ABOUT UWF
* Fifth-year head coach Stephanie Lawrence Yelton has four starters and eight letterwinners back from last year's 17-10 squad that finished tied for third in the GSC regular season at 15-7.
* Yelton is 68-52 at UWF and 125-136 in 9-plus years as a college head coach, which includes a 57-84 mark in at Charleston Southern from 2001-06 ... She is a 1996 North Carolina graduate who was the school's all-time leader in every 3-point category at the end of her career.

QUITE A START
* Despite the loss to St. Mary's on Dec. 3, UWF's 6-1 start is one of the top marks in school history through seven games ... The 5-0 start marked the first such start for the first time since a 6-0 start in 1996-97.

BALANCED SCORING FOR THE ARGOS
* UWF has had a balanced scoring output all season, putting at least four players in double figures in all seven games ... A season-best six players achieved the benchmark in the 109-point output against Albany State in the second game of the year.

ROAD SUCCESS OVER THE LAST THREE SEASONS
* UWF has gone 18-9 in regular-season road games the past three seasons - 8-4 in 2014-15, 8-5 in 2015-16 and 2-0 this season ... The Argos have won their last three road games dating back to last February ... UWF has had a fair amount of success at Union, going 2-3 at the Fred DeLay Gymnasium since the Bulldogs entered the GSC prior to the 2912-13 season.

UWF PLAYING ITS FIRST RANKED TEAM IN 2016-17
* Thursday's game with #22 Union will mark the first against a top 25 opponent for UWF this season ... UWF had three wins over ranked teams a year ago and is 5-4 against top-25 foes in Stephanie Lawrence Yelton's five seasons.

ABOUT UNION
* Union is 5-2 on the season and 1-1 in GSC play, having split its home-and-home series with Christian Brothers in two of the past three games on its schedule.
* Five players are averaging at least 9.0 points per game with four at 11.0 ppg or better ... Jada Smith (17.1 ppg, 6.1 rpg), Jada Perkins (15.0/7.9) and Fredi Nielson (13.1/9.4) are all leading the Bulldogs in a number of categories.
* The Bulldogs rank second in the country in shooting, making 50.1 pct of their shots ... Their 82.3 ppg ranks 13th in the country and their 12.6 turnovers per game are the 15th fewest overall.

SERIES HISTORY VS. UNION 
* UWF and Union are meeting for the 11th time in women's basketball Thursday, with the Lady Bulldogs holding a 7-3 lead. UWF has split with Union in the last six regular-season matchups, dating back to the 2013-14 season ... UWF won the first game a year ago, 75-67 in Jackson, before Union evened the series with a 70-59 win in Pensacola in February ... The Argos have won two of the last three regular-season games at Union.

BREWER ON A TEAR EARLY ON
* Junior F Toni Brewer has averaged 15.6 points (7th in GSC) and 14.6 rebounds (1st in GSC & 18th in NCAA) with seven double-doubles (5th in nCAA) in the first seven contests ... Three weeks ago she pulled down a career-high 23 rebounds at Montevallo ... that marked the most in either Division I or II at the time (since has dropped to No. 4 in D2), the second-most in UWF history and the 13th-most in GSC history ... She enters the Union game with 777 points and 569 rebounds in her career, following a dominating effort against Valdosta State with 25 points and 13 rebounds.

BOBOS NEARING 1,000 POINTS & UWF REBOUNDING RECORD
* Senior F Katie Bobos has been as consistent a performer as anyone in school history, entering the Union game with 993 points and 690 rebounds ... The Lowell, Ind. native has five games in double figures this year which includes her career-high 21 points against St. Mary's two games ago ... She is poised to become just the tenth player in program history to surpass 1,000 points, and is just 115 rebounds from setting the school record.

COYNE AS STEADY AS EVER
* Senior PG Alex Coyne has continued her impressive play since arriving at UWF last year ... She is currently averaging 10.0 points, 7.0 assists and 2.3 rebounds per outing ... Her 7.0 apg rank fourth in the NCAA ... After being credited with six total assists in the first two games, she has handed out at least seven helpers in each of the last five games, including two with nine and one with 10 ... She enters the weekend with 231 assists in her two years at UWF, good for 10th in school history..

MULMORE AMONG THE TOP TRUE FRESHMAN IN THE GSC
* Freshman G Imani Mulmore has made quite an impact on her new team, ranking second on the team in scoring and 11th in the GSC with 14.1 points, while ranking fourth on the team with 3.3 rebounds per game ... She has six games in double figures with 9 points as her lowest single-game output ... Her attacking style has allowed the New Orleans native to shoot 33-for-47 (.702) at the free throw line ... Both of her FT made and attempted are fourth in the GSC ... She has steadily seen her playing time increase in her first months of college play, logging career-highs of 25 and 28 minutes played in two of the last three contests..

UWF CAREER RECORD WATCH
SCORING
1. 2,104 - Kristi Jernigan (1989-93)
2. 1,472 - Erin Vierling - (2002-06)
3. 1,446 - Jennifer Baas (1993-97)
4. 1,444 - Michelle Gibson (2003-06)
5. 1,256 - Tanisha Rickman (1998-99)
6. 1,121 - Kelly Barrett (2000-03)
7. 1,069 - Jennifer Morris (1993-95)
8. 1,050 - Amy Drake (2007-10)
9. 1,000 - Lyndsay Munro (2001-06)
10. 993 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
11. 970 - LaKeisha Little (1997-00)

REBOUNDS
1. 798 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
2. 690 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
3. 685 - Jennifer Bass (1993-97)
4. 674 - Erin Vierling (2002-06)
5. 609 - Karly Geller (1999-2002)
6. 573 - Segeeta Bland (1999-00)
7. 569 - Toni Brewer (2014-pr)
8. 552 - Lyndsay Munro (2002-06)
9. 528 - Jessica Young (2008-11)
10. 470 - Dominique Boykins (2006-10)

ASSISTS
1. 385 - Sydney Jackson (1993-96)
2. 330 - Clenita Jones (2001-04)
3. 302 - Amy Drake (2007-10)
4. 275 - Ann Ching (2003-06)
5. 274 - Kelly Barrett (2000-03)
6. 260 - Toynetta Johnson (2012-14)
T7. 252 - Charlotte Griffin (1998-99)
T7. 252 - Heather Morris (1999-02)
9. 247 - Michelle Gibson (2003-06)
10. 231 - Alex Coyne (2015-pr)
11. 222 - LaKeisha Little (1997-00)

BLOCKED SHOTS
1. 195 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
2. 116 - Regan Rockwell (1994-97)
3. 104 - Juana Coletti (1985-87)
4. 95 - Raquel Miller (2012-14)
5. 94 - Courtney Meyer (2014-pr)
6. 77 - Tara Russ (2004-08)
7. 72 - Wynette Villines (1993-95)

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE OFFSEASON
* Former assistant coach Jessie Ivey was named the National Division 2 Assistant Coach of the Year by the WBCA, before accepting a similar position at Bowling Green ... UWF hired former WNBA veteran LaQuanda Quick as her replacement. Quick spent last season at Winston Salem State and has been put in charge of the Argonaut defense ... UWF took a foreign tour to the Dominican Republic from Aug. 11-18. The squad played four games, visited local sugarcane villages, orphanages and women's shelters while ministering and sharing the love of basketball.

UWF PICKED 3RD IN GSC PRESEASON POLL
* The UWF women's basketball team was picked to finish third in the Gulf South Conference preseason coaches poll ... UWF earned a total of 101 points in the voting process, collecting one first place vote, a league-high five second-place votes, one third, three fourth and a fifth place vote.
* Defending regular-season champion Union was picked first, followed by Delta State, which won the GSC Tournament title. Lee followed UWF in fourth, and Shorter was picked fifth.
* Seniors Katie Bobos and Alex Coyne were each named to the 5-member preseason all-conference team ... Bobos was a second-team all-GSC and academic all-GSC honoree last year after averaging 12.8 points and 8.0 rebounds. The Lowell, Indiana native scored in double figures in 21 games and collected eight double-doubles ... Coyne was also a second team choice a year ago after transferring from Southern Miss. In her first season with the Argos, the point guard from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania averaged 10.0 points, 6.7 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game. She led the GSC and ranked fifth in the NCAA in assists, and was third in GSC and 49th nationally in steals.

GSC Preseason Coaches Poll
Team Poll Points
1. Union (10) 120
2. Delta State (1) 103
3. West Florida (1) 101
4. Lee 94
5. Shorter 83
6. Alabama Huntsville 66
7. West Georgia 57
8. Christian Brothers 45
9. Valdosta State 44
10. West Alabama 42
11. North Alabama 24
12. Mississippi College 13
First place votes in parenthesis