GAME INFO
Saturday, Jan. 25 -- at Hampton (Hampton, Va.), 4 p.m.
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The High Point University women's basketball team (7-10, 5-3 Big South) heads back on the road to face Hampton University (10-7, 6-2 Big South) Saturday afternoon (Jan. 25). A win for the Panthers would move them into a tie for second place, with up to three other teams all at 6-3 in Big South play after nine games.
 
Matchup History

• This is just the third meeting between High Point and Hampton, playing for the first time a season ago.
• The Panthers won both games last season, winning 82-73 at home and 104-98 in a shootout on the road.
• Last year's game at Hampton was the last time the Panthers scored 100 points in a game and is the last time HPU has shot over 50% from the floor, connecting at a rate of 50.6% in the win.
• Saturday is a meeting of the only two schools currently in the Big South to have 800 wins as a program since High Point started playing in the 1967-68 season. The Panthers enter the game with 801 victories as a program while Hampton enters with 816 since starting in the 1975-76 season.

 
Panther Notes

• High Point won its third consecutive game on Tuesday with a 60-55 victory over Presbyterian at the Millis Center.
• Sophomore Skyler Curran posted her third double-double of the season, leading the team with 23 points and a career-high 13 rebounds. She finished one rebound shy of senior Miya Bull's mark of 14 for the most by a Panther in a single game this season.
• Zaria Wright scored in double digits for the second game in a row and fifth time this season. The redshirt sophomore scored 15 points against the Blue Hose to become the third-leading scorer for the Panthers this season.
• Senior Camryn Brown was honored prior to Tuesday's game for becoming the 13th Panther in the Division I era of HPU women's basketball to score 1,000 points. She hit the mark on Jan. 9 in a loss at UNC Asheville. She enters Saturday's game in 10th place on the Panthers' Division I scoring list with 1,049 points, needing just 10 more to move into ninth place.
• HPU is 5-1 in 2020 and has scored 60 or more points in all six games in the new year, scoring more than 80 twice. The Purple and White have shot above 40% in all but two games since Jan. 1. Tuesday was one of those games, the first time High Point has won a game this season when shooting below 40%.
• Curran's scoring outburst over the last two games has moved her scoring average up to 17.2 points per game, the most in the Big South.
• High Point is closing in on its single-season record for three-point makes and attempts, entering the game with 169 makes and 561 attempts. The Panthers are 31 makes away from becoming the first team in program history to make 200 triples in a season and 53 attempts shy from setting a new record of 614 attempts from behind the arc.

 
Three-Point Club make total: 169
 
 
Across the Bench

• Hampton is 10-7 on the year with a 6-2 mark in Big South play to sit in second place in the conference.
• The Lady Pirates' two conference losses have come to teams that have also beaten the Panthers, Campbell and Winthrop.
• Hampton has the best three-point defense in the Big South, holding teams to shooting 26.5% from behind the arc, the 24th-best mark in the country. HU is also one of the best teams at stealing the ball in D1, entering the game ranked 45 in the country in total steals (180) and 35th in steals per game (10.6).
• Four Lady Pirates average double-digit points per game, led by All-Big South Preseason Second Teamer Laren VanArsdale's 15.1 PPG. The sophomore leads the conference in playing time, on the court for an average of 38.8 minutes per game, the third-highest usage in the country.
• Ashley Bates is the second-highest scorer on the team, averaging 13.5 PPG. The Big South Preseason Player of the Year is one of the best thieves in the country, sitting 10th in all of Division I in steals and steals per game, entering Saturday with 59 swipes for an average of 3.5 per contest.
• Nylah Young leads the team in rebounding and sits in the top 10 of the Big South with her average of 6.2 rebounds per game. The reigning Freshman of the Week got things done offensively last week as well, averaging 17.5 PPG with a shooting percentage of 58.3% from the floor in two games.

 
 
Up Next: High Point stays on the road Tuesday (Jan. 28), heading to Gardner-Webb to face the 10th and final different opponent in the Big South. The Panthers start the second half of the conference slate next Saturday (Feb. 1) when Winthrop comes to the Millis Center, starting a stretch of seven of the last 10 games of the regular season HPU will play at home.