STORYLINES
• This is the 43rd season of women's basketball at Arkansas State.
• The Red Wolves have an all-time record of 119-12 against non-league teams.
• Arkansas State enters the season with eight true freshman on the squad.
• The eight true freshman are the most in the Brian Boyer era.
• The Red Wolves graduated its entire strating five from last season.
• All five seniors were also the Red Wolves' top-5 scoring threats.
• A-State has the nation's 4th longest home winning streak at 25 games.
• Brian Boyer is 1 win away from achieveing 300 for his career.
• A-State has 3 non-conference opponents ranked or receiving votes in the top-25
• Former A-State assistant Tanya Ray is the head coach at UAM.
• A-State received votes in the Preseason College Insider Mid-Major Poll.
A-STATE IN SEASON OPENERS
• The Red Wolves are 24-18 in season-openers, with a 7-13 record when the season's first game occurs on the road.
• Under Brian Boyer, A-State is 10-7 in season-openers with a record of 4-7 when the opener is on the road.
• A-State is opening on the road for the second straight season. This marks the first time since 2010-11 & 2011-12 that the Red Wolves are opening up with road games in consecutive years.
A NICE TREND
• In A-State's two exhibition games the Red Wolves hit 41-of-51 free throws.
• No player missed more than three free throws in the stretch, while while nine players missed one or fewer shots from the chairty stripe.
IF IT HAD COUNTED
• If A-State's final exhibition game against Harding had counted in official statistics, Lauren Bradshaw would collected her first career double-double. She had 15 points and 10 rebounds in the win over Harding.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
• A-State had five players score in double-figures in its first exhibition game against Arkansas-Monticello this past Tuesday.
• Two of the five players that scored in double-figures were freshmen, including Tahlon Hopkins who nearly had a double-double with 13 points and nine rebounds. Jada Ford finished the night with 11 points.
• Lauren Bradshaw also nearly pulled in a double-double with 10 points and nine boards.
HI MY NAME IS...
• Eight freshmen will put on an Arkansas State jersey this season, the most during the Brian Boyer era.
• The Red Wolves had six freshmen on the team during the 2000-01 season and has had as many as five freshmen on a team six times since then.
• Of the eight freshman, five are from the state of Arkansas, two from Tennessee and one from Oklahoma.
WE'RE GOING STREAKING
• A-State has won 25 straight games home games dating back to the 2013-14 season.
• It is now the longest home winning streak in school history.
• The streak is the 4th longest streak in the nation.
• During the streak A-State has outscored its opponents 1,590 to 1,236 and has a +16.1 average scoring margin.
• Additionally A-State has shot a blistering 45.3% from the field during the run, while holding opponents to 38.2%.
BLOCK PARTY
• Arkansas State's Lauren Bradshaw swatted 52 shot attempts last season, a total that ranks as the third most in a single season in school history.
• For her career she has ammassed 67 blocks, which is the ninth most in school history.
• As a team had 106 blocks, which is the sixth most in school history for a season.
STARING DOWN 300
• A-State head coach Brian Boyer is one victory from reaching career win No. 300.
TOUGH ROAD AHEAD
• A-State's non-conference schedule features three teams ranked or receiving votes in the preseason USA Today Coaches pole.
• A-State will host No. 24 Florida at the Convocation Center on Nov. 22 and South Florida, who just missed being ranked in the top-25, on Dec. 11.
• A-State opens the regular season on Nov. 11 against Oklahoma State, who also received votes in the top-25 pole.
ANOTHER SCHOOL RECORD BITES THE DUST
• A-State broke the school record for most victories in a season with its 26 victory in an 81-61 victory over Appalachian State in the opening round of the SBC Tournament last year.
• The previous record of 25 happened twice during the 1991-92 and 1992-93 seasons.
• A-State has also broken the record for most wins in the regular season (25), longest winning streak (18), conference victories (19) and home winning streak (24) this season.
• The 19 wins in league play are the most ever in SBC history.
WINNERS IN THE CLASSROOM TOO
• A-State was awarded the Sun Belt Conferene Team Academic Award at last year SBC Tournament, marking the third time in the last four years that the Red Wolves have won the league's top academic honors.
• The Red Wolves had a team GPA of 3.17 and placed eight players on the SBC Academic Honor Roll and SBC Commissioner Lists.
SUN BELT CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
• Arkansas State secured the outright regular season Sun Belt Conference championship with its 87-50 victory over Texas State on Feb. 25 of last season.
• It is the second time in the last three years that the Red Wolves have been the outright SBC champions. The one year they did not (2014-15) they finished second in the league.
• This is the third time that A-State has claimed the SBC regular season championship. The Red Wolves shared the title in 2003-04 and won it outright in 2013-14.
OH JUST ANOTHER 20-WIN SEASON
• Arkansas State has won 20 or more games for the third straight season, marking the first time that the Red Wolves have had three-straight seasons where it has 20 games in the regular season.
• It is just the fourth time in school history that the Red Wolves have won 20 games, doing so in each of the last two seasons and during the 1992-93 season.
• It is the 12th time in school history that A-State has won 20 games (postseason included) in a season.
THESE GIRLS ARE GOOD
• Over the last two season the A-State Women's Basketball and A-State Women's Vollyeball teams are a combined 44-3 in the Convocation Center.
• The volleyball squad went 8-2 in 2015 and a perfect 8-0 this past year.
• The basketball team went 14-1 during the 2014-15 season and is 14-0 this season.
• Neither lost a game at the Convo this season.
