LAKE CHARLES—McNeese girls’s basketball, the 2026 common season Southland Conference Champs, capped off the common season with a commanding 87-60 win over Stephen F. Austin Monday night time, setting a college file for wins in a season with 27, ending the common season 27-4 total and a Southland Conference file for wins with 21, ending 12-1 within the SLC.
McNeese will enter subsequent weeks, Air Force Reserve Southland Conference Championship because the No. 1 seed and can play their first recreation within the semifinals at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 11. An opponent will likely be decided later.
Senior Arianna Patton and the remainder of the Cowgirls have been on a mission tonight and nothing was going to spoil their postgame actions. The Cowgirls celebrated after the sport by being introduced the common season championship trophy and minimize down the web.
Patton made certain SFA wasn’t going to spoil the postgame festivities, ending the sport with a profession excessive 30 factors on the way in which to setting a college file for three-pointers made in a recreation with 10. She ended the sport 10 for 17 from the sphere together with 10 of 12 from behind the arc. Patton scored 21 second half factors making all seven three-point makes an attempt.
Dakota Howard ended the sport with a profession excessive 24 factors and picked up her fourth profession double double by main all gamers with 11 rebounds. Howard was 8 of 11 from the sphere and made good on 8 of her 10 free throws. Seven of her 11 rebounds got here on the defensive finish. Lexi Alexander, Jalencia Pierre, and Tyreona Sibley all ended the sport with 10 factors apiece.
SFA held the lead (5-4) for 19 seconds within the first quarter, however Alexander’s layup with 6:49 left within the first quarter began 14-3 scoring run to present McNeese an 18-8 first quarter lead and the Cowgirls by no means seemed again. McNeese continued to construct on its lead within the second quarter to steer 38-19 on the half.
McNeese held as a lot as a 33-point lead with 4:49 left within the recreation on an Alexander fastbreak layup. The Cowgirls tied their season excessive with 26 assists. Pierre led all gamers with seven assists on the night time.
McNEESE NOTES
• Won its faculty file twenty seventh recreation (27-4)
• Won a college file 21 SLC video games and have become the primary faculty to win 20 SLC video games in convention historical past with its win at UNO on Feb. 28.
• Have gained 23 of final 25 video games
• It’s the primary 20-win season since 2016
• Extended its program greatest profitable streak to twenty video games, at the moment the fourth present longest
profitable streak within the NCAA this season.
• End the common season 12-1 at house, one shy of tying the college file for many house wins
• McNeese tied its season excessive with 26 assists
• Five gamers scored in double figures (Patton- 30), Howard (24), Alexander, Pierre, and Sibley all scored 10 factors
• Patton’s 30 factors are a profession excessive
• Patton’s 10 three-pointers is a person faculty file, breaking the previous file of seven three-pointers made by teammate Kaili Chamberlin towards Centenary in 2021
• Patton ended the sport 10 for 17 from the sphere and 10 of 12 from three-point vary. She was 7 of seven from behind the arc within the second half.
• Dakota Howard scored a season excessive 24 factors on 8 of 11 from the sphere and eight of 10 free throws
• Howard recorded her fourth profession double double with 11 rebounds