Women's Basketball | 11/22/2016 2:09:00 PM
SAN MARCOS, Texas – Texas State University women's basketball travels to the famed Hofheinz Pavilion Wednesday to take on the Houston Cougars. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m.
SCENE SETTER
• Texas State plays its fifth game of the season and first away from Strahan Coliseum since Nov. 11 when the Bobcats travel to Houston on Wednesday.
• The Bobcats are 2-2 on the season and average 58.2 points per game, while limiting opponents to 57.5.
• Each of the Bobcats' 11 2016-17 nonconference foes are located in Texas. The Bobcats are 14-7 against Texas-based universities since the 2014-15 season.
• Texas State enters the game coming off a 66-53 loss to Texas Southern last Sunday. Houston is 1-2 on the season after suffering a 65-55 defeat at Long Beach State on Nov. 18.
TXST vs. UH
• Texas State and Houston have met 14 times on the hardwood with the Cougars holding an 11-3 series advantage.
• Texas State won the series' first two games (52-40 in 1974 and 77-71 in 1976), but Houston won the next 11 tilts.
• The Bobcats claimed victory by a 70-63 score in the teams' most recent meeting on Dec. 15, 2013.
•
Zenarae Antoine is 1-1 in her head coaching career against Houston.
LAST TIME OUT FOR THE BOBCATS
• Texas State was unable to contain a hot-shooting Texas Southern team as the Tigers shot 50.9 percent overall, including 52.0 percent in the second half, to defeat the Bobcats 66-53 last Sunday (Nov. 20).
• Texas State was led by
Toshua Leavitt's 11 points, including nine by way of three 3-pointers.
Ti'Aira Pitts went 3-of-4 from the field, including a 3-pointer, for her seven points.
Ericka May and
Amber Jones co-led the Bobcats on the boards with four each.
GETTING DEFENSIVE
• Texas State ranks as the second-best defensive team in the Sun Belt Conference through games played Nov. 20. The Bobcats are holding their opponents to a 57.5 points per game, ranking behind only Georgia Southern's 54.5 for tops in the league.
• The Bobcat defense has been particularly good in the fourth quarter as they are limiting opponents to only 13.75 points in the final stanza. Texas State has held two of its opponents (Incarnate Word and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) to less than 22 percent from the field in the fourth quarter.
50 PERCENT POST SHOOTING
• Post players
Ti'Aira Pitts and
Amber Jones are each making the most of their touches in the paint. Both are shooting 50.0 percent from the floor with Pitts making 11 of her 22 attempts and Jones seven of her 14.
BOBCATS IN THE SUN BELT RANKINGS
• Texas State ranks in the top half of the Sun Belt Conference in 12 of the league's 21 key statistical categories. The Bobcats' top two statistical categories are scoring defense (57.5 ppg) and assist-to-turnover ratio (+1.0) with each ranking second in the league.
LEAVITT FROM THREE
• Sophomore guard
Toshua Leavitt made a career-high four 3-pointers in the Bobcats' season opener at SMU (Nov. 11) and again in the win over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Nov. 18).
• Her four triples against the Islanders aided in a career-high tying 16 points. Her fourth and final triple against TAMU-CC came with 2:03 to play, breaking a 50-all tie and pushing TXST ahead for good.
• Leavitt, who has made her first four career starts this season, is the Bobcats' leading scorer at 11.3 points per game. She is shooting 11-of-31 from deep and 15-of-36 overall from the field.
