Windfall Faculty
Xavier
12/2/2025 12:21:00 PM | Girls's Basketball
Friars open BIG EAST play on the highway in opposition to the Musketeers on the Cintas Heart.
FRIARS OPEN BIG EAST PLAY ON THE ROAD AGAINST XAVIER… Windfall will open BIG EAST Convention play at Xavier on Thursday, Dec. 4. The sport shall be performed on the Cintas Heart in Cincinnati, Ohio and is scheduled to tip at 11:00 a.m. on ESPN+.
PROVIDENCE VS. XAVIER ALL-TIME… The Friars lead the all-time sequence in opposition to the Musketeers, 13-11. Windfall has dominated the sequence of late, profitable 12 of the final 15 video games. The Friars have gained every of the final six conferences between the 2 packages.
FRIARS AND MUSKETEERS AT THE CINTAS CENTER… Xavier leads the sequence in opposition to Windfall in video games performed on the Cintas Heart, 7-5. The Musketeers gained the primary 5 conferences between the 2 groups on the Cintas Heart, however the Friars have rallied to win 5 of the final seven video games on the venue.
SINGLE DIGITS… Twelve of the 24 conferences between Windfall and Xavier have been determined by single digits, together with six of the final eight video games. The Friars swept the season sequence in 2024-25, with each video games determined by single digits. On Jan. 15, 2025, the Friars defeated the Musketeers, 51-45, in Windfall, R.I. In the latest assembly between the 2 groups, Windfall defeated Xavier, 61-53, in Cincinnati, Ohio on Feb. 12, 2025.
LAST XAVIER VICTORY… The final time Xavier defeated Windfall dates again to Feb. 13, 2022. On that day, the Musketeers claimed a 62-60 victory at Alumni Corridor in Windfall, R.I.
HOME-SWEET-HOME… The Friars will play eight of their 11 non-conference video games within the pleasant confines of Alumni Corridor / Mullaney Gymnasium in Windfall, R.I., which included a five-game home-stand to start out the season. Windfall is at present 5-1 at dwelling in Alumni Corridor.
FIRST TRUE ROAD GAME OF THE SEASON… Windfall will play its first true highway sport of the season when it travels to Cincinnati, Ohio to face Xavier on Dec. 4. Windfall has compiled a 5-1 report at dwelling in Alumni Corridor and have posted a 1-1 mark in neutral-site video games.
PLAYERS TO WATCH… Mariyah Noel leads Xavier in scoring with 16.7 factors per contest and provides 6.6 rebounds and a pair of.4 assists per sport. MacKenzie Givens is the one different Musketeer averaging double figures within the scoring column (11.1 ppg) and in addition contributes 4.3 boards whereas capturing 49-percent from the sphere (31-63). Meri Kanerva was a BIG EAST All-Freshman Group choice in 2024-25 and was chosen to the Preseason All-BIG EAST Group forward of this season on the league’s annual media day in October. She enters Thursday’s sport averaging 8.0 factors, 3.0 rebounds and crew highs in assists (3.1 apg). Savannah White leads Xavier on the glass with 7.5 boards per sport and in addition chips in 7.8 factors, 2.8 assists and a team-best 1.8 blocks and a pair of.2 steals per sport.
PROVIDENCE HANDS BRYANT UNIVERSITY FIRST LOSS OF THE SEASON… Windfall Faculty hosted intra-state foe Bryant on Nov. 30 and claimed a 62-53 victory. The Bulldogs have been off to their finest begin in program historical past and entered the sport with a 7-0 report. Sabou Gueye netted a game-high 18 factors, whereas Teneisia Brown hauled in a game-high 14 rebounds. Payton Dunbar scored 15 factors for the Friars on the power of a 4-6 capturing efficiency from past the arc.
TENEISIA BROWN OWNS THE GLASS… The Friars have out-rebounded or tied their opponent in rebounding throughout every of its eight video games this season. Teneisia Brown leads the crew and ranks first within the BIG EAST in whole rebounds (66) and third in rebounds per sport (8.3 rpg). She has hauled in a season-best 14 rebounds in two video games vs. Central Connecticut (Nov. 10) and Bryant (Nov. 30).
HEATING UP FROM DEEP… By way of eight video games, Payton Dunbar leads the crew in three-point proportion (.333, 16-48). Within the Friars’ first 4 video games of the season, she shot simply 21.7-percent from past the arc (5-23). Within the final 4 video games, Dunbar has hit 44-percent of her three-point makes an attempt (11-25).
DOUBLE DIGITS… Sabou Gueye has recorded double digits within the scoring column a team-best six instances this season. She leads the crew and ranks sixth within the BIG EAST in scoring common at 14.9 factors per sport. 5 different gamers on the roster have reached double figures, together with Teneisia Brown (4), Payton Dunbar (4), Orlagh Gormley (two), Sophi Hall (one) and Audrey Shields (one).
DEFENSE… The Friars lead the BIG EAST and rank fifteenth within the nation in scoring protection, permitting simply 52.3 factors per sport. Moreover, Windfall ranks second in field-goal proportion protection (thirty third in NCAA), having held its opponents to 34.4-percent from the ground. Windfall has held all eight of its opponents beneath 40-percent capturing from the sphere.
FLOOR GENERAL… Sophomore Orlagh Gormley has returned to ground because the Friars’ ground basic after sitting out the ultimate 22 video games of her freshman marketing campaign with an damage. She’s made an instantaneous affect on each ends of the ground, main the crew in assists (3.4 apg) and steals (2.3 spg), whereas additionally contributing 7.5 factors and 4.6 rebounds per sport. Gormley has been environment friendly when she opts to attain the basketball, capturing 43-percent from the sphere (19-44). Gormley recorded a career-best 13 factors in opposition to Center Tennessee on Nov. 24. She additionally matched her career-high in rebounding throughout that sport (eight) and added three assists and 4 steals.
DOUBLE-DOUBLE WATCH… Freshman Ashley Dinges performed a season-high 29 minutes within the Friars’ most up-to-date victory over Bryant on Nov. 30 and narrowly missed out on her first profession double-double. Dinges recorded a career-high 9 factors and 9 rebounds vs. the Bulldogs. She shot 4-9 from the sphere and 4 of her 9 rebounds got here off the offensive glass.
FRIARS SHOOT SEASON-BEST 50-PERCENT FROM THE FLOOR… The Friars loved their finest capturing efficiency of the season of their win over Yale on Nov. 21. Windfall shot 50-percent from the sphere (27-54), together with 66.7-percent from the three-point arc (6-9). Windfall has shot 45-percent or higher from the sphere in two of its eight video games this season.
SHARING THE SCORING LOAD… Windfall is 3-0 on the season when three-or-more gamers crack double-digits within the scoring column. The Friars are 3-2 when fewer than three gamers attain double figures.
BACK-TO-BACK 20+ POINT GAMES FOR SABOU GUEYE… Grad switch Sabou Gueye scored 20+ factors in back-to-back video games vs. Northeastern (21) and Yale (22). Her 22 factors vs. the Bulldogs matched her profession excessive, which she reached on Dec. 29, 2024 vs. Thomas (Ga.), whereas enjoying for Florida A&M.
SOPHI HALL PERFECT EN ROUTE TO A CAREER-BEST 18 POINTS… Junior Sophi Hall performed 13 minutes off the bench within the Friars’ match-up in opposition to Yale (Nov. 21) and recorded a career-high 18 factors. Sixteen of her 18 factors got here within the second half. She was excellent from the sphere (5-5), together with a 3-3 exhibiting from past the arc. She additionally was 5-5 from the foul line.
SABOU GUEYE GETS THE FRIARS OVER FINISH LINE VS. NORTHEASTERN… Sabou Gueye scored 21 factors, together with 11 of the Friars’ 15 within the fourth quarter, to defeat Northeastern (50-45) on Nov. 18. Gueye shot 10-16 from the sphere and added six rebounds, three steals and one blocked shot.
PAYTON DUNBAR’S CAREER-HIGH 22 POINTS LIFT FRIARS OVER BOSTON COLLEGE… Sophomore Payton Dunbar recorded a career-high 22 factors in opposition to Boston Faculty on Nov. 15. Dunbar shot 8-14 from the sphere, together with a 5-10 efficiency past the arc. Coming into the sport, Dunbar was 0-9 from three-point territory.
SABOU GUEYE RECORDS FIRST DOUBLE-DOUBLE AS A FRIAR… Grad switch Sabou Gueye picked up her first double-double as a Friar on Nov. 15 as she recorded 16 factors and 12 boards vs. Boston Faculty. It marked the third double-double of her profession [recorded two at Florida A&M].
FRIARS GO 1-1 AT EMERALD COAST CLASSIC… Windfall posted a 1-1 report on the Emerald Coast Basic on Nov. 24-25 in Niceville, Fla. The Friars opened match play with a 54-48 loss to Center Tennessee State earlier than taking down Alcorn State, 64-33, within the third-place sport. Payton Dunbar averaged 13.5 factors, 2.0 rebounds and 1.0 steal per sport. Teneisia Brown additionally averaged 13.5 factors and contributed 5.0 boards and three.0 steals per contest. Orlagh Gormley averaged a team-best 6.5 rebounds and three.5 assists per sport and added 8.5 factors and a pair of.0 steals per sport.
PAYTON DUNBAR NAMED TO EMERALD COAST CLASSIC ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM… Sophomore switch Payton Dunbar was named to the Emerald Coast Basic All-Match crew on Nov. 25. She averaged 13.5 factors, 2.0 rebounds and 1.0 steal per sport. She shot 42-percent from the sphere (10-24), together with 35-percent from three-point territory. Dunbar paced the Friars with a game-high 19 factors in a 64-33 victory over Alcorn State.
BIG DAY ON THE BOARDS VS. CCSU… The Friars recorded 55 rebounds in opposition to Central Connecticut on Nov. 10. It marked essentially the most rebounds in a sport for Windfall since Nov. 9, 2013. On that day, the crew hauled in a program-record 65 boards in opposition to UMass Lowell. In opposition to CCSU, Teneisia Brown recorded a game-high 14 rebounds. A trio of Friars, together with Sabou Gueye, Orlagh Gormley and Ashley Dinges every recorded eight rebounds.
FIRST DOUBLE-DOUBLE AS A FRIAR… Graduate switch Teneisia Brown recorded her first double-double as a Friar, and thirty second of her profession, on Nov. 10 vs. Central Connecticut. She completed the sport with 12 factors and 14 rebounds.
By way of eight video games, Brown is averaging 9.9 factors, 8.3 rebounds and 1.6 steals per sport.
TENEISIA BROWN ECLIPSES 1,200 CAREER POINTS… Grad switch Teneisia Brown has eclipsed 1,200 factors for her profession. Brown arrived at Windfall for her closing season after stops at Merrimack (2020-22) and Fairleigh Dickinson (2023-25). She averaged double figures within the scoring column throughout every of her final three seasons of school basketball and at present ranks third on the crew in scoring for the Friars by eight video games (9.9 ppg). Brown has a profession scoring whole of 1,265 factors heading into Thursday’s sport at Xavier.
PROVIDENCE DROPS SEASON OPENER TO HOWARD… The Friars have been defeated by Howard, 68-56, of their season opener on Nov. 4 at Alumni Corridor in Windfall, R.I. The Bison used a 9-2 run within the closing 3:15 of the third quarter, together with a 3 on the buzzer, to say a 50-39 lead heading into the fourth. Howard prolonged its result in as many as 18 with 2:20 left to place the sport out of attain. Windfall managed to get inside 64-54 with an 8-0 run, however the deficit proved too massive to beat. Sabou Gueye led the Friars with 16 factors and 4 steals. Payton Dunbar tallied 12 factors, 4 assists and two rebounds. Howard out-scored Windfall 26-12 in factors off turnovers. The Friars dedicated 20 miscues within the sport, in comparison with Howard’s 12 turnovers.
NEW LOOK FRIARS TAKE THE COURT IN 2025-26… The Friars have reloaded their roster for the 2025-26 season after shedding 10 gamers to commencement (seven seniors and three graduate college students). Junior Sophi Hall and sophomores Orlagh Gormley and Audrey Shields are the one returning gamers on the roster that beforehand noticed sport motion in a Friar uniform. The rest of this yr’s roster is made up of 5 switch student-athletes, 5 true freshmen and one red-shirt freshman.
BROADCAST AND TV ASSIGNMENTS… As a part of the BIG EAST’s tv and broadcast deal, the Friars shall be featured on a number of community platforms encompassing tv and streaming throughout the 2025-26 season, together with FS1, TNT, truTV, Peacock and ESPN+. Moreover, Windfall’s video games on the Emerald Coast Basic shall be out there on FloSports and its non-conference match-up at South Carolina shall be broadcast on the SEC Community. Every of the Friars’ dwelling non-conference video games shall be broadcast stay on ESPN+, along with 15 of this system’s 20 BIG EAST Convention regular-season video games. Tv and streaming designations for every sport can be found on the ladies’s basketball schedule by way of Friars.com.
ERIN BATTH RADIO SHOW TO MAKE SEASON DEBUT ON NOV. 20… The second episode of the Erin Batth Radio Present will air on Thursday, Dec. 18 from 5:30 – 6:00 p.m. The present, now in its third season, was developed by way of an present partnership between Windfall Faculty Athletics, LEARFIELD’S Windfall Friars Sports activities Properties and Cumulus Media Manufacturing. Hear stay on-line at: https://www.thescore790.com or tune into 790AM. The present may even be out there on-line by way of the Varsity Community app.
ERIN BATTH RADIO SHOW SCHEDULE • 790 THE SCORE
Dec. 18 • 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Jan. 8 • 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Feb. 19 • 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Mar. 5 • 5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
BIG EAST PRESEASON POLL… The Friars have been picked to complete tenth within the BIG EAST Preseason Coaches’ Ballot, launched on the league’s annual media day on Oct. 21 at Madison Sq. Backyard. Final season, Windfall accomplished the yr with a 13-19 general report and claimed a seventh-place end within the regular-season standings with a 6-12 convention report.
ERIN BATTH ERA… Erin Batth enters her third season with the Friars in 2025-26. She was employed because the eleventh girls’s basketball coach in program historical past at Windfall Faculty on March 20, 2023. Batth arrived in Friartown with 17 years of NCAA Division I teaching expertise, together with her most up-to-date stops coming at NC State (2018-22) and Michigan (2022-23). She has been a part of 5 convention championships, eight NCAA Elite Eight appearances and three journeys to the NCAA Candy 16. She additionally served as an assistant coach at Liberty (2017-18), Georgia State (2014-17), Tennessee Tech (2012-14) and Towson (2010-12). Batth earned her first profession win as a head coach on Nov. 7 vs. Hampton (76-46). She helped the Friars earn a bid to the Girls’s Nationwide Invitation Match (WNIT) in her first yr at Windfall in 2023-24.
WHAT’S NEXT… Windfall Faculty will head to Carnesecca Enviornment in Queens, N.Y. to face St. John’s on Sunday, Dec. 7. The sport is scheduled to tip at 2:00 p.m. and shall be broadcast on ESPN+.
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