KEY STORYLINES
• This is the 42nd season of women's basketball at Arkansas State.
• The Red Wolves have an all-time record of 242-143 against league teams.
• Arkansas State is coming off a 94-80 victory over Troy
• A-State's 18-3 start is it's best start since 1992-93 when the team started 19-3 that year.
• A-State has set the school record for consecutive home victories with 22.
• A-State is just one of four teams in the nation with 12 conference wins on the year.
• A-State is one of 18 teams in the nation with three or less losses entering Thursday's game.
• A-State is two wins shy of tying the longest winning streak in school history at 14 games.
AN A-STATE WIN WOULD
• Give the Red Wolves their first 19-3 start to a season since 1992-93.
• Give A-State 19 wins through its first 22 games for the 2nd time in school history.
• Give A-State 13 or more wins in Sun Belt play for the fourth time in their history.
• Make A-State 13-0 to start SBC play for the 1st time in their history.
• Give Arkansas State its 43rd SBC victory over the last three years.
• Give the Red Wolves their 65th victory over the last three years.
• Give A-State head coach Brian Boyer his 291st career win.
TWELVE GAMES AND COUNTING
• A-State has an 12 game winning streak entering Thursday's contest against UL.
• It is the third time in program history that A-State has had a 12 game winning streak.
• The last time it happened was the 96-97 season when the Red Wolves won 12 straight games.
• The longest winning streak in school history is 14 games during the 1992-93 season.
• Khadija Brown-Haywood is averaging 17.8 points and 10.3 rebounds per game during the streak, which also covers all of the Red Wolves SBC games.
THE 1600-400-400 CLUB
• Aundrea Gamble is one of just seven current active Division I players to have over 1,600 points, 400 rebounds and 400 assists in a career.
• The other six players on the list include Rachel Banham (Minnesota), Kim Demmings (Wright St.), Amersty Alston (Ohio St.), Ariel Hearn (Memphis), Tiasha Gray (Austin Peay) & Cartaesha Macklin (Southern Ill.).
AP VOTING
• A-State received a vote in the AP Top-25 poll that was released on Feb. 8, marking the first time since the 2006-07 season when the team received two votes during week 10 of the voting.
• The only time the Red Wolves were ranked in the poll was Jan. 3, 2000 when the team was No. 24 for one week, before dropping out of the rankings the following week.
A RARE FIRST
• For the first time in the Brian Boyer coaching era at Arkansas State, three players socring 20 or more points in a game in the Red Wolves' 94-80 victory over Troy on Feb. 5.
• Khadija Brown-Haywood (23), Jessica Flanery (22) and Aundrea Gamble (21) all reached the 20-point plateau to accomplish the rare feat in A-State history.
TWO MORE TO DOUBLE DOWN ON
• Khadija Brown-Haywood ranks 44th in the nation with nine double-doubles on the year after recording two more in the Red Wolves' home victories over South Alabama and Troy.
• She also leads the Sun Belt in double-doubles.
• Her total is also the most at A-State since Shay Scott had 14 during the 2010-11 season.
IT'S RAINING 3'S....AGAIN
• For the second time this season Jessica Flanery drained six 3-pointers in a game, equaling the mark in A-State's Feb. 6 win over Troy.
• She also made six 3-pointers at Texas State earlier this season, the second time in her career that she had accomplished the feat at Texas State's Strahan Coliseum.
ELITE COMPANY
• A-State is just one of four teams in the nation with 12 conference wins on the year.
• UCONN has the only other perfect 12-0 record conference record in the nation in the American Athletic Conference.
• BYU has an 12-1 record in the West Coast Conference and Iona is 12-2 in the MAAC.
LOOKING AT HISTORY
• A-State's 18-3 start is it's best start since 1992-93 when the team started 19-3 that year and finished with a 25-8 overall record.
• A-State now has the second best start in school history at 18-3.
• The 12-0 Sun Belt Conferene start is also the best start to league play in school history.
WE'RE GOING STREAKING
• A-State has won 22 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 5th 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%.
SIMPLY THE BEST
• Aundrea Gamble moved into fifth on A-State's all-time scoring list with a 20-point performance against South Alabama on Feb. 4.
• She now has scored over 1,600 hundred points in her career, one of just six players to accomplish the feat.
• She also moved into 10th on the all-time career steals lists with 178.
AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR TURNOVERS
• Arkansas State tied a Convocation Center record with five turnovers against Georgia Southern on Jan. 30.
• A-State set the all-time mark just 13 months earlier when the squad had just five turnovers against Appalachian in its 2014-15 SBC home opener.
• The previous A-State low in the Convo was eight, which had been accomplished twice. The first time was in 1990 against UTEP and more recently in 2008 against FIU.
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 41-3 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 11-0 this season.
• Neither has lost a game at the Convo this season.
FOWLER POWER
• A-State junior guard enjoyed career-high against Georgia State Jan. 28 when she scored a
career-high 15 points and drained five 3-pointers in the win.
• Fowler also became the the fifth A-State player to lead the team in scoring in a game this
season.
• Her five made 3-pointers were the second most made in a game by an A-State player this year.
THIRD QUARTER PROFITS
• The third quarter has been the turning point in many of the Red Wolves' games this season.
• A-State has outscored it's opponents by 110 points (422-312) in the third quarter, making it the largest margin in any quarter this year.
• A-State holds a 85 point margin in the first quarter and a 90 point margin in the second quarter.
ONE OF A FEW
• A-State is one of 18 teams in the nation with three or less losses entering Saturday's game.
• The Red Wolves' Win/Loss percentage of .857 is tied for the 17th best in the nation.
NATIONAL RECOGNITION
• ESPN.com Graham Hays recently ranked Arkansas State in No. 9 in his latest top-10 mid-major poll that was released on the website on Feb. 3.
• A-State was ranked No. 10 in his previous poll.
• A-State has beaten the No. 1 team on Hays' list, Florida Gulf Coast.
TOUGH CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
• The Sun Belt Conference returned to travel partners this year and Appalachian State is the lone team without a travel mate. The Mountaineers face 10 opponents coming off a bye date, but the combined days between games opponents have preparing for Appalachian State are less than what A-State faces this season.
• A-State faces four opponents this season coming off one of their two bye dates on the league schedule in addition to UT Arlington with a two-day leg up. ULM (6), Little Rock (3), Georgia State (6), Louisiana (6) and UT Arlington (2) have a total of 23 days in preparing for A-State while
Appalachian State's 10 opponents coming off a bye date total 21 days. ULM has three consecutive Thursday opponents in February coming off a Saturday bye date.
QUARTERLY REVIEW
• The Arkansas State defense has done a very good of keeping teams from scoring "big quarters" against them this season. Out of a possible 84 quarters, the Red Wolves defense has held its opponents to to 15 or fewer points 43 times. Teams have scored 10 or fewer points 18 times.
• On the other end of the floor, the A-State offense has been able to produce big quarters and has scored 20 or more points 34 times this season.
• The squad has scored 25 points in a quarter 10 times and has two 30-plus point quarter.
NO ONE ELSE IN THE NATION CAN CLAIM THIS
• Aundrea Gamble ranks 10th in the nation among active players with a career scoring average of 18.7 points per game, and also ranks 15th in the nation with a career assists average of 4.56.
• No other active players in Division I ranks in the top-15 of both categories.
NO PARTY FOULS AT A-STATE
• The Red Wolves have committed the 17th fewest fouls in the country (319) entering Thursday's contest.
• UL has committed 378 fouls on the year, which ranks 155th in the nation.
TAKING CARE OF THE BASKETBALL
• Arkansas State has committed the 13th fewest turnovers in the nation through Thursday's games.
• A-State has turned the ball over just 286 times on the year.
• UL ranks 15th in the nation with 294 turnovers on the year.
A TOUGH PLACE TO WIN
• A-State became just the 10th team since Florida Gulf Coast became Division I in 2006-07 to defeat the Eagles on their home court.
• With the 62-48 victory, A-State made FGCU 116-10 (as of Nov. 28) on their home court since joining Division I.
