SAN ANTONIO -- The University of the Incarnate Word women's basketball team will play its final home game of the 2018-19 season on Wednesday night. The Cardinals will go for their third straight victory and fifth home win in their last six when they welcome Houston Baptist tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. inside the McDermott Center.
 
It will be senior night, with a ceremony to honor UIW's lone senior, Gabbi Bowie, beginning at 6:30. The game will begin promptly afterward.
 

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YEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH BOWIEEEEEEEEEE

• Throughout conference games, redshirt senior guard Gabbi Bowie has sprinkled plenty of flava into the UIW offense.
• She delivered a season-high 17 points and five assists to lead UIW to victory over Southeastern Louisiana (2/13).
• She followed that with a 17-point performance in her last outing against Texas A&M-CC.
• Over her last six games, she is putting up an average of 9.8 points, 3.5 assists and three rebounds in that stretch.
• She has made at least one three in her last eight consecutive games, the longest streak of her career and tied for the longest streak of any Cardinal this season (Wiggins – 8).
• Against Northwestern State, she delivered a career-high nine assists to go along with eight points and five rebounds.
• Against New Orleans, she scored 10 points on a career high 10 made free throws. She also dished out a then-career best seven assists and a season high three steals in the win.
• Against SLU, Bowie scored a season-best 17 points on a career-high 71.4 percent shooting (5-7).
• She played a career high 39 minutes against New Orleans. Since the beginning of SLC play, she is averaging 28.1 minutes played per game.
• She set a new career high for assists in a single season this year, with 52. She still has three games to add to that total.

 
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 13.7 percent from where it was in non-conference.

• As a team, UIW is shooting 74.9 percent in SLC action (262-350), the second 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 77.3 percent from the line (17-22) in its last game against AMCC. The Cardinals have now shot 75 percent or better in eight straight games and nine of their last 10 overall.
• In their last eight games, UIW has shot 81.3 percent from the line (130-161), the best free-throw percentage in the conference over that stretch.

 
WE'RE JELLY OF THAT JUMPER

• Junior guard Angelica Wiggins dropped a career-high 28 points earlier in this home stand 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 38 made triples this season. She's shooting 30.9 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 83.9 percent from the line in SLC action.
• In the current three-game homestand, she is averaging 20 points on 3.5 made three's per game.

 
SCOUTING HBU

• The Huskies enter play in the cellar of the conference. They are 7-19 (2-14 SLC) and are currently in the midst of a season-worst eight-game losing skid.
• They are searching for their first road conference win of the season, they have one more chance at getting in Saturday when they travel to Corpus Christi.
• This is the second meeting between UIW and HBU this season. The Huskies won the first meeting on a last second shot, 60-59 in Houston.

 
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