EL PASO, TX. — Off to one of its best starts in program history, the Texas State women's basketball program will be looking to continue its hot start to the 2022-23 season when the Bobcats square off at UTEP at 8:00 p.m. CT / 7:00 p.m. MT on Saturday, Nov. 19. 

Saturday's game will mark the first trip to El Paso for Texas State since Nov. 30, 2013, when the Miners won 73-60. However, the Bobcats' future success that season helped the program participate in a WBI Tournament game in Nacogdoches, Texas. 

Saturday night's game can be viewed on CUSA.tv.  

DIME A DOZEN

• On the heels of becoming the program's new career assist leader earlier in the week, fifth-year guard Kennedy Taylor will travel to El Paso as one of the top assist leaders across all Division I women's basketball. 
  • Taylor is currently ranked first in the Sun Belt Conference and eighth in the nation with 25 assists, while her 8.3 assist per game clip is the fourth highest in the country. 
  • Additionally, Taylor's 3.12 assist-to-turnover ratio is sixth in the league. 

EATON 'EM UP

• Sixth-year senior Tianna Eaton is having the best three-game stretch of her three-year Bobcat career as the California native is averaging 17.3 points on 52.3 percent (23-44) shooting in 73 minutes of game action through the season's first three games. 
  • Eaton opened the season with a 16-point outing against Howard Payne, then scored 12 in a road win at Sam Houston five days later. Earlier this week, she scored a career-high 24 points on 58.8 percent shooting in 18 minutes against Arlington Baptist. 
    • Eaton's previous career high was a 21-point performance against Texas College on Dec. 5, 2021. 
    • By scoring in double figures in all three of Texas State's games so far this season, it marks the first time Eaton has, not only, scored 10-or-more points in back-to-back games but also in three straight contests. 
    • Eaton is already just 20 points shy of tying the most points she's scored in a single season as a Bobcat: 72 during the 2021-22 season. 

AN AXE TO PICK

• On Saturday, the Texas State women's basketball program will be looking for its first win over UTEP since Nov. 16, 2001, when the Bobcats won 70-55 in El Paso to begin the 2001-02 season. 
  • Since Texas State's last win, UTEP has won nine consecutive games in the series history. Prior to that, Texas State won seven straight games after the Miners took the first-ever meeting on Dec. 7, 1978. 

KEEP THE LINE MOVING

• A win over UTEP would give Texas State its best start to a season (4-0) since the 2005-06 campaign, when the Bobcats opened the season with seven victories. 
• Saturday's game at UTEP will mark the first time since the 2019-20 that the Texas State women's basketball program has opened a season with alternating home and road games through the first four games.

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