LAKE CHARLES, La. – The ACU women's basketball team takes its seven-game winning streak into the state of Louisiana on Wednesday for a date with the McNeese Cowgirls. It's a big week as ACU will then host the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders on Saturday, but first things first, the Wildcats have to take care of business on the road. ACU (11-1, 3-0 SLC) already has three league games under its belt as part of the new 20-game Southland schedule this season.
FOLLOW THE GAME
ACU at McNeese: Wednesday, Jan. 8 (6:30 p.m.)
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SERIES HISTORY
- ACU has won five straight games against McNeese, and leads the series 5-1. McNeese won the first-ever meeting back in 2014, but since then it has been all Wildcats. ACU earned a 109-52 win at home last season, in a game that featured 14 three-pointers and a 61% shooting performance from the floor. ACU leads the series 2-1 all-time in Lake Charles.
ACU STORYLINES
- ACU is up to No. 11 in the latest Mid Major Poll, as released Jan. 7. It is the highest ranking in program history.
- The Wildcats are coming off a thrilling 78-72 victory over the Lamar Cardinals last Saturday in front of a great crowd at Moody Coliseum. ACU hit nine triples in the game, and made clutch shots late to win by two possessions.
- Senior
Dominique Golightly scored a career-high 27 points to earn her Southland Conference Player of the Week honors for the second time this season.
- Golightly is in the best stretch of her historic career, after recently joining the 1,000-point club. The Chickasha, Okla. native has eight double-digit scoring games this season, and tied her previous career-high with 26 points earlier this year. Golightly has three 30+ point efforts so far, and is averaging 14.6 points per game. Golightly leads all Southland guards with 5.4 rebounds per game as well.
- The team ranks fifth in the country in scoring at 86.2 points per game, and the +29.9 scoring margin per game ranks fifth in all of women's college basketball as well. The 50.3% shooting from the field ranks third in the nation, and the 11.1 three-point field goals made per game ranks third in America.
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Breanna Wright ranks in the top five in the conference in seven different categories, including assist to turnover ratio, assists, shooting percentage, free throw percentage, points per game, steals, and three-point shooting.
SCOUTING McNEESE (3-9)
- The Cowgirls are 0-3 to start league play under fourth year head coach Kacie Cryer, falling to Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston State on the road.
- McNeese has struggled defensively, allowing 78.4 points per game, a 48.7% shooting clip and a 35.6% clip from the three-point line.
- Senior Regan Bolton ranks fifth in the conference in three-point shooting this season.
