RSC Women's Basketball Heading to SUNY Geneseo for a Saturday E8 Tournament Quarterfinal
ALBANY, N.Y. – Russell Sage College Women’s Basketball visits SUNY Geneseo for Saturday’s Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament Quarterfinal.
2026 Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament Quarterfinals: Gators (Five Seed) at SUNY Geneseo (Four Seed)
Saturday, February 21, 2026 | 2:00 PM | Schrader Gymnasium, Geneseo, New York
#5 RSC Gators (15-10/10-6 E8): Roster| Stats
#4 SUNY Geneseo (17-8/11-5 E8): Roster| Stats
Ticket Prices (Cash Only at the Door):
Adults: $10.00
Students and Seniors with ID: $2.00
Children Under 12: Free
RSC Women's Basketball in the E8 Championship Tournament: With the home win vs. Keuka on February 7, the Gators clinched a playoff spot…RSC is making its sixth E8 Playoff appearance…The Gators have now qualified for the postseason in both seasons with Michael Branche as Head Coach.
Gator Bites with Papa John's: The 2025-2026 season marks the second with Branche at the helm of Russell Sage College Women's Basketball…The Gators have now qualified for the Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament in both of his seasons at the helm…RSC, coming off a trip to the Quarterfinals of the 2024-2025 Empire 8 Conference Championship Tournament, combined eight returners with four newcomers on this year's roster…Senior guard Layla Acosta (Haines City, FL/Haines City) and junior forward Kallie Hopkins (Millsboro, DE/Poly Tech) highlight the returnees…Acosta, a two-time All-Conference pick, became just the tenth RSC player to surpass 1,000 career points in the home win vs. SUNY Cobleskill on December 1…She entered the playoffs fourth in program records with 1,260 career points...Emily Parslow '19 is third with 1,370 career points…Hopkins finished last season ranked fifth in the E8 with a 7.6 rebounding average…Acosta was tabbed the E8 Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday, November 9…She topped all players with 24 points on 47.3 percent shooting in the season-opening home victory vs. Bard on November 8…Freshman guard Miranda Price (Stillwater, NY/Stillwater) was chosen the E8 Rookie of the Week for the period ending Sunday, November 16…She tallied a game-high 19 points in the home win vs. SUNY Morrisville on November 15…Price went 7-of-9 from the field, including 4-of-5 from beyond the arc, in her collegiate debut…Acosta was tabbed an E8 Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday, December 7…The guard tallied 26 points on 43.5 percent shooting in the home win vs. SUNY Cobleskill on December 1…Forward Isabella Clute (Schenectady, NY/Mohonasen) was selected the Conference Rookie of the Week for the period ending Sunday, January 18…The freshman averaged 8.0 points on 6-of-6 shooting and 4.0 rebounds to help the Gators have an undefeated week…Acosta took home E8 Player of the Week honors for the period ending Sunday, February 1…The guard, who averaged 22.3 points on 39.3 percent shooting across three games, scored 35 points at SUNY Brockport (1/30)...She passed Mary Leary '83 for fourth place on the program's career scoring list with the output, tied for the third-most in a game by an RSC player...On January 12, 2019, Emily Parslow '19, who is third on the program career scoring list, scored 35 points vs. Nazareth…Acosta went into the postseason ranked fourth in the E8 with a 16.1 points per-game scoring average…Hopkins begins the weekend fifth in the Conference in rebounding at 8.7
Up Next: Today's winner will face either top-seeded Nazareth or Alfred, the eight seed, in Wednesday's Semifinal round. Victories by the Gators and Alfred would have the site of the contest be the Kahl Campus Center.
