BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - East Tennessee State women's basketball clinched a share of the 2025-26 Southern Conference Regular Season title on Saturday afternoon.  The title is shared between ETSU, Chattanooga and Wofford as all three programs collected a 10-4 record through league action.  The Bucs will be the two seed in the 2026 Southern Conference Tournament in Asheville, N.C. over March 5-8.

ETSU closed out conference action on five-game win streak, marking their second of the season to go 10-11 through the last 11 outings en route to the share of the title.  The Bucs went 7-0 on the road in Southern Conference play for the first time in program history to power the program to the first title under head coach Brenda Mock Brown.  The 10-4 SoCon record is the best for the Bucs since 11-3 in 2017-18 and the best under Mock Brown.

NOTABLES

• Anala Nelson paced the Bucs to victory with her 18 points, collecting eight from the line and ten from the field.  The graduate guard sits just 14 points from 1,000 career and has reached double-digit scoring in 15 of 26 outings this season.  Nelson tallied seven rebounds, two assists and two steals on top of her 18 points.  Her eight made free throws mark the sixth time this season Nelson has reached the mark or bettered it.
• Freshman center Lucia France was the guiding force on defense with her career-high three blocks and seven rebounds, tacking on one assist and two points.
• Jaidyn Harper, the sophomore guard, led rebounding with eight, collecting seven on defense and one on offense.  Harper continued on as the second-best offensive product with two made threes and seven total points.  
• Carmen Richardson, the sophomore guard, tallied seven points with one rebound and two assists.
• Lucy Hood, the sophomore guard, drained two threes, reaching the mark or bettering it 11 times this season.  
• Freshman guard Emmah Mcamis posted four rebounds and two points in the contests. 
• The team totaled 46 points, 34 rebounds, five assists, three blocks and three steals. Eight of nine individuals to see action registered points for the second consecutive contest.
• The 46-point victory is the lowest-scoring victory for ETSU since defeating Garner Webb 44-42 on Nov. 12, 2024.  Prior to that was the 44-31 victory over Vanderbilt on Dec. 1, 2022.
• ETSU has now held two conference opponents to just 39 points and four total programs to losses with less than 40 points in the 2025-26 schedule (Claflin, Gardner-Webb, UNC Greensboro and Samford).

UP NEXT
The Bucs face No. 7 seed UNC Greensboro on Thursday, March 5 at 1:15 p.m. in Harrah's Cherokee Center in Asheville, N.C. in the Southern Conference Tournament quarterfinals.