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HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University women's basketball team will look to extend its three-game winning streak when it hosts VCU on Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. in the Millis Center.
 
The Panthers (3-6) have been out of action since Saturday, Dec. 5 to focus on their finals. But with the fall semester in the rearview mirror the team shifts its focus back to basketball. Meanwhile, VCU is off to a 7-2 start behind a roster full of upperclassmen.
 
LAST TIME OUT
Four players scored in double figures for the Purple & White as they moved to 2-0 in conference play with a 71-66 win over Radford on Dec. 5. Freshman Lindsey Edwards led the way with 14 points and four steals while junior Kaylah Keys added 12 points.
 
Likewise, freshman Haleigh Hatfield (12 points) and sophomore Kat Harris (11 points) came through in the clutch for HPU. Hatfield hit a three-pointer with 45 seconds to play to make it 64-58 and Harris went 3-of-4 at the line in the final 22 seconds to help close out the win.
 
KEYS' CLIMB
• Junior Kaylah Keys is the second-highest active scorer in the Big South Conference behind Liberty's Ashley Rininger.
 
• Keys is sixth on HPU's Division I scoring list with 1,173 points in two-plus seasons.
 
• The Southaven, Miss. native is second all-time at HPU with 152 three-pointers made in her career. Her 152 made triples are fourth among active third-year players nationally.
 
YOUTH MOVEMENT
• HPU's seven freshmen are logging 63 percent of the team's minutes and are scoring 54 percent of HPU points and grabbing 66 percent of the squads steals this season.

• Freshman Lindsey Edwards became the first of the Panthers' youngsters to win Big South weekly honors being named the Big South Freshman of the Week on Dec. 7.
 
• At the beginning of the season, the quartet of DeUnna Hendrix, Jenna Burkett, Laura Harper and Lori Drake had a combined age of 120 years. That is the second youngest group in Division I among schools that responded to a Belmont University questionnaire. Only Houston Baptist's staff (119 years) combined for a younger age.
 
HOME COOKIN'
• HPU is 3-1 at home in 2015-16 after going 13-1 in the Millis Center in 2014-15.
 
• The team is 35-9 under Hendrix at home, including 25-6 in Big South home games.
 
• The Purple & White are averaging 73.0 ppg at home and 55.4 ppg in all others contests.
 
• Junior Kaylah Keys is averaging 22.0 ppg at home by shooting 42.0 percent on the Millis Center's kind rims.
 
• Freshman Lindsey Edwards is posting 12.5 ppg at home and just 6.8 ppg away from the Millis Center.
 
SCOUTING VCU
• A season after finishing tied for eighth in the league, the Rams were picked to finish 10th in the 14-team Atlantic-10.
 
• The squad returns all five starters from 2014- 15 and the returners accounted for 66 of the 81 points VCU scored against High Point last year.
 
• All eight of the Rams who see 19-plus minutes per game are upperclassmen and average 3.5 seasons of college experience. Conversely, five of HPU's top eight players are freshmen.
 
• The Rams' aggressive defense is forcing 20.5 turnovers per contest and pressured the Panthers into 23 giveaways last season.
 
• Junior Isis Thorpe, who scored 22 points in the 2014 meeting, is scoring (9.9 ppg) while junior Camille Calhoun (11.3 ppg), senior Adaeze Alaeze (10.7 ppg) and junior Ashley Pegram (9.4 ppg) give the team four players averaging over nine points per outing.
 
• Pegram paced the squad with 17 points in the 63-39 victory over Maryland-Eastern Shore on Saturday. Meanwhile, sophomore Curteeona Brelove posted a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES WITH THE RAMS
VCU owns a 2-1 advantage in the series. Both teams earned road wins when the two programs played a home-and-home in 2010 and 2011. HPU will look for another split after the Rams earned an 81-59 victory at home last season.
 
LAST TIME THEY MET
These two programs met last season on Dec. 18 when the Rams earned an 81-59 win over the Panthers. Junior Kaylah Keys and sophomore Kat Harris combined for 11 points in the setback.
 
NEXT UP
The Panthers wrap up their non-conference schedule at Elon on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. against the 6-2 Phoenix.
 
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