PRAIRIE VIEW A&M GAME NOTES

LAST TIME OUT ...
The Lady Panthers dropped an 83-73 contest at Stephen F. Austin in their first visit to Nacogdoches since 2007. The Lady Panthers were within one possession of taking the lead several times throughout the contest before the Ladyjacks pulled away late in the game.

JACKSON AIMS TO CONTINUE SUCCESS IN 2014-15
Jeanette Jackson leads the Lady Panthers into the 2014-15 season after leading the team and the Southwestern Athletic Conference in scoring last year at 18.8 points per game. The senior guard from Las Vegas, Nev., was named to the All-SWAC First Team last season, and was also the Most Valuable Player of the SWAC Tournament in 2014.
She has already claimed one honor this season as Jackson was named to the SWAC's preseason All-First Team.

STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE
Prairie View A&M isn't afraid to take the court against some of the most powerful programs in the NCAA. This season's non-conference schedule features four games against teams that were ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 Division I Women's Basketball poll at the start of the season.
The Lady Panthers will see two of those teams – No. 6 Stanford and No. 12 North Carolina – in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Rainbow Wahine Shootout over Thanksgiving Weekend.
Prairie View A&M will also visit preseason No. 5 Texas A&M (Nov. 24) and No. 8 Baylor (Dec. 29).

AIMING FOR HISTORY
The Lady Panthers are coming off their fourth consecutive SWAC Tournament Championship and subsequent trip to the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament. Only two other SWAC teams have accomplished the feat – Jackson State (1982-85) and Grambling State (1996-99).
Since the Southwestern Athletic Conference and its member schools began competition for NCAA Division I championships, no team has ever won five consecutive SWAC Tournament titles.

COMFORTS OF HOME (STATE)
The Lady Panthers will play nine of their 12 non-conference games in the state of Texas this year. This includes eight road games at fellow Texas opponents, with only two of those games – at TCU (Dec. 13) and at Texas–El Paso (Dec. 20) – more than 200 miles from the Prairie View A&M campus.
Prairie View A&M's only games outside of Texas in Fall, 2014, will be a three contests in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Rainbow Wahine Shootout over Thanksgiving Weekend.

PLENTY OF EXPERIENCE
Though the Lady Panthers only return six players from last season's squad, they do return plenty of scoring and experience to the court. Five of Prairie View A&M's top seven scorers from 2013-14 return to the team in 2014-15

WINNING WHEN IT COUNTS
In her first season at the helm of the Lady Panthers, Dawn Brown's head coaching career got off to a less-than-ideal start as Prairie View A&M lost its first 10 games, all out of conference. 
But those games made her team battle-tested, as the Lady Panthers went on to an 11-7 record in conference before sweeping through the SWAC Tournament. All of Brown's wins have come against fellow SWAC programs.

PRAIRIE VIEW A&M VS. SEC
Since the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball era (1981-82), Prairie View A&M is 0-18 against the current member schools of the Southeastern Conference. This includes an 0-8 record against Texas A&M; the last two meetings have been played since the Aggies joined the SEC.
The Panthers have an all-time record of 2-16 against the Aggies. The only two Prairie View A&M victories came in back-to-back meetings in January, 1975.

ABOUT THE AGGIES (AND THE POLLS)
The Texas A&M Aggies are off to a 4-0 start in the 2014-15 season. Texas A&M is ranked No. 7 in the Associated Press' Top 25 poll, which was released today. The Aggies are also ranked No. 6 in the USA Today Coaches' Top 25 poll. The latest USA Today Poll will be released Tuesday.
There has been a lot of shuffling at the top of the polls, as No. 1 UConn fell last week to Stanford, which took the No. 1 spot in the USA Today poll the following day. Later in the week, the Cardinal then fell at home to Texas.