Women’s Hoops Heads to Belmont for Friday Matinee

TROY, Ala. – Coming off its first loss of the season, the Troy women's basketball team will look to bounce back quickly in a Friday matinee against Belmont. Tip is scheduled for 11 a.m. (CT) from the Curb Event Center, and the game will be broadcast on ESPN+.

Troy (2-1) opened the season with consecutive wins over Kent State and Thomas before dropping its first contest of the year at Mississippi State on Wednesday. The Bulldogs built a 28-4 lead after the first quarter en route to the 79-57 win, but the Trojans outscored Miss State, 43-34, in the second half.

First-year guard Hannah Smith leads the Trojans, averaging 18.0 points per game, having led Troy in scoring each of the last two games. Troy's five first-year players account for 53 percent of Troy's scoring and 48 percent of its rebounding this year.

Aniya Hubbard has scored in double figures in all three games and has added eight rebounds in each of the last two contests in her first action as a Trojan.

This is the first meeting between Troy and Belmont since 2023, when the Bruins escaped Trojan Arena with a 72-68 victory, a year after Belmont defeated Troy in overtime in Nashville. The teams split a home-and-home series in 2015 and 2016.

Game Information
The Matchup: Troy at Belmont
Location: Nashville, Tenn. (Curb Event Center)
When: Friday, November 13 – 11 am (CT)
Watch: ESPN+

Scouting Belmont
Belmont is coming off a 20-win season last year, including a 16-4 run in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Bruins are off to an 0-3 start this season, but have played the top two teams out of the Ivy League (Princeton and Columbia) and South Florida, which was picked to finish third in the American.

Chelby Jordan leads the Bruins with 15.0 points per game, while Kenley McCarn adds 14.7 points and Kate McGinnis chips in 12.7 points per game. Bart Brooks enters his 10th season at the helm of the Belmont program and has won more games than any other coach in the country with nine or fewer years leading a program.

Notable
• Troy has scored 100 points or more in 40 games (37-3) since Chanda Rigby took over the program ... it's the third-most in the country; UConn (52), Maryland (42)

• A first-year player has led the Trojans in scoring in each of the first three games ... Tiauna King led Troy with 21 points at Kent State, while Hannah Smith had 26 points in the victory over Thomas and 16 points at Mississippi State

• Troy and UConn are the only two programs in NCAA history to lead a stat category in nine straight seasons; the Trojans have led the country in rebounding from 2017-26

• Since the 2016-17 season, Troy has 17 games with 60-plus rebounds; that's 11 more than the next closest team (Baylor, 6) ... in fact, Troy's 17 are eight more than anyone else since 2012-13 (Troy didn't have one until the 2016-17 season)

• All 12 players who touched the floor for the Trojans against Thomas hit a bucket

• Troy improved to 3-4 in the SBC-MAC Challenge with its 89-78 victory at Kent State in the season opener

• Troy has won 74.6 percent of its games under Chanda Rigby when outrebounding its opponent (220-75) ... that jumps to 82.7 percent when the rebounding margin is 10-plus (143-30)

• First-year players led Troy in points (Tiauna King – 21), rebounds (Hannah Smith – seven), steals (Smith – three), and the plus/minus (Jamonica Chambers – plus-13) at Kent State

• Troy's first-year players combined for 45 points, 21 rebounds, five assists, three blocks and four steals against Kent State ... on the year, they have combined for 132 points (52.8%) and 68 rebounds (48.2%)

• Troy is 155-45 when scoring 70-plus points under Chanda Rigby since the 2015-16 season (Troy's first SBC title season) ... the Trojans improve to 172-28 when scoring 80-plus points. The Trojans are 108-43 in that time when committing 15 or fewer turnovers and 146-55 when forcing 15-plus turnovers

• Troy is 80-58 under head coach Chanda Rigby on the road the last 10 seasons (2017-18 to present)

• Troy is 55-8 under head coach Chanda Rigby when hitting 10-plus 3-pointers in a game; the Trojans are 1-0 this season

• The Trojans enter 2026-27 fresh off three straight postseason appearances, making the WBIT for the first time in program history in 2025-26 and playing in the WNIT from 2023-25.

• Chanda Rigby became the winningest coach in Troy history last season against Louisiana with her 275th victory

• Troy tied program history for single-season victories with 25 last season

• Troy has finished in the top four of the Sun Belt standings in 12 straight seasons and 10 seasons with 20-plus victories

• Troy's five first-year players are the most in Chanda Rigby's career

• Chanda Rigby was inducted into the Pensacola State Athletics Hall of Fame Class this past fall

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Players Mentioned

Jamonica Chambers

Aniya Hubbard

Tiauna King

Hannah Smith

Troy University Athletics