TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo ladies’s basketball group will play its 2025-26 house opener on Sunday, Nov. 9, in a key early-season take a look at in opposition to Gonzaga. Tipoff from Savage Arena is ready for two:30 on CBS Sports Network.
The Rockets (0-1) will play their first of 15 house video games in the 2025-26 common season. Toledo completed with a 13-2 house report final season and is 56-6 in Savage Arena over the previous 4 yr, together with a 20-game profitable streak between the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons. Gonzaga (0-0) visits North Dakota State on Friday earlier than heading to Toledo.
The Rockets and Bulldogs met two seasons in the past out west, with the Bulldogs taking a 91-70 victory in the applications’ solely all-time assembly.
Toledo vs. Gonzaga
Sunday, Nov. 9 | 2:30 p.m. ET
Toledo, Ohio | Savage Arena
Watch: CBS Sports Network
Listen: 1230AM WCWA/Varsity App
Live Stats | Tickets
Opening Tips
- Toledo performs its first house recreation, after ending 13-2 at Savage Arena a season in the past. Toledo holds an astounding 56-6 house report over the previous 4 seasons, which features a 20-game profitable streak.
- Toledo averaged 4,185 followers final season, main the MAC for the Thirty fourth-straight season and rating thirty third in the nation. 2024-25 was the 14th consecutive season Toledo has ranked in the highest 40 for ladies’s basketball attendance in NCAA Division I.
- The Rockets fell at Troy in the season opener, 88-51. Sophomore Evalyse Cole scored a career-high 12 factors to lead the Rockets at Troy.
- Junior Kendall Carruthers, a First Team Preseason All-MAC choose, scored 11 factors in opposition to the Trojans and knocked down two three-pointers.
- Both Toledo and Gonzaga have been picked second in their respective league’s preseason polls.
- The Rockets will play their second-straight opponent ranked in the highest 25 of the College Insider Women’s Mid-Major Top 25, with Gonzaga ranked seventh. Toledo acquired 44 votes in the preseason ballot.
- Both Toledo and Gonzaga are coming off WBIT appearances a yr in the past, and every of the 2 applications have storied postseason traditions – Toledo has made nationwide postseason tournaments in every of the final 4 seasons whereas Gonzaga reached each NCAA Tournament performed from 2017-2024.
- The recreation is a White Out, and Rocket followers are inspired to fill the seats and put on white. The first 2,000 Toledo followers may also obtain free rally towels for the sport.
Rockets on National TV
- Sunday marks Toledo’s sixth nationally televised recreation in the previous three seasons.
- Last season, Toledo performed at Iowa on the Big Ten Network, at Ball State on CBS Sports Network throughout the common season, and once more in opposition to the Cardinals on CBS Sports Network in the MAC Tournament championship recreation.
- The Rockets final hosted a nationwide TV recreation at Savage Arena on Dec. 6, 2023 in opposition to Michigan on CBS Sports Network, taking down the Wolverines 69-46.
- The MAC may also have two future convention regular-season video games, a MAC-SBC Challenge recreation and the convention event title recreation on CBS Sports Network this season, alongside with an ESPNU recreation on March 7.