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Upcoming in Gray Wolves Basketball: Lourdes opens up its seventh season of women's basketball on Monday evening as the Gray Wolves host Great Lakes Christian inside the Russell J. Ebeid Recreation Center, the team's lone home contest prior to the start of Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference play.    

Head Coach Summer Quesenberry: In her second season on the Lourdes bench Summer Quesenberry has a 7-23 (.233) record with the Gray Wolves.  Overall as a women's collegiate head coach, Quesenberry has a 60-91 (.397) record in her fifth season.  She is the third head coach in Lourdes program's history.

Series Notes: Lourdes and Great Lakes Christian are meeting on the hardwood for the first time ever in women's basketball on Monday night.

Wrapping Up Last Season: The Gray Wolves finished the 2016-2017 season 7-23 overall and 5-17 in the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference, placing 10th in the WHAC standings.  Jesse Fidler earned Second Team All-WHAC honors for the Gray Wolves one season ago.

Scouting Great Lakes Christian: The Crusaders, who hail from Lansing, Mich., posted a 1-20 record in 2016-2017 and are a member of the NCCAA Mid-East Region.  Great Lakes Christian returns just four players from last year's squad.

Lourdes Tabbed 10th in Preseason Poll: The Gray Wolves were selected to finish in 10th place in the WHAC this season in the preseason poll conducted of the league's head coaches.  Lourdes was picked just ahead of Michigan-Dearborn, and just behind Northwestern Ohio.  Indiana Tech was chosen as the preseason favorite after last year's champion, Davenport, left the NAIA for NCAA Division II.

Lourdes in Season and Home Openers: This will mark the seventh straight season for collegiate basketball for the Gray Wolves, and every season Lourdes has opened the campaign on its home floor.  Lourdes is 3-3 all-time in season openers after dropping a 92-75 decision to Midway to begin the 2016-2017 season, snapping the Gray Wolves two-game winning streak in season openers.

Lots of New Faces: Lourdes has four just two returnees from last year's roster, Samantha Enck and Lindsey Motycka.  Head coach Summer Quesenberry has brought in 16 new faces for the upcoming season, including 10 transfers and six freshmen.  In addition, Quesenberry has added Lauren Falohun to her staff as an assistant coach.  Falohun spent last season as an assistant coach at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.
 
Among the NAIA Leaders Last Year: The Gray Wolves finished the 2016-2017 season ranked sixth in NAIA Division II averaging 16.4 offensive rebounds per game.  Overall, Lourdes was 28th nationally in total rebounding, grabbing 41.0 caroms per night.  Lourdes also ranked 30th in the country in steals per game at 10.5 while finishing 50th in three-point field goal percentage defense, limiting the opposition to just 30.2% shooting from beyond the arc.

The Lone Senior: Tatyana Reynolds is the lone senior on this year's squad.  She transferred to Lourdes prior to this season from West Virginia State, where she averaged 8.3 points per game as a junior.

Two Returnees: Juniors Samantha Enck and Lindsey Motycka are the only players returning from last year's squad.  Enck has scored 159 career points, grabbed 117 rebounds, and handed out 73 assists over her first two seasons with the Gray Wolves while Motycka has scored 267 points, pulled down 186  boards, and handed out 39 assists during the same span.

Local Faces: Lourdes has eight players on its roster from Northwest Ohio this season.  Jami Hardy and Kali Hardy are from Perrysburg while Sara Semler, Tatyana Reynolds, Christiana Jefferson, Mirandia Green, and LaTyrah Beasley  are all from Toledo.  Samantha Enck is a native of Oregon.  In addition, Erin Manley is from just across the boarder in Ottawa Lake, Mich.

This and That: Lourdes is 43-135 all-time heading into the program's seventh season ... the Gray Wolves are 4-1 all-time in overtime contests ... Lourdes is 1-32 all-time against NAIA Division II top-25 foes, dropping all six games against ranked foes last season.