Game Notes

PULLMAN, Wash. – The Hampton University women's basketball team's road trip continues on Monday, with the second stop being Beasley Coliseum as the Lady Pirates are set to face Washington State at 10 p.m. EST.
 
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Last Time Out: The Lady Pirates opened the 2015-16 season on Friday with a 95-59 loss at Iowa State, despite 21 points on 8-for-14 shooting from Malia Tate-DeFreitas.
 
The Series: Hampton is 0-1 against Washington State, with the Cougars taking a 74-60 win at the HU Convocation Center on Nov. 25 of last season.
 
Scouting Washington State: Washington State, in its ninth season under head coach June Daugherty, returns two starters and nine letterwinners from a team that advanced to the WNIT last season after winning 17 games. The Cougars opened their season on Friday with a 61-44 win over UC Santa Barbara, with Borislava Hristova pouring in a game-high 15 points.
 
Against the Pac-12: Hampton is 0-2 all-time against teams currently in the Pac-12 following last season's 74-60 loss to Washington State. The Lady Pirates' only other game against a Pac-12 team came in the 2012 NCAA Tournament, when Stanford beat Hampton 73-51. Hampton has never faced Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, USC, Utah, or Washington.
 
Against "Power Conferences": In head coach David Six's six-plus seasons at the helm, the Lady Pirates have enjoyed success against the six so-called "power conferences:" the ACC, Big East, Big Ten, Big XII, Pac-12, and SEC. After a 95-59 loss at Iowa State on Friday, the Lady Pirates are 9-19 against teams in these six conferences — including a 1-6 mark against such teams in the 2014-15 season. During Six's tenure, Hampton boasts wins over LSU, Florida, Boston College, Pitt, Mississippi State, Kansas State, Virginia Tech, and Auburn — and the Lady Pirates took Kentucky to overtime in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in March 2011. This season, Hampton will face the likes of Iowa State, Washington State, Oregon, Texas, South Carolina, and Wake Forest.
 
Road Warriors: The Lady Pirates were 9-9 in true road games last season, marking the first time since the 2009-10 season they did not post a winning record on the road. In their first six-plus seasons under Six, the Lady Pirates are a combined 62-28 in road games. In 2012-13, Hampton was 13-1 on the road, and from 2010-11 through 2013-14 — a span of four seasons — Hampton was a combined 47-11 on the road.
 
On the Road Again: In a five-game road stretch to open the 2015-16 season, the Lady Pirates are racking up the frequent flyer miles. In total, Hampton will be traveling 6,953 miles, crossing over all three times zones in the process. Ames, Iowa was the first stop of the trip, before the Lady Pirates continued westward to Pullman, Wash. and later Eugene, Ore. After taking on the Ducks on Nov. 19, Hampton will be Texas-bound to take on UTEP in El Paso on Nov. 22 and then heading to Austin for a match-up against nationally-ranked Texas on Nov. 25.
 
Picked to Finish Second: Hampton has been picked to finish second in the MEAC this season in a preseason poll voted on by the league's head coaches and sports information directors. The Lady Pirates were regular-season champions for the fifth straight year last season after going 14-2 in league play. For the second straight season, North Carolina A&T has been chosen to win the MEAC.
 
Preseason Honors: Tate-DeFreitas was named MEAC Preseason Player of the Year, after earning the conference's top individual honor a season ago, and senior guard Ryan Jordan was named Preseason Third Team All-MEAC. The preseason teams were voted on by the MEAC's head coaches and sports information directors.
 
Tate-DeFreitas Moving on Up: Heading into the 2015-16 season, Tate-DeFreitas is 11th on the Lady Pirates' all-time scoring list with 1,298 career points — after just two-plus seasons of play. The reigning MEAC Player of the Year is averaging 19.7 points in 66 career games thus far, and she is 28 points shy of cracking the top 10 (Thelkla Blue, 1990-94, scored 1,326 career points). Jackie Dolberry (1985-89) is the program's all-time leading scorer with 2,727 career points. LaShondra Dixon-Gordon (1999-2003) is the program's all-time Div. I leading scorer, ranking second overall with 1,967 career points.
 
Jordan Third Team Last Year: Jordan was selected Third Team All-MEAC by the league's head coaches and sports information directors last season, in large part because she tied for sixth in the MEAC in offensive rebounds, averaging 3.0 per game. Jordan was second on the team in rebounds with 5.9 per contest, and she had a double-double at South Carolina State on Jan. 26, scoring a career-high 22 points and grabbing 12 boards. She had a career-high 14 rebounds at DePaul on Dec. 22, 2014. She also had 19 points and nine rebounds in Hampton's WNIT first-round win at Drexel. Jordan was named Preseason Third Team All-MEAC heading into this season.
 
Lupoe Coming Along: Sophomore post player Kaylah Lupoe was a force to be reckoned with in the closing stages of the 2014-15 season. Averaging 4.3 points and 2.9 rebounds a game for the year, Lupoe upped those averages to 14.0 points and 7.7 rebounds over the last seven games of the regular season. She had three double-doubles during that stretch, including a 20-point, 13-rebound effort at Howard and a 25-point, 11-rebound game at Delaware State. Lupoe ended the regular season with three straight 20-point games, and she started in four of Hampton's last five games. During that seven game span, the team averaged over 78 points per game.
 
All They Do is Win: The Lady Pirates come into the 2015-16 season with the second-highest winning percentage among all Div. I women's basketball programs in the Commonwealth of Virginia. In Six's first six years at the helm, the Lady Pirates are 146-48 overall (a .749 winning percentage), behind only James Madison in terms of winning percentage. Hampton has won at least 20 games in five of Six's first six seasons, and the Lady Pirates won 19 games last season.
 
Defense, Defense, Defense: Defense has been a staple of the Lady Pirates during Six's tenure. The MEAC Defensive Player of the Year award has gone to a Hampton player four times in the last six seasons, and in each of those six seasons, the Lady Pirates have ranked top 50 nationally in scoring defense. Hampton led all Div. I teams in scoring defense in 2012-13, holding opponents to 47.8 points per game. In 2011-12, Hampton was second in the nation, behind UConn, in scoring defense, giving up 47.6 points per game. This past season, Hampton was 50th in the nation in scoring defense, allowing 58.5 points per game. In addition, the Lady Pirates were seventh in the nation in steals last season, averaging 11.4 per game.
 
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