Women's Basketball Releases 2025-26 Season Schedule
The Centenary women’s basketball program has announced its 2025-26 season schedule as the Ladies are set to play 25 regular-season games and one exhibition contest under the leadership of first-year head coach Rennie Bailey.
Shreveport – The Centenary women's basketball program has announced its 2025-26 season schedule as the Ladies are set to play 25 regular-season games and one exhibition contest under the leadership of first-year head coach Rennie Bailey.
The Ladies will begin their regular season on Friday, Nov. 7 at 6 PM against East Texas Baptist University in the Gold Dome. Centenary will prep for the regular season with an exhibition against Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond on Monday at 11 AM.
Live stats and live video are available for the game at the links below:
STATS: https://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=619961
The Ladies will face Jarvis Christian University at home on Monday, Nov. 10 at 6 PM and then hit the road for a pair of non-conference contests against Mississippi University for Women (MUW) on Nov. 13 (6 PM) and Millsaps College on Nov. 14 at 6 PM.
The Ladies are scheduled to play 11 home games, 14 road games, and 16 conference contests – nine on the road and seven at home. The Maroon and White will open Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play at LeTourneau University on Tuesday, dec. 2 at 7:30 PM in Longview, Texas. Centenary's first league game at home is set for Friday, Jan. 2 against LeTourneau at 7:30 PM.
Centenary's final home game will be on Saturday, Feb. 14 against the University of the Ozarks at 6 PM and the Ladies will finish the regular season on the road at Colorado College (Feb. 20 – 7:30 PM) and the University of St. Thomas (Feb. 22 – 2 PM).
"I am looking forward to the start of the season," said Bailey. "The Ladies have been very receptive and positive to the coaching change. We have not played a game yet, but their buy in into the system has been positive up to now - and that is helping to build a culture and attitude. We will hang our hat on the defensive end of the floor this season."
Bailey, a native of Minden, La., comes to Centenary from Southern University in Baton Rouge, where he served as an assistant on the men's staff for the last two seasons and helped the Jaguars win the 2025 SWAC Regular Season Championship. The former Louisiana Tech standout has over 30 years of experience at the college and high school level. He replaces former head coach Paul Reed, who guided the Ladies the last three seasons.
Bailey starred at Louisiana Tech from 1979-84 alongside his teammate and NBA Hall of Famer Karl Malone, and was drafted in the sixth round of the 1984 draft by the Detroit Pistons. In Bailey's senior season (1983-84), he and Malone helped the Bulldogs to a Southland Conference Tournament championship, and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. Bailey received his bachelor's degree in health and physical education from Tech in 1987.
Bailey's coaching career came in 1988 at Nicholls State University where he was a member of Gordon Stauffer's staff until 1990 as Bailey helped with the signing and development of Colonel standout, and eventual NBA player Gerard King.
In 1990, he returned to Ruston for the first of his two stints as an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech. From 1990-1993, Bailey helped lead the Bulldogs to a pair of conference championships, an NCAA Tournament appearance in 1992, and an NIT appearance in 1991. In his first stop in Ruston, Bailey played a major role in the recruitment and development of Bulldog standout and eventual 15-year NBA veteran P.J. Brown.
From 1993 through 2000, Bailey served as head coach at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. In what was regarded as one of the toughest junior college leagues at the time, Bailey rebuilt Panola, led the program to Texas Eastern Conference Tournaments in each of his final three seasons and sent seven players from Panola to four-year institutions.
From 2000-2004, Bailey was an assistant at Stephen F. Austin, where he helped rebuild the Lumberjacks into one of the more dominant programs in the Southland Conference.
The Lumberjacks went from a combined 22-32 record during his first two seasons to a combined 42-17 record in their third and fourth years. SFA finished second in the Southland Conference and participated in the conference tournament finals finishing second in 2002-03 as the Lumberjacks claimed a fourth-place finish in 2003-04 and advanced to the conference tournament finals, earning a runner up finish.
After helping rebuild the Lumberjacks, Bailey returned to Louisiana as a member of the UL-Lafayette coaching staff from 2004-2007. In 2004-05, Bailey helped the Ragin' Cajuns to a Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship, and a berth in the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Bailey returned to La Tech for his second full-time stint from 2007-08 before serving as a volunteer coach at Cedar Creek High School in Ruston.
The Ladies' non-conference games in addition to the ETBU season opener, MUW, and Millsaps are: Arlington Baptist University (Nov. 18), Wiley University (Nov. 25), a road rematch with ETBU in Marshall, Texas on Dec. 9 and a pair of games with Howard Payne University – on Dec. 12 in Brownwood, Texas and Jan. 20 at home.
Centenary was picked to finish 12th in the conference this season in the SCAC preseason poll. The top six teams in the conference will qualify for the SCAC Women's Basketball Tournament, which will be held February 27 through March 1 and hosted by Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. The winner of that event will earn the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Season tickets and singe game tickets are now on sale and available for purchase online.
Single game and season tickets are on sale now at the following link: https://fan.hudl.com/usa/la/shreveport/organization/69826/centenary-college-of/teams
Single Game ticket prices are $10 for adults and $5 for all children 12 and younger.
See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2025-26/schedule
For more information or to donate to Centenary athletics and the men's and women's basketball programs, visit gocentenary.com/gocentenary/C_Club.
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