ISO Spotlight: What to Expect in the Southland

Now that conference play has arrived, we can finally start to get a sense of what women's basketball in the Southland conference will look like in 2023. Much of the non-conference games involving Southland teams either find them beating non-Division I opponents, or losing to major conference foes, so it can be hard to really make sense of the conference before conference play.

For example, Texas A&M Corpus is currently 2-0 in Southland play. But the Islanders went just 5-6 in non-conference, which featured four losses against power conference schools, and wins over non-DI teams Texas Lutheran and St. Thomas. But now that we're starting to get into some actual Southland contests, we should soon get a sense of where things are headed.