January 13, 2026
Women's Basketball Hosts Mercyhurst, SFU Beginning Thursday
Blue Devils are in midst of three game homestand
The Central Connecticut State women's basketball team hosts a pair of NEC foes this weekend as it wraps up a three-game homestand. The Blue Devils welcome Mercyhurst on Thursday and Saint Francis on Saturday in NEC play.
Thursday vs Mercyhurst: NEC Front Row | Live Stats
Saturday vs Saint Francis: NEC Front Row | Live Stats
OPENING NOTES
• The Blue Devils are 5th in NEC play, holding foes to 29.2 percent from behind the line.
• Saturday's game with Saint Francis will be the final regular season home game with the Red Flash, who will be leaving the NEC at the end of the season.
• The current three-game homestand is the longest of the 2025-26 campaign.
LOOSE BALLS ...
• Lucia Noin scored a career-high 24 points vs. Le Moyne on a career-best 11 FGM. She has scored 10+ points in six consecutive games. In NEC play she averages 14 ppg & 6.5 ppg in NEC play, both of which rank 7th. Noin is third in NEC play at 3.8 apg. She had her second double-double of the year, with 10 points and 10 rebounds in the NEC opener versus LIU.
• Kiyah Lewis leads the program with 12 points per game, which is 6th in the NEC, while her 13.5 points a game in NEC action is 10th in the league. In the past two games she is 12-15 from the field for 17.5 points per game, including her second 21+ point scoring effort of the season. Her nine rebounds against Le Moyne is a season high. Lewis was 6-6 a the charity stripe against the Dolphins and is good on 90.9 percent of her attempts in league play.
• Ilektra Lykaki made her first collegiate start at Stonehill and played 37:31. She had a career-high four steals in that outing. Against Le Moyne she scored a career-best four points.
• Cierra Pearson has a dozen steals in the last five games and has at least one steal in seven straight contests. On the year she averages 1.9 steals per game, fourth in the league, while her 2.3 steals per game in league play is third. Pearson is averaging 5.0 ppg and 4.3 rpg in NEC action. Pearson scored 10 versus Vermont and had a season-best seven rebounds in the NEC opener vs. LIU.
