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Women’s Basketball Looks to Extend Win Streak Tuesday Against UTSA
2/23/2026 10:55:00 PM | Women's Basketball
DENTON, Texas – The UNT women's basketball team hosts in-state rival UTSA Tuesday night at the Super Pit in the first of its final two regular season home games.
North Texas (16-11, 10-5 American) has been on a roll as of late with wins in three straight games and five of its last six. The most recent came Saturday when the Mean Green matched their biggest comeback of the season and overcame a 13-point deficit to triumph at Charlotte, 82-73. After surrendering the game's first dozen points, North Texas made 10-of-18 attempts from behind the arc and surpassed 80 points for the second straight game to secure the victory. Jazzy Owens-Barnett and Andi Schissler also became UNT's first pair of teammates this season to score 20+ points in the same game with 21 and 20, respectively.
Megan Nestor has continued to play like one of the country's most dominant forces, grabbing 14 more rebounds against Charlotte to increase her program record total to 387 on the season. She needs just 32 more boards to break the American Conference's single-season record and leads the country at 14.3 per game.
North Texas holds a 23-16 lead over UTSA in the all-time series but is searching for its first victory since 2023 after five consecutive wins by the Roadrunners. That streak now gets put on the line at the Super Pit, where the Mean Green have won 16 of their past 18 games against conference opponents. UTSA secured a wild 66-64 victory back on Jan. 28 that nearly saw North Texas complete the largest comeback in program history thanks to a career-high 20 points from Mekhia Chase.
The game is slated for a 6:30 p.m. tip-off and will be available for streaming on ESPN+ with Kyle Youmans and Brian Burton on the call. Sam Kaman also returns to provide radio coverage through the Varsity Network App.
WHAT 2 WATCH 4
• North Texas hosts in-state rival UTSA Tuesday night at the Super Pit in the penultimate home game of the regular season. UNT has won three straight games and five of its past six.
• UNT has won 16 of its last 18 games at the Super Pit against American competition.
• Tuesday provides another crucial step in UNT's ascent up the American Conference standings. At 10-5 in league play, UNT is currently tied for third with South Florida and just half a game ahead of Tulsa (9-5).
• Megan Nestor has continued to dominate inside since making national headlines with her 34-point, 31-rebound performance against Texas Southern on Dec. 6. She leads the nation in total rebounds (14.3) and offensive rebounds (5.6) per game and has 17 double doubles on the season.
BIG MEG POSTING BIG NUMBERS
• Megan Nestor is a difference maker down low, averaging 12.8 points and 14.3 rebounds per game. That production has jumped to 13.3 PPG and 16.4 RPG in conference play.
• Her 17 double doubles on the season lead the American and rank top 10 in the country. She is the American's only player averaging a double double.
• She leads the NCAA in total rebounds (387), offensive rebounds (151), rebounds per game (14.3) and offensive rebounds per game (5.6).
• Nestor is the nation's only player to have recorded 20 rebounds in five games this year and one of two with 15 rebounds in 11 games. Those are both the highest totals in American Conference history.
• With rebound outings of 31, 28 and 27, Nestor has accounted for the three of the five highest rebounding games across the NCAA this season. She is the first player since at least 1982 to reach 27 rebounds three times in a single season.
• Those three performances also hold the top three spots for single-game rebounds in UNT and American Conference history.
PROCTOR IN CONFERENCE PLAY
• Aysia Proctor has been on a tear since joining the starting lineup for the American Conference opener on Dec. 30.
• Through 15 conference games, Proctor is fourth in the American by scoring 15.6 points per game. She is also sinking 41.8% of her 5.3 three-point attempts per game in that span.
• Proctor is one of three players in the league averaging 13+ points and shooting better than 38% from deep on the year.
• She has been the game-high scorer in three of UNT's last four contests, tallying 19.5 PPG in that time.
ANDI SWISHLER
• After starting the first 17 games of the season, Andi Schissler is currently in the midst of her best stretch of the season as a weapon off the bench.
• She has reached double figures in five of her last seven games while making 22-of-43 shots from behind the arc. Before the streak began, she had not scored 10+ points in a game since Dec. 18.
• Schissler played 37 minutes Saturday against Charlotte and reached DI career highs in points (20), three-pointers (6), free throws (2) and blocks (2).
A WIN WOULD...
• Improve North Texas to 17-11 and 11-5 in American Conference play.
• Extend UNT's win streak to four and make it 6-1 in the past seven games.
• Improve North Texas to 17-2 in its past 19 conference games at the Super Pit.
• Give North Texas its first win over UTSA since 2023 and extend its lead in the all-time series to 24-16.
• Mark UNT's third straight season winning at least 11 conference games. It had done so just twice before the Jason Burton era.
• Give Burton 65 career wins as head coach at North Texas, just one shy of tying Judy Nelson for third most in UNT history.
