WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 13 | 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Millis Center | High Point, N.C.
RECORDS: High Point (14-9, 8-4), Winthrop (2-21, 1-11)
SERIES RECORD: High Point leads 29-20
LAST MEETING: High Point won 79-58 at Winthrop on Jan. 13, 2018
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 team hosts Winthrop on Tuesday night in the Millis Center at 7:00 p.m.
 
The Panthers (14-9, 8-4) are coming off a setback against UNC Asheville on Sunday, but will have to make a quick turnaround having one day off before playing Winthrop (2-12, 1-11).
 
Quick Hitters
• High Point has had fewer turnovers than its opponent in 14 straight games going 10-4 over that stretch. The team is 11-5 when winning the turnover battle and leads the Big South and ranks 45th nationally with a plus-3.96 per game margin.
 
• Camryn Brown widened her Big South lead in assist-to-turnover ratio dishing out six helpers while avoiding a turnover in the game against UNC Asheville. She's 64th in the nation with 2.10 assists per turnover on the year.
 
• The Panthers committed a season-low six turnovers on Sunday while collecting 15 assists to move into the lead in the Big South in assist-to-turnover ratio as a team.
 
• During conference play Kat Harris leads the league hitting 37-of-40 (.925) of her free throw attempts. Over the past 10 games, she's made 31 of her last 32 offerings.
 
• The Panthers are 13-3 when at least three players score in double figures this season.
 
• Emma Bockrath, the reigning Big South Player of the Year, ranks in the top-15 in the Big South in points (sixth), rebounds (fifth), field goal percentage (ninth), assists (11th), steals (first) and three-point field goals (15th).
 
• Shea Morgan has been a consistent presence for HPU as the only player on the team to score and grab a rebound in all 23 contests. She has also shot 50 percent or better from the 16 times in her 23 starts this season.
 
• The Purple & White are the only squad in the Big South to have the same starting five in every game this season. Brown, Bockrath, Morgan, Kennedy Currie and Lindsey Edwards have started all 23.
 
• Head coach DeUnna Hendrix has 72 Big South wins, which makes her the eighth winningest coach in league history. Meanwhile, her .667 winning percentage is the third-highest mark among coaches with 100 regular season league games.
 
• The Panthers are 72-36 against conference foes under Hendrix. That's the second-best mark in the league during her tenure at High Point trailing only Liberty and includes a 38-16 mark when playing Big South opponents inside the Millis Center.
 
• Through the first 19 games High Point's opponents had made more three-pointers than HPU just three times. It's happened three times in the squad's last four - HPU tied Longwood in the other.
 
1,000-Point Teammates?
• Bockrath became the 10th HPU D-I player to reach 1,000 points with her 21-point outing versus UNC Asheville.
 
• Harris has 974 points her in High Point career needing just 26 to join Bockrath in the 1,000-point club.
 
• The last time the Purple & White had teammates reach 1,000 points in the same season was when Cheyenne Parker and Erin Reynolds reached that threshold during the 2012-13 campaign.
 
Shoot to Get Hot, Shoot to Stay Hot
• The Panthers lead the Big South and rank 50th nationally drilling 35.8 percent of their three-point attempts this season. Incredibly, that's 0.1 percent higher than that season when the team's 35.7 percent mark broke the program's single-season record.
 
• During the team's first eight home games HPU shot 45 percent overall, 39 percent from three and averaged 78.6 points per game. However, the Panthers are shooting 35 percent and just 2-of-35 from three in its three straight home setbacks.
 
Turning Up the Heat on Defense
• The Panthers defense under new associate head coach Heather Kearney has played a more in-your-face style of defense. That change in style has resulted in improved three-point defense (.310 to .289), steals per game (7.3 to 10.2) and turnovers forced per game (14.4 to 18.83).
 
• High Point is fourth in the Big South in three-point field goal percentage defense and ranks 51st nationally allowing opponents to hit 28.9 percent from deep.
 
• Led by Bockrath, the league's top thief, seven of the eight players in the standard rotation average at least one steal per game.
 
• The havoc caused by the defense has exploded in Big South action winning the turnover margin by 7.4 turnovers per game. The team has parlayed those extra possessions into a 253-114 edge in points off turnovers.
 
All-Time Series with Winthrop
High Point has won six in a row, which is one shy of the all-time series record set by HPU from 2003-2006.That run has allowed the Panthers to build a 29-20 edge all-time.
 
Scouting the Eagles
Freshman Anika Riley is the two-time reigning Big South Freshman of the Week and is averaging 6.8 points and 5.7 rebounds per game. However, the Eagles are on a three-game losing streak and are at the bottom of the standings.
 
What to Watch
The Panthers' offense has struggled lately after averaging 71.2 points per game, but has been slowed to 57.0 points per game over the last six games. Can they get it going against Winthrop, which gives up 73.3 points per game.
 
Last Time They Met
The Panthers shook off a sluggish start offensively to cruise to a 79-58 victory in Winthrop Coliseum on Jan. 13 behind 25 points from Bockrath. The junior led three scoring in double figures and combined with Edwards for nine steals in the contest.
 
Next Up
The Panthers are back on the road on Saturday when they travel to Gardner-Webb for a 2:00 p.m. tip in Boiling Springs.
 
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