#8 West Texas A&M (12-1, 4-0) vs. Sul Ross State (1-9, 0-4)
Date	Sunday, January 4 | 1:00 p.m.
Location	Alpine, Texas | Gallego Center
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CANYON, Texas – The #8 Lady Buffs of West Texas A&M conclude their Lone Star Conference weekend road trip on Sunday afternoon as they take on the Sul Ross State Lobos with tipoff set for 1:00 p.m. at the Gallego Center in Alpine.
 
WESTERN NEW MEXICO REWIND
The #8 Lady Buffs started the new year in style on Friday night, running their win streak to 12 games with a 84-50 LSC road victory over the Western New Mexico Mustangs. Henley West led the Lady Buffs with 20 points on 9-of-14 shooting and added two blocks. Taylor Haggan contributed 14 points while collecting seven rebounds. Kenadee Winfrey scored 12 points, hitting four 3-pointers, and recorded two steals. Karley Motschenbacher collected seven rebounds and tallied five steals.
 
SCOUTING THE LOBOS
Sul Ross State enters the weekend with an overall record of 1-9 including a 0-4 mark in Lone Star Conference action. The Lobos topped Northern New Mexico (65-58) in the season opener before starting a nine-game losing skid that has spanned 50 days. SRSU is 1-4 this season inside of the Gallego Center with losses coming to McMurry, UT Dallas, Central Oklahoma and Eastern New Mexico.
 
The Lobos returned to LSC action on Friday night with a 101-58 loss at the hands of the ENMU Greyhounds. Leslie Mojica went 3-of-9 from the floor and 5-of-6 from the charity stripe to tie a team-best with 12 points to go along with five rebounds and three assists. SRSU shot just 32.7% (18-of-55) from the field while turning the ball over 23 times as Eastern New Mexico led wire-to-wire in the league win.
 
Sophiya Bustillos leads the way offensively for the Lobos as the sophomore guard from El Paso has gone 42-of-128 (32.8%) from the floor including 18-of-54 (33.3%) from behind the arc and 23-of-30 (76.7%) from the free throw line to average 12.5 points per game to go along with 39 rebounds (12 offensive, 27 defensive), 12 assists, 12 steals and a block.
 
SRSU HEAD COACH E.J. LEE SMITH
Eun Jung "E.J." Lee Smith is now in her fourth season at the helm of the Sul Ross State women's basketball program, holding an overall record of 33-60 during her time in Alpine. Smith, a native of Gimje, South Korea, spent 30 years coaching at her alma mater, the University of Louisiana at Monroe, before stepping down as the associate head coach in 2019.
 
Smith registered a standout collegiate career as she starred at ULM as a point guard from 1982-1986. She led the program to a Final Four appearance during the 1984-1985 season. Smith was named a two-time All-American in 1985 and 1986 while earning Southland Conference Player of the Year honors four times.
 
THE SERIES
Sunday afternoon marks just the third all-time meeting on the hardwood between the Lady Buffs and Lobos. West Texas A&M is 2-0 in the series with the first two meetings coming last season.
 
LSC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
WT's Taylor Haggan averaged 9.5 rebounds – pulling down 10 defensive boards – and had three steals as the Lady Buffs allowed just 27.6 percent shooting in wins over No. 23 Ferris State and Hawaii Pacific. Haggan, who won the league's top weekly defensive award for the second time this season, led a unit that allowed only 30 points in a win over Hawaii Pacific. It was the fewest points allowed by an LSC team this season. Haggan had a double double of 13 points and 12 boards (tying a season-high) with a block in just 21 minutes that game.
 
WT HEAD COACH JOSH PROCK
Josh Prock is now in his fifth season at the helm of the Lady Buff Basketball program. The Lady Buffs made the program's 29th appearance in the NCAA Division II Postseason during the 2024-25 campaign as they went 19-13 overall with a 12-10 mark in the LSC. The Lady Buffs advanced to the South Central Regional Semifinals.
 
Prock reached the 300 career victory milestone on Thursday, December 4th in a 76-51 victory over Oklahoma Christian at the First United Bank Center in Canyon.
 
Prock was introduced as West Texas A&M's head women's basketball coach on June, 2, 2021. Prock is no stranger to the Lone Star Conference as he spent eight seasons as the head coach at Eastern New Mexico leading the Greyhounds to their only three NCAA Tournament appearances in program history.
 
HOME SWEET HOME
West Texas A&M is home to one of the finest multi-purpose facilities in the country as the First United Bank Center has served as the home of the Lady Buffs since January 26, 2002. The Lady Buffs are a staggering 294-47 inside of the FUBC during that time for a winning clip of 86.6%. WT has averaged 1,035 fans per contest since the facility opened its doors with the largest crowd coming on Opening Night with 4,941 members of Buff Nation seeing the Lady Buffs take on rival Abilene Christian.
 
LSC PRESEASON PLAYER OF THE YEAR
West Texas A&M senior guard Kyla Kane was tabbed the Lone Star Conference Preseason Player of the Year announced on Monday, October 20th. The 5-foot-10 native of Wellington, Texas, averaged 13.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game. She shot 89.8 percent from the free throw line and made 56 3-pointers. She was a second team all-LSC selection.
 
LSC PRESEASON POLL
The Lady Buffs were selected fourth in the 2025 LSC Preseason Coaches' Poll. Defending Regional Champion Texas Woman's claimed 20 of the possible 51 first place votes to sit atop of the poll with 810 points followed by Lubbock Christian (14 first place, 776), UT Tyler (eight first place, 761), West Texas A&M (six first place, 663) and Eastern New Mexico (two first place, 657) to round out the top five. Angelo State (656) sits sixth followed by Texas A&M-Kingsville (564), UT Permian Basin (466), Midwestern State (461), St. Mary's (438), St. Edward's (363), Oklahoma Christian (310), Cameron (262), Texas A&M International (one first place, 210), UT Dallas (168), Western New Mexico (161) and Sul Ross State (77).
 
LIVE COVERAGE
The contest will be broadcasted on FloCollege. The LSC and FloSports reached a historic agreement in August for the largest streaming rights deal in NCAA Division II history.