ARLINGTON, Texas – The UTA women's basketball team returns home for the first time since the season-opener on Nov. 9 when they host Wright State on Wednesday night (Dec. 4). Tip-off at College Park Center is set for 7:00 p.m.

Matchup: UTA (4-3) vs. Wright State (3-2)
When: Wednesday, December 4 | 7:00 p.m.
Where: College Park Center | Arlington, Texas
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UTA PROBABLE STARTERS
#12 Marie Benson | F
#20 Claire Chastain | G
#21 Terryn Milton | G
#24 Aysia Evans | G
#41 Katie Ferrell | G

UP NEXT
The Lady Mavs, including the matchup against Wright State, will close out non-conference play with 4 of the next 5 games at College Park Center. UTA will battle Wright State, Marist, SMU and Texas Southern at CPC, and travel to Evanston, Ill. to face Northwestern.

STARTING 5 QUICK HITS
#12 Marie Benson (F)
- Named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week (Nov. 26)
- Scored a season-high 27 points at Grambling on Monday, Nov. 18
- Shooting .514 from the field this season
- Waiver to play immediately approved by the NCAA prior to the Nov. 15 UNT game
#20 Claire Chastain (G)
- Shooting .425 from the field this season
- Scored 22 points vs. #8 Louisville in the Paradise Jam last weekend
- Ranked 9th in the Sun Belt in FT% (.763) last season
#21 Terryn Milton (G)
- Scored a career-high 18 points at Kansas State
- Shooting .463 from the field this season
- Ranked 9th in the Sun Belt in FT% (.778) and 6th in assists per game (3.0)
#24 Aysia Evans (G)
- Ranks 2nd in the conference in steals (2.4/gm)
- Tied her career-high with 19 points vs. Oklahoma State in the Paradise Jam
- Knocked down a trey in 16 of the 31 games she appeared in as a junior
#41 Katie Ferrell (F)
- Ranked in the top 15 in the conference in rebounds (11th; 6.4), assists (2nd; 4.4), and steals (t-8th; 1.7)
- Ranked in the top 100 nationally in total steals (48th), steals per game (54th), assist-to-turnover ratio (56th), total assists (88th) and assists per game (92nd) last season

KNOW YOUR OPPONENT | WRIGHT STATE
- The Raiders are playing in their 4th straight road game. Wright State is 1-2 so far during their road trip, with a win at Xavier (86-74) and a pair of losses at the FAU Thanksgiving Tournament to Kansas (74-63) and Loyola Maryland (66-51).
- Wright State returns 11 players this season, The Raiders did lose four key components from their roster. Emily Vogelpohl, Mackenzie Taylor, Symone Simmons and Imani Partlow all graduated for the Raiders.
- After its first outright regular season title in program history and winning the Horizon League Championship last season, the Wright State women's basketball team received 91 total points and four first-place votes as the Raiders were selected to finish tied for first in the 2019-20 Horizon League preseason poll.
- Individually, senior Michal Miller was named first team All-Conference and sophomore Angel Baker was selected to the second team. Last season, Miller turned in the eighth-highest single season three-point percentage in program history, connecting on 30.5 percent of her shots, while finishing the year averaging 11.6 points per game. Baker, who was named to the Horizon League All-Freshman team last season, was the Raiders' third-leading scorer a year ago with a 9.6 points per game average.
- Along with winning their first outright conference title in program history last season, the Raiders' 27 wins were the most in program history as head coach Katrina Merriweather claimed Horizon League Coach of the Year honors for the second time in three seasons. Wright State advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second time in program history, earning a No. 13 seed and a trip to face Texas A&M in the opening round.

WE'LL TAKE THE COMPLIMENT
Despite going 0-3 at the 2019 Paradise Jam the Lady Mavs played hard and left an impression on fans and opponents during the event.

Louisville head coach Jeff Walz was very complimentary of UTA in his postgame interview..."I expected this. I told our kids that UTA played a physical brand of basketball. I was very impressed with watching them in film study."

He followed those comments up with a tweet to Coach Gerlich following the Lady Mavs' matchup with the Cardinals..."I will be following your team all season long! Love the spirit and passion they play with. It's good for our game and something that fans will come watch."

COLLEGEINSIDER.COM MID-MAJOR TOP 25
The Lady Mavs, who were ranked No. 22 in last week's CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top-25 Poll, received 51 points to rank No. 26 in the most recent Top 25 (Dec. 3).

UTA is one of two Sun Belt programs showing up in this week's poll. South Alabama received 9 points.

NATIONAL RANKINGS
The Lady Mavericks are limiting opponents to just 34.8-percent shooting, which ranks 47th in the country. UTA also ranks in the top 75 nationally in Assists (64th; 15.7), field goal percentage (67; 43.9%) and opponent field goal percentage (47th; 34.8%).

D 'EM UP
UTA has held four of their seven opponents this season below 55 points, while also limiting each of those four squads to less than 31 percent shooting from the floor.

UTA has also forced their six of their first seven opponents into 14+ turnovers.