chadron State and he has an 11-17 (.393) record. His Eagles team last year led NCAA II in made 3-pointers with 9.7 per game. Prior to coming to CSC he was an assistant at Nebraska-Kearney for four years. He's a 2004 graduate of Hastings and prior to going there, he played two seasons at Chadron State.

Brad Vanden Boogaard is the coach of Oklahoma Panhandle State.

The Series
- UNO and Oklahoma Panhandle State have never played before.
- The Mavericks hold a 3-0 lead in the all-time series against Chadron State.
- The two teams last met in UNO's 2004-05 Thanksgiving tournament. The Mavs won that game, 74-57.

Green Joins 1,000 Point Club After First Game
Maverick senior guard Alyssa Green's third free throw in the opener against Dana was her 1,000th career point at UNO and she now has 1,032 points in her fourth season to put her 20th in school history.
Green's already ninth in career 3-pointers with 79 and she needs six to tie for eighth. She's also eighth with 283 career assists. Current assistant coach Karen Thies is seventh at UNO with 289 assists.
Green is averaging 11.1 points a game this year and 5.3 rebounds. Both totals are second best on the team.

This is the second straight year the Mavericks have had a new member of the 1,000 point club. Last year Cayla Hargrove joined the elite group and she ended her career 15th with 1,106 points.
Green has started 84 of 87 matches in her career at UNO and she's averaging 11.9 points a game. She came to UNO from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she scored more than 1,000 career points.

Pohl Starting Sophomore Season Strong
Sophomore forward Heather Pohl played in every game last year and averaged 1.6 points with no starts. She never scored more than nine points in a game. She has started all three games this year and she's leading the team with 14.3 points a game and she's tied for second with 5.3 rebounds a game.
She was 9-for-14 from the field for 22 points against Dana and she scored 21 points off a strong shooting performance against the Bluejays in an exhibition. Last Saturday against TAMUK she had 14 points and seven rebounds.

Pohl scored 1,000 career points at Omaha's Millard West High School where she earned first team all-state and was a McDonald's All-America nominee.

Steals Pay Off For Mavs
The Mavericks led the MIAA in steals last year with 11.00 per game and they were the only team to average in double figures. They stole the ball 10 or more times in 18 of 27 games last year and they out-stole their opponents in every game but six.

They have reached double figures in steals in all three games this year and are averaging 13.7 a game.

Herold Stays Close To Home, Real Close To Family
Freshman forward Kiley Herold is not only staying close to home by going to UNO. She's also staying really close to family. Her father, Bob Herold is the UNO baseball coach.

Kiley Herold scored in double figures off the bench with 12 points in the season opener against Dana. She was 5-of-6 from the field and 2-of-3 from 3-point range. She added 10 points last week against TAMUK and she's averaging 7.3 points a game.

She graduated from Omaha's Millard North High School last year and earned all-Metro honors her final two years. Her senior year she was an all-state selection. November 5 at Creighton she scored five points with two rebounds before fouling out.

Bob Herold will begin his 11th season at UNO this spring. He has guided UNO to a 341-204-2 record and five straight trips to the NCAA tournament.

Rinehart Strong In Return
Senior forward Kylee Rinehart played in her first game this year since missing all of last year with an injury. She's been in all three games this year and is averaging 6.0 rebounds and 3.3 points.

Rinehart played in 19 games for UNO in 2007-08 and averaged 2.6 points and 2.6 rebounds in 8.6 minutes a game. She played her first two seasons at Casper College.

Both Preseason Polls Pick UNO Women Seventh
The league coaches and media both picked the UNO women's basketball team to finish seventh in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association as the league released its preseason polls at its yearly media day October 27.

Defending regular season champion Emporia State was the top choice in both polls. The Hornets got 96 points and seven first-place votes from the coaches and 291 points and 15 first-place votes from the media.
UNO got 47 points from the coaches and trailed No. 6 Missouri Southern by four points. In the media poll, the Mavericks earned 138 points and trailed No. 6 Fort Hays State by 20 points.

Mavericks Playing 40th Season Of Basketball
- The start of the 2009-10 season will mark the 40th season of women's basketball at UNO.
- The program started in 1970-71 but win-loss records are not available until the 1971-72 season.
- In those last 39 years, the Mavericks have gone 523-478 (.522) in 1,001 games.
- There have been 19 winning seasons and 23 seasons with at least a .500 record.
- The Mavericks have three North Central Conference championships in their history (1980, 1981, 1982) and they have been to the NCAA tournament three times (1982, 1987, 1992). They went to the AIAW tournament four times.

Coming Up
The Mavericks will open MIAA play Wednesday, December 2 against Washburn and then Saturday, December 5, against Fort Hays State. Both games will be at Sapp Fieldhouse and they are the third and fourth games in a five-game homestand.