Completed Event: Women's Basketball versus Franklin Pierce on October 29, 2025 , Win , 71, to, 38
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Providence College Athletics
Tuesday, November 4
Providence, R.I.
7:00 PM
Providence College
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Photo by: Brian Foley for Foley-Photograph
Women's Basketball Game Notes vs. Howard
11/3/2025 8:19:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Friars will host Howard in their 2025-26 season opener on Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 7:00 p.m.
FRIARS HOST HOWARD IN 2025-26 SEASON OPENER... Providence officially tips off the 2025-26 season on Tuesday, Nov. 4 against Howard University. The Friars have opened the season against an HBCU in two of the last three seasons. The game will be played at Alumni Hall and will tipoff at 7:00 p.m. on ESPN+.
SCOUTING HOWARD... The Bison finished the 2024-25 campaign with a 22-12 overall record, including a 12-2 mark in the MEAC. Howard earned a bid to the WNIT and advanced to the second round where it fell to the College of Charleston. Howard has advanced to five-straight MEAC Championship Games and is the conference's preseason favorite in 2025-26.Â
PLAYERS TO WATCH... The Bison are the only program with two players on the Preseason MEAC First Team and include Zennia Thomas and Nile Miller. Thomas, a Kentucky transfer, shot a MEAC-best 50 percent from the field in her first season as a Bison. Last season, she made the All-MEAC Third Team and All-Tournament Team. Thomas was among the MEAC leaders as she was tied for fourth in rebounding (7.2), seventh in free-throw percentage (65.8%), tied for eighth in blocks (0.7), and 10th in scoring (12.0). She had seven double-doubles in 33 games. Miller is a two-time member of the MEAC All-Defensive Team. In addition to earning Third Team All-MEAC honors last season, Miller was fifth in the conference in blocked shots (1.1), tied for eighth in steals (1.6), and ninth in rebounding (5.3). Miller, who enters the season with 85 career blocked shots, also averaged 5.4 points in the 34 games she played last year.
NEW LOOK FRIARS TAKE THE COURT IN 2025-26... The Friars have reloaded their roster for the 2025-26 season after losing 10 players to graduation (seven seniors and three graduate students). Junior Sophi Hall and sophomores Orlagh Gormely and Audrey Shields are the only returning players on the roster that have seen game action in a Friar uniform. The remainder of this year's roster is made up of five transfer student-athletes, five true freshmen and one redshirt freshman.
FRIARS DEFEAT FRANKLIN PIERCE IN EXHIBITION GAME... The Friars hosted NCAA Division II Franklin Pierce in an exhibition game on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at Alumni Hall in Providence, R.I. The Friars claimed a decisive 71-38 victory, clamping down defensively in the second half to allow just 10 points over the final 20 minutes of play. Sabou Gueye and Payton Dunbar each scored 12 points to pace the offense. Teneisia Brown recorded seven points, four rebounds and a team-best five assists. Ashley Dinges tallied nine points and a team-best six rebounds and two blocked shots. Providence forced Franklin Pierce into committing 30 turnovers and held a 29-19 scoring advantage in points off turnovers in the game. The Friars also dominated the glass with a 40-26 edge in rebounding.
HOME-SWEET-HOME... The Friars will play eight of their 11 non-conference games in the friendly confines of Alumni Hall / Mullaney Gymnasium in Providence, R.I., including a five-game home-stand to start the season.
BROADCAST AND TV ASSIGNMENTS... As part of the BIG EAST's television and broadcast deal, the Friars will be featured on a host of network platforms encompassing television and streaming during the 2025-26 season, including FS1, TNT, truTV, Peacock and ESPN+. Additionally, Providence's games at the Emerald Coast Classic will be available on FloCollege and its non-conference match-up at South Carolina will be broadcast on the SEC Network. Each of the Friars' home non-conference games will be broadcast live on ESPN+, in addition to 15 of the program's 20 BIG EAST Conference regular-season games. Television and streaming designations for each game are available on the women's basketball schedule via Friars.com.
FRIARS SET TO FACE PRESEASON NO. 1 AND NO. 2... The Associated Press recently released its top-25 rankings for the 2025-26 season and the Friars are slated to play No. 1-ranked Connecticut and No. 2-ranked South Carolina. Providence is one of five teams in NCAA Division I that will face the Huskies and Gamecocks this season, joining Louisville, USF, Tennessee and USC. Providence will face UConn, twice, as part of BIG EAST regular-season play on Dec. 31 and Feb. 22. The Friars will travel to Columbia, S.C. to face South Carolina in non-conference action on Dec. 28.
EMERALD COAST CLASSIC... Providence will participate in the Emerald Coast Classic in Niceville, Fla. prior to the Thanksgiving Holiday on November 24-25. The Friars will face Middle Tennessee State in the first game of the tournament on Nov. 24. Providence will conclude the tournament on Nov. 25 against Mississippi State or Alcorn State. Under the direction of third-year Head Coach Erin Batth, the Friars have participated in the West Palm Beach Classic (2022-23) and the Cancun Challenge (2024-25).
BIG EAST PRESEASON POLL... The Friars were picked to finish 10th in the BIG EAST Preseason Coaches' Poll, released at the league's annual media day on Oct. 21 at Madison Square Garden. Last season, Providence completed the year with a 13-19 overall record and claimed a seventh-place finish in the regular-season standings with a 6-12 conference record.Â
ERIN BATTH ERA... Erin Batth enters her third season with the Friars in 2025-26. She was hired as the 11th women's basketball coach in program history at Providence College on March 20, 2023. Batth arrived in Friartown with 17 years of NCAA Division I coaching experience, with her most recent stops coming at NC State (2018-22) and Michigan (2022-23). She has been part of five conference championships, eight NCAA Elite Eight appearances and three trips to the NCAA Sweet 16. She also served as an assistant coach at Liberty (2017-18), Georgia State (2014-17), Tennessee Tech (2012-14) and Towson (2010-12). Batth earned her first career win as a head coach on Nov. 7 vs. Hampton (76-46). She helped the Friars earn a bid to the Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) in her first year at Providence in 2023-24.
WHAT'S NEXT... The Friars will return to Alumni Hall on Monday, Nov. 10 to host Central Connecticut State University at 7:00 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+. The Friars are 5-2 all-time vs. CCSU.
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