HOUSTON – The University of Houston women’s basketball team returns home to Fertitta Center to take on freshly transitioned Division I program Texas A&M Commerce on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The Cougars are seeking their first win of the 2022-23 season in their home opener.
THE GAME
- This is Houston’s 2022-23 home opener.
- The Cougars are looking for their first win of 2022-23.
- The Lions are looking for their first win against an NCAA opponent in 2022-23 (home opener came against NAIA program UNT Dallas).
- Graduate Tatyana Hill and junior Laila Blair are each averaging 12-plus points a game through two games.
LAST TIME OUT
- Hill recorded a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds, her 10th-career double-double.
- Hill and Blair each scored in double figures in Houston’s 68-61 loss at New Mexico.
- Houston led just once in the game at New Mexico.
- The Cougars starting lineup has stayed the same all season with Hill, Blair, seniors Bria Patterson and Britney Onyeje and junior Tae’Lor Purvis.
- Houston shot 92.3 percent from the charity stripe at New Mexico.
- Blair was the only Cougar to play 30-plus minutes at 5,000-plus feet in elevation at New Mexico.
THE TIP
- Graduate Tatyana Hill is one of five players in The American to score 20-plus points through two games and the only player with a 20pts-10reb game.
- Junior Laila Blair was a unanimous Preseason All-Conference First Team selection by The American coaches.
- The Cougars were picked to finish second in the league and received two first place votes in the Coaches Poll.
- Houston faces five teams in 2022-23 that received votes in the Preseason AP Poll. Kansas State, Florida, South Florida, UCF and Washington State.
- The Cougars are receiving votes in the USA Today/WBCA Preseason Coaches Poll. 2022-23 opponents, South Florida, SMU and UCF are also receiving votes in the preseason poll.
- Blair was one of three players in The American in 2021-22 to make six 3-pointers in one game and the only player in the conference with two games of six-plus 3-pointers made.
- Blair finished eighth in the league in scoring in 2021-22 (13.3 ppg).
- Graduate Tatyana Hill finished seventh in the league in rebounding in 2021-22 (7.3 rpg).
SERIES HISTORY
Houston record vs Texas A&M Commerce 1-0
home / away / neutral 0-0 / 0-0 / 1-0
Last meeting W, 104-53, 2/6/76, Neutral
Streak Houston, won 1
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