The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
3-2,0-0Big 12
Southern
2-4,0-0SWAC
Women's Basketball defeats Southern, 93-39
11.24.2019 | Women's Basketball
Hot shooting, stout defense and double-doubles by Collier and Holmes close homestand.
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Women's Basketball team used hot shooting and a tenacious defense to defeat Southern University, 93-39, on Sunday afternoon at the Frank Erwin Center.
For the fifth straight game, Longhorns Joyner Holmes and Charli Collier recorded double-doubles: Holmes scored 27 points and collected 10 rebounds, and Collier hit 24 points and hauled down 16 boards. Celeste Taylor scored 12 for UT.
Texas (3-2) shot 53 percent from the floor and 84 percent from the free throw line, while holding Southern (2-4) to 24 percent of its field goal attempts.
Quality shot selection and blistering accuracy characterized the Longhorns' first quarter, as Texas missed only one field goal during the period – building a 30-13 lead and shooting 91 percent. Holmes and Collier each scored eight points during the quarter.
The focus then shifted to the Longhorns' stifling defense, as Texas held the Jaguars to only six points in the second quarter and a 23 percent field goal percentage for the half. The Horns led, 46-19, at the intermission, shot 56 percent for the half, and enjoyed double-digit scoring from Holmes (12) and Collier (10). Collier, with nine rebounds in the halftime statistics, stood one rebound away from her double-double.
Texas built as much as a 39-point margin in the third quarter, maintaining a 54-percent shooting pace and leading 68-31 going into the final period. In the fourth quarter, the Horns limited the Jaguars to eight points.
KEY STATISTICS
- The Longhorns started Holmes, Collier, Taylor, Lashann Higgs and Sug Sutton.
- Southern's 39 points represented the first time since Jan. 20, 2018 that Texas has held an opponent to under 40 points. UT defeated Texas Tech on that day by a score of 90-39.
- Texas now leads the series, 6-0, between the two schools.
- The Longhorns held the Jaguars to single digits in the second (6) and fourth (8) quarters.
- The Horns won the battle of the boards, 47-29.
- For the game, Texas shot more than 50 percent from the floor (53 percent) and from behind the three-point arc (55%).
- Texas blocked five Southern shots, scored 22 fast-break points, scored 46 points in the paint, profited from 19 second-chance points, dished out 20 assists and forced 17 Jaguar turnovers.
TEXAS HEAD COACH KAREN ASTON
"I thought this was probably our team's best performance of the year, just in a sense of particular things that we're working on every day in practice. That translated today a little better than in some games. Again, I know the score was lopsided, but you still pay attention to your team executing the things you're asking them to do. We're trying to improve in the midst of the game and not necessarily paying attention to the score, and I thought we did a pretty good job of that today. Probably I'm as pleased as I have been so far, because I thought that we played a little bit more urgently, like what it takes to win games at this level. We had a sense of urgency that we hadn't had before."
UP NEXT
Texas will play No. 14/12 N.C. State on Friday at 6:30 p.m., North Texas at on Saturday at 4 p.m., and Hawaii on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. (all times CT) – as part of the Rainbow Wahine Showdown at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. The games will be available on radio at 105.3 FM in Austin.
