RADFORD, Va. -- Coming off a 57-48 win last Monday, Radford women's hoops hosts UNC Asheville Saturday, Jan. 16 at 3 p.m. The Highlanders, winners of two of their last three games, sit in third place with a 2-1 mark during the early stages of the Big South season.

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The Bulldogs have dropped three straight league contests, including a 65-54 defeat at Presbyterian on Monday, after opening the season with a victory over Coastal Carolina.

Radford will be looking for its 40th win over UNC Asheville when the teams meet for the 55th time since beginning the series during the inaugural Big South season in 1986-87. The Highlanders hold a 39-15 lead in the series and have won four of the last five meetings. Radford is 23-3 at home versus UNCA, winning the last five contests in the Dedmon Center.

Junior Denay Wood (Bailey's Crossroads, Va./Annandale) scored a career-high 17 points and Radford held Winthrop to 28 percent shooting as the Highlanders picked up a 57-48 victory in Big South action from the Dedmon Center Monday evening.

Wood was 7-for-12 from the field and 3-for-7 from long range, helping Radford improve to 3-11 overall and 2-1 in the Big South. Redshirt senior Kymesha Alston (Hampton, Va./Manhattan) contributed 15 points and five rebounds, hitting double figures in points for the fifth consecutive contest.

Alston is averaging 18.4 points and seven rebounds in her last five games which includes a pair of 20-point performances against Marshall (23) and High Point (21). She ranks fourth in the Big South in scoring (12.5 ppg).

UNC Asheville enters this afternoon's contest trying to snap a three-game skid after falling at Presbyterian 65-54 on Monday evening. Lindsey Montgomery is the league's leading rebounder at 9.9 caroms per contest and is fifth in scoring at 12.2 points per game. She also leads UNCA in shooting (.478), steals (23) and blocks (21).

Radford concludes its season-long four-game home stand on Monday, hosting Presbyterian at 7 p.m.