STATESBORO, Ga. — For the first time since Jan. 3, 2019, the Texas State women's basketball program returns to Hanner Fieldhouse in Statesboro, Ga., when the Bobcats take on Georgia Southern on Thursday, Jan. 13 at 5 p.m. CT/6 p.m. ET. 

The game will be available to stream on ESPN+. 

LOOKING AT THE BOBCATS

Thursday night's matchup between the Texas State and Georgia Southern women's basketball programs will pit two of the top-five scoring offenses in the Sun Belt Conference together on the hardwood. The Eagles will enter the contest with a league-leading 85.4 points per game mark (1,195 total points throughout 14 games so far this season) while Texas State is fifth in the conference with a 68.3 points per game average after totaling 1,025 points throughout 15 games. Both teams are one of just five teams (Troy, Arkansas State, Georgia Southern, Coastal Carolina and Texas State) in the league to have scored 1,000-or-more points through this point of the 2021-22 season. 

Texas State senior guard Kennedy Taylor enters Thursday night's game as the Sun Belt's leader in total assists (88) and total steals (34). She is the only student-athlete in the league averaging 5-or-more assists per game as she has been credited with 5.9 assists per game through 15 games played this year. 

Entering Thursday night's game, Texas State senior guard Kennedy Taylor will still be sitting atop the Sun Belt Conference in total assists (88) and assists per game (5.9). In three Sun Belt Conference games so far this season, Taylor has been credited for 22 assists and 7.3 assists per game. 

SCOUTING THE EAGLES

Georgia Southern is one of three team (Coastal Carolina, Georgia Southern and Louisiana) ranked in both the top three in offensive shooting percentage and defensive shooting percentage. The Eagles shoot a conference-leading 46.1 percentage per game, while holding opponents to a 37.9 mark. Texas State is fourth in offensive shooting percentage with a 42.8 mark but is 11th with a 41.3 defensive shooting percentage. 

Georgia Southern enters this week's matchup as one of just three teams in the Sun Belt Conference with double-digit wins. Troy and Coastal Carolina both pace the way with 12 total wins, including two in conference, while the Eagles have 10 and one in conference play. 

Georgia Southern has scored 80-or-more points in nine basketball games this season. Of those nine, the Eagles have gone for triple digits in four. 

SERIES HISTORY

Texas State holds an 8-3 all-time record against Georgia Southern following its conference tournament win over the Eagles last season. The Bobcats have now won back-to-back games over the Eagles and is on the longest winning streak since winning three straight contests from Jan. 25, 2018 to Jan. 3 2019. 

The last time the two teams met on the hardwood, Texas State beat Georgia Southern, 94-61, in the Bobcats' opening-round game of the 2020-21 Sun Belt Conference Tournament. The 94 points scored by the Bobcats in the game marked the most points scored by a Texas State women's basketball team in a Sun Belt Conference Tournament game. 

Throughout the series history, Texas State has recorded winning streaks of three and a Thursday night would be the third straight for the Bobcats over Georgia Southern. 

Ja'Kayla Bowie (22 minutes), Da'Nasia Hood (9) and Kennedy Taylor (7) are the lone active Bobcat women's basketball student-athletes to have played Georgia Southern in Statesboro, Ga.

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