GAME INFO
Saturday, Jan. 18 -- at Longwood (Farmville, Va.), 3 p.m.
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The High Point University women's basketball team (5-10, 3-3 Big South) travels to Farmville, Va. on Saturday (Jan. 18) to play Longwood University (8-7, 4-2 Big South) in a matchup of the Big South's top-two scoring offenses. The Lancers lead the conference in scoring with an average of 67.0 points per game while the Panthers are second with an average of 64.8 PPG. Those numbers increase in conference play, with Longwood averaging 70.2 PPG in Big South action while HPU scores an average of 66.0 PPG.
 
Matchup History

• This is the 40th meeting between High Point and Longwood, with the Panthers holding a 28-11 advantage in the first 39 games.
• The last decade was dominated by HPU, going 16-0 from 2010-19.
• High Point is 10-6 when playing in Farmville and 16-3 against the Lancers at home.

 
Panther Notes

• The Panthers returned to the win column last Saturday (Jan. 11) with an 84-70 victory over Charleston Southern.
• Skyler Curran recorded her second double-double of the season and her career after scoring 19 points and grabbing 10 rebounds. Her second of the season makes it five total on the year for HPU.
• Senior Camryn Brown scored a season-high 26 points in the game to lead the team, with 21 coming in the first half.
• Also scoring season-highs in points against the Buccaneers was sophomore Danielle Deoul, with 14 for the second straight game, and junior Chyna McMichel with 12.
• Brown's 26 points give her 1,030 in her career the 12th-most in High Point's Division I history. She needs just nine points to move into the top-10.
• The Panthers enter the game with 799 victories as a program. One more win makes High Point the second team in the Big South to reach 800 wins since HPU's program started during the 1967-68 season (Hampton has 815 wins entering Saturday).
• High Point is closing in on its single-season record for three-point attempts, entering the game with 498 attempts from behind the arc, 116 away from breaking the record set during the 2006-07 season.

 
Three-Point Club make total: 148
 
 
Across the Bench

• Longwood is 8-7 on the year with a 4-2 mark in conference play. The Lancers finished last in the Big South last year and were predicted to finish 10th this season but enter the game in fourth place.
• Longwood hosted Radford on Tuesday (Jan. 14) and lost by one point in front of a record crowd of 1,812 people.
• The Lancers are one of the best shot-blocking teams in the country, entering the game with 85 total blocks for an average of 5.7 blocks per game, 18th and 11th in the country, respectively.
• Kayla McMakin leads the team and conference in scoring, averaging 16.8 points per game. She's been named the Big South Freshman of the Week four times, including three straight times from December to January.
• Senior Dayna Rouse was Longwood's lone player on the All-Big South Preseason First Team and she's second on the team in scoring with an average of 14.8 PPG.
• Rouse and Akila Smith are the best shot blockers in the conference. Smith averages 2.3 blocks per game while Rouse averages 1.8.
• Tra'dayja Smith is Longwood's leading facilitator and one of the best in the country. Her 94 assists are ninth-most in D1 and her average of 6.3 assists per game ranks seventh.

 
 
Up Next: High Points returns to the Millis Center on Tuesday (Jan. 21) to host Presbyterian College at 7 p.m. before heading back on the road to Hampton (Jan. 25) and Gardner-Webb (Jan. 28).