PHILADELPHIA – The La Salle women's basketball squad, fresh off a 77-68 road win at George Washington, looks to keep the momentum going when the Explorers host Richmond on Wednesday at 7 p.m.

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Richmond Spiders (9-11, 3-4 Atlantic 10) at La Salle Explorers (10-9, 5-2 Atlantic 10).
Wednesday, January 29 | 7 PM | Tom Gola Arena

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All-Time Series
Richmond holds a 14-6 lead in the series after winning the last eight; however, the Explorers have kept it close, dropping the last three by five or less points.

Scouting the Explorers
The Explorers expanded a five-point halftime lead to double digits and withstood a George Washington comeback attempt to defeat the Colonials 77-68 at the Smith Center on Saturday.

Alicia Cropper exploded for a career-high 32 points to shatter her old mark of 23 points, and added a game-high-tying five assists. Micahya Owens added 18 points, a career-high-tying eight rebounds and a career-high five assists. Leeza Burdgess went 8-for-9 en route to 17 points. Defensively, Jasmine Alston snagged a career-high 13 rebounds to help the Explorers win the battle of the boards against the league's top rebounding squad.

Cropper and Owens now share the team scoring lead for the season, each averaging 13.2 points. Cropper adds 4.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists, while Owens also contributes 4.9 rebounds.

Burdgess chips in 9.4 ppg while maintaining the team lead with 7.6 rebounds per game.

Alston has been solid since assuming the starting point guard role on a more permanent basis. She averages 5.8 ppg, 5.1 rpg and dishes out a team-high 2.6 assists. She also snags 1.8 steals per game, one of the top 15 marks in the Atlantic 10.

The Explorers have consistently been one of the league's top defensive squads, limiting opponents to 59.8 ppg and keeping opponents to a paltry 26.7 percent clip from the three-point line. The team scores 59.7 ppg on the offensive end.

Scouting the Spiders
Richmond had an inconsistent nonconference season, topping ACC teams Virginia Tech and Miami but also dropping a contest to North Carolina A&T. The Spiders are currently 3-4 in the Atlantic 10, defeating Rhode Island, George Mason and Saint Louis while dropping two to St. Bonaventure along with Saint Joseph's and Fordham.

Freshman Olivia Healy is leading the Spiders with 12.3 ppg and is also pulling down a hefty 7.4 rebounds. She has also dished out 44 assists this season, snagged a team-high 42 steals and added 11 blocks in her rookie campaign.

Genevieve Okoro is the only other Spider in double figures with 12.0 ppg while leading the team's rebounding efforts with 7.8 boards.

Kristina King chips in 9.9 ppg and has added 40 steals to rank second on the team in that category.

As a team, the Spiders are scoring 63.8 ppg while yielding 64.2 to opponents. They shoot 38.2 percent from the field and just 27.2 percent from three.