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Texas A&M Women's Basketball

No. 7 Aggies fall 65-61 in OT at LSU for first loss of the season

January 14, 2021
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After sprinting to a 12-0 start, Gary Blair's seventh-ranked squad struggled in Baton Rouge on Thursday night, dropping a 65-61 decision to the Tigers in overtime. Texas A&M falls to 12-1 and 3-1 in the SEC.

The Aggies will host No. 14 Mississippi State (8-3, 3-2) on Sunday at noon, and the game will be televised on ESPN2. The Bulldogs lost at home to Alabama on Thursday night.

Postgame Notes

Texas A&M 61, LSU 65
Pete Maravich Assembly Center (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) 

Records & Series Notes

  • The Aggies fall to 12-1 with a 3-1 record in SEC play.
  • LSU leads the all-time series 16-14 over Texas A&M.

Team Notes

  • The Maroon & White tied its best start through 13 games in program history at 12-1. The 2008-09 and 2010-11 campaigns each boasted the same record through 13 ball games.
  • For the ninth time this season the Aggies scored more points off turnovers than their opponent, outscoring LSU in the category 21-16.
  • Texas A&M started the game with a lineup of Aaliyah Wilson, Jordan Nixon, Kayla Wells, N’dea Jones and Ciera Johnson for the 13th consecutive game.
  • The Aggies put together a 9-0 run to end the first half, cutting the LSU lead to eight, 34-26.
  • Texas A&M outscored the Tigers 35-31 in the second half and overtime.
  • This was the first overtime game between the Aggies and the Tigers, and was the first game to go into the extra period for A&M since Feb. 7, 2019 against Missouri.

Individual Notes

  • N’dea Jones registered her ninth double-double of the season and 35th of her career, scoring a team-high 16 points and 10 rebounds.
  • The Lawrenceville, Georgia, native grabbed the 904th rebound of her career, needing only eight to pass Lisa Jordan (1985-89) on the all-time rebound list.
  • Jones’ 16 points marks her 10th double-digit scoring performance of the year and 39th of her career.
  • Destiny Pitts hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 49 seconds remaining in regulation to give the Aggies a 53-52 lead.
  • Pitts nailed 4-of-5 deep balls, tying her career high at A&M.
  • Ciera Johnson recorded the 22nd double-digit rebounding performance of her career, nabbing 10 boards in the road game.
  • Gary Blair’s record moves to 825-331 in his career as a head coach and 417-168 in Aggieland.

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No. 7 Aggies fall 65-61 in OT at LSU for first loss of the season

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7:20a, 1/15/21
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I HATE that we lost. But admire Coach Blair for not making excuses
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I'm still trying to figure out why we were trying to go inside to Ciera in the last five seconds. She turned the ball over a lot last night and they were all over her. Would have at least liked to gotten some kind of shot off. They did a really good job of hanging in there and coming back, but sure could've/should've won it there at the end.
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9:45a, 1/15/21
You would've thought we would've been ready for this game having lost to LSU so much but I knew this would be a trap game as LSU with that zone defense always causes us problems. But turnovers, poor free three shooting, and rebounding is what cost the game and all that can and should be corrected.

We have to do a better job with ball screen defense. We were fortunate against AR that it didn't cost us but Starky has to do a better job of getting the team better on that end. I also think we need to take advantage more of our bench to pressure the ball more to speed up the game at times and give the starters a little rest.
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aggieFann said:
You would've thought we would've been ready for this game having lost to LSU so much but I knew this would be a trap game as LSU with that zone defense always causes us problems. But turnovers, poor free three shooting, and rebounding is what cost the game and all that can and should be corrected.

We have to do a better job with ball screen defense. We were fortunate against AR that it didn't cost us but Starky has to do a better job of getting the team better on that end. I also think we need to take advantage more of our bench to pressure the ball more to speed up the game at times and give the starters a little rest.
All great points and I totally agree with speeding the game up. I was really hoping to see the team full court press LSU to see if they could create some turnovers and speed up the pace of the game.
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