DENTON, Texas (March 11, 2025) – Texas Woman's University is serving host of the 2026 NCAA Division II South Central Regional and they have finalized tournament information, as tickets went on sale Tuesday. No.6-seed Lubbock Christian University opens their play at Kitty Magee Arena Friday with a 12:00 p.m. scheduled tip against No.3-seed Colorado Mesa.
 
Tickets are being sold by date and can only be purchased online through THIS LINK (no cash will be accepted at the door). Prices for each day are $10 for general admission and $8 for youth/student/senior general admission. Please be aware that TWU does have a Clear Bag Policy.
 
Games played in Denton can be viewed on NCAA Championship Pass. Broadcasts are free and can be viewed online (browser) or on their apps (the NCAA Championship Pass app is available on multiple platforms like Roku). Direct links will be posted on the schedule page on www.lcuchaps.com.
 
LCU boasts a 27-5 all-time record in NCAA postseason play, all since becoming eligible in 2015-16, including a 18-3 mark in South Central Regional competition. As the Lady Chaps begin their 10th NCAA postseason appearance on Friday, it will also mark their 15th regional game played away from home. LCU previously competed in the first two rounds of the 2018-19 South Central Regional in Grand Junction, Colo., followed by regional appearances in Canyon, Texas (2020-21, 2021-22), San Angelo, Texas (2022-23), and Denton (2023-24, 2025-26). In those games, LCU holds an 11-3 record, highlighted by a 56-53 win at tournament host Colorado Mesa in 2019 and their regional title win over 2025 tournament host Texas Woman's (2-1 in true road games, 9-2 at neutral sites).
 
Lubbock Christian is shooting 47.7% all-time in NCAA South Central Regional games, while holding opponents to a 38.4% shooting mark from the field and a 26.7% shooting woe from long range. Former Lady Chaps Maddi Chitsey is LCU's all-time leading scorer in regional action (in average scoring), averaging 17.2 points per game (she played in six career NCAA regional contests) and compiling 103 points. Allie Schulte is LCU's career leader in overall points scored in regional play with 109 career points in 11 career games. Schulte is also LCU's all-time leader in NCAA postseason scoring with 205 career points (in 18 games, which is the highest amount of postseason games played by a Lady Chap).
 
Kennedy Chappell, a junior from Heath, Texas, is LCU's active leader in postseason scoring with 26 points and an average 6.5 points per game. A member of the 2025 All-Tournament Team, Chappell is 4-of-10 (.40) from three-point range in four career NCAA postseason games. Grace Foster is LCU's career leader in NCAA regional contests, with 158 games and an average of 15.8 points per game. Juliana Robertson is their all-time leader in rebounds in regional contests with 61 (6.8 average).

LCU opens against the automatic qualifier out of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) for a second consecutive season, as last season LCU opened with Colo. Colorado Springs (UCCS). Colorado Mesa received an automatic bid out of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. The Mavericks are 33-1 this season and they completed RMAC play with a 20-0 record to finish atop the RMAC standings. They topped Colorado School of Mines, Black Hills State and UCCS to win the RMAC Women's Basketball Championship. KPI lists CMU with a strength of schedule ranking of 256 despite wins over Texas A&M-Kingsville and UT Permian Basin (overtime). Their lone loss this season came on the road in Canyon, Texas to West Texas A&M, as the Mavs have won 30 straight and have not had a single-digit margin of victory in their last 19 games played (rank third nationally with a 24.6 point scoring margin).
 
The Lady Chaps and Mavs have only met three previous times, meeting in Gunnison, Colo. on Nov. 21, 2003 (neutral site contest), in Grand Junction, Colo. at the 2019 NCAA Division II South Central Regional (Mar. 16, 2023) and in Denton two seasons ago (Mar. 15, 2024) in the quarterfinals of the 2024 NCAA Division II South Central Regional. LCU was victorious in the first two meetings. In 2003, LCU won 74-73 and the contest was Coach Steve Gomez's third all-time win, as the 23^rd-year head coach was in his first season coaching the Lady Chaps. In 2019, LCU closed the game on a 7-0 run and won 56-53 at Brownson Arena during a split-site regional (the win allowed LCU to host the regional final against Angelo State). The lone loss came in their prior meeting, as CMU returned the favor from their 2019 loss by closing the game on a 7-0 run to top the Lady Chaps 68-61 and advance to the semifinals.