The Truman State women’s basketball team returns its top six scorers and about 85 percent of last season’s offense for the 2026-27 season, according to Truman State Athletics.
The Bulldogs finished 17-12 overall and 14-6 in Great Lakes Valley Conference play last season, ending with a 75-69 loss to Drury in the GLVC Tournament. Truman tied Lewis for fifth in the GLVC preseason coaches’ poll, each with 130 points. Maryville was picked first with six first-place votes and 186 points.
Redshirt senior guard Emajin McCallop, a First Team All-GLVC selection, led Truman in scoring at 15.6 points per game and added 5.2 rebounds. Sophomore guard Morgan Miller (10.1 points), senior guard Mariann Blass (9.8), sophomore forward Avery Rausch (9.3), senior guard Lexie White (8.3) and redshirt junior forward Mallory Ott (8.1) also return. Ott led the team with 160 rebounds, and Miller led it with 66 assists and 51 three-pointers.
In all, 10 players return. They accounted for 1,744 of Truman’s 2,042 points last season. The six newcomers are graduate guard Sara Hameed, sophomore forward Adriana Howard, redshirt freshman Sarah Helm and freshmen Riley Fazenbaker, Abby Keighron and Ava Putman.
Truman lost 72-61 at Creighton in an exhibition Oct. 19. The Bulldogs play an exhibition at Notre Dame on Monday, Oct. 26, then open the regular season Friday, Oct. 30, against Lake Superior State at the D2 CCA Midwest Tip-Off Challenge in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. They face Northern Michigan on Saturday, Oct. 31, and Grand Valley State on Sunday, Nov. 1.
GLVC play begins Saturday, Nov. 28, when Truman hosts Missouri S&T at Pershing Arena.
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