Women's Basketball 12/6/2025 6:43:00 PM Grant Cohen

Tarleton State Women’s Basketball returns to EECU Center, tips off Sunday doubleheader with Texas A&M-San Antonio

STEPHENVILLE, Texas – Tarleton State Women's Basketball starts a Sunday doubleheader with the men's team at the EECU Center, taking on Texas A&M-San Antonio at 2 p.m.

The Texans will be hosting Family & Faith Night in addition to hosting a Toy Drive presented by Surepoint Emergency Center. Fans are encouraged to donate new, unwrapped toys to the Tarleton State Ticket Office that will be donated to the Stephenville Optimist Club. Fans who donate toys will receive free admission to Sunday's doubleheader.

Tarleton State will face Texas A&M-San Antonio for the first time in program history on Sunday afternoon at the EECU Center. Texas A&M-San Antonio is in its second year of existence as a women's basketball program. They compete as an NAIA program.

The Texans are coming off a 66-50 win at Mississippi State Valley State on Tuesday night. The Texans are currently on a two-game winning streak.

Fans can watch the game on ESPN+ and listen to Clayton Neville's radio call on Tarleton Sports Network.

DOUBLE-DOUBLE DUO

Tarleton State's post players make for quite the duo, especially when posting double-doubles.
Junior forward Shadasia Brackens and freshman center Elodie Lutbert each have posted a double-double in back-to-back games. It is the first time since 2006 (Iveta Griffin and Isha Brown, Jan. 28-31) a Texan duo has had a double-double in back-to-back games.
Brackens (11 pts, 11 reb) had her third double-double of the season while Lutbert (12 pts, 10 reb) posted her second in a road win at Mississippi Valley State (12/2).
Brackens (16 pts, 10 reb) had her second double-double of the season while Lutbert (10 pts, 12 reb) posted her first double-double at the collegiate level at Texas State (11/25)
With Brackens' and Lutbert's double-double at Texas State, it was the first time this season a pair of Texans have recorded a double-double in the same game. It was the first time since March 14, 2025 two Texans had a double-double in the same game.
Brackens is the first Texan since 2020-21 (Callie Boyles) and second Texan in Division I Era to record two double-doubles in the first seven games of the season. She is also the first Texan since 2016 (Mackenzie Hailey) to post three double-doubles in Tarleton State's first 10 games.

LONG LETTING LOOSE

Tarleton State Women's Basketball senior guard Jakoriah Long is a scoring threat for the Texans, averaging over 13 points per game in conference play and over 10 points per game overall last year. She was named to the All-WAC Second Team in 2024-25 and Preseason All-WAC Team entering 2025-26.
Long is coming off a season-high 16 points at Mississippi Valley State (12/2). She had her first Division I double-double, pouring in 11 points and a career-high 10 rebounds in Tarleton State's double overtime win over Houston Christian (11/9)
The senior guard set a new Division I Era single game program record with seven made 3-pointers twice last season, most recently doing so against CBU (3/6).
Long's 70% shooting from beyond the arc against CBU was the second-highest 3-point percentage by a Texan in a single game in the Division I Era. She is just the second Texan in the Division I Era to hit 70% of her 3-pointers off a minimum of seven attempts.
Long is the first Texan in the Division I Era to post two consecutive 25-point games. She is the first Texan since the 2013-14 season to post back-to-back games with at least 25 points (Kiara Wright, Feb. 5-8, 2014).
She also became the first Texan in the Division I Era to have back-to-back games with six or more 3-pointers. She is the first Texan since the 2011-12 season to have two consecutive games with six or more 3-pointers (Peyton Adamson, Jan. 11-14, 2012).

REUNITED AGAIN

Senior guard Luka Malinka, who played college basketball in the United States at Roosevelt, Northern Colorado and Winthrop, earned All-Conference honors last season.
The Rungsted, Denmark, native will reunite with Associate Head Coach Geoff Golden, who was on Northern Colorado's coaching staff when Malinka played for the Bears in 2022-23.
Malinka was a second-team All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection in 2024-25. Finishing second in the league in scoring at 15.4 points per game, Malinka had seven 20-point performances.
In just her third game as a Texan, Malinka dropped a season-high 21 points and went 10-for-11 from the free throw line to lead the Texans in scoring in Tarleton State's double overtime win over Houston Christian (11/9).
She is the sixth Texan in the Division I era to make 10+ free throws in a game.
Malinka's next assist will give her 100th career assist at the collegiate level.