Kansas City, Missouri – The NAIA has officially announced the teams and bracket for the 2025 NAIA Women’s Basketball Championship First and Second Rounds, presented by Ballogy. The Flying Queens are a 7-seed and will face 10-seed Carroll (Mont.) on March 14 at 7:30 PM PT in Ashland, Oregon. 2-seed Southern Oregon is the host…
Read MoreFLYING QUEENS ELIMINATED FROM SAC TOURNAMENT WITH LOSS TO MACU
Langston, Okla. — It was a tough afternoon for the 20th ranked Flying Queens as they suffered a 67-97 defeat against 24th ranked Mid-America Christian in the Sooner Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Semi-Finals match-up. Wayland Baptist scored the first six points of this afternoon’s SAC Semi-Final contest – the run being capped off by a…
Read MoreQueens Finish 2nd in SAC Regular Season; Play MACU in SAC Tourney Semis – Feb. 2025 Update
Photo: Claudia Lusk The Flying Queens wrapped up the regular season in February going 5-1 in Sooner Athletic Conference play and finishing second to Langston University for the SAC regular season title. The two teams were in a dogfight for first place until February 17 in Point Lookout, MO., when College of the Ozarks scored…
Read More“… THE MAIN THING THIS TIME OF YEAR …JUST WIN” – QUEENS JAN. 2025 UPDATE (plus the Feb. 1 game vs Nelson University)
The Flying Queens opened 2025 in January with a grueling nine-game schedule in Sooner Athletic Conference play with five games on the road and five games at The Hutch. The team finished the month 8-1 with the lone loss coming against Langston, 60-69, at the mid-point of the January run. The Queens bounced back and…
Read MoreTHE LEGENDARIUM: THE LONGEST FLIGHT
Wayland Baptist is one of the true ‘forgotten pioneers’ of women’s basketball. How the owners of the longest win streak in American pro or college hoops history got their start. by Andrew Haubner/No Cap Space/January 23, 2025 Kaye Garms walked into the huddle and knew it was inevitable. For years, she and her Wayland Baptist…
Read MoreHARSTON NAMED TO SPRING 2025 PLAINVIEW ISD ATHLETIC HALL OF HONOR
By Danny Andrews Former Wayland Flying Queen All-American Kathy Harston will be inducted in the third class of the Plainview High School Athletic Hall of Honor on Friday, Jan. 17, between games of a PHS basketball doubleheader. Harston, WBU Class of 1980, posted records of 17-9 and 19-7 in her first two years as coach…
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