Game Notes
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Hardin-Simmons' Cowgirl basketball team will play at New York University to take on the No. 1 Violets in the NCAA women's basketball championship tournament Sweet 16 round at 6:30 p.m. central time at the John A. Paulson Center.
Hardin-Simmons will play at NYU on Friday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. central time in the NCAA tournament. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students, seniors, military, and children. All tickets will be in person at the gate, and the gate will take credit card and Apple pay.
The HSU and NYU game is paired with Wisconsin-La Crosse and Southern Maine, with the winners of each game playing on Saturday at NYU in the Elite Eight round.
The Cowgirls enter after an ASC championship win and two wins the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament, hosted at Hardin-Simmons last weekend.
The Cowgirls defeated Howard Payne to win the ASC championship, the third for head coach
Kendra Whitehead. HSU won over Austin College and Whitman College comfortably in the first and second rounds of the NCAA tournament hosted in Abilene.
The Cowgirls return to the Sweet 16 in New York on Friday at NYU to take on the top team in the nation. Hardin-Simmons traveled to NYU in the 2024 NCAA tournament Sweet 16, going down to the eventual national champs in the first meeting between the two schools.
Hardin-Simmons is led by
Jacqueline Berry, the ASC MVP, averaging 14.9 points a game. All-ASC point guard
Caroline Croft is averaging 8.6 points a game, and all-ASC forward
MaeSyn Gay is scoring 7.6 points a contest for the Cowgirls.
The Cowgirl freshman class has also added valuable minutes off the bench, with ASC freshman of the year
Avery Cathey shooting 41 percent with 56 three-point makes on the season.
Tayley Bullen and
Nilaya Gordon both added to the accolades for the Cowgirls on the ASC all-freshman team with Cathey, as Hardin-Simmons took three of five spots on the freshman team honor.
The Cowgirls are 24-5 and will tip off at 6:30 p.m. central time on Friday night in New York City against No. 1 NYU in the NCAA Sweet 16.
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