Davidson and Western Carolina Square Off Wednesday Night

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DAVIDSON, N.C. — Riding a two-game winning streak, Davidson returns home after a successful trip to Kansas City, Mo., to take on former Southern Conference foe Western Carolina on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in women's basketball inside John M. Belk Arena.

Wednesday's game marks just the second home game for the Wildcats (3-1) in a stretch of nine to start the year. They scored a pair of wins to close out the Preseason WNIT last weekend against UC Irvine and Kansas City. The Catamounts (1-5) will be on the road for the fourth time through its first seven games.

QUICK HITS ...
•Davidson is in its 41st season and has collected 451 wins in program history.
•The 'Cats are in their sixth year in the Atlantic 10 after a 21-year run in the SoCon.
•Sarah Donovan (1st) and Katie Turner (2nd) were named to the league's all-preseason teams.
•Davidson was picked fifth in the A-10 preseason poll after a tie for fourth place last year.
•10 letterwinners return and four starters from a year ago, while four freshmen were added.

LAST TIME OUT vs. UC IRVINE & AT KANSAS CITY, NOV. 15-16, PRESEASON WNIT ...
•Davidson took a pair of first-time wins last weekend against UC Irvine (78-72) and Kansas City (74-64) to wrap up its games in the Preseason WNIT.
•Katie Turner had 20 points vs. UCI, while Suzi-Rose Deegan tallied a season-best 31 points in the win vs. KC. She was named MVP over the weekend and joined Turner on the all-tournament team.
•The Wildcats went 2-1 in the Preseason and moved to 3-5 all-time in its four appearances in the preseason tournament.

A-10 ROOKIE OF THE WEEK ...
•Freshman Suzi-Rose Deegan claimed Davidson's first Atlantic 10 weekly award by being named the league's Rookie of the Week for games played from Nov. 11-17.
•The Australian guard averaged 19.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game vs. UC Irvine and Kansas City, scoring a season-best 31 points in the win vs. the KC Roos.

A-10 NOTES ...
•Davidson currently sits in a tie for the top spot in the league standings with four other teams at 3-1.
•Through the first four games, the Wildcats rank third tops in field goal percentage (.444) and third in scoring (70.3), three-point percentage (.363) and free throw percentage (.754).
•Katie Turner is fourth in the league in scoring (15.8) and Sarah Donovan is tops in rebounding (9.5).

RANDOM NOTES ...
•Three Wildcats are scoring in double figures- Katie Turner (15.8), Suzi-Rose Deegan (14.8) and Saran Donovan (10.0 / 9.5 rpg).
•Davidson has shot over 40 percent in all four games this year, with a season-high .477 against Drexel.
•The Wildcats have hit the 40-rebound mark three times already, with a season-best 46 vs. Georgetown.
•Cassidy Gould's 10 assists at Drexel were the most since Chloe Johnson had that many vs. Rhode Island, Feb. 11, 2017. Prior to that, the last time came back on Dec. 29, 2010 by Barbara Sitton (11 vs. Princeton).
•Sarah Donovan, who opened the season vs. Georgetown with a double-double (12 pts/career-high 16 rbs), has 15 double-doubles for her career, 11 of which came last year.
•Donovan led the team in rebounding 20 times last year, with 14 double-digit rebounding games.
•Suzi-Rose Deegan (16 points vs. Georgetown) was the first freshman to lead the Wildcats in scoring in a season opener since Cara Reed did it in 2004-05.
•Davidson, which had at least three double-digit scorers in 27 of the 32 games last year, has already put at least three players in doubles digits in three of the first four games this year.
•Davidson's 17 wins a year ago were the most since 2012-13 (22-13).

SCOUTING THE CATAMOUNTS ...
•Western Carolina dropped its fifth straight with a 64-47 defeat to UNC Asheville on Monday for its Education Day game.
•Alyssa Walker scored 14 points and Jewel Smalls had 10 points to go with nine rebounds.
•Smalls paces the team in scoring (13.0 ppg) and rebounding (10.7 rpg), while shooting 34.3 percent from behind the arc (12-35).
•She was named the SoCon Player of the Week Tuesday.
•The Catamounts have yet to win on the road, sitting at 0-3.
•WCU is coming off a 4-26 season a year ago and went winless in the SoCon at 0-14.
•It returns four starters and seven of 10 letterwinners.
•Head coach Kiley Hill is in his first year at Western.

ALL-TIME SERIES ...
•This is the 55th career meeting between both school's women's basketball programs dating back to Dec. 1, 1976.
•Davidson, which leads the series 29-25, is currently riding a 10-game winning streak in the series that dates back to Feb. 5, 2011.
•The 'Cats won the most recent meeting (11/10/17) at Western, 70-57, in head coach Gayle Fulks' first season.

A LOOK AHEAD ...
Davidson returns back to the road to start a four-game swing, beginning with a trip to Blacksburg, Va., to face Virginia Tech Sunday, Nov. 24 at 5 p.m.

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