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Women’s Basketball Hosts Defending Regular Season Champs JMU Saturday
12/18/2025 2:12:00 PM | Women's Basketball
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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall Women's Basketball (10-3, 1-0 SBC) hosts JMU (9-4, 1-0 SBC) Saturday at 1 p.m. from the Cam Henderson Center.
Saturday will be a litmus test for the Herd, as the Dukes enter Saturday as the league's defending regular season champions and hold a 21-game conference regular season winning streak.
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COACH JULI FULKS
- Head Coach Juli Fulks is in year two leading Marshall's Women's Basketball program. Fulks came to the Herd with a prestigious 400 wins while leading Transylvania to the 2022-23 DIII National Championship.
- Fulks and the Herd set a program record with four postseason wins in its run during the 2025 Sun Belt Women's Basketball Championship.
PREGAME NOTES
- Senior Timaya Lewis-Eutsey scored a career-high 31 points in Marshall's first conference victory Wednesday. The 31 points were the most by a Herd player since Aislynn Hayes scored the same amount in an overtime win in November 2024.
- The Herd is scoring 24.9 points per contest off turnovers this season. In Wednesday's 13-point victory, Marshall notched 13 points off of App State turnovers.
- Senior Meredith Maier will return to wearing number 23 Saturday after dawning the number 67 for Education Day. Maier notably led the Herd with a then-career-high 20 points when the two sides met in the 2024 SBC Tournament Championship.
- For extended notes for Marshall Women's Basketball, view HERE.
ABOUT THE DUKES
- JMU enters Saturday with a 9-4 record, having won its conference opener at Coastal Carolina Wednesday. The Dukes' last regular season conference loss was Feb. 24, 2024 at App State.
- Preseason SBC Player of the Year Peyton McDaniel leads the league with 18.4 PPG. Fellow senior Ashanti Barnes follows closely behind with 14.2 PPG (8th in SBC) while leading the league with 12.4 boards per contest.
- JMU leads the all-time series, 10-4 including taking both of last season's contests.
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