WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 17 | 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Templeton Center | Clinton, S.C.
RECORDS: High Point (15-9, 9-4), Presbyterian (8-16, 5-8)
SERIES RECORD: High Point leads 17-5
LAST MEETING: High Point won 81-55 at High Point on Jan. 9, 2018
VIDEO: Big South Network
AUDIO: High Point Panthers Radio Network
LIVE STATS: GoBlueHose.Com
GAME NOTES: HighPointPanthers.Com
 
HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point University women's basketball team heads to Clinton, S.C. to take on Presbyterian on Saturday at 2:00 p.m.
 
The Panthers (15-9, 9-4) are coming off a dominant 77-40 victory over Winthrop while the Blue Hose (8-16, 5-8) enter the matchup coming off back-to-back setbacks to Longwood and Campbell.
 
Quick Hitters
• High Point has had fewer turnovers than its opponent in 15 straight games going 11-4 over that stretch. The team is 12-5 when winning the turnover battle and leads the Big South and ranks 45th nationally with a plus-4.29 per game margin.
 
• The Panthers set season records on Tuesday holding Winthrop to five points in the first quarter and 13 points in the half. The Eagles' 40 points were the second-lowest HPU allowed this year.
 
• 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 14-3 when at least three players score in double figures this season.
 
• Emma Bockrath, the reigning Big South Player of the Year, is averaging 22.0 points, 11.5 rebounds and 5.5 steals per game of the team's last two contests. The junior has scored 20 points in five of HPU's last 11 games.
 
• 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 last Sunday. She's 58th in the nation with 2.12 assists per turnover on the year.
 
• The Panthers are one win away from extending its streak of winning 10 games in Big South play to seven consecutive seasons, which is the second-longest streak in conference history.
 
• 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 24.
 
• Head coach DeUnna Hendrix has 73 Big South wins, which makes her the eighth winningest coach in league history. Meanwhile, her .670 winning percentage is the third-highest mark among coaches with 100 regular season league games.
 
• The Panthers are 73-36 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 34-20 mark when playing Big South opponents inside the Millis Center.
 
• Through the first 19 games HPU made an average of 2.1 more three's per contest than they allowed while shooting 39.1 percent from downtown. However, in the last five the team is shooting 19.6 percent and losing the three-point battle by 2.6 per game.
 
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 986 points her in High Point career needing just 14 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.
 
Reserves Needed
• High Point is 13-2 when the bench outscores its opponent's reserves and 2-7 when that margin is reversed.
 
• HPU averages a 24.0-14.6 edge in its wins and a 19.3-13.3 deficit in losses. Harris has accounted for 81 of the 119 bench points in the team's eight losses.
 
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 .285), steals per game (7.3 to 10.4) and turnovers forced per game (14.4 to 19.21).
 
• High Point is third in the Big South in three-point field goal percentage defense and ranks 38th nationally allowing opponents to hit 28.5 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 7.77 turnovers per game. The team has parlayed those extra possessions into a 287-128 edge in points off turnovers.
 
All-Time Series with Presbyterian
High Point leads the all-time series with the Blue Hose by a 17-5 margin. However, four of PC's wins in the series have come in the last 10 meetings.
 
Scouting the Blue Hose
Senior Cortney Storey enters Saturday's contest second in the league in points per game while leading the Big South in assists per contest. Storey is the driving force behind an offense that leads the conference in three's per game (9.1).
 
What to Watch
The Panthers limited Storey in the first meeting holding the guard to eight points, four assists and five turnovers. But the senior racked up 18 points and eight assists last season when the teams went to overtime at PC.
 
Last Time They Met
The Purple & White slowed Storey and the Blue Hose offense limiting the team to 55 points on the defensive end. Offensively, Bockrath hit 9-of-11 attempts to rack up 23 points as High Point shot 51.7 percent and recorded 81 points in the runaway victory.
 
Next Up
The Panthers return to the Millis Center to host Charleston Southern on Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m.
 
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