Ladies’s Basketball
Recreation 7 • at Rice
Houston • Tudor Fieldhouse (5,750)
Sam Houston (5-1, 0-0 CUSA) at Rice (5-3, 0-0 American)
Wednesday, December 3 • 5:30 PM
TV: ESPN+ (Shelby Coppedge, Austyn Iven, Abby Christopherson)
RADIO: BSN (Stephanie Keele); KSHU 90.5 FM
HOW TO FOLLOW: Live Stats • @Bearkats_WBB
Sequence vs the Owls: Rice leads 22-7
HUNTSVILLE – The Sam Houston girls’s basketball group will look to increase its 4-game win streak on Wednesday in opposition to Rice at Tudor Fieldhouse.
Tipoff for the sport is about for five:30 p.m. and can air on ESPN+ with Shelby Coppedge, Austyn Iven, and Abby Christopherson on the decision courtside.
The sport can be heard on-line on the Bearkat Sports activities Community and the Bearkat Athletics app with Stephanie Keele shifting behind the mic for the Kats for the 2025-26 season.
RED-HOT KATS LOOKING FOR FIFTH WIN IN A ROW
– Sam Houston is on a 4-game win streak and will probably be looking for its first 5-game, non-conference win streak since 2013-14 season
– The Kats checked in at No. 82 within the NCAA’s preliminary NET rating launched earlier this week. They’re presently the highest-ranked group in CUSA and the solely to be throughout the high 100. Defending league champion Liberty is the subsequent closest, ranked at No. 118
– The Bearkats are coming off a 39-point win over North American, led by Bryana Block’s career-high 14 factors. The 92-point complete was probably the most for the Kats since scoring 98 in final yr’s season opener vs Jarvis Christian
– Sam Houston pressured 32 turnovers in opposition to the Stallions and presently leads the nation with a median of 30.0 pressured turnovers per recreation. The Kats additionally rank tenth nationally with 15.2 steals per recreation
– The Kats will probably be trying to snap a 6-game shedding streak within the sequence with the Owls with the final win being in OT in Houston early within the 2013-14 season. This would be the thirtieth all-time assembly between the faculties with the Owls main the sequence 22-7
– Fanta Kone presently leads the Kats and ranks tenth in CUSA in scoring with 13.5 ppg for the yr, however leads the league in field-goal share, hitting at a 62.7 p.c clip to this point. She has hit 26 of 35 photographs from the ground (74.2 p.c) and averaged 16.3 ppg throughout the Kats’ present 4-game win streak
– The Bearkats have held their opponents underneath 50 factors in all 5 of their wins to this point, together with an opponent common of simply 42.5 ppg throughout the present win streak
– A win would give Ravon Justice her first 6-1 begin to a season in her teaching profession and produce even her SHSU profession file at 104-104
– Annika Corcoran missed the entire 2024-25 season and the primary two video games of this yr on account of damage, however her addition has made a right away affect to the Kats’ outdoors capturing prowess. SHSU has hit at the least 5 3-point buckets in every of the final 4 video games and most not too long ago canned 9 vs North American, probably the most in a single recreation for the group since hitting 11 vs UTEP within the remaining recreation of the 2023-24 season
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