The UWF women's basketball team will travel to the Magnolia State this weekend to face Mississippi College on Thursday and Delta State on Saturday. Thursday's game will be played at Belhaven College in Jackson and Saturday's contest at Silers Coliseum in Cleveland, Miss. 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 11-6 overall and 8-5 in the Gulf South Conference. The Argonauts are tied for fourth place with AUM and are a half-game behind Lee for 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 8-0 when it scores 69 points or more and 3-6 when it fails to get to 69.
* UWF has shot at least 40 percent in nine of its 11 victories.
* UWF is 7-1 when it makes at least eight 3-pointers and 4-5 when it fails to make more than five.
* UWF has 166 assists on 274 field goals – 64 percent.

CLAIRE MAKING HER CASE
* Fifth-year forward Claire Sutherland-Case has been UWF's leading scorer with four-consecutive career-high scoring games the past two weeks.
* She averaged 23 points, eight rebounds and five blocked shots in UWF's games against Lee and Shorter. The Hamilton, Ontario, Canada native shot 58 percent from the floor, 48 percent from 3-point range and 83 percent at the free throw line. Against Lee she finished with 19 points, six boards and six blocks, before posting 27 points, 10 rebounds and four swats versus Shorter. Both of her scoring outputs were career-highs for the fourth-consecutive game.
* Since the start of January, she is fourth in the conference in scoring, averaging 16.3 points per game and first in rebounding at 8.5 per game. For the season, she is putting up 10.4 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per outing. She currently ranks 22nd nationally in blocks.

SCOUTING MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE
* MC is 6-9 overall and 5-7 in the GSC. The Lady Choctaws had won three in a row before a 87-41 loss to No. 4 Union last week.
* Karly Ivy leads the team with 11.5 points per game. Amelia Bell is averaging 7.7 points and a team-high 5.5 rebounds with 12 blocked shots.
 
SERIES HISTORY WITH MC
* UWF and Mississippi College will be meeting for the 17th time on Thursday.
* UWF leads the series 12-4 and has won the last two games.
* The Argos are 9-0 all-time in Pensacola after last month's 82-51 win. The home team has won 13 of the 16 meetings.
* UWF has lost its last two in the Clinton/Jackson area and three of the last four. Last year's game was also played at Belhaven but that change wasn't made until minutes before game time.

SCOUTING DELTA STATE
* DSU is 8-10 this season and 6-8 in the GSC with a 2-game losing streak. The Lady Statesmen are 4-4 at home with a win over Lee on Jan. 4
* Wakiryah Daniel leads the team in scoring with 12.3 per game but has been held to 10 total points against Union and Valdosta State in their last two. Elishia Wilson and Jayla Smith are also averaging more than 10 points per game.
 
SERIES HISTORY WITH DELTA STATE
* Saturday will mark the 35th time UWF and Delta State have met on the hardwood.
* The series is tied 17-17 dating back to the first meetingsin the 1994-95 season. The teams did not play regularly until 2011-12 season as the first 10 contests came as non-conference crossover games or in GSC Tournament play as a result of the teams being in opposite GSC divisions.
* The Argos have won 13 of the last 17 dating back to their GSC Championship win in March 2014.

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 257-211 in her 17th season, which includes 201-127 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 (tied with three other teams) and tied for the fifth-most in GSC history. The 71.4 pct is second nationally behind 73.3 on 11-of-15 by Stanislaus State on Dec. 2.
* 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.