SAN MARCOS, Texas — For the first time this calendar year, Texas State women's basketball will hit the road as it will play at ULM on Thursday (6:30 pm) followed by a matchup at South Alabama on Saturday (1 pm).  
 
The Bobcats have won two straight and three of their last four to enter the week and are sitting in a tie for fourth in the Sun Belt standings. They are one game back of second and two of first.
 
This week's matchups will be the first of the season against ULM (6-11, 2-4 Sun Belt) and South Alabama (4-13, 0-6 Sun Belt). The Bobcats hold a seven-game winning streak over ULM and won won last year's contest against South Alabama. The Jaguars, though, have won two of the last three in the series.
 
Both games can be watched on ESPN+ and live stats are available at TXST.com/stats.

IN THE MARGINS

• Texas State is coming off a 34-point win over Arkansas State last Saturday (89-55), which is the Bobcats' largest margin of victory against a Sun Belt opponent in nearly five years.
• The last time the Bobcats beat a conference team by 34 or more points was February 17, 2018 against ULM. Texas State took down the Warhawks, 81-45, in Fant-Ewing Coliseum. Current Texas State grad assistant coach Ti'Aira Pitts scored 19 points in that game and was one of 3 Bobcats in double-figures in scoring.
• Texas State's last two wins have been by an average of 25.0 points and are averaging a scoring margin of 11.3 points for the season.
• Three of Texas State's four conference wins have been by double digits and the average scoring margin is 5.5 points.

 
HELPING HAND

• Fifth-year senior Kennedy Taylor continues to pace the Sun Belt in assists in both overall and conference-only games.
• Taylor is averaging 6.2 assists this season and 6.8 assists in conference-only games entering this week.
• Taylor is also leading the Sun Belt in three-point shooting with a 45.8 percent clip and is third in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.0) as well as tied for sixth in steals (2.0).
• Nationally, Taylor is ranked 11th in total assists (106) and assists per game (6.2).
• The program's all-time leader in career assists, Taylor has 100+ assists in all 5 seasons at Texas State. Her career-high is 183 (6.3 average) last year in 29 games. She has 106 assists in 17 games this season.
• In her career, Taylor has 678 assists. With last Saturday's 7 assists against Arkansas State, she moved into second in Sun Belt Conference history in career assists. She trails the conference record holder Clemette Haskins by 53 assists for the top spot on the leaderboard. Haskins had 731 assists for Western Kentucky from 1983-87.
• Taylor is the only Sun Belt player with 500+ career assists in the last 11 years.

 
Sun Belt Conference
Career Assists, All-Time
1. Clemette Haskins, WKU          731             1983-87
2. Kennedy Taylor, TXST             678             2018-Present
3. Amy McNear, WKU                 677             2008-11
4. Ivelina Vrancheva, FIU             631             1999-04
5. Stephanie Richardson, USA     605             1987-91
 
POINTS PRODUCTION

• In addition to running the offense, Taylor is creating offense on her own as she enters the week with four straight games of double-digit points.
• In the last four games, entering the game at ULM, Taylor is averaging 14.8 points on 47.2 percent shooting from the field (17-of-36) and 57.1 percent from three (12-of-21).
• For the season, Kennedy is averaging 10.6 points on 43.1 percent shooting and 45.8 percent from three.
• In her career, Taylor has 1,200 career points, which is the 13th most in school history.

 
SCORING ONSLAUGHT

• Texas State's 89 points last Saturday against Arkansas State was its most points in a game since earlier this season on Nov. 15 when it scored 101 against Arlington Baptist.
• The 89 points were the most by Texas State against a Sun Belt opponent and Division I team since its 2020-21 season finale in the Sun Belt Conference Championship tournament against Troy (L, 90-103).
• The Bobcats have scored 80+ points in 2 Sun Belt games this year (other: Dec. 29, 2022 at Georgia Southern; W, 82-70). It is the first time Texas State has scored 80+ points in multiple regular season games in a season since 2017-18 when it had 6.
• The Bobcats are sixth in the Sun Belt in scoring offense (69.0).

 
LOCKING IT DOWN

• While the Texas State offense is coming off a big performance, its defense also came through in the win against Arkansas State. It held the Red Wolves to 23.3 percent shooting from the field and 21.1 percent from three.
• The Bobcats allowed 14 field goals – on 60 shots – against Arkansas State, which were tied for the second-fewest allowed in a game this year (low: 10 vs. Arlington Baptist).
• Texas State's 23.3 percent field goal shooting allowed on Saturday was its lowest in a conference game since Jan. 26, 2017 vs. App State (19.6 percent).
• The Bobcats have held their opponents to 35.5 percent shooting in the last 4 games (76-214). This season, Texas State opponents are shooting 35 percent.
• The Bobcats are 6-1 this season when they have held the other side under 35 percent shooting.

 
WINNING WAYS

• Texas State is aiming to stretch its winning streak to three – and subsequently four – games this week.
• The Bobcats longest winning streak this year is 3 games, which they have achieved twice (Last: Dec. 20-29, 2022).
• Texas State's last 3-game winning streak in conference play was when it won 5 straight last year from Jan. 27-Feb. 12.
• The Bobcats' current 7-game winning streak against ULM is their longest active winning streak against a Sun Belt opponent. It is also the longest winning streak in the all-time series against ULM.
• Texas State will be aiming to win back-to-back games against South Alabama for the first time it won 4 straight from 2017 to 2019.