JMU Clashes With Coastal Carolina on Senior Day

Friday, February 27

Harrisonburg, Va.

5 p.m.

James Madison University

Coastal Carolina

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2/26/2026 5:15:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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HARRISONBURG, Va. – James Madison women's basketball will celebrate the careers of Ashanti Barnes, Peyton McDaniel, and Regina Walton as the Dukes take on Coastal Carolina for the regular-season finale on Friday afternoon.

LAST TIME VS. THE CHANTICLEERS

JMU held Coastal Carolina without a made field goal for the final 3:41 to hold on for a 71-68 victory to open Sun Belt Conference women's basketball at the HTC Center earlier this season on Dec. 17.
Tied 68-68 with 0:23 on the clock, Ashanti Barnes found a wide-open Zakiya Stephenson on the wing who knocked down the triple, ultimately giving JMU its 10th consecutive conference-opening win.
Stephenson scored a career-high 16 points, knocking down 3-of-7 (.429) from three and a perfect 5-of-5 from the line. The junior also recorded a game-high four steals and dished out three assists.
Barnes finished with 14 points – scoring seven in the final frame – and led all players with nine rebounds.

SAME FIVE? SAME FIVE.

The Dukes have rolled out the same starting five of Zakiya Stephenson, Bree Robinson, Peyton McDaniel, Ashanti Barnes, and Grace McDonough for all 30 games this season, the longest streak with the same starting five ever under Head Coach Sean O'Regan.
Coming into the 2025-26 campaign, Coach O's longest string of games with the same starters to begin a season was nine in 2021-22 with Jamia Hazell, Madison Green, Jaylin Carodine, Kiki Jefferson, and Annalicia Goodman.
According to Assistant Athletic Director for Athletics Communications John Vogel (Youngstown State), there are 11 Division I programs that have used the same starting five all season: Boise State, Eastern Washington, James Madison, Montana State, North Dakota State, Northwestern State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Rice, UC Davis, and Youngstown State.

THE DUKES VS. THE SUN BELT

James Madison holds a 112-73 (.605) record against current Sun Belt Conference foes and is 63-16 (.797) since joining the league in 2022.
Moreover, the Dukes are 57-14 (.803) 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 won 18 straight home games against Sun Belt foes 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 87 meetings, with the Dukes trailing 34-53 in the all-time series despite winning 13 consecutive matchups. Additionally, ODU is the only team in the league with a winning record against JMU.
The Dukes have never lost to Louisiana (6-0), Southern Miss (5-0), Texas State (4-0), South Alabama (4-0), or ULM (3-0).

NCAA RANKING SUMMARY

JMU owns seven top-75 marks nationally: rebounds per game (18th - 42.07, rebound margin (18th - +8.4), defensive rebounds per game (26th - 28.5), scoring offense (50th - 74.7), field goal percentage (50th - 44.7), scoring margin (52nd - +12.7), and defensive rebounds per game (64th - 13.6).
Individually, Peyton McDaniel is 21st in points (558), Ashanti Barnes is tied for 24th in rebounds (271), Bree Robinson is 31st in steals (76), and Brianna McLeod is tied for 50th in blocks (43).

BY THE NUMBERS

9: Peyton McDaniel (2,226) is one of nine active Division I players with 2,000-plus points, alongside Ta'Niya Latson (South Carolina - 2,451), Hannah Hidalgo (2,224), Audi Crooks (Iowa State - 2,157), Ny'Ceara Pryor (Texas A&M - 2,156), Destiny Leo (UNLV - 2,085), Cotie McMahon (Ole Miss - 2,065), Maggie Doogan (Richmond - 2,056), and Olivia Miles (TCU - 2,034).
43: Brianna McLeod is fifth in the nation in blocks (43) among players with no starts, trailing Kyla Abraham (Baylor - 47), Kennedy Basham (TCU - 49),Paulina Hernandez (Youngstown State - 54), and Aziyah Farrier (Stephen F. Austin - 55). Additionally, her 43 rejections are the most by a Duke since Kayla Cooper Williams posted 74 in 2019-20.
76: Bree Robinson has tallied 76 steals, good to tie for the fourth most in a single season in program history. The guard is seven steals away from passing Jess Cichowicz for the most single-season steals, finishing with 82 in the 2002-03 season. That season, she set the program single-game record for steals with nine against Charlotte on Dec. 21, 2002.
100: Zakiya Stephenson (130) and Bre Robinson (100) are the first JMU teammates to record at least 100 assists in the same season since Nikki Newman (142) and Angela Mickens (139) accomplished the feat during the 2013-14 season.

PEYTON'S CAREER STATS

Playing her fifth season of collegiate basketball, Peyton McDaniel has placed herself in the top 20 of career rankings in eight categories: three-point attempts (1st - 945), three-pointers (2nd - 333), field goal attempts (2nd - 1,825), points (2nd - 2,207), three-point attempts per game (4th - 6.34), field goals made (3rd - 797), games played (7th - 149), and rebounds (15th - 985).

MILESTONE TRACKER

With 2,207 career points, Peyton McDaniel is 141 points away from passing Precious Hall (2012-2017) for second in all-time scoring at JMU, tallying 2,347 in her career.
For McDaniel, if she maintains her season scoring average of 18.6, she can move into second in eight games.
Additionally, McDaniel is 21 rebounds away from totaling 1,000 in her career. If she achieves the feat, she will become the second Duke to score 2,000 points and come away with 1,000 rebounds in their career, joining Tamera Young (2004-08), with totals of 2,121 points and 1,127 rebounds.
With 15 points against App State on Feb. 11, Ashanti Barnes became the 35th member of the program's 1,000-point club.
Zakiya Stephenson needs 11 more assists to reach 300 in her collegiate career between her stops at Ole Miss (50 - 2023-24) and JMU (239 - 2024-Present).

HOME SWEET HOME

JMU is 68-23 (.747) since the Atlantic Union Bank Center opened at the start of 2020-21.
Moreover, Head Coach Sean O'Regan is 128-33 (.795) when playing in Harrisonburg.
With a home record of 13-3 in 2025-26, the Dukes have won at least a dozen games inside the Atlantic Union Bank Center for the third year in a row.

SEASON TICKETS

Tickets for the 2025-26 JMU Women's Basketball season are still available - both season tickets and single-game tickets can be found here.

PARKING

Ballard Parking Deck will not clear between games – guests may park and stay or leave and return
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Reserved parking is located at the North Entrance of the Ballard Parking Deck
NOTE: We encourage fans who utilize general parking on basketball game days to use the surface lots, located beside the Ballard Parking Deck (D3, C12, R4, C10, D2). All surface lots are available for general parking patrons.