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Women's Basketball Continues Road Stretch At Hampton Jan. 22-23

Hampton,  V.A. – Winthrop women's basketball will continue its stretch of road games against the Hampton Pirates, Jan. 22 and 23. Tip-off is set for 5 p.m. on Friday and 3 p.m. on Saturday.

WINTHROP (2-9, 1-7 Big South Conference)
vs. Hampton (2-6, 2-4 BSC) Friday & Saturday, Jan. 22-23 | 5 p.m. & 3 p.m.
Location Hampton, VA | Hampton University Convocation Center
Television/Live Stream ESPN+ - GAME 1 | GAME 2
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WINTHROP PROBABLE STARTERS  (based off previous game)
Pos. No. Name Ht. Yr. PPG RPG APG
G 0 Maleeah Langstaff 5-11 Jr. 7.3 4.1 1.2
G 3 Madison Ervin 5-7 Gr. 6.4 2.2 0.9
G 12 Myra Strickland 5-6 So. 10.5 3.4 2.0
G 21 Anika Riley 5-8 Sr. 6.3 6.3 0.9
F 23 Sydney Hunter 6-0 So. 5.0 7.0 0.3
 
SERIES HISTORY
This will be just the sixth and seventh time the Eagles and Pirates meet. The first time these teams met was in 1983 before either program was Division I. Winthrop won that contest, 74-53. Winthrop opened Big South Conference play last season with a 72-66 home win over the Pirates, with four Eagles scoring in double-figures. On February 11, these teams met one last time for the 2019-20 season and the Eagles fell to the Pirates, 62-48, on the road. Hampton leads the all-time series 3-2.

WINTHROP EAGLES
Winthrop women's basketball will look to snap a seven-game losing streak against the Hampton Pirates. The Eagles are coming off back-to-back loses to the Longwood Lancers, 73-68 in Game 1 and 80-73 in Game 2. In the first meeting, the Eagles were led by senior Anika Riley who recorded 15 points and 8 rebounds. Myra Strickland and Madison Ervin also finished in double-figures with 14 and 11 respectively. In the final meeting between these two teams, the Eagles had five players finish with 10 or more points; Madison Ervin (14), Myra Strickland (12), J'Mani Ingram (12), Maleeah Langstaff (11) and Sydney Hunter (10). For Ingram and Hunter, those were career-bests. The team shot a season-high 51.9 percent from the field and 73.7 percent from the free throw line. Sydney Hunter remains within the top 10 in the conference in rebounding, coming in at No. 7 with 77 this season, averaging seven per game. Winthrop's +4.9 rebound margin leads in the Big South Conference.  

NEW LEADER AT THE HELM
Semeka Randall Lay has taken over the Winthrop women's basketball program after serving as Associate Head Coach last season. Randall Lay in a 2000 graduate of the University of Tennessee, where she was an integral part of Tennessee's 1998 NCAA Championship team that went 39-0, averaging 15.9 points a game while earning honorable mention All-America recognition. She was drafted 17th overall in the 2001 WNBA draft by the Seattle Storm and spent four years in the league. Randall Lay brings eight years of head coaching experience with an overall career record of 67-176.

MILESTONE TRACKER
Anika Riley has recorded 690 career rebounds and needs just six more to take sole-possession of 10th best in program history. Graduate transfer Madison Ervin needs 141 points this season to record her 1,000 collegiate career point. She has made stops at Mars Hill, Cape Fear Community College and Georgia State. Junior Maleeah Langstaff is coming up on her 100th career assist, needing just 15 more to reach that milestone. 

HAMPTON PIRATES
Picked to finish fourth in the Big South Conference preseason poll, Hampton enters the series with a 2-6 overall record and a 2-4 mark against Big South opponents. The Pirates had two preseason All-Conference selections in Laren VanArsdale and Nylah Young. While VanArsdale hasn't competed in 2020-21, Young currently leads the team in points and rebounds, averaging 13 and 4.8 per game respectively. Young earned All-Freshman Team honors for the 2019-20 season. The Pirates returned five key players, while welcoming four freshman and four transfers to the squad. Hampton opened the season with a five game losing skid, suffering loses to Liberty, Rutgers, Charleston Southern and Gardner-Webb before defeated the Runnin' Bulldogs, 46-38, on New Years Eve. They also split the season series with USC Upstate, winning Game 1 86-77, before falling 64-59 in Round 2. The Pirates are led by 11-year head coach, David Six. 
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