TOLEDO, Ohio – Riding a five-game winning streak, the Toledo women's basketball team welcomes Buffalo to Savage Arena on Wednesday night. Action between the Rockets and Bulls will tip off at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN+.

Toledo (17-4, 8-2 MAC) finds itself in the thick of the race for the top spot in the Mid-American Conference entering Wednesday's contest. At 8-2 in league play, UT is just one game back of first-place Ball State (9-1) and Bowling Green (9-1), and two games ahead of Kent State (6-4). The Rockets will end the regular season against those three teams, visiting Ball State on Saturday, Feb. 25 before hosting Kent State on Wednesday, March 1 and Bowling Green on Saturday, March 4.

The last time the Rockets took the court was last Saturday when they defeated Ohio, 66-55, at Savage Arena. Toledo led the Bobcats by 11 points at halftime before the offensive well ran dry. UT missed 10 straight shots to begin the second half, allowing the Bobcats to pull within a point. Justina King tallied Toledo's first second-half basket, an and-one at the 1:10 mark of the third quarter that pushed the lead back up to four, 42-38. Ohio continued to hang around, again making it a one-point game with 5:52 to go in the fourth quarter, but eight straight points from Khera Goss put the score at 60-51 and gave the Rockets enough breathing room to put away the Bobcats for good.

Goss led the way with 13 points, eight of which came during her fourth quarter spurt. She was one of four Rockets to score in double figures, with Quinesha Lockett (12 points), Jayda Jansen (12 points), and Sophia Wiard (10 points) also reaching that benchmark.

Lockett is averaging 17.4 PPG on the season, ranking fifth in the MAC in that category. She has six games with at least 20 points this year, and five of those performances have come during MAC play.

Following the Buffalo game, Toledo will play four of its next five games on the road, with the lone home matchup taking place on Saturday, Feb. 18 vs. Eastern Michigan at 2:00 p.m. That game will be the annual "Rockets for the Cure" game, which will help benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure of Northwest Ohio and the Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center. The Rockets encourage everyone in attendance to wear pink that day in support of breast cancer research.

Fans can purchase tickets for $13 apiece with $5 of each sale donated to the Susan G. Komen and Eleanor N. Dana Cancer Center. Please visit utrockets.com/RFCtix to purchase tickets.

To purchase tickets to any Toledo women's basketball game, 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

• Toledo is the best free throw shooting team in the league, ranking first in the MAC in free throw percentage (78.7%), free throws made per game (16.1), and free throw attempts (20.5). UT ranks 10^th nationally in free throws per game and 12^th in free throw percentage.
• The Rockets are 29-3 over their last 32 regular season conference games.
• Under head coach Tricia Cullop, Toledo has won at least 11 home games 10 times over the past 14 seasons. UT is 10-1 at home this year.
• The Rockets lead the MAC and are among the national leaders in average attendance, ranking 25^th nationally (3,982). They rank third among mid-major teams, only trailing Gonzaga (4,896) and New Mexico (4,891).
• The Rockets are third in the MAC and 27^th in the country in assist-turnover ratio (1.19), and they also rank 21^st nationally and second in the league in fewest turnovers per game (13.0).
• As a team, the Rockets rank third in the MAC in scoring offense (73.7) and second in scoring defense (62.4), the only team to rank in the top three in both categories. Toledo has held its opponents to fewer than 65 points in four of the last five games.
• The Rockets rank third in the MAC in scoring margin (+11.1) and have won five games by at least 20 points. UT has won 12 games by double digits.
• Toledo has done a good job defending the three-point line this year, ranking second in the MAC in three-point field goal percentage defense (29.0%). Opponents have shot under 30% from beyond the arc 12 times vs. Toledo this year.
• Quinesha Lockett enters Wednesday's game with 1,749 career points, which ranks sixth all-time in and is 126 points away from passing Naama Shafir (2008-13, 1,874 points) to move into fifth place all-time. Kim Knuth (1995-99) is Toledo's all-time leading scorer with 2,509 career points.
• Lockett's 1,749 career points are the most among current MAC players, just ahead of Miami's Peyton Scott (1,731). Lockett ranks No. 36 among active D1 players in career points and has played in 111 career games, fewer than all but four of the players ranked ahead of her. Lockett and Scott are the only two MAC players in the Top 50 among active career scoring leaders.
• Sophia Wiard has led Toledo in assists or shared the team lead in 13 of 21 games this season. Wiard has led the MAC in assist/turnover ratio each of the last two seasons and once again leads the league this year. She ranks eighth in the country with a 2.70 A/T ratio.

 
About Buffalo
Buffalo comes into Wednesday's game with a record of 9-10 and a 4-6 mark in Mid-American Conference play. Three players are averaging double figures in scoring: Zakiyah Winfield (15.1 PPG), Re'Shawna Stone (15.0 PPG), and Jazmine Young (13.8 PPG). The Bulls are second-to-last in the MAC in scoring offense (62.7 PPG), but rank fifth in scoring defense (63.4 PPG) and have held opponents to fewer than 60 points eight times this season.