CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Western Carolina women's basketball opens Southern Conference play Sunday traveling to Greensboro, N.C. to take on UNCG. Tip-off is 2 p.m. at Fleming Gymnasium.

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AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE CATAMOUNTS:

• Western Carolina and UNCG meet for the 76th time on Sunday. The Catamounts lead the overall series 40-35. The Spartans have won the last six meetings dating back to the 2017-18 season and 7-3 over WCU in the last 10 games. Western Carolina's last win over UNCG was Nov. 25, 2017, defeating the Spartans in Cullowhee 77-73. WCU is 12-14 at UNCG. Western Carolina's largest margin of victory over UNCG was a 62-29 win over the Spartans on Jan. 7, 2012.
• Sophomore guard Mia Littlejohn came off the bench against Piedmont providing a spark and scoring a career-high 11 points. She has played in the last three games after not playing the first seven games on the year.
• Freshman Sophia Singer saw the first action of her Catamount career against Piedmont on Jan. 6 after missing the first nine games of the season.
• Rookie Zanoria Cruz has scored in double figures in the last five games. In that five-game period, she scored a career-high 24 points - becoming the first WCU freshman to score 20 or more points on the season. In the last five games, Cruz is averaging 15.6 points per game in that time span. Overall, she is averaging 12 points per game – the most by a freshman in the SoCon.
• Western Carolina has scored 60 or more points in the last four games including scoring a season-high 74 points against Piedmont.

 
 
AN INSIDE LOOK AT SPARTANS:

• Like Western Carolina, UNCG is 2-7 on the year and will also be opening SoCon play on Sunday.
• The Spartans have not opened the conference season against the Catamounts since 2011 when they played on the road in Cullowhee.
• The Spartans put on one of their best defensive performances of the past two years while scoring a season-high in a 69-37 win over visiting Converse last Sunday, bouncing back from a pair of road losses to (RV) Tennessee and Elon.
• Unlike WCU, who has two players averaging in double-figure scoring, UNCG does not have a player averaging in double figures. CeCe Crudup is close averaging 9.6 points per game.

 
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