Women’s Basketball Set to Face Massachusetts in MAC-SBC Challenge

NEW ORLEANS – James Madison ladies’s basketball is slated to tackle Massachusetts on Feb. 8, within the second and ultimate MAC-SBC Challenge recreation of the 2025-26 season, as introduced by the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and Sun Belt Conference (SBC) on Tuesday afternoon.

Game time is scheduled for 12 p.m. contained in the Mullins Center and can broadcast on the CBS Sports Network.

The Dukes personal a 2-0 lead over UMass within the all-time collection, relationship again to 2001. JMU is 12-4 (.750) towards Mid-American Conference opponents and has good marks versus Kent State (3-0), Eastern Michigan (2-0), Massachusetts (2-0) and Ohio (2-0). Additionally, the Dukes are 3-2 (.600) in MAC-SBC Challenge matchups, having received three straight, most not too long ago dominating Kent State, 80-48, on Nov. 3.

The Minutewomen are 10-2 with a 2-0 file in league play, coming in at 68th within the newest NET rating. The program is at the moment in its inaugural season within the MAC after competing within the Atlantic 10 Conference from 1983 to 2025.

The Sun Belt received eight of the 13 matchups within the first leg of the problem to kick off the 2025-26 season on Nov. 3, with UMass selecting up a 58-52 win over Old Dominion

 

About The MAC-SBC Challenge

The MAC-SBC Challenge started throughout the 2023-24 season on the suggestion of the Sun Belt’s strategic planning committees for males’s and girls’s basketball. Scheduling help is offered by Ordinal Sports Group. In addition to related NET knowledge, geography and frequency of previous contests are thought of in figuring out the matchups.

Each MAC and Sun Belt crew included within the MAC-SBC Challenge, at the moment scheduled to renew by the 2026-27 marketing campaign, is assured one house and one away recreation every season

 

MAC-SBC Challenge Women’s Basketball Matchups

Saturday, February 7

App State at Kent State

Arkansas State at Eastern Michigan

Coastal Carolina at Bowling Green

Georgia Southern at Miami (Ohio)

Louisiana at Akron

ULM at Buffalo

Marshall at Central Michigan

Old Dominion at Ohio

South Alabama at Western Michigan

Southern Miss at Toledo

Texas State at Northern Illinois

Troy at Ball State

 

Sunday, February 8

James Madison at Massachusetts (CBS Sports Network)