Hempstead, N.Y. - Hofstra will play its third road contest in four games when the Pride travels to the Yellowhammer State to face Auburn at 3 p.m. Eastern time on Sunday in a non-conference matchup from Auburn Arena.

Hofstra (1-6) will be looking to snap a six-game losing streak by playing in Auburn's two-year-old; $90 million arena, where the Tigers are 2-0 this season. Overall, the SEC-member school is 5-2. Hofstra and Auburn will be meeting for the first time in history. Auburn played in Hofstra's New York Life Holiday Invitational last year, though the two teams did not play each other with the Tigers instead facing Central Connecticut State and Marist.

A challenging non-conference schedule continues for the Pride. Every team Hofstra has played thus far was a 2011-12 postseason qualifier with four of those teams making the NCAA Tournament. Senior Shante Evans has continued to do well against good teams, averaging 16.4 points and 9.3 rebounds. Evans has scored in double figures in every game for Hofstra this season. She already has broken the school record for rebounds and, with 1,057 boards, trails only James Madison's Meredith Alexis (2004-07) for the most rebounds in Colonial Athletic Association history with 1,313.

Evans, a six-foot forward, will likely encounter Auburn senior Blanche Alverson in the post. A six-foot-three primary forward who is also listed as a guard, Alverson is one of three Tigers to average in double figures, scoring 11.6 points per game while posting a team-leading 5.7 rebounds.

Auburn is out-scoring opponents by almost 100 points this season while tallying slighter more than 73 points per game. Leading the attack is sophomore guard Hasina Muhammad and her 16.4 scoring average. In Auburn's last game, Alverson and Muhammad each scored 21 points to help the Tigers to a come-from-behind 70-65 win at Tulane for the Green Wave's first loss. The Tigers were down by 16 at halftime before rallying.

To combat the Auburn offense, senior forward Candace Bond will look to build on her solid all-around game against Princeton. Bond scored nine points and added six rebounds and a season-high five steals in just 28 minutes. The Fort Washington, Md. native is averaging 2.7 steals, which is the fifth-highest in the CAA.

Besides contributions from veterans, Hofstra head coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey has seen the crop of young players step up. Freshman Ruth Sherrill is coming off the best game of her young career after scoring her first three collegiate points and hauling in a career-high six rebounds against a Princeton team that was the preseason Ivy League favorite.

Auburn junior guard Tyrese Tanner is averaging 13 points and has tallied 14 assists while senior guard Najat Ouardad has initiated the Tigers attack with a squad-best 38 assists. Hofstra will look to its youthful backcourt to find answers with sophomore Andreana Thomas coming off back-to-back double figures scoring games after recording 10 points at Princeton.

Junior guard Annie Payton has knocked down 12 of Hofstra's 34 three-pointers this season, making her one of two Hofstra players to average 10 points or more (10.1) despite starting just three of seven games. Auburn has made 31.1 percent of its three-pointers but is allowing opponents to convert at a 32.9 percent clip.

In a quirky twist, Hofstra will be playing a team with the same nickname in back-to-back games. The Pride opposed the Princeton Tigers before taking on the Auburn Tigers. The last time Hofstra played two teams with the same nickname in such a short span was 2005-06 when Hofstra played the UConn Huskies and Northeastern Huskies in a three-game span (Harvard was the middle game).