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Senior forward Colleen Kilmurray is set to enter her final season in Orono. As a junior last season, she tied for the team lead in scoring (9.1 ppg) and led the team in rebounding (5.0 rpg).
 
Senior forward Colleen Kilmurray is set to enter her final season in Orono. As a junior last season, she tied for the team lead in scoring (9.1 ppg) and led the team in rebounding (5.0 rpg).
  
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Maine vs. Duke Women's Basketball Game Notes
Black Bears open 2008-09 season

Nov. 14, 2008

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Please click on the link above to read the complete game notes for Maine's showdown with Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday.

DUKE GAME STORYLINES

**The University of Maine women's basketball team opens its 45th season of intercollegiate hoops on Sunday when the Black Bears take on the Duke Blue Devils in the 2008-09 season opener. The game tips off at 12 p.m., in historic Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Black Bears sport an all-time record of 620-315-1 for a winning percentage of 66 percent. Maine is 26-18 all-time in season openers, including winning two of the last three.

**Maine head coach Cindy Blodgett returns for her second season on the Black Bear bench in 2008-09. A 1998 graduate of Maine, Blodgett starred at the school from 1994-98, where she helped lead the program to four-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament.

**Blodgett played under head coach Joanne P. McCallie at Maine. Palombo-McCallie headed up the program from 1992-2000, and led the Black Bears to a combined 167 wins over eight seasons (average of 20.8 wins a season). Maine won at least 20 games in each of her last seven seasons in Orono and went to the NCAA Tournament on six-straight occasions. Palombo-McCallie was also the coach of the 1998-99 team that knocked off Stanford in the first round of the tournament, marking the first NCAA win in program history.

**Maine is facing an ACC opponent in its season opener for the second-straight year. The Black Bears opened last season with a tough 74-59 loss at Clemson. Maine went 1-2 versus ACC competition last season, including a 54-53 win over Miami, Fla. in the first round of the Hurricane Holiday Classic in Coral Gables, Fla.

**Duke won't be the only Blue Devils Maine will face this season. After opening the season at Duke, Maine hits the road for its next game of the young campaign on Thursday at Central Connecticut State. CCSU is also nicknamed the Blue Devils.