Salisbury, N.C. — The Catawba College women's basketball team returns home to Goodman Arena for the first time in 11 days when it hosts Newberry in South Atlantic Conference play at 5:30 p.m.
 
THE MATCHUP
- Who: Newberry (9-7, 3-7 SAC) at Catawba (7-8, 5-5 SAC)
- Where: Goodman Arena, Salisbury, N.C.
- When: Wednesday, Jan. 21, 5:30 p.m.
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LOOKING TO STRING WINS TOGETHER
- Catawba is looking for its first stretch of back-to-back wins of the 2025-26 season on Wednesday
- The Catawba Indians have alternated results since a three-game losing streak in late November through early December
- Catawba has not been more than a game under .500 or above .500 in SAC play yet this season, alternating results in each of their 10 league games
 
START OF A HOMESTAND
- Catawba opens up a three-game homestand at Goodman Arena on Wednesday, their longest stretch of consecutive home games this season
- The Catawba Indians are 3-2 at home this season, including a win over now- 13-2 Lincoln Memorial and UVA Wise
- Catawba is 56-9 inside Goodman Arena since the start of the 2021-22 season
 
BOOST FROM BIGS
- With Mary Spry out of the lineup the last three games, Sheree Gidney and Makayla Stokes have stepped up in her absence, averaging 14.7 and 12.7 points, respectively, in the last three games
- Gidney, who has come off the bench in all 15 games for the Catawba Indians this season, has logged 24 or more minutes in both of the last two with 17 points in both
- Stokes has averaged 28 minutes per game in the last three content with double-digit scoring in each game, her three games in double figures this season
 
SCOUTING THE WOLVES
- Newberry enters the game with a 3-7 mark in league play, winning each of their six non-conference games
- The Wolves are looking to snap a four-game losing streak; their lone win in 2026 was on Jan. 3 versus Tusculum
- Newberry's Marykate Kent leads the SAC and ranks sixth in the country with 49 three-pointers made this season
 
UP NEXT
- Catawba returns to Goodman Arena on Saturday, hosting Carson-Newman at 2 p.m.