A&T Women Seek Their Fourth Straight Win

The Aggies are averaging 83.3 points in their last three games.

Radford at North Carolina A&T
When: Thursday, January 27, 2022, 6 p.m.
Where: Corbett Sports Center (East Greensboro, N.C.)
ESPN+: Donal Ware, pxp/Cy Alexander, analyst

A&T Team Leaders:
Points: Chanin Scott (13.9)
Rebounds: Chanin Scott (7.9)
Assists: Jordyn Dorsey (2.6)
Steals: Chanin Scott (2.3)
Field Goal Percentage: Chanin Scott (.487)
3-pt Field Goal Percentage: Chanin Scott (.414)
Free Throw Percentage: Chanin Scott (.886)

A&T Big South Leaders (Top-10)
Points: Chanin Scott (13.9) – 8th
Rebounds: Chanin Scott (7.9) – T-4th
Steals: Chanin Scott (2.3) – 4th; Sean Kelly Darks (1.7) – 10th
Field Goal Percentage: Chanin Scott (.487) – 6th
3-pt Field Goal Percentage: Shareka McNeill (.359) – 3rd

A&T NCAA Leaders (Top-100)
Steals: Chanin Scott (2.3) – 79th
Field Goal Percentage: Chanin Scott (.487) – 75th
3-pt Field Goal Percentage: Shareka McNeill (.359)

NORTH CAROLINA A&T AGGIES (6-10, 3-3 Big South): N.C. A&T won its first road Big South Conference game in school history after a 75-68 victory at UNC Asheville. The win marked the Aggies third in a row. The Aggies have gone from 11th place in the Big South Standings to sixth during their winning streak.

Shareka McNeill has been the catalyst. She has 65 points in her last three games while shooting 53.3 percent from the floor (24-for-45) and 40 percent from 3-point range (12-for-30). She also has eight steals and 11 assists in her last three contests.

Chanin Scott has also been a force over the last three, with 50 points, 25 rebounds, eight assists and six steals. She is 19-for-30 (.633) from the floor and 5-for-6 (.833) from 3-point range.

Head coach Tarrell Robinson enters his 10th season with a 181-103 overall record and a 96-25 record in Corbett Sports Center under Robinson. Robinson needs 11 wins to break the women's basketball program record for the most wins in school history. Over the last six seasons, A&T has won four regular-season Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) championships and three MEAC tournament titles.

RADFORD HIGHLANDERS (5-11, 1-4 Big South): Radford defeated Charleston Southern, 56-52, in Charleston, S.C., to snap an eight-game losing streak.

The Highlanders are the league's second-best free throw shooting team (.705) and the third-best shooting team, knocking down 41 percent of their shots. Bridget Birkhead is the only Highlander averaging double-figures in scoring (10.6). Rachel LaLonde leads the team with 5.7 rebounds per game.

Mark McGuire is in his ninth season as the head coach and has posted a 147-109 overall record. McGuire guided his team in 2018-19 to a Big South tournament title and a bid to the NCAA tournament with a 26-6 record.

THE SERIES: Radford won the only meeting between these two schools, 63-52, in Radford, Va., on Feb. 15, 1989.

QUOTABLE: "We are about to hit one of our toughest stretches in my time as head coach here, starting with a Radford team that is coming off a good road win. It's going to take another team effort like our last outing to get our four straight conference win."

Head Coach Tarrell Robinson on facing the Highlanders

GAME NOTES:

In the last six games, Kiana Adderton averages 10.2 points, 7.7 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.5 steals with two double-doubles.
Jazmin Harris averages 12.7 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 1.0 blocks in the last six games. She has scored in double-figures in all six games.
Chanin Scott averages 15.6 points per game in her last 11 games. She averages 8.5 rebounds per game in her previous 11 games with four 10-plus rebounding efforts.
Faith Blackstone is averaging 10.4 points and shooting 41.3 (19-for-46) percent from the floor in her last five games.
The Aggies have taken care of the ball in conference play. N.C. A&T has a plus-4.7 turnover margin in Big South play, second-best in the league. They are third in the conference in assist/turnover ratio (1.0).
The Aggies will play 10 games in 22 days (Jan. 21 – Feb. 12), including three makeup games that were postponed due to COVID.
Originally, Radford and A&T scheduled a Jan. 11 contest at Corbett, but COVID protocols moved the game to Thursday, Jan. 27.