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Tuesday, Dec. 31 -- at Winthrop (Rock Hill, S.C.), 2 p.m.
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The High Point University women's basketball team (2-8, 0-1 Big South) wraps up its four-game road swing with a Big South Conference contest at Winthrop (4-6, 1-0 Big South) on Tuesday afternoon (Dec. 31) to close out the 2019 calendar year.
 
Matchup History

• This is the 52nd meeting between the two schools, with High Point holding a 31-20 in the series.
• HPU is currently on a nine-game winning streak against the Eagles, with four of the nine wins coming by 20 points or more.
• Winthrop has a slim, 12-11 advantage at home, with six of those wins coming in the first six games in Rock Hill, with the Panthers going 11-6 in the last 17 games hosted by Winthrop.

 
Panther Notes

• High Point opened conference play with a loss at Campbell, 73-36 on Saturday afternoon (Dec. 28).
• Sophomore Skyler Curran led the team in points (8) and rebounds (7) for the second-straight game.
• Senior Camryn Brown has 950 career points, needing only 50 more to become the 13th Panther in the Division I era of High Point basketball to score 1,000 points.
• HPU has taken care of the ball well in the last two games, turning it over only 10 times in each game, the fewest number of turnovers in a single game this year.
• High Point broke its single-game three-point field goal attempts record for the third time this year in the game at UNCG, attempting 45 shots from behind the arc. That tops the previous two records from this year of 40 at Duke in the season-opener and 42 against ETSU in the team's first win of the season.

 
Three-Point Club make total: 94
 
 
Across the Bench

• Campbell is 4-6 on the year and 1-0 in Big South play after beating Hampton in the conference opener. The Eagles started slow but are currently on a three-game winning streak.
• Jah'Che Whitfield and Destinee Jamison-Whitfield lead Winthrop's offense, averaging 11.6 and 11.4 points per game respectively.
• Anika Riley leads the team in rebounding, coming down with an average of 7.1 rebounds per game, tied for fifth in the Big South.
• The Eagles have taken the fewest number of triples in the conference but have the best shooting percentage from behind the arc, hitting on 35% of their shots from behind the arc.
• Winthrop is led by basketball legend Lynette Woodard. Woodard is the Division 1 all-time scoring leader, scoring 3,649 points as a player with Kansas. She is a four-time All-American, two-time U.S. Olympian, and the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters. Woodard led the Eagles to their first 10-win season since 2014-15 in 2018-19.

 
Up Next: High Point has a busy start to 2020, playing four games over eight days. The Panthers return home to host USC Upstate on Jan. 4 at 2 p.m. and then Radford on Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. before going back on the road for games at UNC Asheville (Jan. 9) and Charleston Southern (Jan. 11).