BEAUMONT, Texas – The Lamar University women's basketball program will be back on the road on Saturday, February 20^th as they are traveling to Corpus Christi, Texas to square off against Texas A&M – Corpus Christi in Southland Conference action. Tipoff is slated for 1:00 p.m. CT inside the American Bank Center.

The Cardinals are led by redshirt junior Micaela Wilson who averages 12.1 points a game and also leads the Cardinal defense with 5.8 rebounds a game. Senior Jadyn Pimentel helps the Lamar defense where she records 2.6 steals per game.
 
The Islanders are led by Alecia Westbrook and Makinna Serrata. Westbrook tallies an average of 12.7 points a game and leads the Islander offense in shooting at 54.1 percent from the field. Serrata is third on the team in scoring with 7.6 points a game. The Islanders most recently played on Wednesday, January 20^th where they defeated New Orleans, 57-49.
 
BROADCAST INFORMATION

• The contest in Corpus Christi will be broadcasted on ESPN+ with John Liddle as play-by-play and Jim Haller at the color analyst spot.

 
LAST TIME WE PLAYED

• Led by freshman Bebe Galloway and redshirt junior Micaela Wilson, the Lamar University women's basketball program got out to a hot start and never looked back as they took a convincing 83-54 win over Houston Baptist on Saturday afternoon at the Montagne Center.
• The Cardinals jumped out to an early 10-2 lead over the Huskies going into the first quarter media. Lamar went to work early as Wilson tallied 10 points and pull down six boards in the first period alone, while holding HBU to just 20 percent shooting from the field. The Cards knocked down only 39 percent from the field but hit 75 percent from the line. Lamar outrebounded the Huskies 16-8 in the first. Galloway tallied four points in the first to help propel the Cards to a 17-9 lead going into the second.
• The Cardinals used an 8-5 run to extend their lead to 42-34 to open up the third quarter. Wilson recorded her third double-double of the season after she pulled down four rebounds to help Lamar outrebound HBU in the third, 11-5. Again, the stout Cardinal defense proved tough to beat as they limited the Huskies to just 23 percent shooting from the field while in turn producing 28 points on offense on 77 percent from the field.
• Heading in the final quarter of play, the Cardinals had a 65-39 lead and did not look back as they held the lead for the entirety of the contest. The Cardinals continued to dominate on the boards as they outrebounded HBU in the fourth quarter, 13-9, while allowing the Huskies to hit 36 percent of their shots from the field. Wilson continued to shine for the Cardinals as she added seven points and two rebounds to her line. The Cardinals saw their biggest lead of the contest come in the fourth as they lead as much as 32 points at the 4:14 mark en route to a convincing, 83-54, victory over Houston Baptist.

 
SERIES HISTORY

• This marks the 29th meeting between the programs with the Cardinals holding the series advantage over the Islanders, 18-11.
• The last time out, Lamar captured the first meeting of the 2020-21 season, 54-50, over AMCC in Beaumont.