GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - After opening Horizon League play with a 2-0 record at home, the No. 20 Green Bay (13-1, 2-0 HL) women's basketball team will face Youngstown State (2-11, 0-2 HL) in its first league road contest of the season on Jan. 6 at 6:05 p.m. The Phoenix enters the contest after a 2-0 start in conference play for the seventh consecutive season.

Youngstown State is one of three teams in the Horizon League that Phoenix head coach Matt Bollant has a perfect record against (6-0), with Milwaukee (8-0) and Wright State (8-0) being the other two. With an overall record of 22-1 against the Penguins, Green Bay's lone loss came Feb. 19, 2005 (60-56) in Green Bay. Since then the Phoenix has won the past 10 consecutive games against YSU.

The last time Green Bay played at Youngstown State, Jan. 4, 2010, the lead changed six times throughout the contest. The Penguins led by as many as six with 5:11 to play in the first half. Green Bay's defense struggled, giving up 60 points as Youngstown State shot a season-best 50 percent against the Phoenix. In its final meeting of the season on Mar. 4, 2010, Green Bay posted its second largest margin of victory over the squad (84-45).

Three-Point Threat... Green Bay's 17th-ranked scoring defense will have its hands full with Penguins junior Kenya Middlebrooks. In addition to finishing with a career-high 22 points against UIC Jan. 2, Middlebrooks tied the Youngstown State record sinking seven three-pointers.

Brown Big on the Boards... The Phoenix will face one of the league's top scorers and rebounders in Youngstown State sophomore Brandi Brown. Brown is third in both statistics averaging 16.4 points per game and 9.2 rebounds per game.

League Thieves... Green Bay is dominating the league in steals with 191 averaging 13.6 picks per contest. Individually, Julie Wojta (Mishicot, Wis.) is third in the conference averaging 2.9 steals per game while Kayla Tetschlag (Sheboygan, Wis.) and Celeste Hoewisch (Hortonville, Wis.) are fifth and sixth respectively.

In the Rankings... In this week's ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll Green Bay moved up one spot to No. 20. The Phoenix is knocking on the door of the AP Top 25 Poll. For the second consecutive week, the Phoenix is in the 26th spot. Green Bay tallied 69 points in this week's poll while No. 25 Arkansas (12-1) has 72. In addition, the Phoenix has retained the top spot in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 Poll after receiving 27 of a possible 31 first-place votes.

Club Membership... Senior Kayla Tetschlag joined classmate Celeste Hoewisch (Hortonville, Wis.) in the 1,000-point club in Green Bay's 69-62 win over Detroit on New Year's Eve. With 3:54 remaining Tetschlag gave the Phoenix its final lead of the contest off a bucket down low.

Live Game Action...Phoenix fans can follow Thursday's game live online here.

Joy of the Journey...The newest blog to GreenBayPhoenix.com takes you along and inside the Green Bay women's basketball 2010-11 season as the team works toward a second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance and 13th consecutive regular season Horizon League championship. Fans can check out the women's basketball blog here for updates throughout the season.