WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 11 | 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Millis Center | High Point, N.C.
RECORDS: High Point (14-8, 8-3), UNC Asheville (11-11, 8-3)
SERIES RECORD: High Point leads 37-13
LAST MEETING: High Point won 58-45 at UNC Asheville on Jan. 6, 2018
VIDEO: Big South Network | WMYY (My 48) in the Triad
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 welcomes UNC Asheville to the Millis Center on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
 
The Panthers (14-8) and Bulldogs (11-1) enter the game with matching 8-3 marks in Big South play. Both teams are part of a three-way tie for second in the standings and are looking to stay in contention to earn a bye through the first round of next month's Big South Championship.
 
Stadium Broadcast
Stadium will be broadcasting the game, which will air locally on Greensboro's My48. Along with that, the game will be simulcast on the Big South Network.
 
Quick Hitters
• Last time out, the Panthers held Longwood to 39 points. It was the 10th time that HPU has held an opponent below 40 points since moving to the Division I level in 1999-2000. It was just the seventh time the team achieved the feat against a fellow Division I foe.
 
• High Point's best defensive outing came in a 25-point outing by Peace on Nov. 29, 2000. The fewest points HPU has allowed versus a conference foe are 33 to Presbyterian (Jan. 24, 2009).
 
• High Point has had fewer turnovers than its opponent in 13 straight games going 10-3 over that stretch. The team is 11-4 when winning the turnover battle and leads the Big South and ranks 50th nationally with a plus-3.64 per game margin.
 
• Camryn Brown showed signs of breaking out of her recent shooting slump going 2-for-2 from downtown at Longwood on Tuesday. The sophomore entered conference play hitting 45.5 percent from three, but had missed her last 15 three-point attempts heading into the game in Farmville, Va.
 
• Redshirt-junior Kennedy Currie (six) and sophomore Olivia VanSlooten (three) both set new career highs in assists as the Panthers shot a season-best 54.2 percent shooting at Longwood.
 
• The Panthers are 13-3 when at least three players score in double figures this season.
 
• Sunday is the only day of the week on which HPU hasn't won a game this season going 0-2 so far.
 
• Bockrath ranks in the top-15 in the Big South in points (eighth), rebounds (sixth), field goal percentage (10th), assists (11th), steals (first) and three-point percentage (15th).
 
• Head coach DeUnna Hendrix has 72 Big South wins, which makes her the eighth winningest coach in league history. Meanwhile, her .673 winning percentage is the second-highest mark among coaches with 100 regular season league games.
 
• The Panthers are 72-35 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 38-15 mark when playing Big South opponents inside the Millis Center.
 
• HPU has dropped back-to-back home contests to Liberty and Campbell, but the team has never lost three straight home games in conference with Hendrix at the helm.
 
Reaching the Century Mark
Head coach DeUnna Hendrix became the third coach in High Point University women's basketball to reach 100 career coaching wins for the Purple & White. She joined Tooey Loy (163) and Joe Ellenburg  (208) with the win at Longwood on Feb. 6.
 
Race to 1,000 Career Points
Harris and Bockrath enter Tuesday's contest neck-and-neck in a race to 1,000 points. Bockrath took the lead and moved into the top-10 in HPU's Division I scoring list with 982 points while Harris is 11th with 965. The last time HPU 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 37th nationally drilling 36.4 percent of their three-point attempts this season. Incredibly, that's 0.7 percent higher than that season when the team's 35.7 percent mark broke the program's single-season record.
 
• After going 0-for-23 from beyond the arc in games against Liberty and Campbell, which snapped a 91-game streak with at least one three-pointer, HPU shot 4-of-12 from three-point land at Longwood.
 
• HPU took the ball inside on Tuesday night shooting 59.6 percent shooting on two-point shots.
 
Reserves Needed
• High Point is 12-1 when the bench outscores its opponent's reserves and 2-7 when that margin is reversed.
 
• HPU averages a 24.1-14.4 edge in its wins and a 19.5-13.6 deficit in losses. Harris has accounted for 72 of the 110 bench points in the team's eight losses.
 
Turning it Around
• From the beginning of the 2015-16 season to Jan. 24, 2017, HPU posted a 13-14 mark in league play. Since then the team has posted an 18-4 record against league foes, which is tied with Liberty for the best mark over that span.
 
• Overall, this year's junior class started its first 49 games with a 17-32 record. However, the squad is 24-10 over the last 34 outings including a nine-game winning streak this season and a six-game stretch last winter.
 
All-Time Series with UNC Asheville
High Point has won 16 of the last 18 meetings between the two programs to build a 37-13 margin in the series.
 
Scouting the Bulldogs
UNC Asheville leans heavily on a three-headed monster of Bronaza Fitzgerald, Khaila Webb and Jessica Wall. Fitzgerald (13.2 ppg and 9.5 rpg) is the inside presence, Webb is a slashing guard (13.0 ppg) while Wall (10.3 ppg) has made 56 of the team's 98 three-pointers this season.
 
What to Watch
Sunday's game could have huge seeding implications for the conference tournament, which is only a month away. High Point and UNC Asheville are in a three-way tie with Radford for second in the Big South standings, but both are two-games back of Liberty.
 
Last Time They Met
Jiselle Thomas came out in her first career Big South road game and racked up 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the floor. A dozen of the freshman's points came as HPU outscored the Bulldogs 35-22 after being tied at halftime.
 
Next Up
The Panthers have a quick turnaround hosting Winthrop on Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m.
 
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