SAN ANTONIO -- The University of the Incarnate Word women's basketball team will get a chance to continue its strong play at home when the Cardinals host the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders Saturday afternoon at the McDermott Center.
 
UIW has won three of its last four home games, including a 100-point outburst in the last game, a 100-91 victory over Northwestern State. It was the third triple-digit game in program history and the best three-point shooting performance against a DI opponent in program history (13-26).
 

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MACY TREY

• Freshman guard Macy Ray has established herself as the driving force of the team.
• She's started the last 16 games, logging 25.2 minutes per game in that stretch.
• On Jan. 19, she held the SFA point guard to 0-4 from the field, she was shooting .462 percent from the field in conference games heading into play.
• Her 21 points against New Orleans (1/26/19) stands as the most points scored by a UIW freshman since Feb. 22, 2017 (Robinson, 23 points, vs. Nicholls).
• Always a consistent presence on defense, Ray has made some impressive strides on the offensive side of the ball in conference play. She is coming off a 15-point game against NSU after putting on a three-point shooting clinic, going 5-7 from three in the contest.
• Her 71.4 percent shooting game (5-7) against NSU is the best three-point shooting performance by a freshman since Natalie Hessong shot 7-9 (77.8 percent), also against NSU, back on January 20, 2014.
• After hitting threes in just four non-conference games, Ray leads the team with 19 threes in SLC action, averaging 1.3 3PT made per game, including five games with multiple made threes.

 
SPEERHEADING THE OFFENSE

• Sophomore guard Kara Speer has turned a corner in conference play.
• After averaging 2.8 points per game in non-conference, Speer has taken her game to a new level. She's third on the team in scoring (6.7 ppg) since the start of SLC play. Providing a much-needed supplemental threat for the offense.
• Her scoring improvement is only surpassed by her massive strides on the glass. She is averaging 4.3 rebounds per game in conference play, but she has hauled in five or more rebounds in seven of her last eight games.
• She leads the team in conference games with a .906 shooting percentage from the line (29-32).
• Her impact is being felt on the glass too, Speer hauled in a career-high 11 rebounds against Lamar (2/20). She is averaging 6.2 points and 7 rebounds in her last five games.
• She led the team in points for the first time this season with 13 points against SFA (Jan. 19).
• She's had a fantastic month of February, averaging 6.7 points and 6 rebounds while shooting 93.75 percent from the line (15-16).

 
WE'RE JELLY OF THAT JUMPER

• Junior guard Angelica Wiggins dropped a career-high 28 points in her last game against NSU.
• It's the most points scored by a Cardinal this season and most since December 2016 (Frias – 42).
• She got 10 of those points from the free-throw line, where she shot a perfect 10-10, a new career high. She becomes the second Cardinal to go 10-10 from the charity stripe this season, after Bowie did so against New Orleans (1/26/19).
• This was the second 20+ point performance in Wiggins' UIW career (21 at UMASS 12/7).
• She leads the team with 35 made triples this season. She's shooting 30.2 percent from three thus far.
• She has improved her free-throw shooting dramatically in conference play. After shooting 54.2 percent in non-conference. Wiggins is shooting 86.2 percent from the line in SLC action, including her current streak of 13 straight free-throws made.

 
WELL, IF THEY'RE FREE…

• The Cardinals have been working hard on their free throw shooting in conference play, raising their free throw percentage by an impressive 13.5 percent from where it was in non-conference.
• As a team, UIW is shooting 74.7 percent in SLC action (245-328), the third highest percentage in the conference.
• Against New Orleans (1/26/19), UIW hit 31 of 41 shots from the charity stripe, the most made free throws in a single game since Nov. 20, 2013 (34).
• They repeated that feet in their last game, when they shot 31-36 from the line against NSU.
• As a team, UIW shot 86.1 percent from the line (31-36) in its last game against NSU. The Cardinals have now shot 75 percent or better in seven straight games and eight of their last nine overall.
• In their last seven games, UIW has shot 81.3 percent from the line (113-139), the best free-throw percentage in the conference.

 
SCOUTING TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI

• The Islanders enter play sixth in the conference with a 7-8 record (13-13 overall).
• They are coming off a road loss to Abilene Christian, 72-55, on Wednesday.
• AMCC has not scored more than 60 points in a game since February 2, when they dropped 70 in a victory over HBU.
• This is the second meeting between UIW and AMCC this season. The Islanders took the first game, in Corpus Christi, 57-49.

 
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