WHEN: Friday, Dec. 22 | 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Millis Center | High Point, N.C.
RECORDS: High Point (4-5), Western Carolina (2-8)
SERIES RECORD: 22nd meeting, Western Carolina leads 13-8
LAST MEETING: WCU won 73-64 at Davidson on Dec. 21, 2016
VIDEO: Big South Network
AUDIO: High Point Panthers Radio Network
LIVE STATS: HighPointPanthers.Com
GAME NOTES: HighPointPanthers.Com
 
HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University women's basketball host Western Carolina on Friday at 5:00 p.m. in the Millis Center in its final home non-conference contest of the season.
 
The Panthers (4-5) are looking to rebound from a setback to Davidson on Monday and enter the team's Christmas break on a high note. Meanwhile, the Catamounts come in with two wins and nine losses on the year, but with both wins coming over Big South foes.
 
BOCKRATH FEATURED BY BIG SOUTH
Junior Emma Bockrath was featured in the Big South's Musco Spotlight series this week. You can watch the video here.
 
QUICK HITTERS
• Kat Harris is averaging 19.8 points in HPU's three home games this season. The senior has hit 15-of-25 three-point attempts inside the Millis Center this season. That's compared to a 8.4 points per game and a .174 mark from three-point land in the squad's five road contests in 2017-18.
 
• After struggling at home in the first three home contests, Camryn Brown amassed 21 points on 7-of-16 shooting in Monday night's setback to Davidson.
 
• Kennedy Currie is a burgeoning force in the paint for the Purple & White. The redshirt-junior has led the team in rebounding in each of the past six games (9.5/game) and is averaging 1.8 blocks per outing during the same span.
 
• The HPU starting five of Camryn Brown, Emma Bockrath, Lindsey Edwards, Shea Morgan and Kennedy Currie along with top reserve Kat Harris have accounted for 372 of the team's 400 minutes played over the last two contests (93 percent).
 
• During her first season as the team's main point guard, Brown leads the Big South with a 2.1 assist-to-turnover ratio.
 
• HPU has assisted on 59.1 percent of its made field goals on the year. That's just behind the highest mark in the program's D-I era behind the 2010-11 squad's 60.4 percent mark.
 
• High Point has had at least one 20-point scorer in seven on nine games going 3-4 in those contests as six different players have eclipsed 20 in a game. But despite all that firepower, the Purple & White have had six games with three of fewer double-digit scorers and are just 1-5 in such outings.
 
• HPU is the only Big South team with three players in the top-10 in scoring with Harris (5th), Brown (6th) and Bockrath (7th).
 
• The Panthers are 49-22 in home games under DeUnna Hendrix and 13-8 against non-conference foes at home during that span.
 
All Kinds of Threats
• The Panthers had four different leading scorers in the first four games of the season.
 
• Six different members of the Purple & White have scored 20 points in a single game in 2017-18.
 
• Eight of the 11 Panthers to play in a game this season have posted a career-high scoring outing through the first nine contests.
 
Reserves Needed
• The Panthers are 4-1 when the bench outscores their opponent's reserves and 0-4 when that margin is reversed.
 
• HPU averages a 28-15 edge in its wins and a 19-15 deficit in losses. Harris has accounted for 57 of the 73 bench points in the team's five losses.
 
All-Time Series with Western Carolina
HPU and WCU record books record a different amount of meetings with WCU claiming a 17-8 mark, while High Point records show a 13-8 margin for the Catamounts. Either way, High Point is 2-4 against WCU since moving to Division I competition in 1999-2000.
 
Scouting the Catamounts
While carrying just a 2-9 record into Friday's contest, WCU is 2-1 against Big South opponents this season with wins over Radford and UNC Asheville and a seven-point loss to Campbell. Sherae Bonner leads the way with 10.9 points and 8.6 rebounds per contest.
 
Matchup to Watch
The Panthers are one of the best three-point shooting and three-point defenses in the nation. Meanwhile, Davidson is struggling from beyond the arc hitting just 28 percent of its three-point attempts and allows its opponents to knock down 30 percent of their attempts.
 
NEXT UP
High Point has the next week off to celebrate Christmas before wrapping up its non-conference slate against UNCG in Greensboro on Dec. 28 at 7:00 p.m.
 
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