Women's Basketball | 1/5/2018 9:00:00 AM
SAN MARCOS, Texas – Texas State women's basketball will be back on the floor on Jan. 6 as hosts to the Troy Trojans. Tip is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. with the broadcast being televised on the WatchESPN app. The matchup of Sun Belt Conference foes will take place inside Strahan Coliseum.
Last Time Out for the Bobcats
• Texas State used a dominant first half to pull away from South Alabama early in the contest, defeating the Jaguars by a score of 78-63 on Jan. 4 inside of Strahan Coliseum.
• The win pushed head coach
Zenarae Antoine to 5-0 in conference home openers since the team left the Western Athletic Conference to join the Sun Belt Conference for the 2013-14 season.
• For the second time in as many games,
Toshua Leavitt led the offensive attack for the Bobcats. The junior guard secured her sixth 20-point outing of the season, tallying 28 points. She did the bulk of her damage from behind the 3-point line, connecting on 6-of-13 triples, her sixth game making at least six shots from deep this season.
• Ti'Aira Pitts aided in Texas State's quick start, putting home 11 of her 14 points in the first half. She connected on 2-of-3 shots from 3-point range and was 4-of-5 from the charity stripe in the contest.
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Taeler Deer registered 11 points, a career-high nine rebounds and eight assists. Deer has led the Bobcats in assists in 12 of the team's 14 games this season.
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Brooke Holle also reached double figures, scoring 11 points. The win over South Alabama marked the third time this season that a quartet of TXST players scored 10+ points.
Shooting into the Record Books
• Texas State caught team-fire against UTSA on Dec. 5, knocking down a school-record 15 3-point field goals on 30 attempts. The record stood for just 12 days as TXST drilled 16-of-28 attempts in the win over Sam Houston State on Dec. 17.
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Toshua Leavitt has torched the nets all season, including knocking down a school-record 10 3-point field goals in the loss to Coastal Carolina. Her record setting day also matched Mari Sanchez's Sun Belt Conference record. She also made 10 3-pointers on Feb. 23, 2003.
• Leavitt has drilled 62 shots from deep this season. Her 4.43 made triples per contest not only tops the SBC ranks but also leads the entire NCAA.
• The 62 made 3-pointers ranks sixth in school history for a single season. The Missouri native still has over half of her junior season to catch current record holder, Joyce Ekworomadu. Joyce connected on 82 triples during the 2007-08 season.
Deer Joins the 1,000-Point 300-Assist Club
• Deer was honored before the South Alabama contest for reaching 1,000 career points. She scored 29 points, her second-highest output of the season, against Appalachian State to push her over the 1,000-point barrier.
• Deer became the 16th player in program history, and just the fifth player under head coach
Zenarae Antoine to eclipse this milestone, joining: Erin Peoples, Ayriel Anderson, Ashley Azeh and Diamond Ford.
• After nearly posting a triple-double line of 11 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in the win over South Alabama, Deer joined an even more exclusive club.
• The senior guard has now amassed 1,018 points and 301 assists in her career, a feat only obtained by two other women's basketball players in Texas State history. Shelley Borton (1986-90) piled up 1,893 points and a school-record 595 assists during her outstanding playing career. Ayriel Anderson (2012-16) posted 1,149 points and 348 points.
• Consequently, Borton, Anderson and Deer are the only three Bobcats in program history to dish out more than 300 assists.
• The senior guard is second on the team in scoring, averaging 14.6 points per game, and leads the team with 6.1 assist per contest. Last season she was named third team All-SBC after scoring a career-high 10.8 points per outing.
Quest for 100
• With the victory over USA, Coach Z sits at career win No. 97 as the head coach of the Texas State women's basketball team. Only three coaches in program history have guided the women's basketball program to 100 wins: Suzanne Fox (1997-2011), Judy Rinker (1966-75) and Linda Sharp (1989-1997). In her first season at Texas State, the 2011-12 campaign, she led one of the best turnarounds in school history, taking a 9-20 team the year before, to 17-14, including the school's first conference tournament win since 2003. During her run at TXST, Coach Z has averaged nearly 15 wins per season and has taken the Bobcats to the WBI in three of the last four seasons.
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