Women's Basketball 11/3/2024 4:25:00 PM Grant Cohen

Tarleton State Women’s Basketball begins 2024-25 campaign at UTEP Monday

EL PASO, Texas – Tarleton State Women's Basketball starts the 2024-25 season at UTEP Monday at 12 p.m. at the Don Haskins Event Center.

Monday's game will be available to watch on ESPN+ and fans can listen to Byron Anderson's radio call on Tarleton Sports Network.

EXPECT MORE, DEMAND MORE

The theme for Tarleton State Women's Basketball in 2024-25 is "Expect More, Demand More"
The Texans clinched their first postseason conference tournament win in the NCAA Division I Era.
Tarleton State defeated in-state rival Abilene Christian 54-41 in the 2024 WAC Tournament for their first Division I conference tournament.
Tarleton State is now NCAA postseason eligible after going through the transition period in Division I.

EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE

The Texans return its top five leading scorers from last season and seven letterwinners from a year ago overall.
Senior guard Jakoriah Long led Tarleton in scoring with 348 points, averaging 11.2 points per game last season. She finished in the top 20 in the WAC in scoring.
Sophomore center Faith Acker was named to the WAC All-Freshman Team in 2023-24. Acker led the team in rebounding average with 5.8 and totaled 157 rebounds. She also led the team in blocks with 31 and had 11 double-digit point games to go with two games with at least 20 points.
Senior forward Elise Turrubiates saw action in 30 games and started 25, averaging 8.6 points per game with 258 points overall. She led the team in rebounding with 168 rebounds, averaging 5.6 boards per game
Senior guard Miannah Little saw action in 29 games to go with 12 starts, scoring 212 points (7.3 points per game). She came to Tarleton State after earning NJCAA First Team All-Conference honors at McLennan Community College, playing for current Tarleton State head coach Bill Brock.
Senior guard Tyler Jackson competed in 31 games, cracking the starting five in 30 and scored 213 points (6.9 points per game. She grabbed 108 rebounds and dished out 42 assists and registered six double-digit point games and one game with at least 10 rebounds.

GOT THE GOLD

Junior guard Karyn Sanford helped her home country Norway to the gold medal at the 2024 FIBA Women's European Championship for Small Countries.
She averaged 10.2 points per game and 4.6 rebounds per game to help her country to gold.
After transferring from UAlbany, Sanford competed in 28 games in her first season with the Texans in 2023-24.

PEAK PERFORMER

Tarleton State signed former Mary Hardin- Baylor star Arieona Rosborough this past season.
She earned a plethora of honors at UMHB, including three times being named ASC All-Conference First Team, ASC Player of the Year, and ASC Defensive Player of the Year.
She was twice named to ASC All-Conference Defensive Team, ASC Freshman of the Year, Dave Campbell's Texas Basketball Non-DI All-Texas Defensive Player of the Year, WBCA All-America Honorable Mention, and D3hoops.com First Team All-Region.
She played 80 career games (74 starts) for the Cru, averaging 15.1 points and eclipsing the 1,000-point mark by scoring 1,210 career points.

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