TROY, Ala. — For the first time since the 2019-20 season, the Texas State women's basketball program will face off against the Troy Trojans in Troy, Ala., when the two teams link up on the hardwood at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 31. 

Texas State (9-3, 1-0) is coming off a 12-point win at Georgia Southern on Thursday, Dec. 29 to open Sun Belt Conference play, while Troy (5-7, 0-1) dropped a 77-75 contest to Southern Miss.  

HOW DO YOU DO? 

• Texas State travels to the Yellowhammer State to play Troy in a Sun Belt Conference game for the first time since Jan. 23, 2020, when the Trojans won 84-50. 
• The Bobcats are looking for their first win over the Trojans, regardless of the game's location, since Jan. 6, 2018, when Texas State won, 83-75, in San Marcos. 
• Texas State has not beaten Troy in Troy, Ala., since Dec. 30, 2014, when the Bobcats won 74-72. 
• Troy's current four-game winning streak is tied for the longest winning streak by either women's basketball program in the series history since the Trojans won four straight games from Feb. 26, 2015, to Jan. 12, 2017. 
• Texas State is 1-0 all time against Troy when the two programs link up during the month of December when the Bobcats won, 74-72, on Dec. 30, 2014. 
• Both teams are 1-1 when playing an overtime game against the other: Texas State won 87-82 on Jan. 25, 2014, while Troy won 103-90 on March 6, 2021. 

GOING BACK-TO-BACK

• With a win over the Trojans on Saturday, Texas State will open Sun Belt Conference play with back-to-back wins for the first time since the 2018-19 season, when the Bobcats won three straight games to begin league play. 

AMONG THE LEAGUE LEADERS

• Saturday afternoon's contest between Texas State and Troy will feature two of the all-time active winningest head coaches in Sun Belt history with regards to conference games. Troy's Chanda Rigby is the league's active all-time winningest head coach with 119 Sun Belt wins, while Texas State's Zenarae Antoine is third with 87. Louisiana's Garry Brodhead is second with 92 conference wins. 

BEST OF THE BEST

• Texas State's fifth-year senior guard Kennedy Taylor will enter Saturday afternoon's game as the NCAA's Division I active leader in career assists with 645. Taylor and South Dakota State's Dru Gylten (601) are the only active Division I women's basketball student-athletes to be credited with 600-or-more career assists. 

JUST ONE MORE

• With Texas State's next win, Bobcat head coach Zenarae Antoine will tie Suzanne Fox (1998-11) as the all-time winningest head coach in Texas State women's basketball history with 174. Antoine will have earned her 174th win in 12 seasons, while it took Fox 14 to set the program's all-time wins mark. 

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