| #17 West Florida (18-4, 13-3) vs. Christian Brothers (12-8, 9-7) |
| Date | Time |
Thursday, Feb. 9 | 5:30 pm |
| Location |
Pensacola, Fla. | UWF Field House |
| Tickets |
$5 GA | $3 Seniors/Youth | Military Free w/ valid ID | UWF faculty/staff/students Free |
| Live Video |
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| Live Stats |
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| Series History |
UWF leads 8-3 & has won 5-consecutive |
| Twitter |
Twitter: @GoArgos | IG: @GoArgos | FB: /GoArgos |
* Coming off a sweep of Delta State and Mississippi College, UWF returns home for a pair against Christian Brothers and Union. The Argos will play four of their final six regular-season games at the UWF Field House - a place where they are 8-1 this season and won their last seven.
* The game will be video streamed live for free HERE.
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 80-55 at UWF and 137-139 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. 17 IN D2 MEDIA POLL
* UWF climbed five sports this week to No. 17 in the latest Division 2 Media Poll. UWF regained the top spot in the South Region ranking ahead of Eckerd.
* UWF had risen to as high as No. 14 in the Division 2 Media Poll three weeks ago before slipping to No. 22 after a 1-point road loss to West Georgia ... The No. 14 ranking is the highest for the Argonauts in the history of the poll.
* 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. The national polls will continue through the end of the season.
ARGOS IN THE NCAA STATISTICS
* PG Alex Coyne ranks sixth in assists per game (6.3) and 32nd in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.1) ... F Toni Brewer is seventh in rebounds per game (11.7), third in defensive rpg (9.0) and fourth in double-doubles (14) ... F Katie Bobos is 25th in rebounds per game (10.2) and 20th in double-doubles (10) ... F Courtney Meyer is ninth in blocks per game (2.95) ... Brewer, Bobos and Meyer rank 1st, 2nd & 5th in the GSC in rebounds per game.
ABOUT CHRISTIAN BROTHERS
* CBU is 12-8 overall and 9-7 in GSC action - good for 5th place ... The Lady Bucs are 4-5 on the road with the four wins coming in GSC arenas - Mississippi College, UAH, West Georgia and Shorter.
SERIES HISTORY VS. CBU
* This will be the 12th all-time meeting between the teams, with UWF holding an 8-3 lead ... The Argonauts have won the last five in the series ... The teams have only played since the 2011-12 season, despite being GSC members together since 1995-96 but due to the old East-West alignment they never played until five seasons ago.
* LAST MEETING: 63-62 UWF win in Memphis - Senior Alex Coyne scored a game-high 20 points and made the go-ahead free throw with 1.7 seconds remaining to lift UWF to a 63-62 come-from-behind victory ... Coyne was fouled driving to the basket as time expired, sending her to the line for a pair of free throws ... After putting 1.7 seconds back on the clock, she made 1-of-2 to put UWF ahead ... The Lady Bucs advanced the ball after a timeout and got a good look from the top of the key, but Rafaelia Angelidou's ball caromed in-and-out as time expired ... It was Coyne's fourth career game with at least 20 points as she added seven assists and three steals while making a pair of 3-pointers ... Junior Toni Brewer recorded her eighth double-double of the year with 19 points and 10 rebounds ... Junior Courtney Meyer, who played just three minutes in the first half after picking up three fouls, had all 10 points, four rebounds and two blocks in 19 second-half minutes ... UWF shot 42 percent in the game but was just 2-of-11 from outside and 17-of-30 at the free throw line ... Both teams had 15 turnovers but the Argonauts made the most of their chances, registering a 16-8 edge in points off turnovers.
BREWER A FORCE NIGHT IN & NIGHT OUT
* Junior F Toni Brewer has averaged 14.0 points (12th in GSC) and 11.7 rebounds (5th in NCAA, 1st in GSC) with 14 double-doubles (4th in NCAA) ... She ranks 10th in the GSC with a 40% FG pct. and 13th with a team-high 73% FT 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 CBU game with 976 points and 724 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 CBU game with 1187 points and 861 rebounds ... The Lowell, Ind. native has 18 games in double figures this year which includes 10 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 three weeks ago 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 ... She is averaging 14.0 ppg in her last six games, just above her season average 12.3 ppg.
COYNE AMONG NATION'S LEADERS IN ASSISTS
* Senior PG Alex Coyne has continued her impressive play since arriving at UWF last year ... She is currently averaging 10.0 points, 6.3 assists and 2.7 rebounds per outing ... Her 6.3 apg rank 6th in the NCAA ... She enters the CBU contest with 319 assists in her two years at UWF, good for 3rd in school history ... She is coming off a season-high 11-assist game at Mississippi College on Saturday.
ODDS AND ENDS
* Sophomore Katie O'Neal ranks 9th in the GSC with 36 3-pointers made and 10th with 1.6 3FG/game ... She tied her season-high with 5 triples at Mississippi College on Saturday and UWF improved to 5-1 when she makes at least 3 in a game ... Junior Courtney Meyer leads the GSC with 65 blocked shots and is second with 3.0 blocks/game ... She ranks 9th in the NCAA in bpg ... She has seven double-figure rebounding games this season.
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. 1,187 - 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. 976 - Toni Brewer (2014-pr)
12. 970 - LaKeisha Little (1997-00)
REBOUNDS
1. 861 - Katie Bobos (2013-pr)
2. 798 - Melissa Nafzger (2003-06)
3. 724 - 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. 491 - Courtney Meyer (2014-pr)
11. 470 - Dominique Boykins (2006-10)
ASSISTS
1. 385 - Sydney Jackson (1993-96)
2. 330 - Clenita Jones (2001-04)
3. 319 - Alex Coyne (2015-pr)
4. 302 - Amy Drake (2007-10)
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. 147 - 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)
UWF AT HOME
* UWF has gone 8-1 at home this season and enters the CBU game with a 7-game winning streak ... The program has won at least 10 home games in a season 10 times, including twice in the past four seasons
15: 1997-98
13: 2004-05, 2005-06
12: 1998-99
11: 2003-04, 2013-14, 2014-15
10: 1996-97, 1999-2000, 2000-01
ROAD SUCCESS OVER THE LAST THREE SEASONS
* UWF has gone 24-12 in regular-season road games the past three seasons - 8-4 in 2014-15, 8-5 in 2015-16 and 8-3 this season.
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