GREENVILLE, S.C. – Furman's women's basketball team hits the road for the second time this season to face Auburn in a noon (ET) contest at the Tigers' Neville Arena.
The game will be televised over the SEC+ Network and StatBroadcast live stats, with links to both available on the basketball schedule page on FurmanPaladins.com.
Furman (2-1), which opened the season on Nov. 2 with an 80-54 loss at South Florida, dusted both Erskine (106-48) and Southern Wesleayan (77-38) in pair of home games last week at Timmons Arena.
Auburn (2-0) crushed Alabama State, 84-35, in its season opener and turned back Southern Miss, 56-48, last Thursday.
The Paladins and Tigers have met six times over the years, with the latest coming in WNIT first round action in 2014 in a home contest Auburn won, 68-54. The Tigers lead the all-time series, 6-0.
Auburn, which posted a 15-17 overall record and 3-13 SEC mark a year ago, was picked 15th of 16 teams in the SEC Preseason Media Poll.
Furman is coming off a 2025-26 season that saw the Paladins go 18-13 overall and 9-5 (4th place) in Southern Conference action under head coach
Pierre Curtis, now in his fourth season at the helm
The Paladins return four starters and a pair of All-SoCon performers from a year ago, led by 6-foot-1 junior forward
Clare Coyle and 5-foot-11 junior guard
Alyssa Ervin. Coyle (16.7 ppg), who was recently named to the 25-player Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Watch List, and Ervin (15.0 ppg) have been Furman's leading scorers in the early going despite seeing limited minutes in last week's blowout wins. Ervin has connected on 6-of-12 3-pointers thru three games.
Another player off to a quality start is 5-foot-10 junior
Raina McGowens (9.3 ppg, 13 ast., 9 stl.), who is seeing significantly more duty at point guard.
A trio of freshman have already surfaced as contenders for quality playing time. The leader there is 5-foot-10 guard
Nariah Nelson (8.3 ppg), who heads into Tuesday's contest shooting .611 from the field (11x18).
6-foot-3 sophomore forward Ty Berry appears to be much improved over her first season with the Paladins, combining for 18 points and 16 rebounds in the two games last week.
