WHEN: Saturday, Jan. 13 | 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Winthrop Coliseum | Rock Hill, S.C.
RECORDS: High Point (9-5, 3-0), Winthrop (1-13, 0-3)
SERIES RECORD: 49th, High Point leads 28-20
LAST MEETING: HPU won Feb. 7, 2017 at Winthrop, 70-57
VIDEO: Big South Network
AUDIO: High Point Panthers Radio Network
LIVE STATS: WinthropEagles.Com
GAME NOTES: HighPointPanthers.Com

HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University women's basketball team heads to Winthrop on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. in search of its sixth consecutive triumph.
 
The Panthers (9-5,) emerged victorious on Tuesday against Presbyterian behind 23 points from junior Emma Bockrath to move to 3-0 for the first time since 2014-15. On the other hand, Winthrop is 1-13 and 0-3 in the Big South after falling at Liberty on Tuesday.
 
Quick Hitters
• Bockrath is one of two Big South players averaging at least 10.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per contest. However, Shea Morgan is one point and four rebounds off that pace averaging 9.9 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists.
 
• Camryn Brown is enjoying life on the road averaging 16.3 points per contest while knocking down 25 of her 45 three-point attempts taken on the road (.556).
 
• During her first season as the team's main point guard, Brown leads the Big South and 69th nationally with a 2.1 assist-to-turnover ratio.
 
• Including the flurry of victories to end the 2016-17 season, the Purple & White have won 13 of their last 14 regular season contests against Big South opponents.
 
• The Panthers are on a five-game winning streak, which is the longest this year and longest since the team claimed six straight in the middle of conference play last winter.
 
• Bockrath - the 2016-17 Big South Player of the Year - has scored in double figures 29 times in 41 career contests against Big South Conference foes. Those 29 games include seven 20-point outbursts.
 
• Jiselle Thomas - the reigning Big South Freshman of the Week - posted 13.5 points per game during her first week of league play.
 
• Saturday will be the 100th Big South regular season game for head coach DeUnna Hendrix. Her 67 wins make her the eighth winningest coach in league history while her .677 winning percentage will be the second highest mark among coaches with 100 regular season league games.
 
• The Panthers are 67-32 against conference foes under Hendrix. That's the second-best mark in the league during her tenure at High Point trailing only Liberty.
 
• During Hendrix's six years roaming the HPU sideline, the team has gone 30-19 on the road against Big South opponents.
 
• The Panthers are looking to go 4-0 in the league, which would be the best start of Hendrix's career as a head coach. However, as an assistant, Hendrix helped HPU open league play 9-0 in 2011-12.
 
• HPU is the only Big South team with three players in the top-10 in scoring with Harris (5th), Bockrath (6th) and Brown (8th).
 
Sharpshooters Finding Their Strokes
• The Panthers lead the Big South and rank fifth nationally drilling 40.6 percent of their three-point attempts this season. Incredibly, that's 4.9 percent higher than that season when the team's 35.7 percent mark broke the program's single-season record.
 
• The 40.6 percent mark trails only Charleston Southern's 2009-10 squad for the Big South single season record. That team hit 44.2 percent of its three-point attempts.
 
• Brown and Kat Harris are No. 1 and No. 2 in the Big South and rank among the top-50 nationally in three-point percentage. Brown's 44.0 mark ranks 30th in the nation while Harris sits 19 spots behind her hitting 42.1 percent.
 
Reserves Needed
• The Panthers are 7-1 when the bench outscores their opponent's reserves and 2-4 when that margin is reversed.
 
• HPU averages a 27.0-18.2 edge in its wins and a 19.4-14.6 deficit in losses. Harris has accounted for 57 of the 73 bench points in the team's five losses.
 
Shooting to the Top
• The 2017-18 Panthers are on pace to break the program's single-season three-point percentage record of 35.7 set last year.
 
• Averaging 72.0 points per game and shooting at a 42.2 percent clip, this year's squad could threaten for HPU's D-I single-season bests of 72.5 points per game and 42.0 percent shooting percentage.
 
All-Time Series with Winthrop
The Panthers lead the all-time series with the Eagles by a 28-20 mark. Winthrop had pulled within three games of equaling the series before High Point rattled off five straight wins. A win on Saturday would put the Purple & White one win away from tying the longest winning streak between the two programs after HPU claimed seven straight from 2003-2006.
 
Scouting the Eagles
Despite Winthrop's 0-3 start in conference play junior college transfer Courtney Hagaman has started to come on. The junior guard is averaging 18.0 points and 3.0 three-pointers per league contest. Meanwhile, graduate student Ronata Rogers is fourth in the conference in rebounds (7.5/game) and chips in with 7.0 points per outing.
 
Matchup to Watch
Last season Winthrop packed it in defensively and forced HPU in 60 three-point attempts in the two meetings. The Panthers attempted a season-high 32 three-pointers making 10 (31.3 percent) in their last visit to Winthrop Coliseum. The Eagles enter the contest last in the Big South in scoring (49.2/game) while the Panthers pace the Big South with 72.0 points per outing.
 
Next Up
HPU stays on the road on Tuesday when it heads to Campbell - the only Big South foe to sweep the Panthers last season.
 
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