The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women's basketball team takes on UMKC for the first time in over 20 years, heading to Kansas City for a Tuesday night matchup. After playing six times in the early 1990's, the teams have not met since the 1992-93 season. The game will be available on the WAC Digital Network, with the Panthers and 'Roos set for a 7 p.m. tipoff. The contest is the final of a three-game road trip, as well as a stretch that saw Milwaukee play five of its first six games away from home.

LOOKING AT UMKC
Marsha Frese enters her third season as head women's basketball coach at UMKC, posting an 11-19 overall mark a year ago in their first season as a member of the Western Athletic Conference. The 'Roos will return a trio of starters this year in Calli White, Taylor Leathers and Grace Mitchell. As a group, the three players combined for 22.3 points, 11.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists, 1.9 steals and 0.8 blocks. This season, UMKC welcomes in a total of seven freshman from across the country, coming from six different states. So far White and Kiana Law lead the way at 10.5 points-per-game.
 
SERIES HISTORY
The NCAA Division I series between the two programs consists of six games played in the early 1990's, with UMKC holding a 4-2 mark. Every game in the series has been won by the home team.

LAST GAME
Milwaukee put up a valiant effort in the second half against Missouri University before falling, 68-55, Sunday afternoon at Mizzou Arena.

The Panthers (1-4) held a Tiger team (4-1) that came into the day averaging 82 points a game almost 15 below its average.
 
Senior Ashley Green paced UWM with 14 points. Senior Macie Dorow finished just one point off her career-high, scoring 13, including a trio of three-pointers. Junior Jordyn Swan had eight and Sydney Howard chipped in with a nice statline of 5 points/3 rebounds/4 assists/2 steals.

SEC TOUGH TO BEAT
The Panthers don't get the opportunity to schedule Southeastern Conference opponents all that often and are now 0-6 all-time (Auburn 0-1; Mississippi 0-1; South Carolina 0-1; Missouri 0-1; Vanderbilt 0-2) against teams currently in the SEC. Milwaukee had played Missouri twice before, dropping both, but each of those was while Mizzou was a member of the Big 12.

ON FIRE
Ashley Green's scoring output of 129 points in the first five games of the season is quite impressive. Green is currently listed as the sixth-highest scorer at the NCAA Division I level at 25.8 ppg (UC Riverside's Brittany Crain leads at 29.0 ppg). In fact, the 89 she netted in the first three games of the campaign marked the third-highest three-game output in school history. Only Traci Edwards had more: 94 (42/30/22) in 2006-07 and 92 (45/20/27) in 2007-08.

Green also scored at least 20-or-more four times in a row - with the streak coming to an end against Mizzou - just one off of Edwards' school-record streak of five (done four times).

THROWING THEM INTO THE FIRE
Steph Kostowicz became the third freshman to earn her first start this season, cracking the opening lineup against Marquette Nov. 26. She responded with 12 points and four rebounds, making 8-of-12 attempts from the free throw line.

IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN
Green became just the second player in program history to score 30-or-more points in back-to-back games (66 total points Nov. 16 and Nov. 18), joining Traci Edwards (72 in consecutive games in January of 2007) on the short list. Edwards' two-game tally included outings of 42 and 30 points.

A DEFENSIVE BAKERS DOZEN
The 13 points Milwaukee held Bowling Green to in the first half of the Nov. 22 contest was nearly unprecedented. The tiny tally was just one point off the school record of 12 accomplished in the first half against Wagner way back in December of 1997.

HIGH-SCORING HALF
The 50-point first half against North Dakota Nov. 18 marked the first time UWM hit the half-century plateau as a team since netting 53 in the second half of an 82-69 victory over Chicago State Nov. 16, 2010.

LONG-RANGE LEGENDS
The Panthers continue to sink an impressive amount of three-pointers under Kyle Rechlicz and the performance against North Dakota Nov. 18 added to the list. Milwaukee finished with 16 three's, just one triple away from the school and Horizon League record of 17 it set back against Bradley December 5, 2012. In addition to being the second-highest total in program history, the 16 is also the most ever made in a game that did not go into overtime. The Panthers were an incredible 13-of-15 in the first half, an 87 percent clip.

BEST EVER
Ashley Green's 36 points against NDSU Nov. 16 were the most-ever for a Milwaukee player in a season opener, topping the 30 that Traci Edwards netted in the initial game of the 2007-08 campaign. It was also a marked improvement in season openers for Green personally. She finished with three points as a junior against Wisconsin, five against Chicago State as sophomore and did not score in her freshman debut off the bench.

SETTING THE BAR HIGH
Ashley Green has been a starter since early in her freshman campaign and has already accumulated a lengthy resume when it comes to personal statistical highlights. She one-upped all of that in just one performance in the season opener, setting new career-highs in both points scored and rebounds. Her 36 points topped her former best of 33 that she scored against Bradley December 4, 2012. Meanwhile, the 15 rebounds eclipsed her former career-best of 14, accomplished twice prior. In addition, she also tied her collegiate-best with the 13 made field goals.

FILLING IT UP
That 36-point effort from Ashley Green is now tied for the fourth-highest single-game scoring effort in program history.

1. 45 points, Traci Edwards, 2/21/08
2. 42, Edwards, 1/20/07
3. 38, Andrea Filipek, 1/23/99
4. 36, now accomplished four times

KELSEY, I SEE
Kelsey Cunningham added her name to a short list against the Bison Nov. 16. She became the 13th freshman to start a season opener in the 25-year program history at Milwaukee and the first since Kiki Wilson in 2011.

JUST ANOTHER GAME
After averaging 17.1 points per game as a senior in high school, freshman Jenny Lindner picked it right up on the collegiate level with 12 points and seven rebounds in her UWM debut against NDSU Nov. 16. The 12-point effort marks the most for a Milwaukee freshman in a season opener since Angela Rodriguez finished with 16 points in the 2010 opener against Oklahoma.

PRESEASON PUBLICITY
Senior Ashley Green was named to the Preseason All-Horizon League Second Team in the league's annual preseason poll of head coaches, media members and sports information directors.

NEW-LOOK PANTHERS
Milwaukee will have an interesting look to the roster this season after graduating three senior starters from a year ago. The roster features five players who were on the team in 2013-14 and seven newcomers. Among the new faces are a pair of transfers (one will be sitting out per NCAA regulations), a senior playing her first season of collegiate hoops and four true freshmen all looking to make a good first impression.

TIME TO STEP UP
The situation allows the Panthers an opportunity for new players to step up or returning players to expand their roles from last season. The team returns just 30.7 percent of its scoring (608 of 2,081 total points) and 36.9 percent of rebounding (370 of 1,004 total individual rebounds). When you break it down further, senior Ashley Green accounts for 70 percent of that returning point total and 55 percent of the boards.

IT'S AN OLD HABIT
The Panthers have turned it up from three-point range recently, but have always been a threat from long distance. In fact, the team has a long history of making three's headed in to 2014-15. Milwaukee has made at least one three-pointer in every game dating back to an 0-for-4 showing from long-distance against Marquette back on November 26, 2002. That makes 364 games in a row heading into the game against the Kangaroos. It's a ways to go for the NCAA record, however, which is held by Canisius at 510 in a row (1994-2011). The Horizon League record was halted two years ago when Loyola came up empty at 446. Cleveland State held the record previously - which was also the NCAA mark at the time - at 408 (1992-2007). For comparison, the NBA's longest streak is the Dallas Mavericks at 1,108 in a row.

FOR OPENERS
The Panthers now hold an 8-17 record in season-openers at the NCAA Division I level (dating back to 1990-91) after topping North Dakota State. A year ago, Milwaukee fell to the Wisconsin Badgers by a score of 85-60 at the Klotsche Center in the season opener. Head coach Kyle Rechlicz is now 2-1 in openers, as UWM ran away with an 82-58 win over Chicago State in Rechlicz's debut contest two years ago.

FOR OPENERS: PART II
Taking the win-loss record a step further, the Panthers are now 13-12 in home openers over the same time period after falling to Bowling Green Nov. 22.

MORE THAN A GREEN THUMB
One look at the career statistics of senior Ashley Green show an impressive trajectory. In each season at UWM, she has increased both her scoring average and her rebounding average and will look to continue the trend over her final campaign. As a freshman in 2011-12, Green averaged 10.4 points and 5.4 rebounds. She upped that to 11.6 ppg and 6.2 rpg and then followed that up with a junior season where she contributed 14.2 ppg and 6.7 rpg.

HOW THEY ROLL
The Panthers were at it again last season and it would have been more noticeable had they not been even better at it two years ago. The team once again finished close to the top of the record book for three-pointers made and attempted. Prior to Kyle Rechlicz's arrival, the most three's made was 212 and attempted was 586. The marks set in 2012-13 (255 of 726) smashed the old standards. Last year, the team finished at 241 makes and 733 attempts, both numbers ending in the top two all-time.

MAKING BUCKETS
The 90 points Milwaukee scored against Cleveland State Feb. 23 last season marked a season-high, topping the 86 it scored against Western Illinois Nov. 17. UWM went 4-1 last season when it scored over 80 points. That was a one-game jump over the prior year, when the Panthers scored at least 80 points four times. This is a marked change for the offense. Looking back, the last time a UWM team scored more than 80 points at least four times in the same season was 2006-07 (four times that campaign). The last time Milwaukee netted at least 80 more than four times was back in 2000-01, when it did so seven times.

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
The Panthers set a record for fewest turnovers per game in 2012-13 at 16.2 - an impressive total considering the record that they broke was the former standard of 17.3 set during the 2001-02 campaign (an improvement of over one per game). The new record did not last long, however, as UWM turned the ball over just 14.9 times per contest a year ago to shatter the record once again.

SELECT COMPANY
Senior Angela Rodriguez went over 1,500 career points at the end of last season to become just the fifth player to reach that level in a UWM career. She started the season in 17th place on the all-time list moved all the way up to No. 5 (1,564).

AND NOW THERE IS 19
There was another addition to the 1,000-point club a year ago and it happened against Youngstown State Feb. 21. Ashley Green finished with 17 points that day against the Penguins, with her three-pointer with 5:20 remaining pushing her career total from 998 to 1,001 to become the 19th player to score over 1,000 career points at UWM.

1,000/500
Green not only scores, but rebounds. Sitting at 499 career rebounds headed into the game at UIC Feb. 17 last season, she grabbed an early board to become the 23rd player in program history to collect 500 rebounds in a career. She is now just the fifth player to have recorded over 1,000 points and 500 rebounds in a career in UWM's NCAA Division I era. The rest of the list includes Traci Edwards (2,340 pts/1,193 reb), Maria Viall (1,867/971), Lindsay Laur (1,404/791) and Sami Tucker (1,172/774).

BIG-TIME HONOR
Angela Rodriguez was named Second-Team All-Horizon League last season, becoming the first Panther to earn postseason all-league honors since 2010-11. She also earned a spot on the Mexico National Team in October, one of 12 chosen to play on the squad.

SETTING THEM UP
Senior Angela Rodriguez broke the Milwaukee single-season record for assists against Wright State March 1 of last season. She went into the contest against the Raiders with 151, and her third of the day near the end of the first half in Dayton gave her 154 to break the mark of 153, set by Pam Bartnik during the 1993-94 campaign. She finished the season with 168.

MAKING A NAME FOR HERSELF
Head coach Kyle Rechlicz was named the seventh coach in program history in May of 2012. She also got off to one of the best starts - becoming the first UWM coach to win three of her first five contests of her initial campaign. In her first season, Rechlicz was also one of the youngest coaches at the NCAA Division I level - just seven coaches had earlier birth years when the 2012-13 campaign began.

BE A HOOPS COUCH POTATO
Fans will have the opportunity to watch the Panthers all season long. The team will play five games on local broadcast television, once again returning to Time Warner Cable SportsChannel. Another 18 games will be carried live online on the Horizon League Network. For the Panthers' TWC SportsChannel contests, Bob Brainerd and former UWM great Maria Viall will once again be calling the action.

Early season games will also be available on the SEC+ Network (Missouri) and the WAC Digital Network (UMKC).

HEAD TO THE BIG 920
Every Milwaukee regular-season game will once again be available on the radio and online via "The Big 920" on your AM dial. Scott Warras is back for his ninth season donning the headset. Fans can also catch Warras' call with the majority of the team's HLN webcasts. A handful of games will be aired on WISN 1130 AM due to broadcast conflicts.

WELCOME
Head coach Kyle Rechlicz rounded out her staff in the offseason by hiring Ashlee McGee as an assistant coach and Scott Warras as the Director of Basketball Operations. Kelly Poster also begins her first season as the team's athletic trainer.

McGee comes to Milwaukee after most recently serving as the women's basketball assistant coach at Tennessee State University since the summer of 2012. Warras, the voice of the Panthers on radio broadcasts for the past eight seasons, joins the Milwaukee staff on a full-time basis and will work directly with Rechlicz on coordinating team travel, budget, practices and other program functions.

UP NEXT
The team finally gets to go back home, opening a four-game stretch at the Klotsche Center with a contest against Omaha, Dec. 7 at 2 p.m.