George Mason (0-0, 0-0 A10) vs. Mount St. Mary's (0-0, 0-0 MAAC)
WHEN: Saturday, October 24, at 2 p.m ET
WHERE: EagleBank Arena; Fairfax, Va.
LIVE STATS: LINK

FAIRFAX, Va. - The George Mason women's basketball team will host the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers on Saturday, October 24 at 2 p.m. for an exhibition game. There will be no TV or radio broadcast. 

This is the 8th matchup between the Patriots and Mountaineers. George Mason leads 6-1 and has won the last five matchups.

SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS

Mount St. Mary's finished the 2025-26 season with a 15-15 overall record and an 11-9 mark in conference play, averaging 60.1 points and 37.8 rebounds per game. The Mount shot 37.4 percent from the field, 27.8 percent from three-point range and 66.1 percent from the free-throw line. Defensively, the Mount averaged 10.3 steals and 3.3 blocks per game. The Mount returns guards Nyodie Guerard, Alana Powell and Wesleigh Ferguson, along with forwards Lenora Nkangwen and Teodora Ivanovic, from last year's roster.

Alana Powell led the returning Mountaineers in scoring last season, averaging 8.4 points per game while shooting 40.2 percent from the field and 38.5 percent from three-point range. Powell also recorded 2.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists per game, totaling 39 steals in 30 appearances. Guerard averaged 2.8 points, 1.1 rebounds and 1.0 assists in 30 games, while Ferguson contributed 1.9 points and 3.6 rebounds in 26 appearances, including 17 starts. Ivanovic averaged 2.5 points and 1.8 rebounds in 17 games, while Nkangwen averaged 1.1 points and 1.5 rebounds across 14 appearances.

The Mount's 2026-27 roster features a mix of returning players, freshmen and transfers. The frontcourt includes 6-foot-4 senior Yacine Ndiaye, who joins the Mount after playing at Rutgers, along with 6-foot-3 redshirt sophomore Teodora Ivanovic, 6-foot-2 senior Neveah Ferrera Horne, 6-foot-2 redshirt sophomore Lenora Nkangwen and 6-foot-4 freshman Rachael Chilicki. The backcourt features returning guards Powell, Guerard and Ferguson, as well as junior transfers Thelma Barbitch, Valentina Saric and Eva Andrews. The incoming freshman class includes guards Karmen McDuffie, Jayla Koser, Severyn Ferrara Horne, Kiyla Fowler and Giselle Wyche, along with forward Chilicki.

• Sophomore Mary Amoateng was named to the Preseason A10 All-Conference Second Team and All-Defensive Team. Junior Anovia Sheals was named to the Preseason A10 All-Conference Third Team
• The Patriots were selected 4th in the A10 preseason poll
• Redshirt junior Trinity Massenburg, junior Summer Yancy, and sophomore Mary Amoateng were named team captains for the 2026-27 season
• Head coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis is the longest tenured Black female head coach in D1 (27 years)
• There are 9 new players on the 2026-27 roster: Madison Bob (Missouri City, Texas/Kilgore College), Roisin Grandberry (Arlington Heights, Ill./Loyola Chicago), Desirae Ashton (Fredericksburg, Va./Bucknell), Tia Dobson (Daytona Beach, Fla./UNCW), Anovia Sheals (Daytona Beach, Fla./Austin Peay), Lourdes Da Silva Costa (Stockholm, Sweden/Alabama), Summer Yancy (Kansas City, Mo./UCF), Mary-Kate Tshibuabua (Ternay, France/Rhode Island), and Irati Franco (Portugalete, Spain/AZ Compass Prep)
• The George Mason coaching staff added a familiar piece to the staff this summer: Debbie Taneyhill '92, who was the Patriots head coach from 1998-2008, joined the staff as an assistant coach over the summer.
• Head coach Vanessa Blair-Lewis is an alum of Mount St. Mary's and coached there for the first nine years of her career  

UP NEXT
The Patriots host their first regular season home game on Monday, November 2 vs. Temple at 7 p.m. A live stream will be available on ESPN+.