WBB welcomes Southeastern Louisiana to Teague

ABILENE - The Wildcat women's basketball team returns to the Teague Center for the first time in over a month on Saturday when it hosts the Southeastern Louisiana Lady Lions at 1 p.m. ACU last played in front of its home crowd on Dec. 15 against UT Tyler. The 'Cats (8-2, 1-0 SLC) look to start 2-0 in league play for the sixth straight season when they face SLU (3-3, 2-1 SLC). The game will air on ESPN+ and on 102.7 The Bear. All Wildcat sports will air on 102.7 the rest of the 2020-21 season.

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SERIES HISTORY

This will be the 14th meeting between the schools Saturday, with ACU holding a lopsided 10-3 advantage. The Wildcats have never lost to the Lady Lions in Abilene (5-0), and have won three in a row in the series. The game is never easy though. Southeastern Louisiana has always given ACU fits. The Wildcats won both matchups last season by eight and six points, and lost by three two years ago. Four of the last five meetings have been decided by an average of four points. The teams first met in a tournament in Fort Worth in 1979, with SLU winning.

ACU STORYLINES

• GREAT START: The Wildcats are off to a stellar 8-2 start, and come in receiving votes in the College Insider Mid Major Top 25 poll.
• DOUBLE-DOUBLE MACHINE: Senior Alyssa Adams has recorded four double-doubles this season, including in each of the last three games (vs. UAB, at Stetson, at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi). The San Antonio native has seven for her career. She becomes the third Division I player for the Wildcats to record three consecutive double-doubles. Suzzy Dimba did so on Jan. 22, 24, and 26 in 2015, and Sydney Shelstead followed up a month later, on Feb. 21, 25, and 28. Adams is averaging 25.3 points and 11.0 rebounds over the last three games.
• ANOTHER SOUTHLAND PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Adams has earned herself a second Southland Conference Player of the Week award on Jan. 11 after the double-double against Corpus Christi. Her first award came on Dec. 21 after her performance in Florida. ACU now has four for such awards this season. Redshirt senior Anna McLeod won back-to-back Southland Conference Players of the Week awards on Dec. 7 & 14.
• HISTORIC STRETCH: Alyssa Adams has scored 20 or more points in three straight games for ACU (26 vs. UAB, 24 vs. Stetson, 28 vs. Corpus Christi). She joines Anna McLeod as the only players this season to do so (Anna scored 23 vs. Midwestern State, 22 vs. UTPB, and 28 vs. Northern Colorado). There are only three other Wildcats in the D1 era (2013) to do so. Sydney Shelstead scored 63 points in three games in Jan. 2016. Alexis Mason scored 82 points in three games in Jan. 2017. Breanna Wright scored 20+ in five straight games to end the 2019-20 season (115 points in five games).
• COACH GOODENOUGH'S MILESTONES: Head coach Julie Goodenough earned her 460th career win UT Permain, and now has a 465 wins in her hall-of-fame career and 176 with ACU.
• SHARP SHOOTERS: ACU's 290 three-point field goals attempted rank eighth nationally, while the 109 three-pointers made rank third in the country.

NEWS: ACU headed to the WAC!

SCOUTING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA

• The Lady Lions (3-3, 2-1 SLC) have had a tough go of it in terms of playing games this season. SLU has had seven games cancelled, but despite all the ups and downs of being able to get on the court, still won its first two Southland games over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Sam Houston.
• Three players are averaging double figures, led by Morgan Carrier's 11.2 PPG. She also leads the team with 11 three-pointers made.
• Hailey Giaratano (10.8 PPG) and Breonca Ducksworth (10.2) round out the players average 10+ per game, and Giaratano also adds 4.0 rebounds per contest.
• Head Coach Ayla Guzzardo is in her fourth season with the Lady Lions, and is 32-51 so far.