BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – To open the longest homestand of the season, the Samford women's basketball team welcomes the Bears of Northern Colorado for the program's annual Christmas Sweater Night.
   
 The Bulldogs and Bears are scheduled for a 1 p.m. CT tipoff and the game can be streamed on ESPN+. Samford's game notes can be found here. 
   
Samford enters the contest with a 4-9 record after stumbling at Nebraska during the second leg of the three-game road trip. 
 
Samford and Northern Colorado have met once with the Bears winning the 2021 contest by a score of 64-49.
 
 In the first 13 games of the season, Samford coach Carley Kuhns has started the lineup of Andrea Cournoyer, Sussy Ngulefac, Kathleen Wheeler, Alyssa Tarpley and Sanaa Redmond.
   
 Entering the Northern Colorado game, Cournoyer is averaging 17.2 points per game, which is good enough to rank 71st nationally and first in the SoCon. The senior guard ranks first in the SoCon and 21st in the country with 224 total points. 
 
Despite falling at Alabama State and Nebraska, Ngulefac was named SoCon Player of the Week on Dec. 13 after averaging 17.5 points, five rebounds and 3.5 blocks per game against the Hornets and Huskers. Ngulefac also tied her career-high in points with 21 against ASU.
 
The homestand continues on Dec. 30 as the Bulldogs take on Birmingham-Southern before Samford opens Southern Conference play at The Pete Hanna Center against Western Carolina on Jan. 5. Tickets can be found here. 
  
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