The High Point University women's basketball team hosts North Carolina Wesleyan on Wednesday night to continue non-conference action. This will be the final game for HPU before the Panthers take a two week break for final exams.
 
GAME INFORMATION
High Point vs. North Carolina Wesleyan | Wednesday, December 7^th | 7:00 PM
Qubein Arena | High Point, N.C.
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Preseason Panthers
Three HPU players earned Big South Preseason honors and High Point was picked to win the conference for the second year in a row in preseason polls. Skyler Curran and Jenson Edwards were named to the Preseason All-Big South First Team while Jordan Edwards earned Second Team Big South preseason honors.
 
Last Time Out
The Panthers traveled to Winston-Salem last Saturday night to take on Wake Forest in non-conference action. High Point played with the Deacs, even tying the game at 41-41 with less than four minutes remaining in the third period, but eventually fell 68-51. Skyler Curran posted team highs with 19 points and nine rebounds.
 
ACROSS THE BENCH
High Point vs. North Carolina Wesleyan
HPU is 2-0 all-time against Wesleyan, posting its most recent win in the 2020-21 season with a 108-71 victory. Skyler Curran posted a career-high 31 points with nine made three-pointers while Jenson Edwards tallied 22 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the floor. In the game, High Point posted at least 20 points in each quarter.
 
About the Battling Bishops
Wesleyan is 3-2 on the season with wins over Mid-Atlantic Christian, Carolina University, and Meredith. The Bishops have dropped their last two games to NC Central and Brevard but have not played a game since November 22^nd. Nadia Simmons leads Wesleyan with 13.7 points per game while Johnay Goddard chips in 10.7 points per game. They lead the team with a combined 17.4 rebounds per game.
 
Curran Conjures First Double-Double
Graduate student Skyler Curran recorded the Panthers' first double-double of the season as she dropped team highs with 20 points and 10 rebounds. Curran leads HPU with 15.7 points per game and 7.0 rebounds per game through the first three contests.
 
Dynamic Duo Climbing the Ladder
Jenson Edwards and Skyler Curran both joined the career 1,000 points & 500 rebounds club in HPU's contest against Wofford on November 19th. Edwards tallied 22 points with her first double-double of the season to eclipse 1,000 career points while Curran pulled down nine rebounds to reach 500 rebounds. Edwards notched the 500 rebounds milestone earlier in the season while Curran tallied her 1,000 career point in the 2020-21 season.
 
HPU Women's Basketball 1,000 Career Points & 500 Career Rebounds
Katie O'Dell (2002-06) – 1,307 points, 680 rebounds
Mackenzi Maier (2007-11) – 1,119 points, 595 rebounds
Shamia Brown (2008-12) – 1,590 points, 745 rebounds
Cheyenne Parker (2010-13) – 1,200 points, 1,039 rebounds
Stacia Robertson (2012-15) – 1,274 points, 801 rebounds
Emma Bockrath (2015-18) – 1,616 points, 747 rebounds
Jenson Edwards (2018-pres.) - 1,048 points, 538 rebounds
Skyler Curran (2018-pres.) - 1,388 points, 518 rebounds
 
Curran is also now in sole possession of the leader for three-pointers made in a career, passing Kalyah Keys' 255. She posted the new program-best 257 triples in 97 career games played. Curran is now 260-of-720 from beyond the arc, a career .361 from deep.

Edwards and Curran become the seventh and eighth members of the Panthers' NCAA Division I-era 1,000 point and 500 rebound club and are two of just three active women's basketball players in the Big South who have reached the milestone.
 
Terrell Leads HPU in Exhibition Win
Sophomore guard Nakyah Terrell picked up right where she left off in 2021-22 as High Point posted a 64-35 win over UNC Pembroke last Tuesday night in Qubein Arena. Terrell led the Panthers with 15 points and seven rebounds while shooting 6-of-9 from the floor.
 
New Faces Make Presence Known
Two freshmen joined the HPU roster this season, guard Anna Häger and forward Nevaeh Zavala. Häger posted 12 points on 5-of-8 shooting with five rebounds while going 2-for-4 from beyond the arc. Zavala chipped in a three-pointer and two rebounds in 15 minutes played in her Purple and White debut.
 
Back For More
High Point returns four of its five leading scorers from a season ago in Jenson Edwards, Nakyah Terrell, Callie Scheier, and Cydney Johnson. 2021-22 Big South Preseason Player of the Year Skyler Curran also returns in 22-23 after a season-ending injury sidelined her in the first regular season game. Besides Terrell, each player was on the 2020-21 NCAA Tournament team and played significant minutes against UConn.
 
Terrell Looks to Capitalized After Breakout Season
Sophomore Nakyah Terrell had a breakout freshman season in 2021-22, emerging as the third-leading scorer for the Panthers. Named the Big South Player of the Week three times and featured on the All-Freshman team a season ago, Terrell averaged 8.4 points and 5.4 rebounds per game while passing out 54 assists and tallying 25 steals. She recorded 10 double-digit scoring games, one double-double (vs. Wake Forest, Nov. 24), and two 20-point scoring games.  
 
Year Two in the Qubein Center
After amassing a 9-5 record in its new home a season ago, HPU returns to the state-of-the-art Qubein Arena & Conference Center for its second season. In last season's exhibition contest against Mount Olive, the Panther women posted an 82-68 win in front of a crowd of 1,354 fans in Purple & White. Throughout 14 games in the regular season in the Qubein Center, HPU brought in over 11,600 spectators.