Today in Harding Sports, Jan. 13

Women's Basketball
5:30 p.m. vs. Ouachita Baptist – Searcy, Ark. (Rhodes-Reaves Field House)
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Harding women's basketball returns to the Rhodes-Reaves Field for the first time since a Dec. 9 victory over Christian Brothers.
The Lady Bisons are 5-10 overall, 1-6 in the Great American Conference and have lost three straight overall … Ouachita Baptist is 8-5 overall, 3-4 in the GAC and has won its last two.
Harding leads the series 42-28, has won the last two and 10 of the last 11 … Harding has won the last five meetings in Searcy.
Harding is 4-2 at home this season, including 1-1 in conference games … Ouachita Baptist is 1-4 on the road, losing its first four before winning its last road game 58-49 at East Central on Jan. 9.
Harding senior Sydney Layrock has scored 15 or more points in each of the Lady Bisons' last four games … she has averaged 19.0 points over the stretch and moved into ninth in career scoring at Harding with 1,346 points … Layrock needs 14 more points to move past Arielle Saunders for eighth.
Ouachita Baptist commits the fewest fouls per game in the GAC, only 17.1 … senior guard Taylor Bowles is second in the GAC in free-throw shooting at 90.3 percent.

Men's Basketball
7:30 p.m. vs. Ouachita Baptist – Searcy, Ark. (Rhodes-Reaves Field House)
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Harding will play only its fourth home game of the season and first since Dec. 9.
Harding is 0-12 overall and 0-5 in the GAC ... Ouachita Baptist is 5-7 overall and 3-4 in the GAC ... Harding is 12th in the GAC standings and Ouachita is part of a three-way tie for sixth.
Ouachita leads the series 73-55 and has won the last five meetings … Harding's last win over Ouachita came in Searcy in 2015.
Senior guard Tim Wagner leads the GAC in 3-pointer attempted (93) and ranks fifth in 3-pointers made (34) … Wagner's 2.83 3-pointers made per game ranks sixth in the conference.
Ouachita Baptist is third in the GAC with 11.58 offensive rebounds per game and third with a +4.9 rebound margin.

Both games will air on KVHU 95.3-FM in Searcy with Billy Morgan and Scott Goode on commentary.

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