SAN MARCOS, TX — On the heels of a thrill five-point win over its I-35 rival UTSA earlier in the week, the Texas State women's basketball program will look to continue its winning ways on Saturday, Dec. 3, when the Bobcats play host Loyola Marymount at 2 p.m. CT. 

Brant Freeman and Suzanne Fox will call the action on ESPN+, while the game can also be heard on KTSW in San Marcos. 

GOING BACK-TO-BACK

• Saturday's game against Loyola Marymount will mark the second consecutive season the two women's basketball programs have squared off against each other. 
  • Loyola Marymount won last season's meeting, 77-68, when the two programs met in California on Dec. 18, 2021. 
  • Saturday afternoon's game will allow one program to claim bragging rights in the series as each program has won one game each. 
    • Texas State won the first-ever meeting between the Bobcats and Lions, 77-68, on Dec. 1, 1990. 
• Every Texas State women's basketball game against Loyola Marymount has been played in the month of December. 
  • Dec. 1, 1990, Dec. 18, 2021, and Dec. 3, 2022
• Saturday's meeting will mark the first-ever trip to Texas.  
  • The 1990 meeting was a neutral-site game played in Salt Lake City as part of the Utah Tournament hosted by the University of Utah. 

ANOTHER ONE

• With her next point scored, Tianna Eaton will pass her 2021-222 season total for points scored (72) and will mark the most points scored in a single season for the sixth-year senior since scoring 109 as a freshman at UC Riverside during the 2017-18
  • 2017-18: 109 
  • 2018-19: 177
  • 2019-20: 0
  • 2020-21: 45
  • 2021-22: 72
  • 2022-23: 72
    • Eaton has already made more field goals and 3-point shots in six games this season than either of her previous two seasons as a Bobcat.
      • 2020-21: 16/5
      • 2021-22: 28/7
      • 2022-23: 31/8
• Eaton, heading into Saturday's game, will need to appear in only two more games to join Kennedy Taylor, Da'Nasia Hood and Taelour Pruitt as the only active Texas State women's basketball student-athletes to have played in 100-or-more career collegiate women's basketball games. 

HOMESTRETCH

• A win over Loyola Marymount on Saturday afternoon would mark the first time the Texas State women's basketball program has opened a season with four consecutive wins at home since the 2019-20 season, when the Bobcats won six straight. 
  • Texas State 72, Texas Lutheran 31
  • Texas State 83, UTPB 45
  • Texas State 51, New Orleans 49
  • Texas State 57, Texas A&M Corpus-Christi 48
  • Texas State 74, UTSA 69 (OT)
  • Texas State 67, Alcorn State 59

AND 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 …

• Having already won four games so far this season, Texas State women's basketball head coach Zenarae Antoine will move to within five wins of Suzanne Fox on the program's career winningest head coach list. 
  • Antoine entered the 2022-23 season needing 11 wins to pass Fox to become the all-time winningest head coach in Texas State women's basketball history. 

ONTO THE NEXT

• With Da'Nasia Hood and Kennedy Taylor have already surpassed 1,000 career collegiate basketball points, first-year Bobcat Taelour Pruitt is looking to join the duo in the coming games as the SEMO transfer needs only 46 more points to reach the milestone. 
  • In 105 career games throughout a four-year career in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Pruitt totaled 899 career points. 
  • In just six games as a Bobcat, Pruitt has scored 55 points on 46.2 percent shooting, including 31.6 percent from behind the 3-point arc and 84.6 percent from the free throw line. 

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