2016-17 RECORDS
Georgia State: 1-1, 0-0 Sun Belt
H: 0-0, A: 1-0, N: 0-1
Allen: 4-2, 1-0 Appalachian
H: 2-1, A: 2-1, N: 0-0
HEAD COACH
Sharon Baldwin-Tener (Georgia, 1991)
GSU: 69-113 (7th Yr.)
Career: 264-255 (17th Yr.)
SERIES RECORDS
All-time series: First meeting
GEORGIA STATE ON THE AIR
Radio: 1340 The Fan 3
Join John Morgo as he returns for another season of play-by-play for GSU women's basketball.
Internet: Live stats at GeorgiaStateSports.com
Television: WatchESPN/ESPN3
Sam Crenshaw and Kelcey Rogiers enter their second season covering GSU women's basketball for WatchESPN/ESPN3.
TIPOFF
• GSU opened the season at the Donna Murphy Classic in Morehead, Ky. and split two
games, beating Morehead State before losing to Eastern Michigan.
• Newcomer Tiffany Holston has made an immediate impact, averaging 11.0 points and
7.5 rebounds over the first two contests.
• Sophomore Madison Newby picked up right where she left off and leads the team in
scoring after the first weekend.
• Junior Makeba Ponder entered the season fifth in GSU history with 122 three-pointers.
With three after two games, she needs four more to own fourth place.
• Wednesday's game marks the first meeting between the Panthers and Lady Yellow
Jackets.
• After the win in the season opener, Sharon Baldwin-Tener is now 4-3 in season
openers at GSU. The Panthers have won four of the last five season openers.
• Georgia State returns all five starters from the 2015-16 campaign. In total, GSU has 11
veterans that have played in 596 collegiate games.
• The coaching staff also has a lot of experience with a combined 55 years of coaching on
the four-person staff.
• Makeba Ponder earned All-Sun Belt Preseason Second-Team honors for the second
year in a row.
• Georgia State was picked to finish ninth in the Sun Belt Preseason Poll after a 10th
place finish last season.
• Georgia State went 5-4 in non-conference games last season.
NOTING THE PANTHERS
From Downtown: Junior Makeba Ponder has proven to be a sharpshooter from three point range in her first two seasons on Decatur St. Ponder has led the Sun Belt Conference in most 3-point baskets made per game in each of the last two seasons (2.46 per game as a freshman and 2.30 as a sophomore).
Entering this season, she had already produced 122 3-point baskets to rank No. 5 in school history with two seasons to go...Chasing leader Kendra Long with 221 (2011-14) and runner-up Kelcey Roegiers-Jensen with 154 (2003-07).
Her 69 3-point baskets as a freshman tied the school mark for a season (Carmelita Layog, 2000) and her 53 as a sophomore were ninth-most made in a season in school history.
Chasing 1,000 Rebounds: Graduate transfer Tiffany Holston surpassed the 900-rebound mark Friday against Morehead State and currently sits at 913. Holston averaged 10.8 rebounds per game over three seasons at Albany State.
Seen Worldwide: For the second-straight year, all Georgia State home games will air live on ESPN3 this season. With the program's rise, nearly every game will be seen worldwide this year. Of the Panthers' 29 games, 14 are currently scheduled to air live.
Sam Crenshaw returns for the second year of calling play-by-play for Georgia State women's basketball games. He will be joined once again by former Panther and current Senior Woman Administrator Kelcey Rogiers for color commentary.
Next Up: The Panthers begin a three-game home stretch on Wednesday against Allen (S.C.). GSU hosts UNCW on Sunday and then Kennesaw State on Tuesday before traveling to Daytona Beach, Fla. for two games at the San Juan Shootout.
