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p u r d u e w o m e n ' s b a s k e t b a l l p r e v i e w Seniors Lead The Way Purdue experienced at guard but has questions up front BY KYLE CHARTERS KCharters@GoldandBlack.com C ourtney Moses has accumulated a lot of basketball experience during her first three seasons at Purdue, totaling nearly 100 starts and 3,000 minutes over the years. The same can be said for fellow backcourt mates KK Houser and Dee Dee Williams; they've battled in the Big Ten for years, helping to guide the Boilermakers to back-to-back conference tournament titles and Tom Campbell Courtney Moses returns for her senior season after averaging a team-high 13.3 points per game and being named third-team All-Big Ten. 62 IllustrateD volume 24, issue 2 into the NCAA Tournament. Purdue's hopes for 2013-14 lie in that trio, as a vast majority of the rest of the roster is short on experience, especially in the frontcourt. "We have one of the toughest backcourts in the Big Ten and in the country," said Coach Sharon Versyp, whose eighth Purdue team is ranked in the top 25 by several preseason magazines to start 2013-14. "People have talked about that and that is why we are getting Tom Campbell kudos. If you KK Houser, one-third of Purdue's veteran backhave great court, is entering her third season as the Boilerguard play, makers' starting point guard and says she's made then you'll improvements in staying under control. be good. You Houser and Williams along with have got to have great sophomore April Wilson, would apguard play." pear to have that. The questions Purdue, with Moses, No. 1 4 10 13 15 20 21 22 23 25 32 42 PURDUE woMEN'S BASKETBALL ROSTER Name Ashley Morrissette Torrie Thornton Hayden Hamby Bridget Perry Courtney Moses Dee Dee Williams Joslyn Massey KK Houser Liza Clemons April Wilson Whitney Bays Camille Redmon Class Fr. So. So. Fr. Sr. Sr. So. Sr. (5) Jr. So. Jr. Jr. Pos. G G G G G G F G F G F F/C Ht. 5-9 6-0 5-7 6-2 5-6 6-0 6-0 5-6 6-2 5-7 6-2 6-4 Hometown/Last School Twinsburg, Ohio/Twinsburg Carmel, Ind./Carmel Trinity, Ala./West Morgan Mooresville, Ind./Roncalli Sweetser, Ind./Oak Hill Indianapolis/Ben Davis Detroit/John Glenn Lincoln, Neb./Lincoln Southeast Fort Wayne, Ind./Snider Louisville, Ky./Manual Huntington, W.Va./Maryland Grand Prarie, Texas/Mansfield Timberview f