TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State looks to earn its second straight conference win Thursday night when it travels to Southern Illinois for a 7 p.m. tip in Carbondale.
 
Thursday's game will be aired on ESPN+, while John Sherman will have the radio call on WVIG-FM/105.5 The Legend.
 

Indiana State Women's Basketball at Southern Illinois
Date	Thursday, January 18 | 7 p.m. ET
Location // Venue	Carbondale, Ill. // Banterra Center (8,284)
Game Notes	Indiana State Notes // Southern Illinois Notes
Live Stats	Live Stats Link
Watch	ESPN+
Listen	WVIG-FM/105.5 The Legend
Tickets	Adult - $7 // Courtside - $17
Media Information	Indiana State Women's Basketball Media Center
Social Media	@IndStWBB // @IndStAthletics

 
Last Time Out
Da'Naria Washington scored a season-high 17 points Sunday afternoon and Kennedy Claybrooks finished one rebound and one assist shy of a triple-double, as Indiana State claimed a 77-71 win over Evansville inside Hulman Center.
 
Claybrooks finished with 13 points, nine rebounds and nine assists, while Clemisha Prackett logged her seventh double-double of the season with 13 points and 13 rebounds. Amerie Flowers and Jayci Allen added 10 points apiece, with the latter coming off the bench to score in double-figures.
 
Indiana State led wire-to-wire, with treys from Claybrooks, Kayla Smith and Washington sparking an 18-point opening quarter. The Sycamores closed the second quarter on a 15-4 run to push their lead to double-digits, largely behind 13 first-half points from Washington. A 6-0 Sycamore run to close the third kept the Trees in front with 10 minutes to play, with a pair of Jayci Allen treys pushing the lead to 67-52 midway through the fourth. Evansville used a 13-2 run in the back half of the fourth to pull within one possession, but it wasn't enough as the Sycamores held serve at home.
 
Homecoming
Thursday's game at Southern Illinois marks a return to Carbondale for one of Indiana State's staff members, as graduate assistant Tyranny Brown was a four-year letterwinner for the Salukis.
 
Brown, who graduated from Southern Illinois in 2025, was 8-3 against Indiana State in her career while with the Salukis (2021-25). She finished her career with 402 points, 145 rebounds and 100 assists, and was a part of SIU's 2021-22 team which won the MVC regular season title.
 
Balancing Act
Indiana State's recent two-game homestand saw the Sycamores score at a high level with the Blue and White putting up 77 points against both Belmont and Evansville. The Sycamores' scoring came from a multitude of players, as six different Trees averaged double-digit scoring across the two games, while seven Sycamores recorded at least one double-figure scoring outing between the games against the Bruins and Purple Aces.
 
Indiana State had five athletes score in double-figures in both games, a figure that typically bodes well for the Blue and White. The Sycamores are 4-1 this season and 5-1 under head coach Marc Mitchell when having five or more players in double-figures.
 
Doing It All
Indiana State guard Kennedy Claybrooks had a game to remember in the Sycamores' recent win over Evansville, finishing one rebound and one assist shy of a triple-double against the Purple Aces.
 
Claybrooks tallied 13 points, nine rebounds and nine assists against Evansville, with the nine rebounds matching a career high. The Memphis native shot 50 percent from the floor against the Purple Aces, marking her third straight game shooting 50 percent or better from the field. Claybrooks also knocked down her only 3-point attempt of the game and hit four free throws down the stretch to secure the win for the Blue and White.
 
Claybrooks is averaging 9.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game against conference foes this season while shooting nearly 46 percent from the field and 42 percent from 3-point range.
 
D's Big Day
Indiana State guard Da'Naria Washington put together her best game in a Sycamore uniform in Sunday's 77-71 win over Evansville. Washington tallied a season-high 17 points on a 5-for-8 shooting mark against the Purple Aces, including a 2-for-3 mark from 3-point range.
 
Washington also added six rebounds, four assists and two steals while playing a season-high 37 minutes. Sunday's game was her first game as a Sycamore with multiple 3-pointers, and she is shooting 50 percent from behind the arc in conference play.
 
The Indianapolis native has seen her numbers take an upward trajectory since the calendar flipped to conference play. Washington is averaging 8.6 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game against MVC competition while shooting better than 50 percent from both the field and 3-point range against Valley foes.
 
Doubling Up
Indiana State forward Clemisha Prackett has recorded double-doubles in three of her last four games, including each of the Sycamores' last two contests.
 
Prackett averaged 11.5 points and 13.0 rebounds per game in the Trees' last two home games against Belmont and Evansville. She had a 10-point, 13-rebound double-double against the Bruins and followed with a 13-point, 13-rebound double-double against the Purple Aces. In addition, Prackett also had an 18-point, 13-rebound game at UIC in early January.
 
Since the start of the new year, Prackett is averaging 13.0 points and 10.8 rebounds per game while shooting 51 percent from the floor. She is one of three players in the MVC currently averaging a double-double against conference opponents this season, alongside Murray State's Sharnecce Currie-Jelks and Northern Iowa's Ryley Goebel.
 
On This Date
Indiana State owns a 5-6 record in games played on January 22, including a 2-3 mark in road games played on this date.
 
The Sycamores are 1-1 against Southern Illinois on this date with a loss in the 1985-86 season in Carbondale (68-46) and a win during the 2008-09 season in Terre Haute (63-37).
 
1986 – at Southern Illinois (L, 46-68)
2000 – Missouri State (L, 54-63)
2003 – at Evansville (W, 87-70)
2006 – Missouri State (W, 58-34)
2009 – Southern Illinois (W, 63-37)
2011 – Creighton (L, 53-62)
2012 – Drake (L, 59-67)
2016 – Loyola Chicago (W, 62-48)
2017 – at Drake (L, 62-76)
2021 – at Northern Iowa (L, 69-95)
2023 – at Bradley (W, 71-60)
 
Southern Illinois At A Glance
Southern Illinois enters Thursday's game at 5-12 overall and 2-6 in conference play. The Salukis have won two of their last three, including a 63-58 win over UIC in their last game. Thursday's game closes a five-game homestand for SIU.
 
Alanya Kraus leads a quartet of Salukis averaging double-figures at 14.0 points per game, with Indya Green (11.5), Kayla Cooper (10.8) and Jeniah Thompson (10.2) all in double-digits. Green adds a team-leading 8.1 rebounds per game, while Tkiyah Nelson has dished out 4.0 assists per game this season.
 
Kelly Bond-White is in her fourth season as head coach at Southern Illinois and owns a 32-77 record at the helm of the Salukis. Bown-White. Bond-White was a longtime assistant at Texas A&M and was on the Aggies' 2011 National Championship staff.
 
Series History Against Southern Illinois
Indiana State is 48-60 all-time against Southern Illinois, including a 19-25 record in Carbondale. The Sycamores have won their last two games in Carbondale and split the season series last year.
 
Indiana State is 3-2 in its last five games against Southern Illinois, which includes a 2024 MVC Tournament first round win.
 
Last Meeting Against Southern Illinois (Feb. 9, 2025)
Deja Jones recorded the first triple-double by an Indiana State player in 30 years as the Sycamores routed Southern Illinois 87-63 inside Banterra Center.
 
Jones finished with 11 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists to become the first Sycamore since Amy Walker in 1995 with a triple-double. Bella Finnegan led the Sycamores with a career-high 30 points, including a program single-game record eight 3-pointers, and Keslyn Secrist added a career-best 22 as all five Indiana State starters scored in double-figures.
 
Indiana State found its stroke from behind the arc early with five first-half 3-pointers between Finnegan and Secrist helping the Sycamores take a 44-37 lead at the half. The Sycamores' attack came alive in the third quarter, going on a 21-4 run to close the quarter and essentially put the game out of reach. Jones completed her triple-double midway through the fourth, while Finnegan hit the 30-point mark inside the final minute of the Sycamores' blowout win.
 
Up Next
Indiana State returns home to face Illinois State Sunday afternoon, with tipoff inside Hulman Center set for 2 p.m.
 
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