BLUE OUT & WHATABURGER FOOD DRIVE
* Fans are encouraged to wear blue to Thursday's game and 'Blue Out' the Field House.
* Whataburger is sponsoring a Food Drive to benefit the UWF Argo Pantry, which provides food and general health supplies to UWF students ... Those who bring a canned food item and donate it, can spin the Whataburger Prize Wheel with the opportunity to win food and prizes from Whataburger.

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 77-54 at UWF and 134-138 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.

UWF ROLLING ALONG AT NO. 14 IN D2 MEDIA POLL
* UWF has risen to the No. 14 spot in the latest Division 2 Media Poll, as announced by the Division 2 Sports Information Director's of America (D2SIDA) Tuesday ... This is the highest ranking for the Argonauts in the history of the poll. UWF is also first in the South Region ranking.
* The Women's Basketball Division 2 Media Poll, sponsored by D2SIDA, in its third year of existence ... The regional poll is released every Monday, followed by the national poll every Tuesday ... Each region has six representatives that comprise the regional poll ... The national poll has 16 voters – 2 from each region ... The Women's Basketball D2 regional polls will conclude Feb. 6, 2017 due to the start of the NCAA regional polls.

ARGOS IN THE NCAA STATISTICS
* PG Alex Coyne ranks sixth in assists per game (6.4) and 35th in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.2) ... F Toni Brewer is fourth in rebounds per game (12.2), third in defensive rpg (9.0) and third in double-doubles (13) ... F Katie Bobos is 35th in rebounds per game (9.8) and 29th in double-doubles (8) ... F Courtney Meyer is 11th in blocks per game (2.7) ... Brewer, Bobos and Meyer rank 1st, 3rd & 6th in the GSC in rebounds per game.

ABOUT UWA
* The Tigers are 6-12 overall and 3-8 in GSC play ... UWA has won its last two, collecting home victories over Christian Brothers (71-42) and Union (71-62) ... Prior to tha effort last weekend, the Tigers had lost their last seven.

SERIES HISTORY VS. UWA
* UWF leads the series 14-4 and has won the last 11 in the series, including 8-consecutive in Pensacola ... The Argos won the first meeting, 65-48, in Livingston just 14 days ago.

BREWER A FORCE NIGHT IN & NIGHT OUT
* Junior F Toni Brewer has averaged 15.1 points (t-8th in GSC) and 12.2 rebounds (4th in NCAA, 1st in GSC) with 13 double-doubles (3rd in NCAA) ... She ranks 9th in the GSC with a 42% FG pct. ... She pulled down a career-high 23 rebounds at Montevallo on Nov. 19 in the third game of the year ... that marked the most in either Division I or II at the time (since has dropped to No. 5 in D2), the second-most in UWF history and the 13th-most in GSC history ... She enters the UWA game with 939 points and 686 rebounds in her career.

BOBOS REACHES 1,000 POINTS & SECURES UWF CAREER REBOUNDING MARK
* Senior F Katie Bobos has steadily worked her way up the career scoring and rebounding lists at UWF, entering the UWA game with 1132 points and 813 rebounds ... The Lowell, Ind. native has 14 games in double figures this year which includes eight double-doubles ... She became just the tenth player in program history to surpass 1,000 points when she reached the milestone at Union just before the holiday break ... She set the UWF rebounding record last week against Delta State when she grabbed a career-high 19 boards as she surpassed Melissa Nafzger (798 from 2003-08) for first place all-time.

COYNE ALONG NATION'S LEADERS IN ASSISTS
* Senior PG Alex Coyne has continued her impressive play since arriving at UWF last year ... She is currently averaging 10.3 points, 6.4 assists and 2.7 rebounds per outing ... Her 6.4 apg rank 6th in the NCAA ... She enters the UWA contest with 296 assists in her two years at UWF, good for 4th in school history ... She had 19 points in the road win over Valdosta State on Monday and has averaged 12.3 points per game over the last three contests, highlighted by 13-for-14 (.929) effort at the FT line..

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. 1,132 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
7. 1,121 - Kelly Barrett (2000-03)
8. 1,069 - Jennifer Morris (1993-95)
9. 1,050 - Amy Drake (2007-10)
10. 1,000 - Lyndsay Munro (2001-06)
11. 970 - LaKeisha Little (1997-00)
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 939 - Toni Brewer (2014-pr)

REBOUNDS
1. 813 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
2. 798 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
3. 686 - Toni Brewer (2014-pr)
4. 685 - Jennifer Bass (1993-97)
5. 674 - Erin Vierling (2002-06)
6. 609 - Karly Geller (1999-2002)
7. 573 - Segeeta Bland (1999-00)
8. 552 - Lyndsay Munro (2002-06)
9. 528 - Jessica Young (2008-11)
10. 477 - Courtney Meyer (2014-pr)
11. 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. 296 - Alex Coyne (2015-pr)
5. 275 - Ann Ching (2003-06)
6. 274 - Kelly Barrett (2000-03)
7. 260 - Toynetta Johnson (2012-14)
T8. 252 - Charlotte Griffin (1998-99)
T8. 252 - Heather Morris (1999-02)
10. 247 - Michelle Gibson (2003-06)
11. 222 - LaKeisha Little (1997-00)

BLOCKED SHOTS
1. 195 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
2. 130 - Courtney Meyer (2014-pr)
3. 116 - Regan Rockwell (1994-97)
4. 104 - Juana Coletti (1985-87)
5. 95 - Raquel Miller (2012-14)
6. 77 - Tara Russ (2004-08)
7. 72 - Wynette Villines (1993-95)

ROAD SUCCESS OVER THE LAST THREE SEASONS
* UWF has gone 19-10 in regular-season road games the past three seasons - 8-4 in 2014-15, 8-5 in 2015-16 and 3-1 this season ... The Argos had their three-game road win streak snapped at Union prior to a win at Christian Brothers just prior to the NCAA's Division II winter break.

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