MONROE, La. — The ULM women's basketball team (1-2, 0-0 Sun Belt) hosts Arkansas-Pine Bluff (1-3, 0-0 SWAC) on Monday evening. Tip-off at b1Bank Fant Coliseum is scheduled for 5 p.m. CT.
FOLLOW THE WARHAWKS –
Monday's game will be available exclusively on Wink 97.3 FM with Josh McGehee on the call. Streaming will be available for the game on ESPN+. Links to live stats for all games, when available, can be found at ULMWarhawks.com. Navigate to the women's basketball schedule page and select that day's opponent.
SCOUTING THE LADY LIONS –
Arkansas-Pine Bluff enters the matchup coming off of a tight 95-90 loss to SEC opponent Arkansas on the road. The Lady Lions also faced Texas A&M in College Station to open the season, falling 77-54. UAPB's other loss came against Tarleton State (66-47), and its lone win was against Arkanasas Baptist College (84-50). All three losses so far this season have come on the road ahead of the Lady Lions' trip to Monroe.
UAPB is led by two fourth-year guards in Indiya Bowen and Jailah Pelly, who are each averaging 15.5 points a game. Bowen is coming off of a 21-point performance against the Razorbacks, and was a perfect 8-8 from the charity stripe. Jailah Pelly had a game-high 22 points on .615 percent (8-of-13) shooting. Jakyra Jackson (18) and Tyra Taylor (13) round out the rest of the Lady Lions' double-digit performers against Arkansas.
The Lady Lions are led by third-year head coach Erica Leak. Leak brought the team to a 15-16 overall record in 2025-26, including a 10-8 SWAC conference slate after going 3-25 in her first season at the helm. Bowen was named First-Team All-SWAC, as well as SWAC Newcomer of the Year last season.
SERIES HISTORY –
Monday's meeting will be just the second all-time between the Warhawks and Lady Lions. The two teams met for the first time last season, when ULM took the game 79-50 in Monroe (11/16). While the Warhawks do not return any minutes from last season's matchup, UAPB had team-highs from Bowen and Pelly, each with 11 points.
LAST TIME OUT –
The Warhawks fell 61-49 to Central Arkansas last Monday (Nov. 9). Guard Kylee Hunt led the team with 13 points, while forward Nuria Mucongo grabbed nine boards. ULM was outshot 42.1% to 26.8% from the field by the Sugar Bears, and made just three from behind the arc, while Central Arkansas made seven threes.
RUNNING POINT –
Fifth-year guard Kylee Hunt is running point for the Warhawks, and is averaging a second-best 10.3 points per game on the team. Hunt leads the Sun Belt in assist to turnover ratio with 5.00, having made 10 assists to just two turnovers. She also has eight steals through ULM's first three games, and is the only Warhawk to have started in each game thus far, averaging a team-high 26 minutes.
CULVER IN CONTROL –
Third-year guard Aiyanna Culver scored a career-high 35 points in ULM's victory over Centenary (11/5), which is tied for fifth-most points in a single game in DI so far this season. That is the highest individual point total in a single game in the Sun Belt in the season's opening week. Her three-point percentage (.526) ranks third in the conference. Culver's 12 made field goals against Centenary was tied for the most in the Sun Belt, and her eight made threes led the league as well. She is one of just two Sun Belt players to put up a 30-point performance so far this season, and is tied for second in the conference in scoring (19.00 average). Culver's 10 three-pointers for an average of 3.33 a game sits atop the Sun Belt.
UP NEXT –
ULM will host Sam Houston on Thursday, November 19 at 6:00 p.m. to wrap up the four-game homestand.
