BOSTON-The Boston University women's basketball team continues it tour of New England on Saturday as the Terriers head to New Hampshire to play the Wildcats in a 4 p.m. affair in Lundholm Gymnasium.

The game will be aired live on the AmericaEast.tv, an online-only stream.

STORYLINES
-Both Katy Steding and UNH's Maureen Magarity have experience coaching in the Patriot League. Magarity spent four years as an assistant coach at Army West Point where she helped the Black Knights to its best three-year span in program history from 2006-2009.
-Meghan Green will visit her home state for the second straight Saturday after playing at Dartmouth last weekend. She averages 5.0 points and 7.0 rebounds in her two games played in New Hampshire as a Terrier.
-Boston University is UNH's only Patriot League opponent this season.

QUICK HITS
-Sarah Hope matched her career high in made 3-pointers with six at UMass Lowell on Tuesday.
-Despite the loss at Harvard, both Troi Melton and Meghan Green recorded double-doubles against the Crimson last week.
-Melton currently leads the team in scoring with 11.0 points per game.
-BU enters its third season in the Patriot League and second under the command of head coach Katy Steding.
-The Terriers return nine players from the 2014-15 season and added five during the off-season.
-This year's captains are Clodagh Scannell, Courtney Latham, Sarah Hope and Corrine Williams.
-Six players who started 12 or more games return for the 2015-16 season.
-The Terriers enter their 41st season as a varsity program.

A TERRIER WIN WOULD...
-Continue a seven-game win streak against the Wildcats on the UNH campus.
-Give BU its first win of the season.
-Be the first win over an America East opponent since Vermont last season on Nov. 22, 2014.

THE TERRIERS
-The Terriers starts the season on a six-game skid, dropping contests with Northeastern, Albany, Boston College, Harvard, Dartmouth and UMass-Lowell.
-Sarah Hope has found her shot as of late and had a career night at UMass Lowell, netting six three-pointers to tie her career-best performance. She was one made-three shy of the school record but her career total bumped up to 114, which ties the junior for 10th in the program record book.
-Senior Troi Melton currently leads the team with 11.0 points per game while Meghan Green is BU's leading rebounder, averaging 6.3 per game.
-BU returns nine players from the 2014-15 season and adds five newcomers to this year's squad.
-Last year the Terriers finished with a 5-25 overall record and 2-16 mark in conference action.

THE WILDCATS
-UNH has started the season with a 5-2 record, getting wins over Colby-Sawyer, Dartmouth, Sacred Heart, Manhattan College and CCSU and suffering losses to Northeastern and Penn.
-Senior Elizabeth Belanger eclipsed 1,000 career points against Penn. She leads the team in both scoring and rebounding, averaging 15.6 ppg and 7.3 rpg.
-Kristen Anderson is UNH's best distributer, averaging 4.5 assists per game.
-Three Wildcats are averaging double-figure scoring on the year, with Corrine Coia (14.0 ppg) and Carlie Pogue (11.4 ppg) joining Belanger in that group.
-As a team, the Wildcat offense is averaging 66.3 points per game and their limiting defense has held opponents to 58.1 points per game. UNH is an inside scoring team, with only 19 three pointers on the season. Long-range shooting accounts for under 20 percent of all shots taken so far this season.

THE SERIES
-Saturday's game is the 71st meeting between BU and UNH, making the Wildcats the third-most played opponent in the program's history.
-The Terriers lead the series, 40-30 and have won each of the last seven games played on UNH's court.
-BU lost its last outing with the Wildcats, 67-55, last season, its first home loss of the year.

LAST TIME OUT
-BU dropped a 70-57 decision at UMass Lowell on Tuesday night.
-Sarah Hope led the team with 20 points and netted a career-best six three-pointers.
-Troi Melton contributed 16 points, her third-straight game in double-digit scoring. She is averaging 15.3 points per game over the last three contests.

MELTON MOST IMPROVED
-Senior Troi Melton finished last season on a hot streak, averaging 10.5 points per game over the final 13 games of the season. She was named the team's Most Improved Player by the coaching staff following the season.
-During that span, Melton was in double-figures in eight games including including two 20-point games.
-The Bronx, N.Y. native set a career high against eventual Patriot League Champion American, scoring 23 points in last season's meeting.
-This year, Melton leads the team in scoring, averaging 11.0 ppg. She has been in double-digit scoring in each of the last three games and averages 15.3 ppg in those contests.

KEEPING IT LOCAL
-The Terriers will not leave New England during the non-conference schedule and face schools only from the Northeast until January.
-BU played all three Boston-area schools in the first four games of the season, playing Northeastern and Boston College at home and at Harvard on Tuesday.
-In total, the Terriers play six schools from Massachusetts in the first half of their season.
-Every non-conference road game is a day-trip, as the Terriers play at Harvard, Dartmouth, UMass Lowell, New Hampshire and Massachusetts.