ABILENE – Abilene Christian women's basketball concludes its three-game Southland Conference homestand Saturday with a 2 p.m. contest vs. Northwestern State, which has yet to defeat the Wildcats on their home court.
The Wildcats have won their last six games and are off to their second 5-0 start in Southland Conference play in three seasons.
Matchup: Abilene Christian (11-4, 5-0 Southland) vs. Northwestern State (5-10, 0-4 Southland)
Tipoff: 2 p.m. (CT), Saturday, Jan. 13
Series: The Wildcats lead their all-time series vs. Northwestern State, 3-2. ACU is 2-0 vs. the Lady Demons at Moody Coliseum and 1-2 at Prather Coliseum
Video:
Stretch Internet – with
Seth Wilson handling the play-by-play.
Stats:
StatBroadcast
Reading Material:
ACU WBB Game Notes |
NSUDemons.com
Social Media: Follow
@ACUWBB on Twitter and Instagram
Notables
The Wildcats lead their all-time series vs. the Lady Demons of Northwestern State, 3-2 ... ACU swept last year's season series, winning 79-57 at home and 75-74 for its first victory in three tries at Prather Coliseum ... The Jan. 13 meeting is the lone one this season between ACU and Northwestern State.
ACU improved to 7-0 all time vs. Houston Baptist following the Wildcats' 80-68 victory on Jan. 10 ... The team committed a season-low 10 turnovers and blocked a season-high eight shots ... Breanna Wright – in playing the eighth complete game of her career – dished out a career-high eight assists, which was the most by any Wildcat since Sara Williamson had nine in an OT loss to UMKC on Dec. 3, 2016 ... Three Wildcats reached significant career point milestones vs. the Huskies ... Williamson and Sierra Allen each surpassed 400 points, while Golightly reached the 300-point plateau.
With 20 points vs. HBU on Jan. 10, junior guard Sara Williamson (13.5) joined Dominique Golightly (13.5) and Breanna Wright (13.1) in averaging 13.0 + points per game this season ... Golighty leads the Wildcats with 203 points followed close behind by Williamson (202) and Wright (196) ... ACU is one of five Southland schools with three players averaging over 10.0 points per game, but the only league institution with three averaging as many as 13.0 per game.
ACU went above a .700 free-throw percentage for the first time all season on Jan. 10 following a 11-12 performance from the charity stripe vs. Houston Baptist ... The Wildcats hit a season low 54.9 percent (45-82) five games into the season but have made improvements in nine of their last 10 games by hitting 146 of their last 189 attempts (.772) ... ACU's free-throw percentage ranks fifth in the Southland and 150th nationally ... The Wildcats are led by Wright at the free-throw line as her .895 percentage is first in the league and 12th in the NCAA.
The Wildcats are 73-35 (.676) all-time vs. Southland Conference schools.
Head coach Julie Goodenough needs one more victory to tie Suzanne Fox for third place all-time at ACU with 117 victories.
