JMU Kicks Off Road Trip at ULM

Thursday, January 22

Monroe, La.

7 p.m. ET (6 p.m. CT)

James Madison University

ULM

1/20/2026 4:40:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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MONROE, La. – James Madison women's basketball will start its two-game road swing when they take on ULM Thursday night in Monroe, La. Action inside Fant-Ewing Coliseum is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET (6:30 p.m. CT) and will stream on ESPN+.

LAST TIME VS. THE WARHAWKS

James Madison women's basketball concluded the regular season with an 18-0 mark in conference play for the first time in program history after pouring in 46 points in the paint in a 79-51 victory over ULM on Senior Day inside the Atlantic Union Bank Center in Sun Belt Conference action on Feb. 28, 2025.
Kseniia Kozlova registered 19 points and 13 rebounds to notch her seventh double-double of the season. Ro Scott paced all players in scoring with 21 points, going 8-for-11 (.727) from the field and 3-for-5 (.600) from three with five rebounds and a pair of steals. Ashanti Barnes recorded a double-double of 11 points and 11 boards and led all players with five assists, while Peyton McDaniel added 12 points off the bench.

THE DUKES VS. THE SUN BELT

JMU holds a 104-72 (.591) record against current Sun Belt Conference foes and is 55-15 (.786) since joining the league in 2022.
Moreover, the Dukes are 49-13 (.790) in regular-season league matchups and had won 21 consecutive regular-season tilts prior to their 83-74 overtime loss to Marshall on Dec. 20, 2025.
James Madison has not lost a home game against a Sun Belt foe since dropping a 73-62 result to Georgia State on Feb. 15, 2024.
JMU has encountered Old Dominion more than any other SBC opponent with 85 meetings, with the Dukes trailing 53-32 in the all-time series. Additionally, ODU is the only team in the league with a winning record against JMU.
The Dukes have never lost to Louisiana (5-0), Southern Miss (4-0), Texas State (4-0), South Alabama (3-0), or ULM (2-0).

PEYTON'S CAREER STATS

Playing her fifth season of collegiate basketball, Peyton McDaniel has placed herself in the top 15 of career rankings in eight categories: three-pointers (2nd - 305), three-point attempts (2nd - 874), three-point attempts per game (3rd - 6.33), points (3rd - 2,008), field goals made (4th - 717), field goal attempts (4th - 1,662), games played (T-6th - 138), and rebounds (14th - 901).

MILESTONE TRACKER

With 2,030 career points, Peyton McDaniel is 92 points away from passing Tamera Young (2004-08) for third in all-time scoring at JMU, tallying 2,121 in her career.
If McDaniel maintains her career scoring average of 14.6 ppg, she'll reach 2,122 points in seven games.
For Ashanti Barnes, with 959 points across her time at Old Dominion (2021-22) and JMU (2023-Present), she is 41 shy of reaching 1,000 in her Division I Career.
If Barnes averages 11.0 ppg, she can reach 1,000 career points in four games.
Additionally, with 910 points at JMU, Barnes would need 90 more to become the 35th member of the program's 1,000-point club.

NCAA RANKING SUMMARY

Through Jan. 19 games, JMU owns six top-75 marks nationally: rebounds per game (24th - 42.80), defensive rebounds per game (T-28th - 29.1), rebound margin (32nd - +8.1), blocks per game (T-72nd - 4.0), scoring offense (73rd - 73.3) and offensive rebounds per game (74th - 13.8).
Individually, Ashanti Barnes is 17th in rebounds (188), Brianna McLeod is tied for 23rd in blocks (36), and Peyton McDaniel is 24th in points (362).

BY THE NUMBERS

4: Peyton McDaniel is one of four players in program history to reach 2,000 career points, totaling 2,030 after Saturday's win, to join Dawn Evans (2,667), Precious Hall (2,347), and Tamera Young (2,121).
36: Brianna McLeod leads the nation in blocks (36) among players with no starts. Additionally, her 36 rejections are the most by a Duke since Kayla Cooper Williams posted 74 in 2019-20.
42: Bree Robinson posted a box score +/- of +42 against Marshall (Jan. 15), the highest mark by a Duke since Kamiah Smalls was +47 in an 81-39 win over Towson on Feb. 9, 2020. The future WNBA draft pick posted a double-double of 24 points and 10 rebounds with five assists, shooting 10-of-20 (.500) from the field.