TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo women's basketball team returns to Savage Arena for a big Mid-American Conference battle with Ball State. Wednesday's game will tip off at 7:00 p.m. and will be streamed live on ESPN+.

Wednesday night will be Alopecia Awareness Night at Savage Arena. A portion of the money from tickets purchased through utrockets.com/alopecia will be donated to the National Alopecia Areata Foundation.

The Rockets (10-3, 1-1 MAC) will be looking to get back on track after a 67-66 setback at Northern Illinois (9-4, 1-1 MAC) on Saturday. The loss snapped Toledo's 14-game road winning streak, the longest in the country at the time, and its seven-game winning streak.

Despite the loss, a pair of Rockets turned in excellent individual performances at NIU. Junior Sammi Mikonowicz helped Toledo win the battle on the boards, 48-38, thanks to a season-high 19 rebounds, the second-most rebounds in a game by a MAC player this season. Senior Quinesha Lockett also led the Rockets with 18 points and brought her career total to 1,579, officially passing Kaayla McIntyre (2015-19) to move into eighth place all-time in school history in career points. Next up on Toledo's career scoring list is Kelly Savage (1,677 points).

The other half of Toledo's dynamic backcourt duo, senior Sophia Wiard, is approaching an important career milestone of her own. The Muskegon, Mich. native enters Wednesday's game with 991 career points, leaving her just nine points away from becoming the 32^nd player in program history to reach 1,000 career points.

Lockett leads Toledo in scoring and ranks ninth in the league at 15.0 PPG. She is followed by junior Khera Goss (9.7 PPG) and Mikonowicz (9.3 PPG), the latter of whom is third in the MAC in rebounding (8.0 PPG).

As a team, the Rockets rank in the top four in the MAC in both scoring defense (2^nd, 58.5) and scoring offense (4^th, 71.3) and sit second in scoring margin (+12.8). Toledo is the only team in the conference to rank among the top three in both field-goal percentage defense (37.8%) and three-point field goal percentage defense (25.5%), ranking third and first, respectively.

Toledo will play its next two games on the road at Kent State (Saturday, Jan. 14) and at Bowling Green (Wednesday, Jan. 18). The Rockets' next home game will be Saturday, Jan. 21 vs. Akron. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the Rocket Athletic Ticket Office at the Sullivan Athletic Complex in Savage Arena, contact the Rocket Athletic Ticket Office at 419-530-GOLD (4653) or go online to UTRockets.com/tix.

Rocket Notes

• Once again, the Rockets lead the MAC and are among the national leaders in average attendance, ranking 23rd nationally (3,971). They rank third among mid-major teams, only trailing New Mexico (4,967) and Gonzaga (4,811).
• Toledo leads the all-time series with Ball State, 59-30, and has won two of the last three meetings. Ten of the last 12 meetings have been decided by fewer than 10 points, including all three meetings last season.
• Quinesha Lockett's 1,579 career points are second-most among current MAC players behind Miami's Peyton Scott (1,595).
• Sophia Wiard has led Toledo in assists or shared the team lead in nine of 13 games this season. Wiard leads the MAC in assists (4.4) and ranks fourth in assist/turnover ratio (2.19).
• Khera Goss is shooting 63.2 percent (12-of-19) from the floor over the last three games and averaging 11.3 PPG during that span. Goss has scored in double figures in five of the last six games.
• After pulling down 19 rebounds at Northern Illinois last weekend, Sammi Mikonowicz now owns two of the 11 highest single-game rebounding totals in school history. Last year vs. Ohio, she tied a school record with 22 rebounds.
• The Rockets have won 11 of their last 12 home conference games. They won their home conference opener last week vs. Western Michigan, 71-53.
• One of the best free throw shooting teams in the league, Toledo ranks first in the MAC in free throw percentage (77.3), second in free throws per game (14.9) and third in free-throw attempts per game (19.3)

About Ball State
Ball State (12-3, 2-0 MAC) has won three games in a row, including its first two MAC games vs. Bowling Green and Western Michigan. The Cardinals rank second in the MAC in scoring offense (78.5) and boast three players averaging double figures in scoring: Anna Clephane (13.0 PPG), Thelma Dis Agustsdottir (12.6 PPG), and Ally Becki (11.4 PPG). Sydney Shafer is one of the top three-point threats in the league, connecting on 14-of-31 three-point field goals (45.2%) coming off the bench. Becki ranks second in the MAC and 12^th in the nation in assist/turnover ratio (2.68).