GAME INFO
Thursday, Jan. 9 -- at UNC Asheville (Asheville, N.C.), 6 p.m.
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The High Point University women's basketball team (4-9, 2-2 Big South) heads to UNC Asheville (9-4, 3-1 Big South) for a matchup with the Big South's top team on Thursday night (Jan. 9). Senior Camryn Brown enters the game eyeing a milestone, just 10 points away from 1,000 in her career.
 
Matchup History

• UNC Asheville is High Point's most-played opponent in the Big South, with the teams meeting for the 54th time on Thursday.
• HPU holds a commanding 38-15 record in the series and won 13 games straight from 2009-2015.
• The Panthers have controlled the series in Asheville, entering with 16 wins in 22 games while on the road against the Bulldogs.

 
Panther Notes

• High Point won consecutive games for the first time this season after holding off Radford's comeback attempt in Monday's 68-58 win over the Big South preseason favorites.
• Brown and redshirt freshman Jenson Edwards tied for the team lead in scoring, each finishing with 14 points.
• Brown was close to the second triple-double in program history, adding nine assists and eight rebounds to her point total.
• Freshman Amaria McNear had a career day on the glass, grabbing a career-high 12 rebounds. Junior Chyna McMichel also set a career-high, scoring 11 points, with nine of them coming in the first quarter.
• The Panthers have committed 186 turnovers this year, the second-fewest in the conference. The last five games have been some of the Purple and White's best, committing less than 14 turnovers in each game and averaging 11.2 turnovers per game in that stretch.
• HPU's 36 attempts from downtown Monday night moved the Panthers back into the top-five in the country nationally, sitting at fourth in the country with 443 total attempts. High Point needs to take only 171 more this season to break the record for three-point attempts set during the 2006-07 season.

 
Three-Point Club make total: 129
 
 
Across the Bench

• UNC Asheville is 9-4 on the year, with a 3-1 mark in Big South play to sit atop the conference standings.
• Head coach Brenda Kirkpatrick Brown has led the Bulldogs to the postseason each of the last four seasons, with two of those trips being to the NCAA Tournament after winning the Big South Tournament in 2016 and '17.
• Asheville is in the top-20 in the country in offensive rebounds per game (16.4 ORPG, 12th), scoring defense (54.1 points allowed per game, 15th), and rebounding margin (+9.7 RPG, 18th).
• Nadiria Evans leads the Bulldogs' offense, scoring 13.2 points per game. Sonora Dengoki joins her in double-digits, with the All-Big South Preseason First Teamer averaging 11.1 PPG.
• Dengoki is also second on the team in rebounding, getting an average of 4.5 rebounds per game, trailing the Big South leader Brooke Jordan-Brown's average of 9.0 RPG.

 
 
Up Next: High Points heads down to Charleston Southern on Saturday (Jan. 11) at 3 p.m. to cap the stretch of four games in eight days to open 2020. After another road game next Saturday (Jan. 18) at Longwood, HPU will return to the Millis Center to host Presbyterian on Jan. 21.