Women's Hoops Returns Home to Face Off with IU Indy Sunday Afternoon

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Morehead, Ky. -- The Morehead State's women's basketball team returns home to face off with IU Indy Sunday afternoon in Johnson Arena. Tipoff has been moved from its originally scheduled time to 1:00 p.m. ET. The game can be heard on the Eagle Sports Network (flagship WIVY 96.3) with Tom Lewis and Wes Holland on the call. The game is also scheduled to be streamed on ESPN+ with Jared Stacy and Dean Hardin describing the action.
 
Morehead State is coming off an 81-72 loss at Murray State Thursday afternoon at the CFSB Center in Murray. Morehead State had three players in double figures, two with double-doubles: Heidi Smith recorded her second double-double of the season matching her performance from the November 5 meeting with Eastern Kentucky with 18 points and 10 rebounds tying her career highs.
 
Kensley Feltner posted her first career double-double with 17 points and a career-high 11 rebounds. Courtney Smith set a new career-high with 10 points.

RECORDS

Morehead State                           0-4 / L 4
IU Indy                                            1-2 / L 1
 
SERIES
 
Record vs IU Indy:                       1-1
Last Meeting:                               W, 56-54 on November 14, 2007 in Indianapolis
First Meeting:                               L, 68-61 on November 26, 2006 in Morehead
Streak:                                           W 1
Record in Morehead:                   0-1
Record in Indianapolis:               1-0
Neutral Sites:                                0-0
 
NOTABLES

• Morehead State scored a season-high 72 points Thursday at Murray State. The Eagles shot 42% (28-66) from the floor, also a season high. The Eagles committed 16 turnovers in the game, the lowest total in the first four games.
• Redshirt junior Kensley Feltner is Morehead State's most experienced player with appearances in 70 games over three seasons at Belmont. Last season, injury limited Feltner to just five games; in the 2024-25 season, Feltner appeared in 39 games, making two starts.
• Feltner posted her first career double-double Thursday at Murray State with 17 points and a career-high 11 rebounds. She missed the entire second quarter after drawing her third foul with 0.2 seconds left in the first quarter.
• Through games played as of Friday, Felter leads the OVC averaging 18 points per game. She ranks sixth in the OVC hitting 49% from the floor. She ranks second in the OVC hitting 47.6% from three-point range.
• Feltner had a storied career at Lawrence County High School, scoring 4,189 points in her career, becoming just the fourth player in Kentucky to score over 4,000 career points. She led the state in her senior season scoring 28.9 points per game and was a finalist for Kentucky Miss Basketball and a First Team All-State selection. She also led the state in scoring in her junior season averaging 26.9 points per game and was named a First Team All-State selection.
• Heidi Smith notched her second career double-double Thursday at Murray State matching her effort the week before against Eastern Kentucky with 18 points and 10 rebounds, matching her career highs.
• Heidi Smith appeared in seven games last season before injury cut her season short. Averaging 17.1 minutes per game, she posted 5.1 points and 1.0 rebounds per game averages.
• Twins Courtney and Heidi Smith have stayed together through their college journey: they both redshirted in their freshman season (2024-25) at Toledo with Jackie Smith on the Rockets' staff. The pair transferred to Montana State last season and re-joined Jackie Alexander at Morehead State last Spring.
• Courtney Smith had a breakout game of sorts Thursday at Murray State, posting 10 points on 4-6 shooting from the floor and 2-3 from the free throw line. All 10 of her points came in the fourth quarter.
• Courtney Smith appeared in 27 contests at Montana State last season.  She posted her career high of nine points on January 24 at Weber State. She matched that total five days later against Sacramento State.
• Grad Student Lanae Riley comes appeared in six games at Akron in 2024-25 after appearing in 29 games and making 13 starts the previous season. She averaged 8.3 points and 3.8 rebounds per game for the Zips while averaging 21.6 minutes per outing. She shot 47% from the floor, 43% from three-point range and 75% from the free throw line. She posted 11 points and five boards in the season-opener at Kentucky.
• Riley was a two-time First Team All-Ohio selection at Archbishop Hoban High School, and was finalist for Ohio Ms. Basketball her senior season (2021-22) averaging 21 points and nine rebounds per game, leading Hoban to an undefeated regular season.
• Allie Sykes appeared in 26 games, making four starts at Presbyterian last season. In an average of 12.4 minutes per outing, she averaged 4.2 points per game. She led the Blue Hose with 30 made three points, hit treys at a 31.3% clip.
• Sykes scored 1,746 career points, posting a career average of 15.5 points per game at Western Alamance High School in Burlington, N.C. She averaged 18.1 points per game in her senior season, shooting 42% from three-point range. Over her career, she shot 41% from the floor and 38% from beyond the arc.
• JUCO transfer Breayah Jefferson was a NJCAA Div. I Honorable Mention All-America last season at Monroe University (N.Y.). She appeared in 17 games, making 16 starts and averaged 18 points per game while shooting 45% from the floor.
• Jefferson set the Monroe program record, scoring 50 points against Lackawanna College on February 19. She hit 19 of 53 attempts from the floor, including 7-29 from three-point range.
• Jefferson finished in double figures Tuesday at Vanderbilt with 10 points, her first double-figure performance of the season.
• Samaria Taylor has drawn the start in the last two games. At Vandy, she played 29 minutes posting seven points and two rebounds. Thursday at Murray State, she posted five points and two rebounds.
• Samaria Taylor appeared in 27 games, making one start at Furman last season. She posted season highs of 12 points and six steals against Bob Jones January 3. She posted 11 points against East Tennessee on February 7, hitting all three of her field goal attempts, including on three-ball, and went four of five from the charity stripe.
• Kamora Morgan spent her first two collegiate years at Northern Kentucky. She was named Horizon League Freshman of the Week twice in the 2024-25 season, when she appeared in 32 games, making eight starts, posting 7.6 points and 2.9 rebounds per game.
• As a freshman, Morgan had a breakout game with 21 vs. Southern Indiana; she backed that up a month later, setting career highs with 23 points and seven rebounds. Last season as a sophomore, she averaged 3.4 points and 1.8 rebounds per game in 32 games averaging 12.9 minutes per game.

 
SCOUTNG THE JAGUARS

• IU Indy is led by Mary Evans, who is in her second season leading the Jaguars. Last year, her squad posted a 14-17 overall record and a 9-11 mark in the Horizon League. Prior to arriving in Indianapolis, she was the head coach at Valparaiso for seven seasons, posting a 73-135 record.
• Senior Olivia Smith leads the Jaguars through three games averaging 18 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. After posting 16 points at Purdue and against SIUE in  Indy's first two games, Smith set a new career high with 22 points at Indiana State Tuesday. She shot 8-17 from the floor, including 4-10 from the free throw line.
• Hailey Smith (sister of Olivia) is averaging 12 points per game and is hitting 41% from the floor. She tossed in 14 points in the season opener at Purdue and posted 10 in IU Indy's 70-69 win over SIUE on November 5.