ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy women's basketball team will head up to New York City for its second road game of the young 2023-24 season on Thursday night. The first-ever matchup between Navy and Wagner College is scheduled for a 7 p.m. tip-off at the Spiro Sports Center in Staten Island. The Mids (3-3) are coming off an up-and-down outing as part of the 2023 Navy Classic and will be looking to re-capture the success that they found on Saturday with their 13-point win over Quinnipiac, while the Seahawks (0-5) will be aiming to break into the win column.

Thursday's Navy-Binghamton game will have live stats provided online, as well as be broadcast on the NEC Front Row streaming platform. NEC Front Row is a free streaming service.

Navy vs. Wagner / Northeast Conference
The Mids and Seahawks have never met on the hardcourt for either men's or women's basketball action ... Earlier this year on the football field, Navy and Wagner went head-to-head on Sept. 9 in Annapolis at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium ... All-time, the Mids have taken on competition from the Northeast Conference 11 times and have posted a 6-5 record in the history of the series; all against LIU (4-2) and Saint Francis-Pa. (2-3) ... The most recent Navy-NEC showdown was a Dec. 20, 2017 meeting on the road at LIU, in which Navy rolled to a 79-47 victory ... On the opposite side of the ledger Wagner has faced off with each of the other nine Patriot League institutions and is 28-36 all-time.
    Last Five Meetings vs. NEC
    Dec. 20, 2017 (A): Navy 79 - LIU 47
    Dec. 2, 2015 (H): LIU 68 - Navy 66 (OT)
    Nov. 28, 2008 (H): Navy 76 - Saint Francis 66
    Dec. 1, 2006 (A): Saint Francis 64 - Navy 56
    Nov. 28, 2006 (A): LIU 51 - Navy 49

Comparing the Teams

(2023-24 Stats)	Navy	Wagner
Record / League-Only	3-3, 0-0 PL	0-5, 0-0 NEC
Home / Away Record	3-2 / 0-1	0-1 / 0-4
Points Per Game	64.0 PPG	45.6 PPG
Points Allowed Per Game	69.8 PPG	69.4 PPG
Field Goal Percentage	38.7 %	28.3 %
3-Point Percentage	28.8 %	23.5 %
Free Throw Percentage	59.8 %	60.3 %
Rebounds Per Game	39.3 RPG	35.6 RPG
Assists/Turnovers Per Game	12.7 / 18.8	6.6 / 18.0

Individual Leaders

(2023-24 Stats)	Navy	Wagner
Points Per Game	Zanai Barnett-Gay, 21.3 ppg	Semie Brar, 13.2 ppg
Rebounds Per Game	Z. Barnett-Gay, 7.2 rpg	Kiera Edmonds, 6.8 rpg
Assists Per Game	Kyah Smith, 3.7 apg	Taleah Washington, 3.8 apg
Field Goal Percentage	Z. Barnett-Gay, 48.1 %	K. Edmonds, 41.9 %
3-Point Percentage	Z. Barnett-Gay, 40.0 %	S. Brar, 40.0 %
Free Throw Percentage	K. Smith, 64.7 %	T. Washington, 64.3 %

Last Time Out -- Sunday vs. Abilene Christian
One day after opening the 2023 Navy Classic with an emphatic 45-point first half on its way to a victory over Quinnipiac, the Navy women's basketball team fell victim to a 42-point first half by Abilene Christian and eventually dropped the second end of the two-day tournament by a score of 87-62 on Sunday at Alumni Hall. The Wildcats (3-2) received a pair of standout individual performances from Payton Hull and Bella Earle that the Mids (3-3) had no answer for as Hull set a Navy Classic record with nine three-pointers on her way to 34 points, while Earle tallied just the seventh triple-double of the 2023-24 NCAA DI season with 13 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.

Navy's individual effort on Sunday was led by its freshmen class as Zanai Barnett-Gay, Kyah Smith and Lizzie Holder combined for 40 of the Mids' points with Barnett-Gay posting her fourth straight game with 20 or more points as she went for 20 on 9-16 shooting from the field. Smith and Holder recorded totals of 11 and nine, respectively.

The opened evenly for a brief three-minute stretch as ACU led Navy 5-4 at the 6:58 mark. Back-to-back three-pointers over the next two possessions bolted the Wildcats quickly out to a seven-point lead. Barnett-Gay tried to counter ACU's offense with field goals on each of Navy's next two times down the court to make it 14-8. From that point at 4:26, the visiting Wildcats scored eight unanswered points and took a 22-8 lead into the first quarter break. Abilene Christian's offense was sparked by 5-10 shooting from three-point range in this opening period.

While Navy slowed down ACU's sharp-shooting in the second quarter to just a 1-5 mark from three-point territory, the multi-talented Wildcats got to work in the paint with 12 points and five offensive rebounds. That success down low spelled trouble for the Mids as they couldn't get their shots to fall and tallied just 11 points total in the period. Down 20 at 7:07, 28-8, Navy had its best run of offense in the stanza with an 11-4 run over the next 3:43. Violet McNece and Maren Louridas were the key cogs in the Mids' run as McNece broke out for a pair of layups, including a steal and coast-to-coast putback, while Louridas sank her first three-pointer of the game. Similar to the end of the first quarter, Abilene Christian turned up the heat offensively down the stretch and recorded the final 10 points of the half to go up 42-19 at the intermission.

Unfortunately for Navy, it was never able to find short-circuit ACU's attack and the visitors held advantages of 20 or more points for the remaining 20 minutes of action at Alumni Hall. Barnett-Gay, Smith and Holder bolstered the Mids' offense in the second half as Barnett-Gay went for 14 points, while Smith and Holder each added nine points of their own. As a team, Navy shot 54.8 percent (17-31) from the field and 50.0 percent (7-14) from three-point range in the second half, but Abilene Christian countered with comparable marks of 43.2 percent (16-37) and 38.9 (7-18) from long range, respectively.

In its 87-62 victory, ACU out-shot Navy from the field, 44.9 percent (31-69) to 41.9 (26-62), from three-point range, 39.4 percent (13-33) to 33.3 (8-24) and from the foul line, 75.0 (12-16) to 18.2 (2-11) for the game.