AN A-STATE WIN WOULD
• Improve A-State's record to 6-21 on the season and 4-10 in the Sun Belt Conference.
• Give A-State their 53rd SBC win over the last 4 seasons.
• Give Arkansas State its 253rd win against an SBC opponent (in league play).
RECAPPING THE LITTLE ROCK GAME
• Little Rock quickly jumped out to a 10-4 advantage in the first quarter and A-State was unable to recover from the early run by the Trojans.
• The Red Wolves failed to make a 3-pointer in the game for the first time since No. 29, 2013 against Illinois.
• Lauren Bradshaw recorded multiple blocks for the third consecutive game and for the 15th time this season.
NO! NO! NO!
• Lauren Bradshaw had two blocks against Little Rock marking the 15th time this season that she has had multiple blocks in a game.
• Bradshaw has now blocked 48 shots on the year, the fifth most in single season in school history. She is also just the second player to appear on the single season blocks list multiple times.
GETTING TO THE LINE
• Dominique Oliver has established herself as one of the best players in the nation at getting to the free throw line.
• She enters the week ranked 48th in the NCAA with 145 free throw attempts on the year, a mark that is also tops in the Sun Belt.
• Oliver's 94 made free throws ranks 112th in the nation and are just two behind Little Rock's Kaitlyn Pratt for the most made in the league.
RED WOLVES ESTABLISHING SOLID STARTING FIVE
• One of the objectives of head coach Brian Boyer in early season was to find a starting give from a relatively inexperienced group of Red Wolves. Only two players on the active roster had ever started a game prior to the start of the season (Dominique Oliver & Lauren Bradshaw).
• Overall, A-State owns just 135 career starts, 130 of which have come this season.
• A-State has sent eight different starting lineups to floor in 2016-17 after not changing the lineup only three times in 2015-16.
• Over the previous three season (2013-14, 2014-15 & 2015-16) the Red Wolves had just nine different starting lineups during the time frame.
EYE POPPING NUMBERS
• Freshman forward Tahlon Hopkins has been a key component for A-State this season. She is averaging 9.1 points per game and 4.9 rebounds per contest.
• The points per game number is the best since Adrianne Davie (11.6) and Rudy Simms (12.0) each averaged in double-figures in their freshman seasons of 2003-04.
• The rebounding total is the most since Shay Scott averaged 7.5 rebounds per game during her freshman season in 2007-08.
WE MUST PROTECT THIS HOUSE
• Four of A-State's 5 wins this season have come on its home court.
• Since the 2013-14 season the Red Wolves have compiled a 43-9 record on its home court. The three losses this season are the most in a season during that span.
• A-State has overall record of 154-54 on its home floor since joining the Sun Belt Conference.
GOING AGAINST THE TREND
• Arkansas State 81-72 overtime loss to Appalachian State on Feb. 4 marked just the seventh time during the Brian Boyer era that the Red Wolves had lost game that has gone into extra time.
• It was A-State's first OT time since 2014-15 when it captured an 80-77 victory over UT Arlington on the Mavericks home court.
• Boyer is now 16-7 overall in overtime games in his career, with only two of those seven losses coming at the Convocation Center.
• The loss also snapped a streak of 4 consecutive overtime wins by Arkansas State.
MOVING ON UP
• 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 116 shots in her career, a mark that is the second most all-time.
• She ist just the third player in school history to block 100 shots in a career.
• As a sophomore in 2015-16, she blocked 53 shots, third most in a single season in school history.
• She enters the week ranked 62nd in the nation with 48 blocked shots, which ranks as the fifth most in a single season in A-State history.
THAT'S ALOT OF FREE THROWS
• Arkansas State attempted 47 free throws against Troy on Jan. 21, the 4th most in school history.
• The Red Wolves made 32 of the free throws, a mark that is also the 4th most in school history.
• The 47 free throws attempted were the most since the team took 45 against Middle Tennessee in 2007, while the 32 makes were the most since the squad made 31 in 2006 against San Jose State.
MISSING PRODUCTION
• A-State has lost three players to injuries this season, two of which were among the Red Wolves' leading scorers.
• When Jada Ford was sidelined she was leading the team with an average of 11.9 points per game through 14 games.
• When Akasha Westbrook went down with an injury she was averaging 10.1 points per game through eight games.
• Ford still leads the team in scoring, while Westbrook ranks third.
PLAYING TO THE ODDS
• If the Red Wolves score 70 or more points, A-State is 175-31 (.850) under head coach Brian Boyer. This season the Red Wolves are 3-3 when scoring 70 or more points.
• By contrast A-State has a record of 197-60 (.767) when holds its opponents to 65 or fewer points under Coach Boyer. This season A-State is 2-3 in games in wich the opponents scores 65 or fewer points.
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• A-State began the season with eight true freshmen on the squad, the most during the Brian Boyer era at Arkansas State.
• 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 8 freshman, 5 are from the state of Arkansas, 2 from Tennessee and 1 from Oklahoma.
