Girls’s Basketball
Sport 1 • vs Southwestern Christian
Huntsville • Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum (6,100)
Sam Houston (0-0, 0-0 CUSA) vs Southwestern Christian (2-0, 0-0 SAC)
Monday, November 2 • 4:00 PM
TV: ESPN+ (Matt Pedersen, Ken Holland)
RADIO: BSN (Stephanie Keele); KSHU 90.5 FM
HOW TO FOLLOW: Live Stats • @Bearkats_WBB
Collection vs the Eagles: First Assembly
HUNTSVILLE – The eighth season of the Ravon Justice period of Sam Houston Girls’s Basketball will get happening Monday when the Bearkats start a difficult non-conference schedule towards Southwestern Christian at Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum.
Tipoff for the season opener is ready for 4:00 p.m. because the entrance finish of a doubleheader which might be capped by the Bearkat males’s crew opening its season vs LeTourneau. The sport will air on ESPN+ with Matt Pedersen and Ken Holland bringing the motion from courtside.
The sport can be heard on-line on the Bearkat Sports activities Community and the Bearkat Athletics app with Stephanie Keele transferring behind the mic for the Kats for the 2025-26 season.
KATS TO KICK OFF 2025-26 SEASON IN HUNTSVILLE
– For the primary time as a member of Convention USA, Justice will welcome again an skilled crew with 9 returning letterwinners and all 5 major starters from 2024-25 on the roster. In whole, the Kats have 73.9 p.c of its scoring again from a yr in the past
– Deborah Ogayemi headlines the returners, incomes Preseason All-CUSA honors for this yr after touchdown on the All-CUSA second crew on the finish of final season. The second-year switch from UTRGV averaged 12.1 factors and seven.6 rebounds per recreation final yr with a team-best 7 double-doubles
– Protection has been a trademark of Justice’s Bearkat groups since her arrival and this yr has the potential to be her finest unit but. The Kats ranked sixth within the nation with 23.4 turnovers pressured per recreation in 2024-25 and had been thirteenth nationally with a mean of 11.6 steals per recreation
– Fanta Kone spearheaded that defensive effort with a CUSA-best 3.0 steals per recreation and was 1 of three Kats to rank within the high 6 individually within the league in steals per contest. Ogayemi (2.6 spg) and Aysia Ward-Strong (2.2 spg) had been there within the high 6, with every returning for 2025-26
– Ravon Justice goes into the 2025-26 season opener with 98 wins to her credit score at Sam Houston. With 2 extra victories she would be part of Rebecca Bilsing and Brenda Nichols as the one 3 head coaches in program historical past to build up 100 wins at SHSU
– Following the Kats’ opener vs SCU, they are going to head to Fort Value to battle TCU. The Horned Frogs are ranked No. 17 within the preliminary AP ballot, which can make TCU simply the second ranked opponent Sam Houston has confronted within the final 13 seasons. SHSU final confronted a ranked opponent when it took on then No. 10 Texas A&M through the 2020-21 season. Previous to that, the Kats had not confronted a ranked foe since taking up No. 10 Delaware through the 2012-13 season
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