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Women's Basketball falls to Hawaii, 73-60
12.01.2019 | Women's Basketball
Joyner Holmes joins Longhorn 1,000 Point Club.
HONOLULU – Hawaii held Texas without a field goal for the first eight minutes of the fourth quarter as the Rainbow Wahine defeated the Longhorns, 73-60, in the Rainbow Wahine Showdown on Sunday afternoon at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Hawaii (4-4) hit 10 of 19 three pointers and made 21 of 24 free throws. Texas (4-4) led by three at the end of the third period, but Hawaii outscored the Longhorns, 28-12, in the fourth quarter.
Charli Collier scored 18, Joyner Holmes 17 and Celeste Taylor 13 for Texas. Amy Atwell scored 24 for Hawaii, which included a 9-of-14 performance from three-point territory and six-of-seven from the free throw line.
Both Holmes and Atwell were named to the All-Tournament Team, in addition to Aislinn Konig of NC State, Anisha George of North Texas and Julissa Tago of Hawaii. NC State's Elissa Cunane won MVP honors.
Hawaii hit its first three shots of the game, all of them three-pointers, to take a 9-3 lead. The Rainbow Wahine, which did not miss a shot until the 5:37 mark in the first quarter, led by seven points on two occasions. Then, the Longhorns outscored Hawaii by an 18-3 margin for the rest of the first quarter, taking a 24-16 lead at the end of the period.
Holmes hit a layup at the 4:10 mark of the second quarter. That basket was Holmes' 1,000th point of her Longhorn career, the 44th UT player to achieve that distinction.
Hawaii again hit a trio of consecutive three-pointers early in the second quarter, and a total of four from beyond the arc in the period. The Rainbow Wahine outscored the Longhorns, 15-6, to take a one-point lead at halftime, 31-30. Hawaii held Texas scoreless in the last 4:32 of the first half, and the Horns prevented Hawaii from scoring a field goal for the last 6:20.
During the first quarter, Texas scored 16 points in the paint but made only one in-the-paint basket in the second quarter.
Holmes scored the Longhorns' last 12 points in the third quarter, as Texas took a 48-45 lead into the final period. Texas remained within four points of Hawaii during the first six minutes of the fourth quarter, but the Rainbow Wahine went on an 18-9 run in the final four minutes of the game.
KEY STATISTICS
- The Longhorns started Holmes, Taylor, Collier, Lashann Higgs and Sug Sutton.
- Texas scored 16 points in the paint during the first quarter but had only 20 in the paint for the remainder of the game.
- Texas won the rebounding battle, 36-23.
- Each team shot 43 percent from the floor, but Hawaii made 53 percent of its three pointers. Texas made 20 percent.
- Hawaii now leads the all-time series with Texas, 2-1.
TEXAS HEAD COACH KAREN ASTON
"We're not as good as we need to be. That is a reality right now for our team. We have to look ourselves in the mirror, and that starts with myself and our staff. We need to figure out how to get our team to execute better and understand the value of possessions. I thought we played really well for some stretches but we weren't mindful that the other team was going to come back."
"I definitely think we learned about what opponents are going to do to approach us. Offensively, the times that we were patient and saw the right things, I thought we looked really good in some stretches. But there were times that we were trying to do too much. It was like an individual trying to make a play instead of staying within the framework of the offense. Again, that falls back on discipline. Hopefully we'll learn as we go along and continue to improve. We're just not where we need to be."
UP NEXT
Texas travels to Knoxville on Sunday afternoon to play the Tennessee Lady Vols at Thompson-Boling Arena. Tipoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. (CT). The game will be telecast nationwide by ESPN2. It will be available on radio at 105.3 FM in Austin and online at TexasSports.com/audio.
