CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — After having their 9-game winning streak snapped on Saturday with a loss to Abilene Christian, Central Arkansas will look to start anew on Tuesday as the Sugar Bears continue Southland Conference play at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the first of a two-game road swing this week.

The Sugar Bears (10-2, 0-1) will face the Islanders at 5:30 on Tuesday before traveling to Nacogdoches to take on Stephen F. Austin on Thursday.

Tuesday's game will be the conference opener for the Islanders (3-8), who have dropped their last six games, three by five points or less and another by eight. Most recently they dropped two games at the Fordham Holiday Classic on Dec. 29 and 30, losing 67-49 to Fordham and 70-51 to New Mexico State.

The Islanders lead the series with the Sugar Bears 6-5, with the teams swapping wins in the last five meetings. The Sugar Bears got the best of the Islanders last season, notching a 63-59 win after closing the game out with a 20-9 run over the last 8:48, including making seven straight free throws in the final minute.

The last four meetings have been decided by a combined 13 points – a margin of just 3.25 points per game. The Islanders won the last meeting at the American Bank Center 45-42 in 2014, and are 3-2 against the Sugar Bears in Corpus Christi.

Redshirt sophomore Brittany Mbamalu leads the Islanders at 11.9 points per game, with senior Shay Weaver adding 11.0. Mbamalu is 5th nationally in 3-point field goals per game, knocking down 3.4 per game while shooting 43.6 percent. She has made at least two 3s in every game this season with a season-high of 6 (of 9) against Houston and four more games with 4. Mbamalu sat out last season due to injury, but during her freshman campaign in 2013-14 broke the Islanders' program record for 3-pointers in a season with 81.

Camesha Davis, a 6-foot-1 junior forward, has been the Islanders' most formidable threat inside, averaging 7.7 points and 7.2 rebounds per game while shooting 84 percent at the free throw line.

The game pits a pair of veteran coaches against one another, with UCA's Sandra Rushing and A&M-Corpus Christi's Royce Chadwick having combined for nearly 1100 wins in more than 50 years on the sideline.

After Tuesday's game, the Sugar Bears will finish their week at Stephen F. Austin on Thursday before returning home next Monday to take on Lamar. That game, originally scheduled for 7:00 p.m., has been changed to a 5:30 tipoff.