Texas State had to rely on its freshmen to defeat Arkansas State on Thursday. But on Saturday, the Bobcats turned to their veterans.
Prior to its matchup with Little Rock, the team announced that sophomore forward Jayla Johnson and freshmen posts Da’Nasia Hood and Jaeda Reed were suspended from the game due to violating team rules. All three posted double-digit minutes in Thursday’s contest, leaving the maroon and gold with a short bench and a dearth of bigs against the Sun Belt’s No. 1 school.
Head coach Zenarae Antoine tried a new approach, swapping out one of the two bigs usually featured in Texas State’s lineups for an additional guard. The adjustment worked, as the Bobcats upset the Trojans, 50-48, inside Strahan Arena in the Play4Kay Breast Cancer Awareness game.
