GAME NOTES

DURHAM, N.C. – The North Carolina Central University women's basketball team ends its regular season at Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference rival North Carolina A&T State University on Thursday evening in the Corbett Center.
 
NCCU will be providing a free audio webcast of the game with NCCU Sports Network broadcaster Mike Wood on the air with the play-by-play. Fans can follow NCCU women's basketball all season by visiting NCCUEaglePride.com and on social media at Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

GAME INFO

Thursday, March 1 | 5:30 PM
NCCU at N.C. A&T
AUDIO | STATS
 
N.C. Central Women's Basketball
 
The Lady Eagles are coming off a 68-61 win in their home finale on Monday, defeating Savannah State University. NCCU (7-20 Overall, 6-9 MEAC) is currently in a three-way tie for ninth place in the league standings with University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Morgan State University. NCCU will be either the 10th or 11th seed in the MEAC Tournament (MDES and MSU play each other Thursday so one of them will get another win and both teams hold the tiebreaker over NCCU if tied). There is still a potential of five different teams NCCU could play in the first round with a log-jam in the middle of the standings.
 
Senior Morgan Jones scored a career-high 28 points in Monday's victory over the Lady Tigers. She also reached the 1,000-point plateau in the contest. Jones has moved up to fifth in the MEAC in scoring at 13.5 points per game and she also ranks first in the league with a .852 free throw percentage and sixth in the conference by making 2.0 steals per game.
 
NCCU committed a season-low six turnovers against SSU.
 
Sophomore Dominique Adams and freshman Jada Blow are NCCU's next top scorers at 6.5 and 6.4 points per game, respectively. Sophomore forward Deja McCain adds 5.7 points and team-high 5.4 rebounds per game. Freshman Paulina Afriyie pulls down 5.0 rebounds per contest, including a team-best 6.9 boards per MEAC game. Senior Chantal Thomas is contributing a team-best 2.2 assists per game.
 
NCCU led 18-12 after one quarter of play in its first meeting against North Carolina A&T on Jan. 28. However, the Aggies held the Lady Eagles to 27.8% shooting to pull away for a 62-38 win. Jones led NCCU with nine points.
 
North Carolina A&T Women's Basketball
 
The Aggies are coming off a 65-60 home loss to regular season champion Bethune-Cookman University on Monday. North Carolina A&T (12-16 Overall, 8-7 MEAC) is currently tied for sixth place in the MEAC standings and could move up as far as a tie for fourth place with a win Thursday.
 
Senior guards Aliyah Kilpatrick and Dana Brown lead NCAT with 11.5 and 11.2 points per game, correspondingly. Kilpatrick also leads the Aggies with 3.1 assists per game while Brown tops the conference with 2.5 made 3-pointers per game. N.C. A&T has the second best rebounding margin in the MEAC and is led by freshman center Alexus Lessears, who ranks seventh in the league with 7.0 rebounds per game.
 
Michelle Fitzgerald, who is averaging just six points per game on the season, led the Aggies to the 24-point win at NCCU in January with a game-high 17 points. Brown chipped in 11 points and Lessears secured 12 rebounds.