LADY BRONCS HOST NORTHERN COLORADO
Contact: Dave Geringer, UTPA Sports Information Director, (956) 381-2240

EDINBURG, TX -The University of Texas-Pan-American's women's basketball team returns to action Tuesday night. The Lady Broncs will take a two-game winning streak into their game against Northern Colorado. Game time at the UTPA Fieldhouse is 7:00 p.m.

Texas-Pan American is 9-12, and is coming off a 75-72 victory at Indiana-Purdue-Fort Wayne last Saturday afternoon. "We need to continue to play with intensity," said UTPA Head Coach DeAnn Craft. "We did some really good things in the game against Fort Wayne, and we need to come back and defend our home court. We have yet to have both our interior and our perimeter play well on game night. We need to play a complete basketball game."

Northern Colorado, a first-year NCAA Division I team, is an independent and has compiled a 12-8 record. The Bears had their two-game winning streak broken when they lost at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Saturday. Amber Elliott leads UNC with 16.3 points per game and the Bears average nearly ten three-pointers per game, which would be tops in Division I if they were not a first-year Division team and ineligible to be listed in the stats.

"Northern Colorado is a very good shooting team," said Craft. "They are not one-dimensional, they have deep three range, and they are a tremendous catch and shoot team. They run their offense extremely well, and we have to try to jam their shooters."

After Tuesday's game, Texas-Pan American will return to action when they visit Prairie View A&M next Monday, February 11th.

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