Women's Basketball | 1/22/2016 9:53:00 PM
Game Notes Live Stats | Audio | Video ABILENE – Winners of eight-straight games away from Moody Coliseum, Abilene Christian women's basketball completes its three-game Southland Conference road trip Saturday against its archrivals from Incarnate Word with a 2 p.m. game at the McDermott Convocation Center.
UIWCardinals.com will offer live stats and video of the 25th all-time meeting between the Wildcats and Cardinals, while Abilene's
98.1 FM – The Ticket will broadcast
Grant Boone's play-by-play of the women's and men's doubleheader.
The Wildcats (15-2, 6-0 Southland) come rolling into the River City on an 11-game winning streak following Thursday night's impressive 87-76 victory at Sam Houston State.
ACU registered 50 second-half points for the second-straight game led by
Suzzy Dimba's season-high 22 points. A junior guard, Dimba tied a career best single-game performance with four 3-point field goals in addition to collecting seven rebounds, six steals and two blocks as she makes another run at being named to the league's all-defensive team for the third-consecutive season.
Junior guard
Alexis Mason tied her career and a team-season high with seven assists on a night in which she contributed 17 points on 6-14 shooting (4-10, 3-point range). Mason also had a personal best four steals as the Wildcats outscored the Bearkats 28-13 in points off turnovers and 18-4 in fast-break points.
Incarnate Word (5-11, 2-4 Southland) recently broke a 10-game losing streak this past week with consecutive conference wins vs. Southeastern Louisiana (W, 70-66) and McNeese (W, 68-55), which moved the Cardinals into ninth place within the 13-team league.
Brianna Williams and Aricka Adams pace the Cardinals' offense with 13.3 and 12.6 points per game, respectively.
The Wildcats' lead their all-time series vs. UIW, 16-8, and have won the last four meetings since both schools joined the Southland Conference by an average of 12.8 points per game. However, after winning 78-54 at home last season, the Wildcats only won by 10 points, 72-62, at the McDermott Center several weeks later.
ACU also held on to win there, 73-67, during the 2013-14 season, and were upset by the Cardinals, 68-53, the previous winter while chasing Midwestern State for the Lone Star Conference's regular-season championship.
