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Panthers vs.UNC Greensboro: The High Point University women’s basketball team will welcome UNC Greensboro to the Millis Center on Saturday at 4 p.m., in the Panthers' home opener. HPU is looking for its second straight winning after picking up a 73-50 win over Youngstown State at the Phoenix Classic last week. Junior Mackenzie Maier earned All-Tournament team honors after leading the Panthers with 14 points against Navy and 16 points against YSU.
$1000 Cash Givaway
High Point University students will have an opportunity to win cash prizes at the Women's Basketball game on Saturday, Nov. 21st vs. UNC Greensboro. Every student will be eligible to win. At each official timeout, a $100 drawing will take place. The student that is drawn must be present to win! At the end of the game, a $200 winner will be drawn. Total cash prizes will total $1,000 .
The Opponent: UNC Greensboro enters the game against the Panthers with a 1-1 record. The Spartans opened the season with an 85-68 win against Morgan State at home before dropping a 60-42 decision at Liberty. UNCG struggled to find its shooting touch against the Flames, shooting just 15-52 (28.8 percent) in the game. Senior guard Lykiah Hudson led all Spartans with nine points while junior guard Monique Floyd added five points and a team-best seven boards. UNCG returns four starters this season including Hyson (10.5 ppg), the team’s second-leading scorer last season, and Floyd (9.7), the 2008-09 SoCon Defensive Player of the Year. Other returning starters include redshirt junior guard Amanda Leigh (7.5) and redshirt junior center Agne Girstautaite (5.7).
The Series: High Point leads the all-time series, 11-10, but the Spartans have won the last four meetings between the two teams including last season when UNCG won, 74-69, in Greensboro, N.C. The Panthers last win in the series came on Nov. 29, 2005, when they won 65-63 in overtime.
Last Time Out: The Panthers recovered from a season-opening loss to Navy with a 73-50 win over Youngstown State on Saturday, Nov. 14. Junior Mackenzie Maier blocked five shots to become HPU’s Division I career blocks leader with 136. The team jumped out to a 27-7 lead in the opening ten minutes of the game against the Penguins and maintained that lead throughout the rest of the game, never allowing YSU to pull within 16 points. Maier led all HPU scorers for the second consecutive night with 16 points while sophomore Shamia Brown scored 15 off the bench. Junior Amy Dodd tied a career high with a team-leading nine rebounds. High Point’s bench gave the Panthers a big advantage, outscoring the YSU reserves 38-1 in the contest. Junior Jurica Hargraves scored eight points from the bench and both senior Ashlee’ Samuels and freshman Laura Whitt chipped in 4 to go along with Brown’s 15. Maier passed Mary Brewer (1999-02), who had 134 career rejections, to claim the Division I career blocks record.
Block Party
With her five blocks against Youngstown State, junior Mackenzie Maier became HPU’s Division I career blocks leader with 136 rejections. Maier moved past former Panther Mary Brewer who set the record with 134 blocks from 1999-222. Last seasom. Maier has been a prolific shot blocker since stepping on to campus, blocking 47 shots as a freshman and an HPU Division I record 84 as a sophomore last season. The junior has led the team in blocked shots 31 times in her career and her five blocks on Saturday marked the fourth time in her career that she has blocked at least five shots in one game.
A Double-Double for Maier
Mackenzie Maier began the 2009-10 season with a statement, scoring 14 points and grabbing 11 rebounds to record her first double-double of the season and the fifth of her career. Maier led the team in both categories and her 11 boards were most for either squad. Maier has led the team in scoring in each of the Panthers’ first two games, following her 14-point performance on Friday with a 16-point performance on Saturday.
Deep and Talanted
The High Point bench has proven to be a major advantgae for the Panthers this season. HPU’s bench has outscored its opponents 63-5 through the first two games. Against Navy, High Point’s bench outscored the Mids’ 25-4 and against Youngstown, the Panthers had a 38-1 edge in bench scoring. Sophomore Shamia Brown is currently second on the team in scoring (12.0 ppg) and rebounding (6.5 rpg) while coming off the bench.
Dodd Impresses
Amy Dodd has made the most of her time in the starting lineup so far this season. In the season opener, Dodd led the team with four assists and was second on the team in scoring with 12 points, all while playing a career-high 41 minutes. In the game against Youngstown State, the junior tied a career high with nine rebounds. Through two games she has shot 7-10 from the field for a .700 shooting percentage, second highest in the Big South through the opening week.
1,000 Points
Jurica Hargraves needs just 213 points to break 1,000 for her career. She would be just the third HPU player to break 1,000 points since the Panthers moved to Division I in 1999. Hargraves is currently fifth in High Point’s Division I record book with 787 career points. Her 419 points scored last season was the highest single-season total in High Point’s Division I history. Hargraves is also second in High Point’s Division I history with a 12.7 points per game career average. Only Charlena Martin (2003-05) has a higher per-game average (13.2 ppg).
First in Class
For the first time in school history the High Point University women’s basketball team was picked first in the Big South Preseason Poll. The Panthers were tied with Liberty for first place in the preseason poll with 160 points each. The Flames received nine first-place votes while HPU received seven. Gardner-Webb was selected third, receiving four first-place votes and 147 total points from the 20-member voting panel of coaches and media.
Hargraves Named Preseason Player of the Year
Junior Jurica Hargraves was recognized as one of the best players of the conference when she was named Big South Preseason Player of the Year and a member of the preseason Big South All-Conference team. Hargraves, an All-Big South first team performer a season ago, averaged 13.5 points per game last season and is the second among returners in scoring in the Big South. She started all 31 games as a sophomore and led HPU in points per game (13.5), three pointers (63), free-throw percentage (84.6) and minutes (32.2). Hargraves’ .846 free throw percentage was also the top percentage in the Big South. The Chapel Hill, N.C., native is the second High Point player to be selected Big South Preseason Player of the Year after Katie O’Dell received the honor in 2005.
Maier Named Preseason All-Conference
Junior Mackenzie Maier joins Hargraves on the preseason Big South All-Conference team after earning second-team honors at the end of last season. Maier averaged 11.1 points per game and led the Big South in blocks with 84. She started all 31 games in her sophomore season and led HPU in blocks and three-point shooting percentage (42.9) and was second in rebounds per game (5.6). In conference play, Maier led the Panthers with 6.3 rebounds per game and was second on the team in points per game with 11.6.