WBB: Week Six News and Notes
Week six was the closest week of regular season play and Saturday was the closest day of regular season play thus far...
Six weeks down and four to go until the regular season concludes and all eyes turn towards WACVegas for one last time. Before we get to that point however, there’s still a round and a half of regular season play left.
Let’s take a look at the week that was, the week ahead, some bracketology just past the halfway point, the national stat leaderboards and more in this week’s edition of the WAC Hoops Nation Women’s Basketball Weekly Notebook.
WAC Players and Teams on the NCAA Leaderboards:
»Note: rankings are as of Tuesday morning…
Utah Valley (26.05) and ACU (22.33) remain in the national top-20 for turnovers forced at fourth and 16th respectively. Both are also in the top-25 for steals per game with Utah Valley recording 16.0 a game (2nd) and ACU posting 11.8 (T22nd).
CBU and Southern Utah continue to be just outside of the top-75 for assists per game as a team at 15.0, which is T76.
The Lancers are also T10th in blocks per game as a team at 5.6. UT Arlington is T21 at 5.0, Tarleton State is T43 at 4.3, Southern Utah is T47 at 4.2.
At 36.9% opponent field goal shooting, CBU is ranked 35th and leading the WAC. They are the lone WAC defense in the top-75 nationally for this category.
ACU is the lone WAC offense inside the top-100 for field goal shooting percentage at 92nd (43.13%).
Southern Utah continues to be inside the top-20 for rebounding margin at a +9.3 per game, good for T16th nationally. The TBirds are also 12th in total rebounding at 42.78 per game. CBU is also 24th at 42.04 a game.
The Wildcats are T46th in scoring defense at 58.4 points per game and the lone WAC squad in the top-50. They are also 37th in scoring margin at +14.8 and 71st in points per game at 73.2.
UT Arlington is fifth in the country for 3-point percentage defense at 25.2%.
Utah Valley is 12th in turnover margin at +7.77 while ACU is 14th at +7.38.
CBU’s Emma Johansson maintains the national lead in total blocks at 69 while UT Arlington’s Kira Reynolds is seventh at 63. Johansson and Reynolds continue to remain second and fourth in blocks per game at 2.88 and 2.74 per game.
The Lancers’ Filipa Barros is T24 for double-doubles at 10.
Two WAC players are in the top-75 for free throw percentage in Utah Valley’s Amanda Barcello (56th, 85.51%) and Southern Utah’s Sierra Chambers (61st, 84.96%)
Southern Utah’s Ava Uhrich is T25 for rebounds per game at 10.0 while Barros is T40 at 9.4.
In Steals per Game there are currently four players within the top-50. Utah Valley’s Cambree Blackham and Saige Gibb are 33rd and T36th respectively at 2.77 and 2.73 per game. Barros is 34th at 2.75 per game and ACU’s Payton Hull is T39 at 2.71.
CBU’s Lauren Olsen enters the top-50 for 3-point percentage at 40.5% (42nd) with Barcello at 83rd (37.98%). Barcello is also 46th in 3-pointers per game at 2.58.
Home Teams Continue Dominant Season in WAC Play:
Home teams are currently 27-12 (.692%) on the year in WAC play after a 5-2 showing last week.
That includes UT Arlington coming away with a double-overtime win against Utah Tech on Thursday and a overtime win against Utah Valley on Saturday afternoon.
CBU continues to lead the league with six road wins through Saturday afternoon’s play.
There have also been three overtime or double-overtime games so far this year.
Wild Saturday:
Of the 15 game days and six weeks so far in this 2026 WAC Women’s Basketball season last Saturday was the wildest of the lot.
All three games were decided by one possession with an overtime at the College Park Center as UT Arlington rallied from 11 points down with about four minutes left to force overtime and eventually defeat Utah Valley.
At Moody Coliseum, Khloe Lemon hit a go-ahead 3-pointer from the right wing with 14 seconds left to give CBU a 74-71 win that kept the Lancers with sole possession of first place in the conference standings. CBU rallied from a nine point deficit after three quarters by outscoring ACU 25-13 in the game’s final stanza.
And at the EECU Center, Tarleton State rallied from an early 18-point deficit to defeat Southern Utah 59-57. It was the largest comeback in Tarleton State’s Division I era and Elodie Lutbert hit the game winner with 55 seconds left to play.
Bracketology:
As of Tuesday morning ESPN’s Charlie Creme has CBU projected as a No. 16 seed, playing UCLA in Los Angeles for a second time in three years.
Megan Gauer of Her Hoop Stats continues to project ACU as the WAC representative, despite CBU’s two game lead, and has the Wildcats playing LSU in Baton Rouge.
Weekly Awards:
It was a Texas sweep of the weekly awards as Tarleton State’s Elodie Lubert was named WAC Newcomer of the Week while ACU’s Payton Hull earned Player of the Week honors.
Both Hull and Lubert led their teams to 2-1 weeks as the Texans and Wildcats had to play a makeup game on Tuesday, rescheduled from January 24 as a result of weather.
Lubert recorded back-to-back double-doubles on Tuesday and Thursday against ACU (16 points/13 rebounds) and CBU (15 points/13 rebounds. She also connected on the final shot of Saturday’s 59-57 win against the TBirds.
Meanwhile, Hull had back-to-back 25+ point performances in a pair of Wildcat wins over Tarleton State and Utah Valley at Moody Coliseum. She continues to lead the race for overall WAC scoring champion and also has the most 20+ point performances with 10 so far.
It’s Lubert’s first Newcomer of the Week honor while Hull wins Player of the Week for the second time this year. They are the seventh and ninth different winners of the awards this year.
Standings:
California Baptist University 16-8 Overall, 10-1 WAC
Abilene Christian University 17-7 Overall, 8-3 WAC
Southern Utah University 15-8 Overall, 7-4 WAC
Tarleton State University 12-11 Overall, 6-6 WAC
UT Arlington 10-13 Overall, 4-7 WAC
Utah Valley 10-12 Overall, 3-8 WAC
Utah Tech 6-15 Overall, 1-10 WAC
The Week Ahead:
Thursday, February 12, 2026»
6 P.M. MT Utah Tech at Utah Valley (As a reminder this game will not be broadcasted as a result of the WAC lawsuit against Utah Valley for failure to pay exit fees)
6 P.M. PT Southern Utah at CBU
6 P.M. CT Abilene Christian at UT Arlington
Idle: Tarleton State
Saturday, February 14, 2026»
1 P.M. PT: Utah Tech at CBU
2 P.M. CT: ACU at Tarleton State
6:30 P.M. CT: UT Arlington at Southern Utah
Idle: Utah Valley