STONY BROOK, N.Y. — India Pagan is on the verge of joining a select group.
Pagan and the Stony Brook women's basketball team enter a pair of weekend games at UMBC only 21 points shy of 1,000 for her career.
She would become the 18th player in program history to amass that total as a Seawolf, and the fourth player during
Caroline McCombs' seven seasons as a head coach.
Brittany Snow tallied 1,314 points from 2012-13 through '15-16, Sabre Proctor amassed 1,205 from 2012-13 through '14-15, and Korie Bayne-Walker had 1,045 from 2013-14 through '16-17.
Kaela Hilaire reached 1,000 points last season with Stony Brook after playing the bulk of her career at Seton Hall.
Pagan, a member of the America East Preseason All-Conference team, is averaging 8.8 points and 5.4 rebounds per game this season. Among her major contributions: She produced seven points during a third-quarter-opening 9-0 run as Stony Brook rallied from a one-point deficit en route to a 55-47 win against Binghamton on Dec. 20.
Pagan also was a key figure in last year's conference title team that enjoyed a 22-game winning streak and 28-3 overall record.
Pagan, a 6-foot-1 forward from New London, Conn., and sociology major, was named first-team All-America East and to the America East All-Academic Team after last season.
The Seawolves enter this weekend's games at UMBC 5-3 overall and 3-1 in America East. Tipoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the UMBC Event Center in Baltimore.