DURHAM, N.C. – The three-point line may determine the winner of the North Carolina Central-UNC Asheville women's basketball game at McDougald-McLendon Arena on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 6:30 p.m. ESPN+ will livestream the non-conference contest.

The Eagles (0-2) are the MEAC's top three-point shooting team (.344 percent) and have the conference's best three-point shooter in guard Aysia Hinton after the first week. Hinton leads the MEAC in three-pointers (7) and three-pointers made (3.5) per game after two contests.

UNC Asheville (1-1) counters with the third-ranked three-point percentage defense in the Big South Conference. The Bulldogs have held their first two opponents to 20 percent shooting behind the arc including Warren Wilson in a 108-44 victory on Nov. 6.

NCCU is hoping that familiarity on its homecourt will lead to success behind the three-point line, as well as the frontcourt, for its first victory of the season. The Eagles are coming off a road loss to nationally-ranked North Carolina and a 78-68 home defeat to UNC Wilmington last week.

Aniya Finger scored 19 points and Hinton added 12 points on four three-pointers against UNCW. They both pace the Eagles in scoring (10.5 ppg) and MEAC Preseason Player of the Year Morgan Callahan is the team's top rebounder (6.0 rpg).

A trio of Bulldogs – Nia Green, Aileen Marquez and Jaidyn Koerdt – are each scoring at 10.5 points a clip and Green tops the team in steals (3.0 spg) and blocks (1.5 bpg).

History favors the Eagles, who own a three-game winning streak in the season series. The last time both teams met, NCCU slipped past UNCA 65-63 in Asheville, N.C., in 2023.

Terrence Baxter was the Eagles' head coach in that contest, and he would like nothing better than for his team to continue its torrid perimeter shooting to extend the streak.

The contest marks the return of UNCA head coach Tynesha Lewis and assistant coach Ron Woodard. A former N.C. State standout and WNBA player, Lewis was on the Eagles' women's coaching staff as associate head coach from 2017-19. Woodard was an assistant on the NCCU men's staff that guided the Eagles to the NCAA Division II national championship in 1989.

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