Women’s Basketball Heads To The Aloha State
• Second-year head coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke returns to the TSU sidelines for the first time since 2011-12. She spent the 2011-12 season at TSU and led them to the SWAC Regular Season Championship for the first time in school history.
• Guard Ciani Cryor is off to a sizzling start as she’s averaging 20.3 points, 6.3 assists and 4.3 steals.
• Head coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke is 36-35 all-time in the month of November and 2-7 at TSU.
• Cooper-Dyke is 33-52 all-time against the PAC-12 with the majority of games played
while head coach at USC. Against Utah, she’s 5-1 with the lone loss in 2017. She has faced current Utah head coach Lynne Roberts twice and is 1-1.
•Utah is 3-0 lifetime against the SWAC with a game against TSU and two versus Jackson State.
• Senior forward Niya Mitchell completed the trifecta as she was named the SWAC’s Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year in addition to earning first team honors. A 5-10 senior from Bay City, Texas, Mitchell averaged a double-double last season, scoring 14.4 points and 10.7 rebounds per contest. She’s averaging 18.7 points ad 9.3 rebounds this season.
• TSU was picked fifth in the Southwestern Athletic Conference preseason poll after finishing the 2018-19 season in fifth.
• TSU has a revamped roster with only five letterwiners retuning while they welcome nine newcomers and two redshirts.
Courtesy: TSUSports.com
