Prairie View A&M Lady Panthers To Face Top-Seeded Connecticut On Sunday Night

HEAD COACH DAWN BROWN
Photo Courtesy: PVAMU Athletics

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas  -- The Prairie View A&M women's basketball team will head to the East Coast for the third time in its NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament history as they drew top-seeded Connecticut for the second time in three seasons.  Prairie View A&M will face the Lady Huskies at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Conn. on Sunday, March 23 at 7 p.m. in front of a nationally televised ESPN audience.

Sunday's game marks the second time in three seasons that the No. 16 Lady Panthers (14-17) will face the Huskies (34-0) as they squared off in the opening round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament in Bridgeport, Conn.  Prairie View A&M played one of its best postseason contests in its five-year NCAA history against the Huskies with a solid first half as former standout Latia Williams scored a game-high 20 points.

 

"I'm very excited anytime you have an opportunity to go to the NCAA Tournament as it's a rewarding experience," said head coach Dawn Brown.  "My mindset going into Sunday's game is to compete and survive as we're going to study UCONN like we do any other team.  I have a lot of respect for them as they're undefeated but we're going to go and compete while also having a good time."

 

This will mark the sixth NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament appearance for the Lady Panthers and the seventh postseason appearance overall.  Head coach Dawn Brown will make her first-ever appearance as a head coach in the tourney and the fourth overall as she was an assistant during PVAMU's previous three trips.

 

"We're going to approach this game like any other game," said Lady Panther junior standout Jeanette Jackson.  "We will show up with a winning mentality as we want to compete."

 

Connecticut is a member of the newly created American Athletic Conference.  PVAMU has an all-time mark of 1-14 against teams from the league with a win over Memphis in 2012.

 

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PVAMU WBB POSTSEASON HISTORY (0-7)
2013       at Baylor                                                                82-40 (NCAA)
2012       vs. Connecticut (Bridgeport, Conn.)                 83-47 (NCAA)
2011       at Baylor                                                                66-30 (NCAA)
2010       at Kansas                                                             82-70 (NIT)
2009       vs. Oklahoma (Iowa City, Ia.)                            76-47 (NCAA)
2008       Texas State                                                          84-83 (NIT)
2007       vs. North Carolina (Pittsburgh, Pa.)               95-38 (NCAA)

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