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HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University women's basketball team makes the short trek to Fleming Gymnasium to take on UNCG at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday.
 
The Panthers and the Spartans enter the contest with matching 1-2 records after both teams fell on Wednesday. HPU's setback came at the hands of No. 8 Maryland while UNCG dropped a game against Francis Marion.
 
LAST TIME OUT:
The Purple & White went on the road to take on the Terrapins on Wednesday night and fell 105-50 in the XFinity Center. Junior Kaylah Keys came out hot scoring seven points in the first quarter at Maryland en route to a 12-point performance. Meanwhile, Kat Harris had her best game in the Purple & White scoring 10 points to go along with 5 rebounds and five assists.
 
PANTHER NOTES:
• The team continues to rely heavily on first-year players as freshmen have played 63 percent of the team's minutes through three games.
 
• With two newcomers in the starting lineup, the crop of freshmen also is scoring 50 percent of the points and grabbing 48 percent of the rebounds.
 
• Junior Kaylah Keys is the second-highest active scorer in the Big South Conference behind Liberty's Ashley Rininger.
 
• Keys is ninth on HPU's Division I scoring list with 1,053 points in just two-plus seasons. She is five points behind Misty Brockman (1999-03) for seventh on HPU's Division I scoring list. The Southaven, Miss. native is five 3-pointers behind Lindsay Puckett for second on the program's all-time 3-pointers made list.
 
• Senior Aariel Allen continues to show improvement with more minutes (8 points and 4 rebounds in 19 minutes at UMD). The forward is averaging 7.3 points and 5.7 rebounds per game after tallying 1.6 points and 2.4 rebounds per contest in 2014-15.
 
SCOUTING UNCG:
• Led by preseason All-SoCon selection Lucy Mason, UNCG was picked to finish sixth in a the eight-team league after placing eighth last season.
 
• Like the Panthers, UNCG opened the season with a win over a Division III opponent before taking a loss against top-10 opponent in No. 2 South Carolina (92-44). The Spartans followed the defeat to the Gamecocks with a 66-63 setback to Francis Marion, a Division II squad.
 
• Mason, a 5-foot-7-inch senior guard, has led the team in scoring in all three contests tallying at least 20 points in each game.
 
• Junior India Tempton is pacing the team with 9.0 rebounds per contest while adding 7.3 points.
 
• UNCG is the more experienced team that will likely start all upperclassmen as Mason and Tempton will be joined by senior Jazmine Missouri, junior Shanese Harris and junior Mariah Wilson.
 
• Starting fast could be a key for HPU as the Spartans have been outscored 114-84 in the first half, but have won the 4th quarter 48-38 this year.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES WITH THE SPARTANS
• This is the 27th meeting all-time between UNCG and High Point with the Panthers holding a 14-12 lead in the series.
 
• The two programs met seven years in a row from 2004-10 with UNCG earning a 4-3 advantage.

• HPU is 42-45 all-time against Southern Conference members and is 3-4 under head coach DeUnna Hendrix. Last season the team split its two games with a win over UNCG and a loss at East Tennessee State.

LAST TIME THEY MET
On Dec. 8, 2014 the Panthers earned a come-from-behind 78-67 victory over the Spartans. HPU earned a 42-30 advantage in points in the paint as Kaylah Keys scored 12 points as the Purple & White erased a 32-17 deficit in the first half. 
 
NEXT UP:
The Panthers return home on Tuesday to play Davidson in the Millis Center before flying to Cancun, Mexico to play UAB and Georgia Tech in the Cancun Challenge on Nov. 25-26.
 
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