Women's Basketball Set to Host Vanderbilt Thursday Night

By: Cory Richardson, Athletics Communications


TAMU Game Notes

Vandy Game Notes

BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION The Texas A&M women's basketball team is set to host Vanderbilt inside Reed Arena at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

The Aggies (17-6, 5-5 SEC) are coming off a pair of road victories at Ole Miss and Kentucky and head into their first tilt of a three-game homestead. The Maroon & White look to bolster their impressive 11-2 record at home this season where they are beating teams by an average of 21.4 points per game in Aggieland. A&M is ranked No. 7 in the nation in rebound margin (11.2) and No. 8 in the nation in rebounds per game (44.9).

Janiah Barker is on a hot streak, averaging 18.0 points and 7.0 rebounds over the last two games. Barker's recent stellar performance was a major factor in Texas A&M securing its first back-to-back SEC road wins since the 2020-21 season.

Vanderbilt (18-7, 5-6 SEC) ended a five-game losing streak with a win against Georgia on Monday. The Commodores are 5-3 on the road this season.


Promotions
BLACK HISTORY GAME: Thursday's game will mark the Aggies' black history game where they will wear jerseys to honor black excellence. To learn more about the Adidas black excellence jerseys


ADIDAS T-SHIRT GIVEAWAY: Maroon Adidas basketball t-shirts will be available for the first 400 fans in the Fan Zone.

JUNIOR AGGIE CLUB GAME: Junior Aggie Club members can claim a free ticket to the game and purchase additional tickets at a discounted price.

AGGIE BASKETBALL FAN ZONE: Located at the North entry of Reed Arena, the Fan Zone includes games, giveaways, and activities for all fans opening one hour prior to tip-off.

How to Keep up
The game will be televised on SEC Network and the radio call will be broadcast on 1150 AM/93.7 FM locally and worldwide on the 12th Man Mobile App.

Tickets
Tickets for the 2023-24 Texas A&M women's basketball season can be purchased

Parking
Parking for women's basketball games is free to the public with lot 102 designated for ADA use.

Follow the Aggies
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Rogers is not dressed to play in tonight's game.

Gap said:

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Rogers is not dressed to play in tonight's game.

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Well, crap! Hopefully the Kay Kay can run the team tonight.

No Rogers or Sole going to have to depend on Kay Kay and Tineya.

Brutal start for us. 9-2 Vandy.

11-9 Vandy after 1

No offense tonight

21-10 Vandy 6:02 left in the 2nd Q

Thank goodness Baseball is on the horizon, though I'm sure nothing changes.

21-10 Vandy. 6:02 to go in 2Q

14 minutes so far of bad offensive possession, one after another. We are on pace to not break 30 tonight.

Nice run here. 7 in a row.

Is Rogers injured?

czar_iv said:

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Is Rogers injured?

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Sorry I missed the previous posts

Expert Analysis said:

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This game is tough to watch

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I'm not sure this is a tourney team without Rogers; Coach Taylor needs to really recruit some guards

Halftime

Vandy leads 26-20

We could have held for the last shot but Hylton shot with 10 seconds left. Vandy got an open 3 but missed it.

We have runs.. get to within 2 or 3… then they hit a 3 or we foul…

We are shooting 26% from the field, 14% from 3, 50% from the FT line.

Scoring
Coulibaly 9
Barker 7
Saidu 2
Bowles 1
Jones 1
Ware 0
Hylton 0
Green 0

I know Bowles hasnt been shooting well but it seems to me that her teamates aren't even looking her way when she's wide spanking open, as we use to say they are freezing her out. If they aren't going to pass her the ball she shouldn't be in the game at all because it becomes 5 on 4 at that point. Endiya is a great point guard but she is a shoot first point, which I guess is what this team needs in dry spells like this.

Ags take a 31-30 led with 4:38 to go in 3Q

Coulibaly down in a lot of pain. Headed straight to the locker room.

34-33 A&M with 1:34 to go in 3Q

Barker with 3 fouls but we can't afford to take her out.

They seem to think its just a cramp. I hope so.

WBBALLFAN84 said:

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They seem to think its just a cramp. I hope so.

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That would be great news. I thought it was a knee.

Vandy offense has been awful for about 20 minutes. We keep bailing them out giving up run out opportunities after a rebound that leads to an easy bucket on the break.

More turnovers than field goals through 3 quarters and we only trail by 2!

Vandy by 2 heading to the 4th

Coulibaly back on the court.

Plan should be to get Barker the ball within 15 feet and have her go to the hoop. Vandy doesn't have anyone who can guard her.

3 possessions in a row for the Ags in crunch time end in a turnover. 6 point lead is now down to 1.

Ags led 45-44

1:41 to play

Backup pg can't handle the ball

Cedar09 said:

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Backup pg can't handle the ball

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Hylton costs them 4 points in the last minute … not good

And another turnover.

Vandy by 2