AN A-STATE WIN WOULD
• Improve A-State's record to 1-6.
• Give A-State a 233-150 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 (7 games) since 1982-83 when it lost 7 straight games.
• Give A-State head coach Brian Boyer his 300th career win.
RECAPPING WICHITA STATE
• The Red Wolves fell to Wichita State 69-51 this past Friday to run its record to 0-6, marking the first time in school history that A-State has lost six straight games to start a season.
• Junior guard Akasha Westbrook continued to impress with her second straight game in double-figures. The Malvern, Ark., native scored 17 points and nowl leads A-State in scoring on the year.
• Lauren Bradshaw nearly missed her first career double-double with a nine point, eight rebound performance.
FINDING HER GROOVE
• Junior Akasha Westbrook has enjoyed two of the best games of her career in the Red Wolves' last two outings. She scored a career-high 20 points against Iowa State and then responded with a 17 point performance at Wichita State.
• Over her last two games she is averaging 18.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game. She is shooting 40.6 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from beyond the arc.
• On the year, she now leads the team in scoring with an average of 10.0 points per game. She is also second on the team with 5.0 rebounds per game.
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 percentage at 46.4% (13-of-28) and also ranks 41st nationally in the stat.
OUTPERFORMING THE NUMBERS
• Of A-State's six returning letterwinners, four of them are out performing their career numbers in terms of points per game this season against their career averages entering the year.
• Akasha Westbrook has seen the biggest rise in her average, average +9.1 more points per game this season against her career average.
TAKING CHARGE
• Senior guard Dominique Oliver has become one of the league's best at taking charges on the year and has totaled 18 in six games this season.
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 79 shots in her career, a mark that is tied for the sixth 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.
