Play-4-Kay Pink Game Against Houston Baptist

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's basketball team continues its home stand on Wednesday night when Houston Baptist comes to the Coastal Bend for a 7 p.m. tip.
 
Not only will the Islanders go to balled against the Huskies, but A&M-Corpus Christi will join countless other women's basketball teams across the country in battling cancer with the Play-4-Kay Foundation's Pink Game. The Islanders will also give away free pink rally towels as a part of KRIS-6 Pack the House Night. 
 
Corpus Christi (10-17, 6-10) is looking to keep the late season momentum going after Kassie Jones dropped a career-high 28 points in a 77-66 win over McNeese last Saturday. The Islanders enter the final two games of the regular season in a tie for seventh with Nicholls.
 
Against the Cowgirls, Brittany Mbamalu and Dalesia Booth tallied 12 points each while Ashanti Plummer added 10 of her own.  The Islanders scored a season-high 26 points in the first quarter knocking down four 3-pointers while also shooting 62.5% from the floor in the first-half, missing the record by three percent.
 
QUICK HITS
>> The Islanders' senior class tallied 40 points against McNeese, taking its season average up to 19.1 points per game. The freshmen lead the team with 21.8 points per game.
>> The Islanders continue to sit atop the Southland Conference in blocks with 4.1 per game, which ranks 74th in the country.
 
ON THE VERGE
>> The Islanders need two blocks to break the single-season program record for rejections in a season of 113 set in 2003-04.
>> After drilling four 3-pointers against McNeese on Saturday, Brittany Mbamalu needs five more 3-pointers to tie Nichole Duncan for most career makes from downtown.
>> Kassie Jones is shooting 88-percent from the charity stripe, just one percent higher than the school record of 87-percent set by assistant coach Jasmine Shaw.
 
SERIES HISTORY
>> After dropping the Feb. 1 contest in Houston, 72-59, the Islanders fell to 4-5 all time against the Huskies.
>> Corpus Christi boasts a 2-1 record against HBU in the Coastal Bend.
>> The Blue and Green are averaging 71.3 points per game with a .428 field goal percentage in games at home against Houston Baptist.
 
 PLAY-4-KAY
The Kay in Play4Kay is Olympic and Naismith Hall of Fame coach Kay Yow, who died from breast cancer in January of 2009 following a 20-plus year battle. Yow was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987 and it was the recurrence of her disease in 2004 that sparked the 'pink phenomenon' in women's basketball. Several years later this movement resulted in the establishment of the Kay Yow Cancer Fund and its fundraising initiative known as Play4Kay.
 
Because of financial support from Play4Kay events across the country, the Kay Yow Cancer Fund has awarded over $5 million for scientific research and projects assisting the underserved in all women's cancers.
 
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