Cornfield, Perdue and Sugapong to Symbolize the Wildcats at Big 12 Media Day

TUCSON, Ariz. — Noelani Cornfield, Mickayla Perdue and Sumayah Sugapong will signify Arizona ladies’s basketball on the 2025 Big 12 Basketball Media Days introduced by New Era, set for Oct. 21 on the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.

This 12 months’s occasion will characteristic a number of notable enhancements, in accordance with the league workplace:

• New Era Sponsorship: In addition to serving because the presenting sponsor, New Era will present official co-branded media presents for all attendees.

• Sports Illustrated Swim Beauty Bar: A brand new addition to ladies’s day, providing student-athletes and coaches skilled hair and make-up touch-ups all through the occasion.

• Full Media Partner Presence: All 5 of the league’s tv companions — ESPN, FOX, CBS, TNT and NBC — will probably be on website to seize the distinctive look and power of Big 12 basketball.

• Expanded Digital & Influencer Coverage: Bleacher Report, Lethal Shooter, PassThaBall and Olivia Petnicki will present behind-the-scenes content material from Kansas City, together with a brand new taking pictures expertise problem that includes Big 12 student-athletes.

• Big 12 Arrival Walk: A black-carpet entrance highlighting gamers’ and coaches’ private type and model as they arrive at T-Mobile Center.

• Kid Commissioner Debut: In partnership with Children’s Mercy, the league will introduce its first-ever Kid Commissioner, who will assist welcome Commissioner Brett Yormark throughout his handle.

Coverage from the principle set will air on ESPNU and ESPN+ from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. MST every day. Hosts for girls’s day embody Matt Schick, Brooke Weisbrod, Anne O’Neil and Rachel Galligan. Schick can even lead males’s day protection alongside Fran Fraschilla, Sean Farnham and Chancellor Johnson. TuneIn Radio will report interviews with coaches and student-athletes that may air forward of the season, that includes Ari Temkin, James Westling and Austyn Iven on ladies’s day.

Cornfield, Perdue and Sugapong are all newcomers to each Arizona and the Big 12 Conference, bringing adorned résumés and veteran expertise into their first season in Tucson.

Cornfield, a switch from Buffalo, helped the Bulls to a program-record 30 wins and a WNIT Championship final season. She earned WNIT All-Tournament Team and MAC All-Defensive Team honors, averaging almost 11 factors and 6 assists per recreation. She ranked No. 1 within the MAC and prime 20 nationally in steals per recreation (2.6), whereas additionally inserting seventh nationally in assists (5.9).

Perdue joins the Wildcats after a standout season at Cleveland State, the place she averaged 20 factors and three assists per recreation and was named Horizon League Player of the Year. Recognized by On3 because the prime Big 12 switch, she enters the season as one of many league’s most dynamic scoring guards.

Sugapong involves Tucson after main UC San Diego to a Big West Championship and this system’s first-ever NCAA Tournament look final season. The San Diego native averaged 15 factors and three.7 assists per recreation, incomes Big West Championship Most Outstanding Player honors. She led the convention in assists (132), assists per recreation (3.7), area targets (195), area purpose makes an attempt (558), factors (534), steals and steals per recreation (2.47).

With a virtually new roster beneath first-year head coach Becky Burke, Arizona was picked 14th within the Big 12 Preseason Coaches Poll.