The UWF women's basketball team will travel to Alabama this weekend to face West Alabama on Thursday and Alabama Huntsville on Saturday. Thursday's game at Pruitt Hall in Livingston will begin at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday's contest inside Spragins Hall is set for a 2 p.m. tip-off. Both games can be viewed on FloSports for a subscription fee using the links on this page.
ABOUT THE ARGOS
* UWF is 8-5 overall and is currently in fifth place in the Gulf South Conference with a 5-4 mark, but just a game and a half out of third place.
* UWF averages 75.2 points per game on 43.3 pct. shooting. The Argos are 10th in the country and second in the GSC with 8.7 3-pointers per game on 39.4 pct., which is fifth nationally.
* UWF is first in the GSC with 44.3 rebounds per game. The Argos have gotten at least a plus-8 rebound margin in seven of nine games.
* The Argos are first in the league and 14th in the country with 4.5 blocks per game.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
* UWF is 7-0 when it scores 69 points or more and 1-5 when it fails to get to 69.
* UWF has shot at least 40 percent in six of its eight victories.
* UWF is 5-1 when it makes at least eight 3-pointers and 3-3 when it fails to make more than five.
* UWF has 166 assists on 274 field goals – 64 percent.
SCOUTING WEST ALABAMA
* UWA is 4-10 overall and 3-7 in GSC action, while coming off 61-53 win over Christian Brothers.
* The Tigers average 57.1 points per game and allow 65.2 a night. They are shooting just 38 percent from the floor and allowing the opposition to make 41 percent of their attempts.
* Kendal Lacoste leads the team in scoring, averaging 10.4 points with a team-high 32 3-pointers.
SERIES HISTORY WITH UWA
* UWF is 32-26 against UWA since joining the NCAA and GSC in the 1994-95 season.
* The Argos are 10-17 at Pruitt Hall against the Tigers but are 6-2 in the last eight matchups in Livingston.
YELTON COLLECTED HEAD COACHING VICTORY NUMBER 250 AT SHORTER
* The win at Shorter earlier this season was number 250 for
Stephanie Lawrence Yelton as a head coach. She is currently 254-208 in her 17th season, which includes 198-124 in her 12th at UWF. She spent five seasons as the head coach at Charleston Southern, going 56-84 from 2001-06.
* Last season she became the winningest coach in program history, passing Shannon Bergen's 183 wins with a triumph at Christian Brothers on Feb. 4, 2023.
* Additionally, she is on the verge of becoming the tenth coach in GSC history to reach 200 victories at a league school.
SHATTERING RECORDS AGAINST SHC ON NOV. 21
* UWF scored 111 points in the win over SHC two days before Thanksgiving, marking the second-highest scoring game in program history. The Argos scored at least 25 points in all four quarters, with a season-high 33 in the fourth. Here are the top scoring games in UWF history:
125 vs. Stillman 1/27/94
111 vs. Spring Hill, 11/21/24
111 vs. Concordia-Selma 2/26/94
109 vs. Albany State 11/12/16
108 vs. Columbus State 12/15/97
106 vs. Central Arkansas 1991
106 vs. Stillman 12/2/94
* UWF was absolutely locked in from outside, making 20-of-28 3-pointers in the win over Spring Hill on Tuesday. The 20 triples shattered the previous school record of 16 set two years ago against the Badgers. The figure is the most in the country thus far and tied for the fifth-most in GSC history.
* The 3-point field goal percentage of 71.4 is where it gets interesting. That figure isn't close to the top eight in the GSC record book because the minimum for makes is 5, meaning 5-of-5, 9-of-10, 7-of-8 and 6-of-7 dominate the list. Looking at the six games where a team made at least 20, here's what they all shot in their games:
.714 (20-of-28) UWF vs. SHC, 2023-24
.618 (21-of-24) Ark.-Monticello vs. Rhema College, 2007-08
.591 (26-of-44) Union vs. Stillman, 2015-16
.522 (24-of-46) Union vs. Rust, 2015-16
.457 (21-of-46) Union vs. Shorter, 2022-23
n/a (20 made) North Alabama vs. Lindsey Wilson, 1998-99
* UWF handed out a school-record 33 assists as well, which is the 11th most in GSC history and the seventh-most in D2 this season.
