ACC Women’s Basketball Tipoff Attendees Introduced

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (SMU) – SMU girls’s basketball head coach Adia Barnes and guards Tyi Skinner and Kyla Deck had been introduced as this system’s attendees for the 2025 ACC Basketball Tipoff on Tuesday.

The 2025 ACC Tipoff might be held October 6-8 on the Hilton Charlotte Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina. The girls’s occasion might be held on Monday, October 6 and Tuesday, October 7, whereas the lads’s occasion will start on Tuesday, October 7 and conclude on Wednesday, October 8.

SMU’s time slot is Monday afternoon on October 6. ACC Network might be reside from ACC Tipoff for 2 days of expansive protection from 9 a.m. to five p.m. every day. More details about the 2025 ACC Basketball Tipoff may be discovered right here.

The Mustangs start the 50^th season in program historical past by internet hosting Grambling State on November 4 within the crew’s season opener.

SMU’s non-conference slate consists of 12 video games, with seven house video games to be performed inside Moody Coliseum, highlighted by matchups with Kansas State on November 8, Arkansas on December 4 as a part of the ACC/SEC Challenge and a visit to Nashville to compete within the Music City Classic the week of Thanksgiving.

The Mustang’s 18-game convention slate will function 9 video games inside Moody Coliseum, highlighted by three 2025 NCAA match groups coming to the Hilltop in Georgia Tech (Jan.4), Florida State (Jan. 22) and Notre Dame (Feb.22).

The opener may also be this system’s first recreation underneath head coach Adia Barnes. Barnes, a former WBCA Coach of the Year Finalist and Naismith Coach of the Year Semifinalist, was named Head Women’s Basketball Coach at SMU on April 5.

Barnes involves the Hilltop from Arizona, the place, over her 9 seasons on the helm, she constructed Arizona Women’s Basketball right into a fixture on the nationwide stage of school basketball whereas creating her popularity as one of many prime coaches within the sport. Under Barnes, this system ascended to new heights in record-breaking style in all elements – reaching the nationwide championship recreation, signing elite recruiting courses and cementing deep connections with the area people. She led UA to 6 straight post-season appearances and 5 straight 20-win seasons, highlighted by a powerful run to the NCAA Championship Game in 2021.

A local of Washington D.C., Tyi Skinner transferred to the Hilltop after three years at Arizona State. After lacking the 2023-24 season, Skinner bounced again and earned All-Big 12 honorable point out honors final season, averaging 16.8 factors per recreation and taking pictures 39.8% from the sector. During the 2022-23 season, Skinner earned All-Pac-12 honorable point out honors for her play, averaging over 19 factors per recreation.

Prior to her time at ASU, Skinner spent two seasons at Delaware. She earned CAA All-Rookie crew honors as a freshman and led the Blue Hens to the NCAA Tournament in 2022, as she tallied over 100 assists as a sophomore. The graduate scholar has scored over 1,700 factors in her profession, taking pictures 36.2% from the ground and 34.2% from past the arc.

A local of Frisco, Texas, senior Kyla Deck transferred to SMU after one season at North Texas. Last season, Deck averaged 10.4 factors per recreation and was third within the American with 63 steals with the Mean Green. She led UNT to the second spherical of the WNIT.

Prior to her cease at North Texas, Deck spent two seasons at Stephen F. Austin. As a sophomore, she averaged 12.2 factors per recreation, 2.6 steals per recreation and was named to the WAC All-Defensive Team.

SMU overhauled its roster, signing 15 new gamers forward of the 2025-26 season. Of the 15, eight gamers transferred in from a Power Four establishment. The Mustangs may also be one of many extra skilled groups within the nation, having added eight seniors/graduate college students to the roster this season.

Season tickets for the 2025-26 season can be found now and may be bought here. For any ticket questions, please contact 214-SMU-GAME or electronic mail tickets@smu.edu.