Game Notes

DURHAM, N.C. – The Hampton University women's basketball team will close out the regular season at the McDougald-McLendon Gymnasium on Thursday, taking on North Carolina Central at 5:30 p.m.

With a win, the Lady Pirates (22-4, 14-1 MEAC) will clinch their second straight MEAC regular-season title; they already wrapped up the top seed in the 2012 MEAC Tournament (March 5-10 in Winston-Salem, N.C.) with Monday's 54-30 win at Bethune-Cookman.

It was their seventh straight win overall, and their seventh straight road win.

Senior guard Jericka Jenkins (Lancaster, Texas) led the way with 17 points, while junior forward Keiara Avant (Chesapeake, Va.), the reigning MEAC Player of the Week, added 12 points and a team-high 16 rebounds for her third straight double-double.

Sophomore forward Alyssa Bennett (Hampton, Va.) added 10 points. With nine points on Monday, senior guard Choicetta McMillian (Fairfield, Texas) is nine points shy of becoming the 23rd Lady Pirate in program history to score 1,000 career points.

The Lady Eagles (3-25, 1-14 MEAC) have lost four straight games, and 17 of their last 18, after Monday's 68-57 loss at South Carolina State. Lakisha Evans led the way with 15 points and eight rebounds, while Blaire Houston added 13 points.

NCCU went 5-25 last season as an independent; this is the Lady Eagles' first year in the MEAC. The Lady Eagles, under 16th-year head coach Joli D. Robinson, return three starters and seven letterwinners from last season, and NCCU was picked to finish 12th in the MEAC this year.

Redshirt-junior guard/forward Chasidy Williams is the lone Lady Eagle in double figures in scoring, pouring in 14.9 points per contest to go along with a team-high 7.6 rebounds per game.

NCCU is scoring just 50.5 points a game, while giving up 69.1 points a night.

Hampton is 15-2 all-time against North Carolina Central, having won the last eight meetings — including last year's 79-44 decision at the HU Convocation Center. Three of Hampton's 100-point games have come against NCCU. The Lady Pirates are 4-1 against NCCU in Durham, N.C.

The Lady Pirates are 274-136 all-time against teams currently in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). Hampton has a winning record against every MEAC school. In addition, Hampton has won or shared regular-season MEAC titles four times (1998-99, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2010-11) and claimed five MEAC Tournament crowns (2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011).

Under head coach David Six, the Lady Pirates are a combined 29-13 in road games over the past two-plus seasons — including a 60-37 win at Pitt, a 68-55 win at Jacksonville, a 79-62 win at IPFW, a 66-39 win at Chicago State, a 71-63 win at Boston College, a 76-50 win at Coppin State, an 83-51 win at Morgan State, a 52-39 win at Howard, a 72-33 win at Delaware State, a 68-46 win at Norfolk State, a 46-43 win at Florida A&M and a 54-30 win at Bethune-Cookman.

Hampton went 11-4 on the road last season, including a stretch in which Hampton won five straight road games. Hampton went 6-6 on the road in 2009-10, Six's first season at the helm.

For more information on Hampton University basketball, please call the Office of Sports Information at (757) 727-5811, or visit the official Pirates website at www.hamptonpirates.com.