High Point women's basketball is back in the Qubein Arena for an in-conference matchup against the Campbell Camels this Wednesday. Both teams are looking for their ninth Big South win, as the Panthers and Camels are in a battle for second place in the standings with 8-4 records in conference play. High Point claimed the first of the two regular season matchups in Buies Creek on January 25th. 
 

H3U!!@claire_wyatt10 x #GoHPU pic.twitter.com/gJoYHthqos

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

 
GAME INFORMATION
High Point at. Campbell | Wednesday, February 8^th | 7:00 PM
Qubein Arena | High Point, N.C.
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Last Time Out
HPU had a dominant 71-55 win against the Charleston Southern Buccaneers Saturday. The Panthers ended with five players in double-figures, as Claire Wyatt led the way with 14 points. The Panthers took an astounding 19-point lead in the fourth quarter and the pressure was too much for the Buccaneers to respond to. High Point's largest lead was 23 with just over three minutes remaining in the contest. Skyler Curran ended the night with 10 points and Nakyah Terrell added 13.
 

Back-to-back layups for @claire_wyatt10!!! She leads us with 14 points late in the 4th ??#GoHPU pic.twitter.com/2ndCDnCaFy

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

 
ACROSS THE BENCH
High Point vs. Campbell

• The Panthers are 23-13 all-time against the Camels, a matchup dating back to the 2002-2003 season.
• High Point is coming off a big win against Charleston Southern this past Saturday and the Camels are coming off a close loss to Longwood.
• The Panthers won the last matchup against the Camels earlier in the season, 57-49.
• Head coach Chelsea Banbury has posted an even record of 4-4 against the Camels while coaching at High Point.

 
About the Camels

• Campbell is 13-10 on the season and 8-4 in Big South contests entering Wednesday's game.
• The Camels are 5-7 on the road thus far.
• In its last five games, Campbell is 3-2, losing its latest matchup to Longwood 65-61 and with their most recent win coming against USC Upstate 57-51.
• Last Five Games for Campbell:
  • W, 63-46 – Jan. 21 – vs. Charleston Southern
  • L, 49-57 – Jan. 25 – vs. High Point
  • W, 54-44 – Jan. 28 – at UNC Asheville
  • W, 57-51 – Feb. 1 – at USC Upstate
  • L, 65-61 – Feb. 4 – vs. Longwood
• Christabel Ezumah and Gianni Boone lead the Camels, each with 222 points. Shy Tuelle has added 91 points, and has the highest scoring average of 13 points per game.
• Head coach Ronny Fisher is the winningest active coach in the Big South in his seventh season with the Camels. In his six seasons, he won 119 games and averaged 20 wins per season.

 
Season-High Five Panthers in Double-Figures
Five HPU players contributed double-figures in their win against Charleston Southern Saturday, it marked the first time this season that five Panthers tallied double figures in the same contest. Claire Wyatt led with 14 points, two rebounds, and two steals. Nakyah Terrell added 13 points, and Skyler Curran, Anna Hager, and Shakira Baskerville all added 10 points for the Panthers.

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Final! Five Panthers finish in double figures!! @Nakyah_T finishes with game-highs 8 rebounds, 5 assists!#H3U x #GoHPU pic.twitter.com/6MHyjl2rCE

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

 
Hager Tallies Career-High Ten Points
Anna Hager recorded a career-high 10 points in High Point's win at Charleston Southern. Hager added all ten of her points in the first half. She now averages 2.8 points per game and has appeared in all 22 contests for High Point as a true freshman.
 

The one-handed dime!

Nakyah Terrell finds Anna Hager, who has 10 points at half, and @HPUWBB has raced out to a 37-22 lead in Charleston!#BigSouthWBB?? pic.twitter.com/fqEEMbjqGS

— Big South Conference (@BigSouthSports) February 4, 2023

 
National Relevance for H3U
High Point leads the Big South with 8.1 made three-pointers per game which is also No. 34 among NCAA Division I members. With 171 made three-pointers on the season, HPU is also in the top-50 nationally for makes from deep in its 21 games played. Presbyterian is second in the conference with 7.9 triples per game.
 

Feeling good ?? @jord1edwards #H3U x #GoHPU pic.twitter.com/H6Emjd35xE

— HPU Women's Basketball (@HPUWBB) January 26, 2023

Wyatt Leading the Way
Claire Wyatt has scored in every contest except one in the 2022-23 season. She averaged 11.2 points throughout the last five games, ending four out of five of those games in double-figures. Wyatt has tallied 25 three-point field goals this season and added 186 points for the Panthers. She is now fourth in points for the Panthers just behind Curran, Terrell, and Jenson Edwards.

Baskerville Stepping Up for the Panthers
Shakira Baskerville has been one of the many Panther players to step up to the plate off the bench. Baskerville has tallied points in four out of the last five contests, recording 10 against Charleston Southern this past Saturday. The 6'1" guard now averages 4.8 points per game and 2.6 rebounds. Baskerville added a season-high 15 points against Winthrop earlier in the season.
 
Panther Offense Too Much for Nationally Ranked Defense
While Campbell entered Wednesday's (January 25) contest with the third-ranked NCAA Division I defense allowing 50.6 points per game, High Point used a 12-0 run midway through the third quarter to take down the Camels, 57-49. Campbell also boasted 41.8 rebounds per game entering the contest, 29^th in NCAA DI, but HPU out-rebounded the hosts 32-30 on the night.
 
Hot Shooting from Deep Edges Conference Record
The Panthers' 19 made three-pointers at Presbyterian on January 14^th nearly tied HPU's own Big South record for triples made in a game (20 vs. Winthrop). The performance also tied the third-most threes made in a single game this season by an NCAA DI member (Michigan State (19) at Maryland; South Dakota (19) vs. Midland).
 
Curran Reaches 1,500-Point Milestone
With a game-high 21 points at Winthrop on Wednesday, January 18^th, graduate senior Skyler Curran tallied her 1,500^th career point. Curran finished the night on 8-of-11 shooting from the floor and 5-of-7 shooting from three-point range. Her 1,555 career points are currently fourth in HPU's program history.
 

With 21 points on Wednesday night, @SkylerCurran_21 has reached the 1??5??0??0?? point milestone!!

Skyler has 1,507 career points and is No. 4 on HPU's all-time scoring list ??#H3U x #GoHPU pic.twitter.com/ieoBY9eKIg

— HPU Women's Basketball (@HPUWBB) January 20, 2023

 
Curran Cracks Top-100 in Active Career Leaders
Grad senior Skyler Curran has totaled 1,555 career points and 311 points this season (14.8 ppg). She is up to No. 4 on HPU's all-time scoring list, trailing only Kaylah Keys (1,869), Emma Bockrath (1,616), and Shamia Brown (1,590). Curran is also climbing the ladder on the NCAA Division I active career leaders list in points. She currently sits at No. 66 in 110 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 14.8 points per game and 311 total points.
 
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.) - 1,163 points, 603 rebounds
Skyler Curran (2018-pres.) - 1,565 points, 595 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 program-best mark of 257 makes in 97 career games played. Curran is 285-of-797 from beyond the arc, a career .358 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.
 
Trio of Panthers Among Big South Leaders in Distributing
Sophomore Nakyah Terrell is second in the conference in assist/turnover ratio (1.6) while Jenson Edwards and Jordan Edwards are tied for third in the same category (1.5). Jenson's team-high 76 assists are the third-best mark in the league as well. She has posted three or more assists in 13 contests this season, including a career-tying-high nine against Stony Brook in Puerto Rico.
 
Every Panther Scores as Meadows, McNear Return
All active roster players got the chance to see the floor on Wednesday night (January 18) in Rock Hill as High Point took down Winthrop, 79-42. The contest also marked the first game back for graduate senior Courtney Meadows and redshirt junior Amaria McNear. In eight minutes of action, Meadows scored a layup and tallied an assist while McNear made a free throw to mark that every Panther had scored in the contest.
 
Baskerville Builds to Career-High at Winthrop
Sophomore forward Shakira Baskerville has already doubled her scoring production as a role player from her freshman year as a Panther. In 2021-22, Baskerville tallied 32 total points through 13 games played (2.5 ppg). In 2022-23, she is averaging 4.3 points per game with 69 total points. She's posted five or more points in four of her last six games played and posted a new career-high 15 points at Winthrop on Wednesday, January 18^th.
 
Second Half Rally Marks Historic Comeback Win
High Point rallied from as much as 19-down to take a 60-57 win from Charleston Southern. The Panthers went 12-of-14 from the free throw line in fourth quarter, highlighted by Skyler Curran going 9-for-9 from the charity stripe as she finished with a game-high 24 points. The resurgence is tied for the fourth-largest comeback in a conference game in program history (vs. Liberty; January 30, 2018). Jenson Edwards led HPU with eight rebounds, five assists, two steals, and a block in 38 minutes played. Nakyah Terrell joined Curran scoring in double figures with 10 points on 5-of-9 shooting from the floor with four rebounds.
 
Four-Straight Matchups with Three Double-Figure Scorers Supplement HPU Team Play
In the four-game stretch from a matchup with No. 8 Virginia Tech to a win at UNC Asheville, 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 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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Scheier Leads Defensive Effort
Junior Callie Scheier has recorded a team-high 38 steals through 15 games so far this season, good for second in the Big South. She has recorded three or more steals in seven 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.
 
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.