HAMMOND, La. – The Southeastern Louisiana women's basketball team will return home to the University Center on Saturday, hosting Abilene Christian for a 2 p.m. Southland Conference contest.
 
The game between the Lady Lions (6-19, 5-9 Southland) and the visiting Wildcats (15-8, 9-4 Southland) will be televised live on the Southeastern Channel and streamed free on the Southland Digital Network (www.Southland.org/live). Cox Sports Television will also air the replays of the game broadcast on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Monday at 6 p.m.
 
Fans can hear the game on KSLU-FM (90.9), online at www.LionSports.net/listenlive and via the TuneIn Radio app. Links to live video, audio and stats will be accessible on the women's basketball schedule page at www.LionSports.net.
 
Senior guard Bre' Warren is Saturday's Spotlight Player of the Game. The first 150 fans will receive a trading card featuring the Slidell, Louisiana native courtesy of PRIDE.
 
With four games left in the regular season, Southeastern is still alive for a berth in next month's Southland Conference Tournament, but the margin of error has shrunk for the Lady Lions. SLU is currently two and a half games behind McNeese and Nicholls for the eighth spot in the league tournament, which runs March 8-11 at the Merrell Center in Katy, Texas.
 
On Wednesday, a 19-4 third-quarter run spoiled SLU's chances in an 82-73 loss at New Orleans. Sophomore guard Charliee Dugas led Southeastern with a season-high 26 points and was joined in double figures by senior guard Taylin Underwood (12 points). Freshman forward Caitlyn Williams led the Lady Lions with nine rebounds.
 
Underwood is second in the Southland with 18.1 points per game heading into Saturday's game. The Livingston, Louisiana native is fifth in school history with 1,493 career points.
 
Caitlyn Williams (7.6 ppg) and Dugas (7.6 ppg) are the other top scorers for SLU. Both sophomore guard Tyler Morrison (3.1 apg, 10^th) and Underwood (2.8 apg, 14^th) are among the league assist leaders.
 
Southeastern is second in the Southland with 187 three-point field goals and needs 34 treys to surpass the single-season school record set by the 2008-09 team. Underwood and junior guard Ashailee Brailey both sit on the Southland leaderboards for three-point field goals made and three-point field goal percentage.
 
Underwood's 77 three-point field goals this season represent the highest single-season total in school history. Her 248 career threes also are the program standard and she's fifth on the Southland Conference career list.
 
SLU is averaging 37.0 rebounds per contest heading into Saturday's game. Caitlyn Williams (7.0 rpg, 9^th) and Morrison (5.7 rpg, 15^th) are among the best rebounders in the Southland.
 
Opponents are scoring 72.1 points and committing 18.2 turnovers per game heading into Saturday's game. Morrison is seventh in the Southland with 2.0 steals per outing.
 
Abilene Christian had Wednesday off after edging UIW, 58-56, last Saturday. Sophomore wing Dominique Golightly led the Wildcats with 18 points, while junior guard Sara Williamson (13 points) and freshman post Makayla Mabry (10 points) also reached double figures for ACU.
 
Sophomore guard Breanna Wright leads ACU with 14.3 points per game. Wright is seventh in the Southland and is joined on the league scoring leaderboard by teammates Golightly (13.2 ppg, 9^th) and Williamson (11.4 ppg, 20^th). Golightly is the team's leading rebounder with 6.6 rebounds per game – good for 13^th in the conference.
Wright (4.5 apg, 4^th) and Williamson (4.0 apg, 5^th) are near the top of the league in assists. ACU leads the league with 215 three-point field goals.
 
Southeastern is 1-7 all-time versus ACU and has lost all seven meetings since the Wildcats joined the conference. On Jan. 6, ACU edged SLU, 86-80, in Abilene. Underwood led four Lady Lions in double figures with a game-high 32 points. All five Abilene Christian starters scored in double figures, led by Wright and Williamson with 20 points each.
 
Southeastern will close out its regular season road schedule next Saturday at Northwestern State. The 4 p.m. contest can be heard on KSLU-FM (90.9), online at www.LionSports.net/listenlive and via the TuneIn Radio app. Links to live video and stats, provided by the host Lady Demons, will be accessible on the women's schedule page at www.LionSports.net.