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BALTIMORE, Md. (Jan. 18, 2015)-The Lady Bears will look for their first four-game winning streak of the season, while concluding their three-game homestand with a perfect mark, when they welcome the Bethune-Cookman Lady Wildcats to Hill Field House on Monday, Jan. 19 for a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference match-up at 2 p.m. This will be the 54th all-time meeting between the two teams with Morgan State holding a 27-26 all-time series lead.
 
BEAR CLAWS: The Lady Bears (6-11, 3-2 MEAC) recorded their first three-game winning streak of the season, following a 57-50 victory over visiting Florida A&M on Saturday. The win was the second straight at home for the Lady Bears, who improved to 4-2 at home. The victory also marked a record setting 123rd career win for head coach Donald Beasley, who became the program's winningest head coach. Braennan Farrar scored all of her 19 points in the second half, including an 11-for-11 performance at the free throw line, as the Lady Bears connected on 22-of-23 from the charity stripe. Danielle Robinson scored 10 of her 13 points in the first half and Tracey Carrington added 10 points in the win. The Lady Bears are led by Carrington (19.3 points, 5.3 rebounds per game) and Farrar, who is scoring 12.2 points and leads the team in assists (46) and steals (32). White is averaging a team-leading 7.0 rebounds per game.
 
CATNIP: The Lady Wildcats (5-12, 2-3 MEAC) ended a two-game losing skid with a 61-58 win on Saturday at Coppin State. Kendra Cooper scored a game-high 20 points and Kailyn Williams recorded a double-double with a game-high 15 rebounds and 12 points. Emily Williams came off the bench to score 11 points. Cooper leads Bethune-Cookman in scoring with an average of 13.1 points per game and has 32 assists to rank second on squad. Jasmine Knowles has a team-leading 47 assists and ranks second with 22 steals. Kailyn Williams(8.2 ppg) leads the Lady Wildcats in rebounding (7.4) and blocked shots with 65. Bethune-Cookman is averaging 54.4 points per game, while surrendering 67.1 points per outing.
 
MSU VS. BETHUNE SERIES NOTES: Morgan State leads the all-time series, 27-26 and has won eight of the last 12 contests. Bethune-Cookman defeated Morgan State, 47-45 last season on the final possession in Baltimore (3/1/14). It was the first meeting between the two teams since Feb. 7, 2011 in Daytona Beach, Fla.
   
NEXT UP: The Lady Bears will be off until Saturday, Jan. 31, when they travel to the Nation's Capital to visit the Lady Bison of Howard in a MEAC contest in Washington, D.C. Tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Burr Gymnasium.
 
BEASLEY BECOMES PROGRAM'S WINNINGEST COACH: Morgan State head coach Donald Beasley, who is in his 10th year at the helm of the Lady Bears, became the program's all-time coaching leader, following the win over Florida A&M (1/17). Beasley (123-166), who earned his sixth win of the season against FAMU, passed LaRue Fields (122-60 from 1979-85) as the school's all-time coaching leader for victories. Beasley recorded his first career victory in the 10th game of the 2005-06 season, following a 66-54 road win at Bethune-Cookman (1/9/06).
 
TRACKING CARRINGTON: Tracey Carrington entered the season with 1,137 career points, which ranked ninth all-time at Morgan State. Carrington scored a season-low 10 points in the win over FAMU (1/17) to give her 1,330 points for her career. A native of Baltimore, Carrington currently sits in sixth-place, 80 points shy of passing Kaira Warfield (1,409 from 1993-97) for fifth-place. She also needs 245 more points to move into second all-time in scoring at Morgan.
 
TAKING A BREAK: The Lady Bears, who wrap up their three-game homestand against Bethune-Cookman on Monday, Jan. 1, will have a 12-day layoff before their next game in Washington, D.C. against the Lady Bison of Howard (1/31). It will be the longest time between games this season for Morgan State, surpassing the previous 11-day break it had from Dec. 21-Jan. 1.
 
PROVIDING ASSISTANCE: Braennan Farrar added an assist against FAMU (1/17), giving her a team-leading 46 assists in 17 games. Farrar recorded a season-high nine assists against Wesley (11/18). As a team the Lady Bears recorded 19 assists in that game.
 
GIMME THAT: Freshman Zuri White has been a rebounding machine for Morgan State, as she leads the Lady Bears with 7.0 boards per outing. Over the past three weeks, the Durham, N.C. native has reached double figures in rebounding in four of the last five games, hauling in a total of 57 rebounds for an average of 11.4 per contest. White grabbed a season-best 14 boards against Brown (1/4).
 
WHITE NAMED MEAC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: MSU freshman Zuri White was named MEAC Defensive Player of the Week by the league office on Jan. 6. The Durham, N.C. native totaled 26 rebounds, 11 points, two assists and three steals to help the Lady Bears to a 1-1 week. The 5-foot-8 guard grabbed a then career-high 12 rebounds (five defensive) and added two steals and scored nine points in a win over UMBC (1/1). It was Morgan State's first win over a Division I opponent this season. White, who leads the Lady Bears in rebounding with 6.4 boards per game, then set a career-high 14 rebounds (eight defensive) and had two assists and a steal against Brown (1/4).
   
 IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE: Last season's five wins marked the second time in Donald Beasley's tenure at Morgan State that the squad won just five games. The last time that happened was in Beasley's his first season at the helm during the 2005-06 campaign, when the Lady Bears went 5-24. The very next season the team recorded 18 wins, which at the time set the school mark for wins on the Division I level and also reached the MEAC Championship game, just the third appearance in the title game in school history.
 
2015 MEAC TOURNAMENT: The 2014 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) men's and women's basketball tournament is scheduled for March 9-14 at the Norfolk Scope Arena in Norfolk, Va. Ticket books can be purchased at all 13 MEAC university ticket offices, the Norfolk Scope Arena, Ticketmaster outlets, the MEAC Administrative Office and online at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets are also available by calling the MEAC at 757-951-2055 or Ticketmaster at (800)-745-3000. The annual MEAC Basketball Tournament moved to Norfolk after spending the previous four years in Winston-Salem, N.C. from 2009 through 2012.