Game 14 Preview: at Delaware

Game 14 • at Delaware
Newark, Del. • Bob Carpenter Center (5,000)
Sam Houston (9-4, 2-0 CUSA) vs Delaware (6-9, 0-3 CUSA)
Thursday, January 8 • 1:00 PM CT

TV: ESPN+
RADIO: BSN (Stephanie Keele); KSHU 90.5 FM
HOW TO FOLLOW: Live Stats • @Bearkats_WBB
Series vs the Blue Hens: Delaware leads 1-0

NEWARK, Del. – The Sam Houston women's basketball team will after an East Coast sweep in Newark on Saturday against Delaware.

Tipoff for the game vs the Blue Hens is set for 1:00 p.m. CT and will air on ESPN+ with Matt Janus and Christine Motta on the call.

The game can also be heard online on the Bearkat Sports Network and the Bearkat Athletics app with Stephanie Keele moving behind the mic for the Kats for the 2025-26 season.

KATS GOING FOR EAST COAST SWEEP IN NEWARK
- Sam Houston moved to 2-0 in CUSA play on Thursday with a 59-53 win at reigning league champion Liberty. The win marked the first-ever win for SHSU over Liberty in its sixth try and snapped a 13-game overall win streak for Liberty vs CUSA opponents dating back to last season and dropped LU to 39-4 all-time at Liberty Arena vs CUSA foes

- The Kats' 9-4 mark is tied for its second-best 13-game start in program history, equaling its 9-4 start in 2019-20 and only bettered by a 10-3 start in 1987-88

- Sam Houston has now won four games in a row for the second time this year. It is the first season for SHSU with multiple win streaks of 4+ games since 2019-20. The 4-game streak is the longest since a 7-game win streak in 2021-22

- Sam Houston has totaled 28 overall wins since joining CUSA for the 2023-24 season. The Bearkats have held their opponent under 70 points in 27 of those 28 games with the lone exception being an 87-81 OT win over WKU in 2023-24

- The Kats forced 20 turnovers against Liberty. Sam Houston leads CUSA and ranks fourth in the nation with 27.46 turnovers forced per game in 2025-26

- The win over the Flames marked the Kats' first road win in league play over a reigning conference champion since defeating 2020 Southland Conference champion A&M-Corpus Christi on March 3, 2021 in Corpus Christi

- This will be just the second all-time meeting between the Bearkats and the Blue Hens, and the first-ever game as Conference USA rivals. The Blue Hens, ranked No. 10 in the nation at the time, owns a 1-0 all-time lead in the series, getting an early season win in Newark in 2012-13 in the opening round of that season's WNIT.

SERIES vs DELAWARE
- This will be the second all-time meeting between the Bearkats and the Blue Hens, and the first-ever game as Conference USA rivals

- Delaware owns a 1-0 all-time lead in the series, getting a season-opening win in Newark in 2012-13 in the opening round of that season's WNIT

QUICK HITTERS & NEED TO KNOWS
- Fanta Kone and Deborah Ogayemi each played all 40 minutes of game time in both wins at LA Tech and Liberty

- Kone has hit 13 of 29 tries from 3-point range in 2025-26. She made just 10 of 48 in 2024-25

- Ogayemi reached double figures in rebounds for the fifth time this season with 11 at Liberty. That mark pushed her over the 500-rebound threshold for her career between stops at UTRGV and Sam Houston

- Pop Inmon averaged 10.9 ppg a year ago and is currently averaging 10.0 ppg this season after dropping 15 at Liberty. She and Ogayemi are the only Kats on the roster to average 10+ ppg each of the past 2 seasons

- The Bearkats are the only team in the nation to have 3 players rank within the top 30 in the nation in steals per game. Kone ranks 13th (3.54), Aysia Ward-Strong 21st (3.23) and Deborah Ogayemi 29th (3.08)

Game 14 Preview: at Delaware

Next Event

Players Mentioned

Fanta Kone

Deborah Ogayemi

Aysia Ward-Strong

Footer