YPSILANTI, Michigan — Texas State women's basketball is officially back on Monday, Nov. 4 as the 2024-2025 season gets underway. The Bobcats first opponent will be Eastern Michigan as part of the second year of the MAC-SBC Challenge. The game is slated for a 5:30 pm tip-off with a stream on ESPN+.
 
SERIES HISTORY

• Texas State has never played Eastern Michigan in program history. This is the Bobcats first trip to the state of Michigan under the tenure of Head Coach Zenarae Antoine.

 
HISTORY IN THE MAC-SBC CHALLENGE

• Texas State won both its games in the inaugural season of the MAC-SBC Challenge.
• In the  first meeting it beat Bowling Green at home 74-48.
• On the road last season, Texas State faced Ohio and won 80-71 on the road.
• The Sun Belt Conference won the inaugural season of the MAC-SBC Challenge, winning 29 of the 48 meetings between the men's and women's sides of the two conferences.

 
MEET THE ROSTER

• The Freshmen: Texas State has added four freshman, Heather Baymon, Saniya Burks, Takeira Ramey, and Melinda Winston.
  • Three of the four freshmen played high school basketball in the state of Texas (Burks, Baymon, Winston) while Ramey is the lone freshmen coming from out of state.
• The Transfers: Texas State has added six transfers, including five Division I transfers. 
  • Ebba Zalamans is the lone Junior College transfer joining the team for 2024-2025, coming from McCook as a redshirt sophomore.
  • Antoine brought in five Division I transfers including Ja'Mia Harris (Kansas State), Destiny Terrell (Incarnate Word), Blake Matthews (Bucknell), Taleiyah Gibbs (Howard), and Mia Galbraith (Oklahoma State).
• The Returners: Antoine returns five members from 2023-2024 to this year's team.
  • There are two 5^th years on the Bobcats roster that have played the entirety of their careers as Bobcats, Nicole Leff and Sierra Dickson.
  • Also returning this season is third year Morgan Hill, second year Crystal Smith and second year Jaylin Foster.

 
ABOUT THE EAGLES

• Eastern Michigan finished the 2023-2024 season with a 7-22 record, going 5-8 at home that season.
• New at the helm of the program is first year head coach Sahar Nussiebeh who joins the program after spending the last three seasons as head coach of Canisius University. 
• Nussiebeh contrsuctred her new roster at Eastern Michigan with five transfers from her prior school Canisius who were part of one of the greatest turnarounds in program history in the 2023-24 season.
• The Eagles return just seven members of their 2023-2024 team.

 
UP NEXT

• Texas State will return home for its home opener against Texas A&M – Corpus Christi on Nov. 9. That match will be at 2 pm inside Strahan Arena with tickets available for purchase at txst.com/tickets. Fans can also stream the match on ESPN+ with Brant Freeman and Suzanne Fox on the call.