University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Wednesday, November 13
Asheville, N.C.
6 PM
UNC Asheville
vs
Lenoir-Rhyne
Photo by: Adrian Etheridge
Bulldogs Begin 2019-20 Season Wednesday by Hosting Lenoir-Rhyne
11.11.2019 | Women's Basketball
GAME NOTES | vs. Lenoir-Rhyne
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – UNC Asheville women's basketball will open its 2019-20 campaign, Wednesday, November 13, with a 6 p.m. matchup with Lenoir-Rhyne inside Kimmel Arena.
Wednesday's opener will be the first time the Bulldogs have opened at home since the 2014-15 season.
The Bulldogs enter the season led by redshirt senior, Sonora Dengokl, who was recognized as a Big South Preseason First-Team All-Conference selection. Last season, Dengokl was a Second-Team All-Conference selection despite missing nine games due to injury. The Sumter, S.C. native averaged 14.4 points and 4.1 rebounds per game last season.
UNC Asheville, led by eighth-year head coach Brenda Kirkpatrick Brown, was picked to finish third in the Big South in the annual preseason polls, voted on by Big South coaches. The Bulldogs finished fourth a season ago and made their fourth straight appearance in the conference semifinal game.
UNC Asheville also made their fourth straight postseason appearance by hosting a Women's Basketball Invitational first round game for the second year in a row.
This will be the first all-time matchup between the Bulldogs and the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears. Lenoir-Rhyne, a South Atlantic Conference member, ended the 2018-19 season with a 17-13 overall record. The Bears played two games last week and opened the 2019-20 season with a 1-1 record.
The game will be broadcast on BSN on ESPN+ and can be found by clicking HERE. Matt Stradley and John Williams will once again be on the call for all Bulldog home games. Live stats will also be available and can be found by clicking HERE.
For tickets please click HERE, or call 828-258-7900. Â
Notably
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – UNC Asheville women's basketball will open its 2019-20 campaign, Wednesday, November 13, with a 6 p.m. matchup with Lenoir-Rhyne inside Kimmel Arena.
Wednesday's opener will be the first time the Bulldogs have opened at home since the 2014-15 season.
The Bulldogs enter the season led by redshirt senior, Sonora Dengokl, who was recognized as a Big South Preseason First-Team All-Conference selection. Last season, Dengokl was a Second-Team All-Conference selection despite missing nine games due to injury. The Sumter, S.C. native averaged 14.4 points and 4.1 rebounds per game last season.
UNC Asheville, led by eighth-year head coach Brenda Kirkpatrick Brown, was picked to finish third in the Big South in the annual preseason polls, voted on by Big South coaches. The Bulldogs finished fourth a season ago and made their fourth straight appearance in the conference semifinal game.
UNC Asheville also made their fourth straight postseason appearance by hosting a Women's Basketball Invitational first round game for the second year in a row.
This will be the first all-time matchup between the Bulldogs and the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears. Lenoir-Rhyne, a South Atlantic Conference member, ended the 2018-19 season with a 17-13 overall record. The Bears played two games last week and opened the 2019-20 season with a 1-1 record.
The game will be broadcast on BSN on ESPN+ and can be found by clicking HERE. Matt Stradley and John Williams will once again be on the call for all Bulldog home games. Live stats will also be available and can be found by clicking HERE.
For tickets please click HERE, or call 828-258-7900. Â
Notably
- Redshirt senior guard Sonora Dengokl was named preseason All-Big South as a first team recipient. Despite missing nine games last season, Dengokl totaled a double digit point figure in 15 contests and scored 20 points or more on four occasions. She averaged 14.4 points and 4.1 rebounds per game in the 2018-19 season.
- UNC Asheville women's basketball had one of the top 25 team GPAs in all of Division I basketball last season. The Bulldogs cumulative team GPA of 3.505 was 24th in all DI basketball. The Bulldogs also received the honor in the 2016-17 season. UNC Asheville is one of nine schools to achieve a top 25 GPA in two of the last three years and make four consecutive postseason appearances.
- Head coach Brenda Kirkpatrick Brown earned her 100th career win on Saturday, March 2, 2019, as the Bulldogs upended Charleston Southern, 62-45, inside Kimmel Arena.
- Senior Brooke Jordan-Brown totaled seven blocks, breaking the UNC Asheville school record for blocks in a single game, in the 2018-19 regular season finale versus High Point. Jordan-Brown closed the 2018-19 season with the third most blocks in the Big South with 45 and averaged 1.5 blocks a game.
- For the ninth time in DI program history, the UNC Asheville Bulldogs posted a winning record for the 2018-19 season. With its final record of 17-15, the Bulldogs have secured four straight winning seasons (2017-18 - 17-16, 2016-17 - 19-15 and 2015-16 - 26-7) under head coach Brenda Kirkpatrick Brown. The first winning record came during the 1996-97 season (14- 13), and the Bulldogs then rattled off four winning records in a row from 2003-2007 (19-9, 18-12, 15-13, 21-12).
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