Matchup: Abilene Christian (15-8, 9-4 Southland) at Southeastern La. (6-19, 5-9 Southland)
Tipoff: 2 p.m. (CT), Saturday, Feb. 17
Series: The Wildcats improved to 7-1 all time vs. Southeastern La. following its 86-80 home win on Jan. 6 ... ACU is 4-0 at Southeastern La. since joining the Southland Conference in 2013-14 and 3-0 vs. the Lady Lions at home ... The Wildcats' lone loss to Southeastern La. took place during the 1978-79 season.
Video:
Southland Digital Network
Audio:
98.1 FM - The Ticket with
Grant Boone handling the play-by-play
Stats:
SidearmStats
Reading Material:
ACU WBB Game Notes |
LionSports.net
Social Media: Follow
@ACUWBB on Twitter and Instagram
Notables
A victory Saturday at Southeastern La. should put the Wildcats into the Southland Conference Championship, which accepts the league's best eight teams ... A win would give ACU a sweep of their season series against the Lady Lions plus a 10-4 record vs. the conference with four games left to play ... The corresponding defeat would drop the Lady Lions to 5-10 ... Southeastern enters this weekend two wins behind McNeese (7-6) and Nicholls (7-6) for the final postseason spot ... The Lady Lions last four games are vs. ACU, Northwestern State, New Orleans and Nicholls.
The Wildcats beat Incarnate Word, 58-56, on Sara Williamson's layup with 0.5 seconds left on Feb. 10 at Moody Coliseum ... The victory lifted ACU's all-time record vs. UIW to 21-8, which includes nine victories as Southland Conference rivals ... Williamson finished the game with 13 points and was 7-9 from the free-throw line.
Dominique Golightly reached three career statistical milestones vs. the Cardinals ... She played her first 40-minute complete game ... Her nine rebounds put her past 200 boards for her career, and her 18 points lifted her over the 400-career point threshold.
Breanna Wright totaled nine points and now has 507 for her career.
ACU last loss to Incarnate Word during the 2012-13 season, 68-53, on the road at the McDermott Center ... UIW hasn't won at Moody Coliseum since Jan. 3, 2011.
ACU's win over Incarnate Word gave the Wildcats a 15-8 record with five regular-season games (and a possible postseason) remaining, meaning that Julie Goodenough will finish her sixth-straight season at ACU with a winning record ... Goodenough has never experienced a losing season in the Key City ... She posted nine consecutive winning marks at Hardin-Simmons from 1993-02, and is working on a streak of seven-straight winning campaigns that began with her last Charleston Southern team in 2011-12 ... That team went 17-15 and qualified for the WBI ... Goodenough has registered 18 winning seasons in 24 years of coaching and has an all-time winning percentage of .601 (409-272).
