{"id":367017,"date":"2025-10-25T22:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/367017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:23:10","slug":"hardin-simmons-basketball-teams-earn-high-praise-ahead-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/367017\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardin-Simmons Basketball teams earn high praise ahead of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABILENE, Texas \u2014 The HSU Cowboys and Cowgirls are fixing their eyes on basketball season with less than two weeks until games tip off.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys were selected to win the American Southwest Conference (ASC), receiving seven first-place votes from their peers.<\/p>\n<p>HSU earned a top-20 ranking from <a href=\"https:\/\/d3hoops.com\/top25\/men\/2025-26\/preseason\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/d3hoops.com\/top25\/men\/2025-26\/preseason\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">D3Hoops<\/a> following their stellar 2024-2025 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys finished last season with a 20-10 record, including a perfect 8-0 in ASC play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/sports\/hardin-simmons-bartoszek-wins-asc-sportsmanship-award-in-standout-season#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/ktxs.com\/sports\/hardin-simmons-bartoszek-wins-asc-sportsmanship-award-in-standout-season#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED | Hardin-Simmons&#8217; Bartoszek wins ASC sportsmanship award in standout season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The undefeated conference mark is the first time any ASC team has finished without a loss in the nearly 30 years of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>HSU tips off their season <a href=\"https:\/\/hsuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/schedule\/2025-26\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/hsuathletics.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/schedule\/2025-26\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 7<\/a> as they host Texas Lutheran.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Cowgirls were picked to finish second in the ASC after a 19-win season last year.<\/p>\n<p>HSU received <a href=\"https:\/\/hsuathletics.com\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/womens-basketball-cowgirls-second-in-asc-preseason-poll.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/hsuathletics.com\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/womens-basketball-cowgirls-second-in-asc-preseason-poll.aspx\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two first-place votes<\/a> after a 4-4 record in conference play in 2024-2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowgirls were picked to finish behind Mary Hardin-Baylor in the ASC this season.<\/p>\n<p>HSU is set to host Texas Lutheran on <a href=\"https:\/\/hsuathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/hsuathletics.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/schedule\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 7<\/a>. Tip-off is scheduled for 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABILENE, Texas \u2014 The HSU Cowboys and Cowgirls are fixing their eyes on basketball season with less than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[57492,57490,7,8897,57489,57491,57488,57493],"class_list":{"0":"post-367017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-2024-2025-season","9":"tag-american-southwest-conference","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-cowgirls","13":"tag-d3hoops","14":"tag-hardin-simmons","15":"tag-texas-lutheran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115437148788200315","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}