• The Texas Southern women's basketball team is back in action on the road Thursday to Lorman, Mississippi to take on Alcorn State at 6 pm.
• TSU has two losses in conference play against Southern and Grambling, 2/13/25 and 2/15/25. Before, The Lady Tigers went 11-0 in the SWAC, its best start since 1980-81.
• This season, the women's basketball schedule changes drastically as the women will play SWAC games on Thursday (single game) and Saturday (doubleheader). This marks the first time since 1995 that the SWAC has altered its league basketball schedule.
• This marks the third season for TSU head coach Vernette Skeete. This season also marks the first time the roster will be upperclassman-heavy after fielding underclassmen-heavy rosters the past two years. Five newcomers were added via the transfer portal and two via the JUCO ranks. TSU returns three starters and six letter winners as the Tigers also changed their coaching staff by adding a pair of assistant coaches and an operations director in the offseason.
•Since the 2012-13 season, TSU holds a 19-7 record against ASU. TSU won their last match up on 1/18/25, 70-48.
•ASU is currently 7-7 in conference play. Destiny Brown is their leading scorer with 12.4 ppg. ASU is led by fifth year head coach Nate Kilbert. Before joining the Braves, he coached at Mississippi Valley State for 12 seasons. Kilbert went on to become head women's basketball coach at Arkansas-Pine Bluff from 2012-19, when he became the winningest coach in program history.
•Junior forward Jaida Belton was named to the 2024 Southwestern Athletic Conference Preseason All-SWAC Second Team. A native of Baltimore, Md., Belton also has four double-doubles this season and is ninth in the SWAC with 17 blocked shots while the league's seventh-leading rebounder (6.9). Jaida secured her 500th rebound in the win over Alcorn State. Jaida recorded a double-double against PVAMU.
•TSU ranks 8th nationally in offensive rebounds (16.2) and 10th in rebounds (42.85).TSU also ranks 16th in blocks (4.9).
•TSU leads the SWAC in scoring (67.9), blocked shots (128), rebounds (42.85) and defensive rebounds (26.7).
•TSU was picked to finish ninth in the SWAC's Preseason Poll.
•TSU has squared off against five NCAA D-1 conferences this year as they faced teams from the Big 12 (3), American (2), WAC (2), SEC (1), Southland (2).
•TSU head coach Vernette Skeete is 6-15 all-time in the month of February.
