The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff women's basketball team will open a three-game trip in the state of Texas on Monday with the first of back-to-back games at Prairie View A&M.
The Golden Lions (2-14 overall, 1-9) will face PVAMU (1-8, 0-6) Monday at 5 p.m. in a makeup contest of the contest that was postponed on Jan. 25 in Pine Bluff due to Covid challenges in the Prairie View program. UAPB will then play the Panthers Tuesday at 3 p.m. and Texas Southern (2-6, 1-5) Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in doubleheaders with the Golden Lion men that were rescheduled due to last week's snow event.
The UAPB Sports Network will broadcast all three games on 99.3 FM The Beat, online at uapblionsroar.com/live, and on the free UAPB Athletics App. The games against Prairie View can also be seen online at uapblionsroar.com/pv, and Thursday's game can be seen online at uapblionsroar.com/tsu.
In their last contest on Feb. 13, the Golden Lions battled Southern to a halftime tie before the Jaguars pulled away in the third quarter en route to a win.
UAPB's
Khadijah Brown has been named as the Southwestern Athletic Conference Impact Player Of The Week. Brown (6-3, R-Sr., Miami, Fla.) notched her second straight double-double, eighth of the season and 10
th of her career on Saturday against Southern. Brown scored a career-high 26 points along with 10 rebounds, two steals, and one blocked shot in the contest.
On the season, Brown is seventh in the SWAC in both scoring (14.9 ppg) and blocked shots per game (1.5 bpg), fourth in both rebounds (9.4 rpg) and field goal percentage (49.1%), and 11
th in free throw percentage (64.9%).
The Panthers' schedule has been delayed at different times this season, limiting them to only nine contests thus far. Prairie View's only win this season came in the season opener against McNeese, as the PVAMU has lost four of its six SWAC games by seven points or less. Diana Rosenthal (12.8 ppg. / 13th in SWAC), Kennedy Paul (10.1 ppg.) and Tiffany Tullis (10.1 ppg.) lead the Panthers.
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