With the season barely more than a week away, exhibitions and scrimmages are starting for UT opponents.

On3 is reporting that Butler beat Ball State 92-78 in an "open scrimmage" (which is technically an exhibition, I think, because "scrimmages" are supposed to be closed - but whatever.) Reportedly Butler was led by former Miami Redhawk Tamar Singer with 10 points and 8 assists.

Ohio beat defending DIII National Champs Denison 105-63 in an exhibition. Was 47-40 at the half. OU only played 10 out of 16 on their roster. Unsure if that is due to injuries or not. Tabeling with 19, Jenning 17 and freshman Allen 16. Interesting that Dennison won the rebounding battle 44-40. DIII teams are typically pretty small.

Reports on today's exhibition games:

CMU reportedly played IU Indy, but I haven't found any reports on the outcome or stats.

UMass 94 DII Pace 42
No stream or detailed stats.

Pace is a DII team that was not good last year (7-20) and returned very, very little from that team. They have 9 freshmen and 3 sophomores out of 18 players on their roster. Reportedly Ayanna Franks led UMass with 24. McKayle 15, Perkins 12 & Dotsey 10.

BGSU 80 DII Ohio Dominican 44
ODU was a mediocre DII team last year (14-14) and returned very little from that team. Only 11 players on the roster, and 1 of those was on the bench on crutches. 7 of those 11 are underclassmen. Another player got injured during the game, and I am not sure if she returned or not. As a team, they are very small and for the most part looked very slow.

This game was shown on YouTube, and I watched some of it. BG starters were Gerken, Blank-Fitzpatrick & 3 international freshmen, Silva, Monteiro & Caetano. Miller did not look to be dressed. Cook did not play in the 1st half, and made only a cameo appearence in the 2nd. Segura looked to be dressed but did not play.

BG had great difficulty scoring, other than at the line where they were 29 of 39. Their best offense early was giving the ball to Bland-Fitzpatrick and letting her drive against the smaller, slower ODU players. Was a lot of sloppy play on both sides. BG just had way more speed and size. Silva ended up leading BG with 18 points. JBF, Montiero & Caetano also in double figures. Gerken scored just 3 in 19 minutes. BG committed a ton of travels and the refs didn't even call all of them, IMO.

Silva is is a pretty stout big who also showed some skill too. She just completely out muscled the tiny ODU team in the 2nd half. Saetano has speed and talent and may be the best of the internationals, at least right now. Alexander played some smothering D on the ODU guards.

Didn't learn all that much in the end tho, given how over-matched the opponent was.

UT's 1st opponent, La Tech, was picked to finish 5th in the SBC this season. This will be their 1st year in the SBC, moving from Conference USA, which they won last year by quite a large margin (17-1 in conference). They have 2 players selected to the all-SBC preseason teams:

1st Team, 6'0 F Jordan Marshall, who averaged 11 points & 7 boards last year
3rd Team. 5'8 G Alexia Weaver, 10 points last year, shooting 39% from three

(10-25-2026 05:20 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  CMU reportedly played IU Indy, but I haven't found any reports on the outcome or stats.

Looks like the final was IU Indy 81 CMU 70, from posts on the CMU message board and a link to a box score found via google search.

CMU led by Indya Davis with 16. Three others also scored in double figures. It looks like 11 of 13 CMU players played, although several only got a handful of few minutes.

Interestingly, IU Indy was reportedly led by former WMU Bronco Olivia Flynn who had 31.

Three MAC exhibitions yesterday:

Kent State 88 DII Slippery Rock 67
Can't find any other stats. SRU was not very good last year, finishing 7-19. Not sure how much they have returning, but I might have expected a larger margin from Kent.

Buffalo 81 DII D'Youville 54
UB led by Holy Cross transfer G Asia Wilson who had 21. They had live stats up during the game, but they are gone now. From what I remember looking at them, UB essentially only played 8 the whole game, with 2 others getting just a few minutes each. Aniya Rowe was one of those that did not play. D'Youville was 10-15 last season.

WMU supposedly played DIII Adrian College last night, but I cannot find any trace of info on the game outcome or stats.

MAC starts out 0-2 in the 1st two games of the MAC-SBC Challenge

Coastal 68 WMU 54

A game of runs with Coastal dominating Q4. I watched some and honestly CC should have won by a lot more, but they missed probably 16-20 shots from inside 4 feet. WMU looked to be trying to play fast, which is a huge change from the old Clipfell teams, but they are small and got dominated on the boards and turned it over a lot (20 turnovers.)

Starks led WMU with 17. The freshman Vyverman had 11.


ODU 62 CMU 58

CMU scored 25 in the 1st 9 minutes and 33 the last 31 minutes. ODU had only 1 returning player from last year and they did look out of sync much of the game with 24 turnovers. CMU looked great starting out, but the last 3 quarters could not make shots and looked just as out of sync. CMU shot 25% from the floor, ODU 34%.

CMU played a 1-3-1 zone almost all the game, and it did not look like ODU was prepared for that.

Summer Davis led CMU with 24 and at times it looked like she was the only offense they had. She looks like she will be a handful for the rest of the MAC, but not sure how much else CMU will have to complement her.

UMass beats Providence on the road 60-50

Ball State loses to High Point at home, 78-71

Kent loses to NKU on the road 61-58
- Kent started 2 freshmen today; both got a lot of minutes, but only scored a combined 5 points

Earlier this week:
BG moved to 2-0, beating Cleveland State 77-73
- CSU had beaten Penn State in their 1st game

Miami beat SEMO 75-52
- Looks like Scalia got a court order to let her play. She had 18. It's crazy that some 5th years are allowed to play while others are not. Not fair to teams either way.

George Mason 66 Akron 60
Purdue 83 EMU 73

and, Ohio State 103 CMU 36
- Yikes. CMU with 44 turnovers.

UT's next opponent, YSU, beat Buffalo today 86-62

(11-07-2026 04:59 PM)northcoastRocket Wrote:  and, Ohio State 103 CMU 36
- Yikes. CMU with 44 turnovers.

It turns out, this is the worst loss in CMU WBB history, surpassing the previous worst 103-40 loss to Michigan in 1998. The Michigan coach in 1998? Sue Guevara, before she later became CMU coach.

Ohio struggled a bit today with DIII Otterbein in a game that was tied midway thru Q3. OU eventually did pull away for a 68-44 win. 48 total turnovers in the game (23 by Ohio) and the 2 teams shot a combined 6-47 from three.

Yesterday:

Miami dominated Bellarmine 92-37

CMU lost big to Butler 74-42