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Women's Basketball defeats UTSA, 84-53
11.14.2019 | Women's Basketball
Longhorns overcome slow start with hot-shooting second half.
AUSTIN, Texas — The No. 22 Texas Women's Basketball team broke open a close game with a dominating third-quarter run, defeating UTSA, 84-53, on Thursday night at the Frank Erwin Center.
Texas (1-1) was led by Charli Collier, who scored 28 points and got 12 rebounds, both career highs for her second career double-double. Joyner Holmes also achieved her second consecutive double-double, scoring 17 points and hauling in 10 boards. Lashann Higgs scored 11.
Mikalya Woods scored 15 points for UTSA (2-1).
With the score tied at 4-4 after five minutes of play, the Roadrunners went on a 11-2 run to achieve an early nine-point lead. The Longhorns scored the last four points of the first quarter, as UTSA took a 15-10 lead at the end of the period.
In the second quarter, Texas went on a 6-0 streak to take its first lead, 16-15, and then scored the half's last six points to lead, 35-29, at intermission. Collier led the Longhorns in the halftime statistics with 10 points, while Higgs and Holmes had eight each.
Texas started the third quarter with a 12-2 streak to break the game open. UT held a 62-41 lead at the end of the third period.
KEY STATISTICS
- The Longhorns started Higgs, Collier, Joanne Allen-Taylor, Celeste Taylor, and Sug Sutton.
- Texas is now 10-0 in games against UTSA.
- UT improved its shooting percentage from the floor as the game progressed. The Horns hit 22 percent in the first quarter but finished the game with a 43.4 percentage.
- Texas scored 14 second-chance points, 16 on fast breaks, and got 28 points from its bench.
- Texas forced 12 UTSA turnovers and committed 14 of its own.
- UT blocked four Roadrunner shots and allowed only one UTSA block.
TEXAS HEAD COACH KAREN ASTON
"I definitely think that it took some time to get into any type of offensive flow. There's a bottom line offensively for us when we have Charli and Joyner in there. It's an advantage for us. I thought that maybe the end of the first half - probably the last four to five minutes - we really paid attention to detail defensively and that was really kind of where we gained our confidence and got into a better flow. We played much better in the second half and I thought everybody contributed in the win."
UTSA HEAD COACH KRISTEN HOLT
"Texas is a good team and of course we knew coming in that their physicality was going to be an issue, especially when their big kids were rebounding like they were. They really pounded it inside in the second half and obviously that kind of took its toll. I like the way our team competed. I just saw a stat here that we led for eleven minutes of the game, so those are little things with our team. We're overall a very young team, young guards, lots of mistakes as far as getting back in transition. I thought when they went to the zone coming out of the half, that really took us out of any type of rhythm. We struggled with the zone, we had some kids make some shots and that kind of helped, I think they got out of it then at that point but I thought that was a good call on her part."
UP NEXT
Texas will face Arizona on Sunday at the Frank Erwin Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT. The game will be available on radio at 105.3 FM in Austin and will be televised nationwide on the Longhorn Network.
