MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee women's basketball team wraps up its three-game road trip to begin the 2026-27 season, as the Panthers will travel to Edwardsville, Ill. to take on the SIUE Cougars at 1:00 p.m. (CT) on Sunday afternoon.

Sunday's contest will mark just the third all-time meeting between the Panthers and Cougars. The game will be streamed on ESPN+, with live stats also available through the links on MKEPanthers.com.
 
THE MATCHUP & GAME LINKS
Sunday, Nov. 8 | Milwaukee at SIUE | First Community Arena | Edwardsville, Ill. | 1:00 p.m. | ESPN+ / Live Stats
 
QUICK NOTES
» Milwaukee and SIUE will meet for the third time in their Division I history, with Milwaukee leading the all-time series, 2-0. The teams last met during the 2009-10 season.
» Milwaukee enters play on Sunday coming off a loss to Saint Louis on Thursday evening, falling to the Billikens by an 81-62 score.
» Madison Fitzgibbon led the Panthers with a career-high 22 points in the loss, while Izzy Pugh tied her career-best with 14 points. Tierney Madigan was also in double figures with 16 points.
» SIUE is 1-1 to begin the season with a win over NAIA Judson, while dropping a last-second heartbreaker to IU Indy on the road. Milwaukee is the second of three Horizon League opponents for SIUE this season.
» Meanwhile, SIUE is the lone member of the Ohio Valley Conference on the schedule for Milwaukee in 2026-27. The last time the Panthers played against an OVC foe came during the 2023-24 season, when Milwaukee played at East-ern Illinois, a 59-52 win.
» In the loss to IU Indy, the Cougars were led by Kiyoko Proctor with 21 points, while Jayla McClinton scored 16 points off the bench. Tyra Robinson scored 11 points in the effort as SIUE sank 47.4 percent from the field. SIUE was only able to convert 3-of-16 from beyond the arc, a meager 18.8 percent.
» This game will wrap-up the three-game season-opening road trip for the Panthers, who will return home to the Klotsche Center for its home opener on Thursday evening against North Dakota.
» The game against Milwaukee begins a three-game homestand for SIUE, who will host NAIA member Central Meth-odist, before welcoming Division III member Eureka to First Community Arena.

THREE THINGS ABOUT SIUE
1. SIUE Is off to a 1-1 start this season with a win over NAIA member Judson, before dropping a one-point heartbreaker at IU Indy on Thursday evening, 70-69. Milwaukee will be SIUE's second-straight Horizon League opponent, with one more on the docket at Northern Illinois on Nov. 17.
2. Through the early going of the season, SIUE entered Friday as the 26th ranked team in all of Division I in field goal percentage, knocking down 51.6 percent of its attempts in two games. The Cougars sank 55.4 percent against Judson in the opener and followed that up by connecting on 47.4 percent at IU Indy.
3. Senior Tyra Robinson has been off to a quick start in her first year with the Cougars averaging 17.5 points per game and converting 83.3 percent from the floor. The 6-3 forward has been a matchup nightmare thus far for opponents and is 12th in the nation in field goal percentage and in the top 100 in scoring. Meanwhile Kiyoko Proctor has scored 19 points per game through two contests, backing up her Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year honors from the 2025-26 season.

SERIES HISTORY / LAST MEETING
The Panthers and Cougars have met twice on the hardwood in Division I history, with Milwaukee owning a 2-0 record all-time against SIUE. The teams played a home-and-home series during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons, with Milwaukee winning at home, 88-65, in year one, and 85-60 in year two in Edwardsville.

ON THIS DATE
This will be the first time in Milwaukee's Division I history that the Panthers will be playing a game on November 8.

UP NEXT
Milwaukee plays its home opener on Thursday evening against North Dakota at 6:00 p.m. inside the Klotsche Center. The Panthers are 19-17 all-time in Division I openers, including a loss to Loyola Chicago in last year's opener, 59-55.

MILWAUKEE'S LEADING SCORERS
Through Milwaukee's first two contests, the team's leading scorer has come off the bench with Rita Gomes scoring 19 points in the opener at Northwestern, while Madison Fitzgibbon scored 22 points in the team's matchup at Saint Louis on Nov. 5.

CAREER NIGHT FOR MADISON
With 22 points and six rebounds in the team's game at Saint Louis on Nov. 5, Madison Fitzgibbon recorded career-best marks in both categories. Her nine field goals made, and 15 attempts were also career bests through her first 34 career games.

Her previous career-high in points was 19, rebounds was five, field goals made was also five, and field goal attempts was 10.

MORE HIGHS IN SAINT LOUIS
In addition to career-bests in points and rebounds by Madison Fitzgibbon, Tierney Madigan had a career-best four assists at Saint Louis. Izzy Pugh tied her career-high with 14 points and six field goal makes, while Olivia Olson made her first collegiate appearance and scored a basket for her first points. Cece McNair also tied her career best with two assists at Saint Louis.

ROAD TRIP TO OPEN
Milwaukee begins the 2026-27 season with three-straight road games, it marks the first time the Panthers' first three games came away from the Klotsche Center since the 2017-18 season, when the Panthers played in the preseason WNIT.

It marks the first time Milwaukee begins the season with three consecutive true road games since the 2006-07 season, when the Panthers began with South Florida, Miami (Fla.), and Drake to begin the year. This year is the fourth time

FIRST TIME, LONG TIME
This season, Milwaukee will not be playing a first time opponent, having at least one result against every team on its originally scheduled 2026-27 slate.

However, it has been a long time since Milwaukee has played several of its opponents having last played Northwestern (2021-22), Saint Louis (2020-21), SIUE (2009-10), North Dakota (2019-20), Indiana (2018-19), Toledo (2012-13), Michigan State (2012-13), and Eastern Kentucky (2012-13) at least five years ago.

MAGIC NUMBER
Since 2016–17, Milwaukee is 123–50 (.711) when shooting at least 40 percent from the field. When shooting 43 percent or better, the Panthers improve to 106–30 (.779). When shooting below 40 percent, Milwaukee is 27–112 (.194).

IN THE PAINT
Since the start of the 2023–24 season, Milwaukee is 26–26 when scoring more than 25 points in the paint and 6–41 when scoring fewer than 25.

KEEPING THE FOULS DOWN
Since the 2022–23 season, Milwaukee is 13–4 when committing 11 or fewer fouls. Conversely, the Panthers are 13–41 when committing 18 or more fouls.

CLOSE GAMES
Over the last two seasons, Milwaukee is 7-24 in games decided by nine points or fewer.

IN OVERTIME
With a 1-2 record in overtime in 2025-26, Milwaukee is now 22-29 all-time in overtime games played since joining Division I in 1990-91.