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PENSACOLA, Fla. – The UWF women's basketball team welcomes West Georgia to town for a crucial weekend series as the second half of the season tips off on Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m. at the UWF Field House. The Wolves are in fourth place with a .417 winning pct., just ahead of the fifth-place Argos at .400. The teams will play three times in the next two weeks, meaning these could be big factors in getting into the top four from the Gulf South Conference East Division for the GSC Tournament.
 
SATURDAY IS THE UWF PLAY 4 KAY GAME
* Saturday is the annual Play 4 Kay game, with donations going to fund cancer research and the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.
* Coach Yow was a longtime coach at NC State and founding member of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association before passing away in 2009 after a 22-year, on-again, off-again battle with the cancer disease.
* UWF head coach Stephanie Lawrence Yelton competed against coach Yow's teams as a student-athlete at North Carolina and later as a coach at Boston College.
 
ABOUT THE ARGOS
* UWF dropped to 4-6 on Tuesday following a 64-47 loss to No. 5/6 Valdosta State. It was the team's second-consecutive loss.
* Senior F Danielle Norquest leads the team with 11.3 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. She is also shooting 42 percent from the floor and 39 percent from outside, making 12-of-31 3-pointers. She leads the team with three double-doubles.
* Junior G Charlotte Ellmore is second on the squad with 10.2 ppg and leads the team lead with 16 3-pointers. She has made at least two triples in five games and at least one in the nine contests.
* UWF is averaging 64.1 ppg as a team on 35.0 pct. shooting. They are allowing 70.7 ppg on 44 pct. shooting.
 
THIRD QUARTER IS THE MAGIC QUARTER
* UWF is averaging 28.4 points in the first half and 35.7 points after halftime. The best quarter average for the Argos is the third, where they have outscored their opponents 19.3-17.6 on average. UWF is 3-2 on the year when they outscore their opponents in the 10 minutes immediately following halftime.
* UWF's top scoring quarters and halves this season are:
1st                      16                 at AUM, 1/12/21
2nd                    25                         Lee, 1/23/21
                                            at Shorter, 1/30/21
1st Half            38            at Shorter, 1/30/21
3rd                     28                 Shorter, 12/9/20
4th                     31                 Shorter, 12/9/20
2nd Half           59                 Shorter, 12/9/20
 
LEWIS BREAKS OUT IN GEORGIA HOMECOMING, CONTINUES STRONG PLAY VS. VSU
* Junior G Peyton Lewis had a standout two games last week at Shorter, posting career-highs in each game while providing a spark off the bench for the Argos. She maintained her strong play on Tuesday with a team-high 11 points.
* In the last three games, the junior from Hampton, Ga. has averaged 15.3 points and 3.0 rebounds per game while shooting 51 percent from the floor, including 7-of-15 from 3-point range. She posted back-to-back career-highs, scoring 15 points on 5-of-10 shooting in the Friday game and 16 points on 6-of-11 the next afternoon.
* The Kennesaw State transfer raised her scoring average from 4.0 points to 7.0 ppg. She had totaled 18 points in seven games before scoring 42 in the last three. She has posted her four highest-scoring games as an Argo in the last five contests, averaging 11.3 ppg over that span.
 
UWF TIES MODERN SCHOOL 3-POINT RECORD
* After three games this season, UWF had made just 18 3-pointers for 6.0 made per game. The squad has found its stroke in the last six contests, connecting on 52 for 8.5 per game, bringing its season average to 7.8 per game, ranking fourth in the GSC overall and second in the East Division behind Lee's 8.9.
* Two weekends ago against No. 18 Lee, UWF made 22 triples in the two contests, marking the most in consecutive games since at least the 1993-94 season. The Argos made seven in each game at Shorter last weekend.
* The 12 makes in the 71-62 win were the most since making 12-of-27 against Concordia-Selma on Feb. 23, 2010.
 
3-POINTERS MADE IN A GAME
Since 1993-94
12   Lee                                                      1/22/21
12   Concordia-Selma                          2/23/10
12   at West Alabama                            2/5/01
12   at Lincoln Memorial                    1/17/00
11   Tuskegee                                          12/5/18
11   Spring Hill                                      11/20/18
11   Alabama Huntsville                        1/9/10
11   at Palm Beach Atl.                     12/17/09
11   at Palm Beach Atl.                     12/15/08
11   at Florida Memorial                     12/9/06
11   West Alabama                               1/23/06
11   at Miss.-Women                           2/11/02
 
REBOUNDING A STRENGTH FOR UWF ONCE AGAIN
* Historically, UWF has been a dominant rebounding team at both ends of the floor and 2020-21 appears to be no different. UWF ranked third in the GSC at 40.9 rpg and is third in rebound defense, allowing just 33.7 rpg. 
* Here is a chart showing where UWF has ranked in rebounding offense during the Stephanie Lawrence Yelton era:
 
Year                         RPG                GSC Rank
2012-13                  46.7                       1st
2013-14                  40.8                       2nd
2014-15                  45.8                       1st
2015-16                  40.5                       2nd
2016-17                  45.8                       1st
2017-18                  43.7                       1st
2018-19                  43.7                       1st
2019-20                  43.3                       2nd
2020-21                  40.9                       3rd

UWF HOOPS HISTORY 101
* The Argonauts are 582-512 all-time and 235-182 in GSC play … UWF has won three East Division and one overall regular-season titles, along with the 2013-14 GSC Tournament crown … The Argos have played in six NCAA Regional Tournaments – including four in the last seven years – and advanced to the NCAA Elite Eight in 2017 with a school-record 28 victories … Prior to last year's 8-win campaign, UWF had averaged 21 wins in the previous six seasons.
 
ABOUT WEST GEORGIA
* UWG is 5-7 on the season following a pair of home losses to Valdosta State last weekend. The Wolves are averaging 66.4 points per game on 37.3 percent shooting overall. They are third in the GSC East with 40.3 rebounds per contest and have a minus 3.7 rebound margin.
* Juniors Siera Carter and Zaria Bankston lead the team with 10.9 and 9.8 ppg, respectively. Carter has 5-consecutive double-figure contests and has made 15 3-pointers this season. Bankston is fifth in the GSC in assists with 3.8 per game.
 
UWF-UWG SERIES HISTORY
* UWF is 29-27 against UWG dating back to the first meeting in 1989-90. The Argos are 13-8 at home since 2001 but have lost the last two in the UWF Field House following a 4-game winning streak.
* The Argos are 5-6 in the last 11 games, with the magic number being 63. UWF is 5-0 when scoring at least 63 points and 0-6 when not.
* The Wolves won both games last season after the Argos won both in 2018-19.
 
YELTON CLAIMS 200TH HEAD COACHING VICTORY
* Stephanie Lawrence Yelton is in her ninth season at UWF and has a 143-99 record at UWF … She is 201-184 in her 14th season as a head coach, which includes five seasons at Charleston Southern … The Morrow, Ga. native (suburb south of Atlanta) is a UNC grad from 1996 and was a 4-year letterwinner for the Tar Heels, where she won two ACC Championships and the 1994 NCAA National Championship – she threw the inbounds pass on Charlotte Smith's game-winning buzzer beater in the title game.
* As a head coach, she has 13 wins versus Shorter, 12 against West Alabama and 11 against both Delta State and Valdosta State.
* Yelton was named the GSC Coach of the Year in 2013-14 and 2018-19.
 
GSC SPLIT INTO DIVISIONS FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2010-11
* With an abbreviated season due to the uncertainty of health and wellness brought on by the Corona virus pandemic, the Gulf South Conference worked through a number of scheduling scenarios and ultimately settled on a 20-game slate using an East-West model … UWF is in the East with AUM, Lee, Montevallo, Shorter, Valdosta State and West Georgia … The Argos will face AUM and Montevallo four times, and the other four schools three times … The top four teams from each division will qualify for the GSC Championship.
 
UWF PICKED 6TH IN GSC COACHES POLL
* UWF was picked to finish sixth in the GSC Preseason Coaches Poll, while the Lady Blazers were picked fourth … Defending champion Lee earned four of six first place votes and was picked first in the East, followed by Montevallo who received the other two first place votes. West Georgia, VSU and Auburn Montgomery were ahead of the Argos, with Shorter picked seventh.
 
NORQUEST NAMED PRESEASON ALL-GSC
* Senior F Danielle Norquest was named to the Preseason All-GSC East Division Team in the preseason … The standout from Diamond, Ohio, is coming off a season in which she averaged 14.5 points and 12.9 rebounds per game … She is the third leading returning scorer in the GSC East Division … Last season she led the league and ranked sixth nationally with a school-record-tying 21 double-doubles … Norquest enters the West Georgia weekend with 759 points and 612 rebounds in three-plus seasons at UWF.
 
WHAT'S BACK FOR THE ARGOS
* UWF returns six letterwinners from a year ago, including five players who started at least 15 games … Senior F Danielle Norquest and junior G Charlotte Ellmore each started all 28 games and combined for 24.2 points, 16.1 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game … Junior C Aline Fevrier continued to improve in the post with 5.1 ppg and 4.0 rpg … Additionally, redshirt sophomore PG D'Asia Collins returns after missing the entire season with a knee injury.
 
UWF NEWCOMERS
* UWF has seven newcomers, along with a redshirt freshman who missed the final 21 games from a year ago … The Argos brought in Division I transfers Gabby Brown and Peyton Lewis, to go with true freshmen Alex Haymon, Makayla Michael, Alli Morgan, Amara Newsom and Megan Sanfratello … Mary Denman Luker received a medical redshirt after a knee injury ended her season after nine games.
 
GSC FALL 2020 HOOPS TIMELINE
* August: BB, FB, SOC, VB postponed until January, 2021
* October: Discussions about starting basketball in December begin
* Late October: 2020 schedule & format planning by GSC and Member Schools
* Early November: GSC Presidents/Chancellors approve basketball to start in Dec.
* Nov. 17: GSC announces 20-game schedule with 2 divisions
* Dec. 9: 2020 Tipoff