WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Midwestern State women's basketball is gearing up for its home opener on Tuesday night. Texas Wesleyan visits D.L. Ligon Coliseum, and tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.

The Mustangs played in the D2CCA Tip-Off Classic in Ellensburg, Washington, last week and faced three teams from the GNAC that were all NCAA Tournament qualifiers last season. No. 21-ranked Western Washington defeated MSU, 59-48, in the season opener. The hosts from Central Washington prevailed on the second day of the event, 70-52. Montana State Billings fended off the Stangs for a 66-60 victory in the finale. 

Midwestern State shot 31.4 percent from the field in the three games and hit 8-of-51 (.157) three-point attempts over the three days. The Mustangs were outrebounded over the three-game event, 39.3 – 29.7. 

MSU had 30 steals and averaged 21 points off 15.3 turnovers per game during its visit to the Pacific Northwest. Midwestern State averaged 21.7 turnovers through the first three games, and opponents scored an average of 17.7 points off those turnovers.   

Calyssa Sevier had 10 steals in three games and is scoring 7.0 points per game as she starts her third season with the Mustangs.

Payten Conde is the leading scorer for Midwestern State with 9.0 points per game. Conde also leads the team with 12 assists after three games.

Caelyn Williams is shooting 54.5 percent from the field and scoring 7.0 points per game. Williams is the leading rebounder with 4.3 boards per game, while Conde and Braelyn Peck are pulling 4.0 rebounds per game. Peck is scoring 8.7 points per game.

Mallory Jackson was 2-for-3 from three-point range and is averaging 5.3 points per game. Peyton Stellato hit 2-of-5 shots from long distance and is averaging 4.3 points per game.

Elina Syniakova scored 11 points and was 4-for-8 from the field with four rebounds, an assist and a steal in the loss to Montana State Billings.

Texas Wesleyan hosted the Texas Wesleyan Classic last week and chalked up two wins to start the season. The Rams beat Oklahoma Wesleyan, 58-55, and routed Keiser at Sid Richardson Center, 62-32.

Kameryn Phillips, a 5-8 junior forward from Houston, is the leading goal scorer for the Rams with 17 points per game, and she leads the team with six rebounds per game. Phillips is shooting 52 percent from the field (13-of-25).

Texas Wesleyan is shooting 34.2 percent from the field (38-of-111), and hitting 25 percent of its 3-point shots (11-of-44).

Senior guard Kyla Speights, a former Mustang, is averaging 8.0 points per game and is grabbing four rebounds per game for the Rams.  Senior guard Aniyah Sanford leads the team with six assists, dishing five helpers in the win over Keiser.

Midwestern State leads the all-time series with the Rams, 33-19, and won 22 of the 27 meetings in Wichita Falls, including a 79-72 triumph in their last encounter five years ago.

Midwestern State begins a two-game road trip on Nov. 18 when it visits East Central in Ada, Oklahoma, tipoff is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.