Women’s Basketball Gets Back in Action with Exhibition Against Faulkner on Sunday

Sunday, October 21

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

3 p.m. CT

Alabama

Faulkner University (Ala.)

Women’s Basketball Gets Back in Action with Exhibition Against Faulkner on Sunday

10/19/2018 4:02:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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The Crimson Tide will take on the Lady Eagles at 3 p.m. on Sunday inside Coleman Coliseum

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama women's basketball team is set to play in its first of two exhibition games to begin the 2018-19 season when it hosts Faulkner University at Coleman Coliseum on Sunday afternoon. Tip is slated for 3 p.m. CT, and admission is free.

OPENING TIP

Alabama returns just 41 percent of its scoring from a season ago after graduating six seniors from a season ago.
The Crimson Tide has added a plethora of talent in six highly-touted freshmen, and JUCO Player of the Year, Cierra Johnson.
Five of the six Alabama freshmen have won at least one state championship in their high school career, while all six have played for a state title.
This is the second exhibition meeting between Alabama and Faulkner. The Tide won the first meeting, 93-34, on Nov. 9, 2015.
Alabama has gone 5-0 in exhibitions under head coach Kristy Curry.

IN THE RECORD BOOKS

Junior Ashley Knight is just 39 blocks away from breaking Alabama's all-time block record, with 149 blocks in her career. Last year she finished No. 4 in the Tide record books with 59 blocks in a single-season. Knight still holds the single-season record for blocks with 90 in 2016-17.
Knight also currently holds the highest career field goal percentage (.561 – min. 295 attempts) in Alabama history. The Austin, Texas native, has made 166-of-296 attempts in her two-year career.
Junior point guard Jordan Lewis is currently sitting at No. 7 all-time at Alabama in career assists per game with 3.9 in her two-year stint with the Tide. Lewis also came in at No. 8 in the UA record books in single-season assists with 154 during the 2016-17 season.

ABOUT FAULKNER

The Lady Eagles finished the regular season third in Southern States Athletic Conference last season and lost in conference tournament semifinals.
Faulkner earned an at-large bid to NAIA National Tournament where the Eagles lost to Campbellsville in the opening round, 79-63.
The Lady Eagles were 11-0 last season in games decided by seven or fewer points.
The team is 156-91 all-time.
Reed Sutton has been the head coach since the inception of the program in 2010.

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