The High Point University women's basketball team prepares to take on USC Upstate this Saturday afternoon following their conference victory against UNC Asheville this past Wednesday night. The Panthers are 2-1 in conference play and seeking their 11th-straight win over Upstate. 
 

"I don't know how she did that, but she did that!" ??

Jordan Edwards and Jenson Edwards combine for 27 points, Claire Wyatt adds 14 of her own, and @HPUWBB rolls past UNC Asheville, 71-55! #BigSouthWBB?? x @HighPointSports pic.twitter.com/khOvxAJoTk

— Big South Conference (@BigSouthSports) January 5, 2023

 
GAME INFORMATION 
High Point vs. USC Upstate | Saturday, January 7^th | 2:00 PM 
Qubein Arena | High Point, N.C. 
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Last Time Out 
Three Panthers finished in double figures led by Jordan Edwards's 15 points and right behind her Claire Wyatt scoring 14 points. The Panthers led throughout the first half, holding a 41-30 lead at halftime, UNC Asheville's offense made a run starting the second half scoring 17 points, and holding High Point to just 10 points. Jenson Edwards finished the night with 12 points on 2-of-3 shooting from deep while Skyler Curran added a team-high of nine rebounds.  
 

Panthers are on the floor ??#H3U x #GoHPU pic.twitter.com/aCqQRiwD1w

— HPU Women's Basketball (@HPUWBB) January 4, 2023

 
ACROSS THE BENCH  
High Point vs. USC Upstate 
The Panthers are 10-0 all-time against the Spartans, remaining undefeated against them these past seasons. High Point averaged 77.8 points per game over the 10 victories against the Spartans, with their most recent win being a 75-59 contest at the Qubein Arena. Jenson Edwards posted a double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds to go along with five assists, shooting 10-for-16 from the floor.  
  
About the Spartans 
Upstate is out to a 5-8 start to the season and is undefeated (2-0) in Big South after picking up wins against Charleston Southern and Radford. Prior to the win, the Spartans were coming off a hard loss at home against Queens University with a score of 48-69. Upstate is led by Isabella Geraci's 10.2 points per game and 6.9 rebounds per game. Trinity Johnson leads the team in assists with 22 assists to go along with 14 steals. Head coach Jason Williams is in his second season with the Upstate Spartans. 
 
Panthers Finish Fourth-Straight Contest with Three Double-Figure Scorers 
In each of HPU's games going back to its matchup with No. 8 Virginia Tech, High Point has had three scorers finish in double digits each night. In the stretch, Claire Wyatt and Callie Scheier have finished three games in double figures, finishing the stretch with 47 and 33 points, respectively. Skyler Curran (31) and Nakyah Terrell (21) have posted double-digit scoring efforts twice, and Jordan Edwards (15) and Jenson Edwards (12) each finished in double figures at UNC Asheville.  
 
Edwards' Hot Hand in First Quarter Propels Panthers to Second Big South Win 
During Wednesday night's game at UNC Asheville, grad senior Jordan Edwards blew open the first quarter scoring for HPU, notching 13 of her season-high 15 points in the opening period on 3-of-4 shooting from deep. In the last two minutes of the quarter, Edwards knocked down triples on consecutive possessions before Nakyah Terrell hit a jumper on HPU's final possession to take a commanding 27-12 lead into the second period. The Panthers shot over 66 percent from the floor (10-of-15) and over 55 percent from three-point range (5-of-9) in the opening 10 minutes.  
 

It's raining triples for High Point! ???

Jordan Edwards scored 13 points in the opening quarter, and @HPUWBB has sunk 7? threes to give the Panthers a 41-30 halftime lead over UNC Asheville! #BigSouthWBB?? x @HighPointSports pic.twitter.com/3MgGgfUpXh

— Big South Conference (@BigSouthSports) January 5, 2023

 
Curran Cracks Top-100 in Active Career Leaders 
Grad senior Skyler Curran has totaled 1,443 career points and 199 points this season (15.3 ppg). She is up to No. 4 on HPU's all-time scoring list, trailing Kaylah Keys (1,869), Emma Bockrath (1,616), and Shamia Brown (1,590). She is top-10 in NCAA Division I active career leaders for made three-point field goals (269) in the fewest games played (103). Curran is also climbing the ladder on the NCAA Division I active career leaders list in points. She currently sits at No. 73 in 103 career games played, tied for the 16^th-fewest games played among those in the top-75.  
 
Due to an injury last season, Curran missed all but one game on the 2021-22 schedule. In 2020-21, she averaged 17.2 points per game against Big South opponents and 17.7 points per game overall, finishing the season with 514 total points. This season, Curran is second in the Big South for scoring with 15.3 points per game and 191 total points.  
 

Quick ??? points for @SkylerCurran_21 out of halftime #GoHPU x #H3U pic.twitter.com/V25Sh7h9FP

— HPU Women's Basketball (@HPUWBB) December 29, 2022

 
Ball Sharing, Defense Powers Panthers to Big South Opener Win 
High Point opened the Big South schedule with a win against 2022 tournament champion Longwood on Thursday night in Qubein Arena. Three Panthers scored in double figures while HPU posted 25 assists on 31 made baskets. It is the most assists tallied in a single-game this season for High Point and ties the ninth-most assists recorded in a single-game in program history. 
 
Wyatt Finding Rhythm Entering New Year 
Rounding out the 2022 portion of the schedule, Claire Wyatt averaged 15.0 points per game over three games for HPU, leading the Panthers in scoring in each of the contests. In the December 29^th win over Longwood, she also added a team-high two blocks to go along with four rebounds and two assists. In those three games, she shot 62 percent (18-of-29) from the floor, 50 percent (7-of-14) from three-point range and tallied six of her eight total blocks on the year.  
 
Scheier Leads Defensive Effort 
Junior Callie Scheier has recorded a team-high 34 steals through 13 games so far this season, good for second in the Big South. She has recorded three or more steals in six games this season, including games against Davidson, Elon, Georgetown, and Wake Forest. The program record for steals in a season by an individual sits at 88, set by Emma Bockrath (2018-19), Narelle Henry (2002-03), and Erin Reynolds (2011-12). Lindsey Edwards was the most recent Panther to crack the program top-15 with 67 steals in the 2018-19 season.  
 

CALLI3!! #H3U x #GoHPU pic.twitter.com/k9j2UiWiir

— HPU Women's Basketball (@HPUWBB) January 5, 2023

 
Edwards Among Big South Leaders in Distributing 
Senior Jenson Edwards ranks third in the conference in assists per game (3.6) and second for assist/turnover ratio (1.3). Her team-high 47 assists tie the third-best mark in the league as well. She has posted three or more assists in eight contests this season, including a career-tying-high nine against Stony Brook in Puerto Rico. 
 
Wyatt Posts Back-To-Back Game Highs 
Junior guard Claire Wyatt posted back-to-back double-digit scoring efforts in HPU's win over North Carolina Wesleyan and the Panthers' 86-66 loss to No. 8 Virginia Tech. Wyatt led HPU with 12 points and four blocks against Wesleyan, going 5-of-10 from the floor and 2-for-2 from the charity stripe. Against Tech, Wyatt posted a season-high 17 points on 5-of-7 shooting from deep in 25 minutes of action.  
 
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.  
 

Let it fly!! @jenson_edwards #H3U x #GoHPU pic.twitter.com/NWs1tsuoZt

— HPU Women's Basketball (@HPUWBB) January 5, 2023

 
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.) - 1,093 points, 555 rebounds 
Skyler Curran (2018-pres.) - 1,443 points, 540 rebounds 
 
Curran is also now in sole possession of the leader for three-pointers made in a career, passing Kalyah Keys' 255. She reached the now program-best 269 in 103 career games played. Curran is 269-of-748 from beyond the arc, a career .360 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 both milestones.  
 
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.  
 
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. 
 
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.