NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Yeshiva University women's basketball team will host The King's College (N.Y.), in a non-conference contest at the ARC Arena, on Thursday. Tip-off is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. It's the Macs' first home game of the season, and the opening game overall for King's.

Fan buses will take students and staff to the game at 55 Lexington Avenue. The buses will leave from West 186^th street and Amsterdam Avenue at 7:00 p.m. There will be giveaways and prizes, as well as pizza and soda in the lobby area at Baruch, beginning at 7:30 p.m. To RSVP, e-mail Carly Moss at carly.moss@yu.edu by Thursday at 12:00 p.m.

For fans that cannot make it to the game, you can follow the action on live stats. Be sure to print out the game program. 

Yeshiva earned a season-opening victory over Five Towns College, 66-31, while dropping the next game to Baruch, by a score of 74-66. In last season's head-to-head matchup, the Maccabees knocked off the Lions, 59-36.

Leading the way for Yeshiva has been junior forward Tehilla Teigman. In the first two games of her collegiate basketball career, Teigman is averaging 18 points and 9.5 rebounds per contest. Thanks to her strong start, Teigman was named the Skyline Conference Rookie of the Week, on Tuesday.  

Senior guard Nicole Bick is scoring 14 points and dishing out three assists per contest, while forcing seven steals so far this season. Fourth-year forward Michal Alge is scoring 12 points and bringing down 8.5 caroms per contests, while collecting a team-high eight steals during the first two games of the season.

King's College (4-8, last season) returns only three players from last season's roster. Guard Donyanna Sanders and forwards Catie Shoemaker and Bailey Kaufman will enter their second season with the Lions. Last season, Kaufman led the team with 12.4 points per contest, while Shoemaker snatched 7.8 rebounds and distributed 3.7 assists per contest, both team-highs. Sanders averaged 6.4 points per game.  

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