Women's Basketball 11/3/2025 9:40:00 PM

Richardson leads Bucs versus the Phoenix

ETSU falls in overtime to Elon

Box Score JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - East Tennessee State women's basketball opened the 2025-26 campaign on Monday night in Brooks Gym. The Bucs (0-1, 0-0 SoCon) fell to the Phoenix (1-0, 0-0 CAA) in overtime to open play.

NOTABLES

Carmen Richardson led the Bucs with a career-high 21 points against the Phoenix. The sophomore guard reached a career-high 19 FGA while tying her career-highs in FGM (7) and FTM (5). Richardson tacked on six rebounds, two assists and two steals in the contest.
Freshman guard SaBreya Monsanto made her collegiate debut, recording statistics across the board with one field goal, eight rebounds, one assist, two steals and one block.
Sophomore forward Kennedy Younkin and senior guard Anala Nelson followed Monstanto's defensive efforts with eight total rebounds and one block apiece. Younkin tacked on a career-high eight points, went 2-2 on free throws reached a career-high 36 minutes played and tallied her first career block while Nelson reached six points with two assists.
Jaidyn Harper boasted a standout performance, with multiple key threes. The sophomore guard reached a career-high 10 points with four rebounds and one assist.
Yanessa Boyd, the junior guard, went 2-2 on free throws and added one rebound, two assists and one steal for the Bucs.
Freshman center Lucia France, Boyd, Nelson and Monsanto each start their first career start in the blue and gold in the contest.
The Bucs totaled 51 points, 45 rebounds, nine assists, two blocks and seven steals.

GAME FLOW
Q1

The first quarter was a solid start for the Bucs, with Richardson going 3-4 on made field goals and Monsanto tallying three rebounds.
The Bucs out-shot the Phoenix with a 40% field goal percentage, a 40% three-point percentage and a a perfect percentage for free throws in the first.

ETSU opened the second quarter with a fast start, putting up eight made field goals and outscoring Elon 10-4 in the paint.
Richardson went 3-3 on made field goals while Harper put up four points of her own with two rebounds and one assist.

Quarter three was lockjaw, with neither team reaching 15 points for the first time in the game, holding the scoring differential to just four points. The squads were even in second chance buckets and in the paint, yet the Bucs went up on the Phoenix 6-3 in fast breaks.
Younkin took charge in the third with one field goal and two free throws, tacking on three rebounds and one block as the top offensive and defensive product in the quarter.

Similar to the third, the fourth quarter was a stalemate with post squads putting up 10 to end regulation tied at 51-51.
Younkin captured four rebounds and one steal while Richardson recorded two blocks and two rebounds.