Women's Basketball Returns Home to the G.B. Hodge Center for First Time in 2025-26, Rekindling Series with Erskine Thursday

SPARTANBURG, S.C. – Returning home for the first time during the 2025-26 season, USC Upstate women's basketball is back inside the G.B. Hodge Center Thursday evening, hosting Erskine, a former NAIA District Six foe, for the first time in the Spartans' Division I era (2007-pres.). Thursday's meeting marks the first between the Spartans and Flying Fleet since Feb. 9, 1989—Upstate moved to the NCAA in 1990—and marks the 15^th all-time meeting between the clubs.

Thursday's Matchup
November 6, 2025 | 7:00 p.m. ET
USC Upstate (0-1; 0-0 Big South) vs. Erskine (0-0; 0-0 Conference Carolinas)
G.B. Hodge Center | Spartanburg, S.C.

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How They Stack Up
Records: USC Upstate (0-1; 0-0 Big South); Erskine (0-0; 0-0 CC)
Series: Erskine leads 9-5
Last Five Meetings: Feb. 9, 1989 (UPST 91; ERSK 56); Feb. 11, 1988 (UPST 77; ERSK 41); Feb. 2, 1987 (ERSK 2; UPST 0 [Forfeit]); Dec. 12, 1985 (UPST 88; ERSK 61); Feb. 7, 1985 (UPST 54; ERSK 52)

Players to Watch
USC Upstate: Returning after missing much of last season due to injury, redshirt junior guard Aubrie Kierscht was one of two Spartan leading scorers Monday at Clemson, dropping six points behind a pair of threes in 19 minutes of action. Shooting 50.0 percent from three against the Tigers, she upped her three-point field goal percentage in an Upstate uniform to 48.4 percent, nailing 14 of her 29 triple attempts as a Spartan. For her career, Kierscht shoots 38.0 percent from distance, making 87 total three-pointers.

Erskine: The leading returning scorer for the Flying Fleet, senior guard Albany Wilson averaged 13.1 points per game a season ago, the lone player to average in double-figures for Erskine. Twenty-one times she scored in double-figures, five times scoring 20 or more points, including a season-best 24 markers against North Greenville on Feb. 8. Wilson enters Thursday's contest scoring in double-figures in seven straight contests.

Up Next for the Spartans
Beginning a set of games against Power-Four opponents—three of the Spartans' first four opponents hail from the ACC or SEC—Upstate heads back to the road for a trip to Athens, Ga. The Spartans meet the Bulldogs of Georgia for a 6:30 p.m. ET tip-off Monday evening.

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