Women's Basketball Set to Take on UT Arlington on the Road

QUICK HITS  

     • The Islanders snapped a string of 18 Southland Conference losses Saturday night with their first conference win of the season against Southeastern Louisiana. The last time the Islanders won a home conference game was on March 3, 2010 against Lamar.

     • Zoe Vega-Vega registered a career-high 15 points and a career-high 15 rebounds in career-best 34 minutes in her third start of the season Saturday against Southeastern Louisiana.

     • Marquesha Anderson-Sparks tallied her sixth double-digit scoring game with a career-high 16 points, including a career-best five from behind the arc against Southeastern Louisiana.

     • The Islanders shot 74.1 percent (20-27) from the free through line against Southeastern Louisiana.

     • Head Coach Robert Robinson is within one game of reaching the 70-win mark. Robinson currently sits at 69 wins in his six years as head coach at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi.

     • Coach Robinson has used five different starting lineups this season.        

     • The Islanders will face UT Arlington and Sam Houston State this week.

LAST TIME OUT

The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball team were propelled by three players in double-figure scoring in their first conference win of the season Saturday against Southeastern La.

SCOUTING THE MAVERICKS

UTA heads into Wednesday's game with a 2-12 overall record, 0-3 in conference play and sits at 2-5 at home. The Mavericks have dropped four straight, including their last three conference games.

On the season, UTA averages 53.7 points, shoots .362 from the floor (278-of-769), .224 percent (30-of-134) from three-point range and .706 (166-of-235) from the line.

ALL-TIME SERIES

Wednesday's game will mark the 16th meeting between the two schools with the Mavericks claiming the 5-10 advantage. Over the last two seasons, the Mavericks and Islanders are 2-2. 

BENCH WORK

This season the Islanders have depth on their roster, something they have lacked in the past. This season, the Islanders bench has outscored their opponents' bench 329-312. Junior Alisa Roberts leads the bench with 6.4 points per game and freshman Trish Amboree is second with 6.1 points per game.

REBOUNDING MACHINE

The Islanders are leading the conference with 29.1 defensive rebounds a game and are fourth in offensive rebounds with 15.8

The Islanders have been a force on the defensive end, tallying 465 rebounds to their opponent's 454. Jammer and Myles have combined for a total of 135 defensive rebounds.

The Islanders sit in fifth-place in the conference with 3.6 blocks per game. Myeisha Myles, Jessica Jammer and Damequia Montgomery are three of the top shot blockers in the league. Myles and Jammer lead the way in ninth place with 1.0 a game, and Montgomery sits in 12th (0.8).

BALANCED ATTACK

This season the Islanders seem to perform better when at least three players have scored double-digit points rather than two. The Islanders are 4-3 when at least three players have scored and 0-5 when at least two have posted double-digit scoring efforts.

Myles leads the Islanders with eight double figure scoring games, Jammer has seven and Anderson-Sparks has tallied six. Jammer, Myles and Vega-Vega also have two double-doubles apiece this season.

The Islanders finished 2-4 in the month of December and 2-5 in November this season. Since its first season of basketball in 1999-2000 the Islanders are 50-42 in the month of January.

ONE AWAY FROM 70               

Head coach Robert Robinson is within one game of reaching the 70-win mark. Robinson currently sits at 69 wins in his six years as head coach at the Island University.

Joining Myeisha Myles as the lone seniors on the team is Zoe Vega-Vega. She is in her second season after transferring from Daytona State College.

In the Islanders first conference victory of the season, Vega-Vega notched her second double-double of the season with a career-high 15 points and a career-best 15 rebounds in a career-high 34 minutes. The senior is averaging 4.4 points per game and 4.5 rebounds per game in 16.1 minutes per game.

DYNAMIC SPARK

Sophomore Marquesha Anderson-Sparks began the season giving the Islanders a spark off the bench, but Anderson-Sparks has worked her way into the Islanders starting lineup in the Islanders last four games and is averaging 7.3 points per game.