ROCK HILL, S.C. – Coming off a 61-38 home victory against South Carolina State to give the Eagles their second win on the year, Winthrop aims to finish the non-conference slate on a high note by traveling to Florida for the second and final time this year for the Hatter Classic on the Stetson University campus in DeLand. The Eagles will take on the Wildcats of Bethune-Cookman on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. and then play the host Hatters at 11 a.m. the next day.
Game Information - Winthrop (2-7)
Opponent/Date/Time/Location Bethune-Cookman (0-8) | Saturday, Dec. 18 | 1:00 p.m. | DeLand, Fla. / (
Edmunds Center)
Stetson (5-5) | Sunday, Dec. 19 | 11:00 a.m. | DeLand, Fla. / (
Edmunds Center)
Live Stats Bethune-Cookman |
Stetson
Live Stream Bethune-Cookman |
Stetson
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SERIES HISTORY VERSUS BETHUNE-COOKMAN
Winthrop and Bethune-Cookman meet for the 5
th time with the Wildcats leading the series, 3-1. The two teams met for the first time on Jan. 27, 1998 with the Eagles winning 78-48 at home. The Eagles have dropped the last three games in the series. The last meeting occurred on Jan. 28, 2004 with Bethune-Cookman taking a 59-46 win on the Eagles home court.
SERIES HISTORY VERSUS STETSON
Winthrop and Stetson meet for the fourth time with the Hatters leading the all-time series, 3-0. The first meeting occurred on Dec. 16, 1996 with Stetson winning 71-64 at the Hatter Classic. The most recent meeting was on Nov. 20, 2011 with the Hatters winning by two, 74-72 on their home court. The Eagles will seek their first win in the series.
A GLANCE AT WINTHROP
The Eagles begin their season with a brand-new roster in head coach
Semeka Randall Lay's third season as the permanent head coach. The team has two graduate students, two seniors, one junior, six sophomores and two freshman, with five players being transfers.
Winthrop is coming off a 6-24 (4-14 Big South) season in 2021-22 with Randall Lay in her second season as the permanent head coach. Season highlights include big victories over long-time conference rivals Presbyterian, UNC Asheville, Charleston Southern and Radford.
Randall Lay is in her third season at the permanent helm of the program after serving as associate head coach and then interim head coach. Entering her 11th season as a head coach, she has served in the same role at Ohio University (2008-13) and Alabama A&M (2013-16).
BIG SOUTH PRESEASON POLL
Winthrop was voted to finish 9th in the Big South Conference preseason poll. High Point and Gardner-Webb are the co-preseason favorites is the preseason favorite with 92 points (5 first-place votes and 4 first-place votes, respectively) while Campbell was third with 121 points and one first-place vote. They were followed by Radford (55), UNC Asheville (52), defending conference champion Longwood (51), Presbyterian (42), USC Upstate (29), the Eagles (28), and Charleston Southern (23).
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