The Alabama State women's basketball team will play host to SWAC foe Grambling State Thursday night, the game is slated for a 5:30 p.m. tip at the Dunn-Oliver Acadome. 
 
Fans will be able to follow the action, as the contest will be available on livestats and streaming via the Alabama State Athletic website at www.bamastatesports.com.  Updates can also be accessed on Twitter.com/ASUbuzz or on Facebook and Instagram.
 
SWAC player of the week Nakiya Smith still leads the Lady Hornets with a 13.3 scoring average, while freshman Brittney Wright is the second leading scorer and rebounder averaging 9.2 ppg and 6.3 rpg.  Quentori Alford is Alabama State's third leading scorer averaging 7.4 points per contest, but she leads the team in rebounding averaging 8.4 rebounds per game.
 
After winning their sixth consecutive game the Lady Hornets will enter Thursday's contest with a 15-12 overall record and 8-8 in the conference.  Their wins have come over the top three seeded teams in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), Southern, Texas Southern and Prairie View.  Alabama State defeated PV this past Monday at Prairie View in an 81-78 decision.
 
As a team Alabama State is averaging 64.0 points per game and averages 46.7 rebounds per contest.  From the charity stripe the Lady Hornets are shooting .64 percent.
 
Grambling enters the game with a 10-17 overall record and is 7-9 in the SWAC.  The Lady Tigers won their last game over Mississippi Valley 70-61, Monday night at Grambling.
 
Joanna Miller leads the Grambling State squad with an 18.8 scoring average.  Victoya Ricks is the team's second leading scorer averaging 11 ppg and leads the team in rebounding averaging 7.8 rpg.
 
Overall, Grambling is averaging 68.8 points per game with a 41.7 rebound per game figure.  The Tigers are shooting a 40 percent from the field with a .286 statistic from the three-point line.
 
Thursday night's contest between Alabama State and Grambling will mark the 72^nd meeting between the two schools.  The Lady Tigers hold a 44-27 all time advantage.  GSU defeated the Lady Hornets earlier in the season by a 66-63 margin at Grambling.
 
"Grambling is the type of a team that you have to stay tat for tat with or get ahead them early in the game," head coach Freda Freeman-Jackson said.  "We are going to have to do a really good job playing the perimeter and making sure that they don't go back door on us.  We have had plenty of time to prepare for them.  We just need to make sure that we do the things that we have been doing and be disciplined."
 
"They have been averaging 68 points per game so we need to make sure that we reduce that number and do what we need to do on the offensive end.  I think that the girls are really eager to play against Grambling from when we played them earlier in the year."