The Basics
After Fairmont State women's basketball paused team activities on Wednesday (Jan. 6), the game against the Falcons scheduled for Jan. 7 has been postponed. The Mountain East Conference is working with the institutions involved to reschedule the game for a later date. West Virginia Wesleyan women's basketball is now scheduled to tip off the 2020-21 season on Sunday (Jan. 10) at Frostburg State at 2 p.m. 

The West Virginia Wesleyan College Athletics Department in conjunction with the Mountain East Conference, University, local and state officials, has determined that home basketball games will begin the season with a no spectator policy. The no spectator policy will be followed at each of the 12 Mountain East Conference institutions. The conference's Board of Directors will evaluate the no spectator policy no earlier than January 19, 2021. If changes to the policy are approved later this month, the Athletics Department will provide an update at that time.
 
Quick Hits
• The Bobcats return four of their top five scorers from a year ago. Guard Brittany Stawovy heads into her senior season after averaging 11.0 points per game. The Belle Vernon, Pa. native  also recorded a team-best 72 assists and took away 32 steals.
• Sophomore center Cierra Tolbert (9.1 PPG, 7.5 RPG, 15 blocks), senior guard/forward Abi Gabauer (8.5 PPG, 2.7 RPG, 28 steals) and sophomore guard Courtney Wilfong (7.2 PPG, 3.0 RPG, 70 assists) are all back for WVWC.
• Top scorer from a season ago Nicole Gilyard (12.0 PPG) graduated. 
• Vicky Bullett enters her fifth season as the West Virginia Wesleyan head coach. The former All-American at Maryland and former WNBA No. 1 draft pick played six seasons in the WNBA. Bullett is a member of the Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame and Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. She helped Team USA to a gold medal in 1988. 
• Cierra Tolbert's father, Ray was the Big Ten Player of the Year at Indiana in 1981, was selected 18^th overall in the NBA draft and played five seasons in the NBA. 
• The Bobcats are 3-1 in conference openers under head coach Vicky Bullett. 
 
Scouting Frostburg State
Frostburg State finished its first season as a Mountain East Conference and NCAA Division II member at 6-22 overall and 5-17 against MEC competition. 
 
Senior forward Jada Holland returns after playing an abbreviated season and starting 11 games. In those 11 games, she averaged 8.6 points and 8.0 rebounds a game. 
 
Junior guard Morgan Dombroski handed out a total of 57 assists last season and averaged 8.3 points a night. 
 
Carrie Saunders enters her seventh season as the head coach of the FSU Bobcats and carries a 54-102 record. Before she took over the helm of the program, she served as the graduate assistant at Frostburg State following her playing career at Shepherd. 
 
Last Season vs. Frostburg State
WVWC edged Frostburg in the battle of the Bobcats last season on Nov. 23, 2019 in Maryland, 51-49. Gabauer made the game-winning layup with 1:26 left for two of her 16 points. Stawovy added 10 in a starting role. 
 
Frostburg State got Wesleyan back during the second matchup of the season on Jan. 22, 2020 by a final count of 73-57. Stawovy led the way for WVWC with 13 points while Tolbert scored 10 points and hauled in eight rebounds. 
 
Up Next
West Virginia Wesleyan women's basketball is scheduled to continue its MEC slate next week at Concord in Athens, W. Va. on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 5:30 p.m. before heading back to Buckhannon on Saturday, Jan. 16 to play host to Glenville State at 2 p.m.