Women's Basketball opens 2024-25 season at Langston University
The Wiley University women's basketball team will tip off the 2024-25 season on the road as it visits Langston University at 6 p.m. Thursday.
This is the fourth straight season the Lady Wildcats have started on the road. They are 11-7 in season openers since 2005 and are 2-2 on the road. No live video or stat links are posted on Langston University's women's basketball schedule. If there is live coverage, the links will be posted in the women's basketball schedule on wileyathletics.com.
Wiley enters its second season under DeWitt Mandley. Four players return from last season's team, which went 12-16 and won a postseason game for the first time since 2020. Elizabeth Camacho played in 21 games and started 12 at center. She had her most productive season, scoring 60 points and grabbing 93 rebounds. Kewaysha Alsup played in 21 games and averaged 2.3 points and 1.5 rebounds per game. Tamia Dolls came off the bench in 19 games and averaged 6.2 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. Cailan Hale also returns.
Mandley brought back assistant coach Nigel Mayfield, who also coaches the junior varsity team, and added Diamond Hawthorne, who played from 2021-2023, as a student assistant coach. They brought in several recruits. Jessica Nerestant averaged 10.1 points and 10.7 rebounds per game in two seasons at Arkansas Baptist College. Mya Jones averaged eight points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game at Paris Junior College last season. In 28 games, Mary Leday tallied 12.5 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.6 steals per game.
Langston is coming off a 24-8 season, finishing 17-5 in the Sooner Athletic Conference. It made the conference finals and advanced to the Opening Round of the 2023 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Women's Basketball Championship. Koreea Kirksey is the leading returning scorer, averaging 9.1 points per game and leads returning players with 1.4 assists per game. Jordynn Conner is the top returning rebounder notching 4.5 per game. The Lady Lions are in their first season under the leadership of Chris Vincent, who previously served as assistant men's basketball coach.
Thursday will mark the 33rd meeting between the Lady Wildcats and Lady Lions since 2002. Wiley has only won seven of the previous 32 meetings with their last coming in the first round of the 2017 Red River Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament.
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About Wiley University Athletics
Wiley University sponsors 12 varsity sports, women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's outdoor track and field and baseball. It competes in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Athletic Conference (HBCUAC) and the Continental Athletic Conference for men's and women's soccer.
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