AN A-STATE WIN WOULD
• Improve A-State's record to 1-5.
• Give A-State a 233-149 mark all-time against non-conference team.
• Give the Red Wolves their 74th victory over the last four years.
• End the Red Wolves longest losing streak (5 games) since 2012-13 when it also lost 5 straight to start the season.
• Give A-State head coach Brian Boyer his 300th career win.
RECAPPING IOWA STATE
• The Red Wolves fell to Iowa State 105-53 this past Sunday but had a solid individual performance from Akasha Westbrook.
• The junior from Malvern, Arkansas scored a career-high 20 points and tied a career-high with six rebounds in the loss.
• Freshman Jada Ford also had a career-high with eight points.
MAKING THE MOST OF AN OPPORTUNITY
• A-State senior guard Dominique Oliver has steadily improved in each of A-State's first games throughout the season and recently scored a career-high 23 points against Florida on Nov. 22.
• She also scored in double-figures in each of her last two games (Tennessee State & Florida) and has played at 30 minutes in all four of A-State's games.
• She has also been a dominant force on the defensive end, averaging 2.5 steals a game, while averaging 2 charges taken per game thus far.
• Oliver had just one start in her career before this season and averaged 14.5 minutes off the bench as a junior.
FOWLER POWER
• Senior guard Brittany Fowler scored a carere-high 17 points in the Red Wolves game at Austin Peay on Nov. 16.
• It was the second time in her career that she led the Red Wolves scoring and she also tied a career-high with five made 3-pointers.
• Fowler backed up her 17-point performance with a 10-point outing at Tennessee State in A-State's next game, marking the first time in her career that she scored in double figures in back-to-back contests.
• The Leachville, Ark., native currently leads the Sun Belt Conference in 3-point field goal percent age at 50% (11-of-22) and also ranks 22nd nationally in the stat.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
• Arkansas State has traveled 3,235 miles in its first four road contests this season, and will travel an additional 916 miles when it plays Wichita State on Friday.
• The Red Wolves also have a nearly 3,000-plus mile round trip to Las Vegas later in December for a three-game tournament.
NO DROP OFF HERE
• Through the first five games of the season, Arkansas State has not seen a statistical drop off from the 2015-16 squad in terms of 3-point shooting. The Red Wolves are actually shooting better from behind the arc this season (34.2%) than they did a year ago through their first five games (33.7%).
• The Red Wolves are averaging 5.4 made 3s per game this season, compared to 5.6 made 3s per game in 2015-16.
• Arkansas State's production on the boards has almost been equal to that of a year ago as both teams pulled down an average of 35 rebounds per game through four games.
• A-State is also making more free throws per game this year, knocking down 11.0 of their free attempt compared to just 10.0 per game at this time last year.
HI MY NAME IS...
• Seven 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 7 freshman, 5 are from the state of Arkansas, 1 from Tennessee and 1 from Oklahoma.
BLOCK PARTY
• Junior Lauren Bradshaw has become a dominant presence in the paint during her career and quickly moved her way up the all-time blocks records in school history.
• She has blocked 78 shots in her career, a mark that is the seventh most all-time.
• As a sophomore in 2015-16, she blocked 53 shots, third most in a single season in school history.
STARING DOWN 300
• A-State head coach Brian Boyer is one victory from reaching career win No. 300.
• He would be the second coach in A-State history to reach 300 career victories while at the school (former men's coach John Brady reached 300 while at Arkansas State).
• He would be the first coach to win all 300 games while at Arkansas State
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.
