AN A-STATE WIN WOULD
• Improve A-State's record to 7-21 on the season and 5-11 in the Sun Belt Conference.
• Give A-State their 54th SBC win over the last 4 seasons.
• Give Arkansas State its 254th win against an SBC opponent (in league play).
• Give the Red Wolves back-to-back wins for the first time this season.
• Move A-State into a tie for 9th place in the league standings.
RECAPPING THE GEORGIA STATE GAME
• Tahlon Hopkins bank shot off the glass with 1.8 seconds to go helped A-State to a 59-57 victory over Gerogia State this past Thursday.
• A-State trailed by 10 with 4:07 to go in the third quarter, but battled back and took the lead with less than a minute to go.
• Jada Ford returned for the first time since Jan. 5 after missing 11 games with an elbow injury.
• Ford scored 13 points in her return, while Tahlon Hopkins paced A-State with 16 points.
• A-State benefited from a technical foul called on the Georgia State bench with 59.3 seconds to go in the game that resulted in a pair of free throws for A-State that allowed them to take the lead.
• The victory was the sixth straight for A-State over the Panthers.
A PERFECT NIGHT
• Arkansas State set a Convocation Center and program record with a perfect 12-for-12 performance from the free throw line.
• The previous A-State record was set in 2005 against Iowa with an 11-for-11 night. The Red Wolves also went perfect from the free throw line against Little Rock (10-10) in 2012.
• The previous Convocation Center record was set by Louisiana-Lafayette in in 2008 with an 11-for-11 mark from the line.
SENIOR DAY
• In their careers, Fowler and Oliver were part of two regular season conference championships, two appearances in the SBC Championship game and three WNIT appearances.
• In their four years, Fowler and Oliver have helped A-State win 79 games, including 54 conference victories in that span.
• The Red Wolves will also honor senior manager Conner Gurley.
A YEAR IN THE MAKING
• Arkansas State recorded 10 steals in its recent victory over Georgia State, marking the first time this season that A-State had double-digit steals.
• The last time A-State had 10 or more steals in a game was on Feb. 25, 2016 against Texas State.
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.
EYE POPPING NUMBERS
• Freshman forward Tahlon Hopkins has been a key component for A-State this season. She is averaging 9.3 points per game and 5.0 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.
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.
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.
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.
