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WBB: No. 5 A&M blows past North Texas on New Year's Eve
On a day where it seems defense has returned to Kyle Field, Wednesday’s women’s basketball contest showed that it never left Reed Arena.
Forcing the visiting North Texas Mean Green to just 25% shooting from the field, the fifth-ranked Texas A&M women’s basketball team moved to 12-2 on the season with a 75-38 victory in front of 4,015 fans at Reed Arena. With the victory, the Aggies finish the out of conference portion of their schedule, while North Texas drops to a lowly 1-10 on the year.
Matt Sachs, TexAgs
A&M guard Chelsea Jennings provided a spark off the bench in the first half of Wednesday's contest.
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Every Aggie on the roster scored and seven Aggies tallied at lead six points on the afternoon.
The start of the first half was one to forget for both teams offensively as the Aggies and the Mean Green went a combined 8-for-31 to start the contest over the games first 10:10. At that point, North Texas held an 12-9 lead, but A&M would soon started finding the bottom of the basket and used a 23-9 run over the rest of the period to ultimately take a 35-18 lead to the locker room at the break.
While Courtney and Courtney (Williams and Walker) have done the bulk of A&M’s scoring this season, it was Chelsea Jennings and Curtyce Knox, both who came off the bench, that led the Aggies during the run. In all, Jennings finished the half with 10 points while Knox added eight more and also grabbed three steals in the half.
A&M took over where they left off in the second, using another big run, 23-6 over the half’s first nine minutes, to grow their lead even larger. The Aggies’ advantage peaked at 40 points with 8:07 left in the contest before finishing the game at the 37, their third highest margin of victory this season.
As is typical for an A&M team, the defensive performance was solid. The Aggies held North Texas to just 15 field goals the entire contest while forcing 26 turnovers, 14 of which came off of steals.
With the non-conference schedule now completely behind them, the Aggies turn their attention to SEC play. Friday’s 7 pm contest against Vanderbilt will be the first SEC test of the year before things really pick up speed with road contests against Arkansas (receiving votes in the AP poll) and top-10 Tennessee next week.
Forcing the visiting North Texas Mean Green to just 25% shooting from the field, the fifth-ranked Texas A&M women’s basketball team moved to 12-2 on the season with a 75-38 victory in front of 4,015 fans at Reed Arena. With the victory, the Aggies finish the out of conference portion of their schedule, while North Texas drops to a lowly 1-10 on the year.
Matt Sachs, TexAgs
A&M guard Chelsea Jennings provided a spark off the bench in the first half of Wednesday's contest.
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The start of the first half was one to forget for both teams offensively as the Aggies and the Mean Green went a combined 8-for-31 to start the contest over the games first 10:10. At that point, North Texas held an 12-9 lead, but A&M would soon started finding the bottom of the basket and used a 23-9 run over the rest of the period to ultimately take a 35-18 lead to the locker room at the break.
While Courtney and Courtney (Williams and Walker) have done the bulk of A&M’s scoring this season, it was Chelsea Jennings and Curtyce Knox, both who came off the bench, that led the Aggies during the run. In all, Jennings finished the half with 10 points while Knox added eight more and also grabbed three steals in the half.
A&M took over where they left off in the second, using another big run, 23-6 over the half’s first nine minutes, to grow their lead even larger. The Aggies’ advantage peaked at 40 points with 8:07 left in the contest before finishing the game at the 37, their third highest margin of victory this season.
As is typical for an A&M team, the defensive performance was solid. The Aggies held North Texas to just 15 field goals the entire contest while forcing 26 turnovers, 14 of which came off of steals.
With the non-conference schedule now completely behind them, the Aggies turn their attention to SEC play. Friday’s 7 pm contest against Vanderbilt will be the first SEC test of the year before things really pick up speed with road contests against Arkansas (receiving votes in the AP poll) and top-10 Tennessee next week.
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