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Women’s Basketball scores historic 1,100th win
01.22.2020 | Women's Basketball
Longhorns use double-doubles from Collier and Holmes to defeat Kansas, 85-77.
AUSTIN, Texas. – Charli Collier earned her 11th double-double of the season, and Joyner Holmes achieved her 10th, as Texas defeated Kansas, 85-77, in a Big 12 Conference game on Wednesday night at the Frank Erwin Center
Collier scored 17 points and hauled down 15 rebounds. Holmes got 22 points and 11 rebounds. Sug Sutton scored 18 and Lashann Higgs 10.
It was the 1,100th victory in Texas women's basketball history. The Longhorns are one of only six teams in the history of women's college basketball to win as many games. Only Tennessee, UConn, James Madison, Louisiana Tech and Stanford have won as frequently.
Texas improved its record to 12-6 overall and 4-2 in the conference. Kansas fell to 12-5 and 1-5.
Kansas, which shot 50 percent in the first quarter, enjoyed a 10-point, first-period performance from Anlya Thomas – who hit her first four field goal attempts. Higgs sank consecutive three pointers for Texas, but the Jayhawks enjoyed a 23-19 lead at the end of the first period.
Kansas extended its lead to five points early in the second quarter, but Texas then went on a 17-4 run to take an eight-point lead with one minute remaining before halftime. Collier finished the half with ten points for the Longhorns, while Jada Underwood scored seven and Higgs six as UT led, 37-32, at intermission.
Baskets by Collier, Sutton and Holmes gave Texas an 11-point lead out of the chute in the third quarter. Kansas got no closer than seven points for the remainder of the period, as the Longhorns closed the quarter with a 63-50 advantage. Texas shot 63 percent from the floor in the third period.
Texas extended its lead to 15 points early in the fourth quarter, but Kansas cut the margin to five with 41 seconds left in the game. Texas subsequently sank six free throws to preserve the victory.
KEY STATISTICS
- The Longhorns started Taylor, Collier, Sutton, Holmes and Underwood.
- The Longhorns lead the all-time series between the two teams, 29-10.
- Texas shot 51 percent from the field. Kansas shot 43 percent.
- The Longhorns dominated the boards, 51-28.
- Texas scored 36 points in the paint, 17 on fast breaks, and got 14 from its bench.
- Texas blocked seven Kansas shots and stole the ball six times.
TEXAS HEAD COACH KAREN ASTON
"We were part of the 1,100 wins, which was obviously a huge milestone. Now we're part of only six teams in the history of women's basketball to have won that many. It's a big deal to be part of a storied program – to be part of the type of tradition that has been established here. I'm proud. I'm proud that we got the win tonight. I'm proud and humbled to be a part of it.
I wish we would have played a little better tonight, but credit to Kansas first of all. They just continued to attack us and put a lot of pressure on our defense and it wasn't one of our better outings defensively. We just couldn't stay between them and the basket. I just didn't think we were very sharp tonight defensively at all. I thought we shot the ball pretty well and when we needed to execute we executed really well, but we didn't pay one ounce of attention to execution when we had a lead, and that's bothersome to me that we didn't put them away when we had an opportunity to do that. But as I said on the radio, it's our first week back in school and we experienced kind of the same mental lull last year when we started classes, so maybe that was a little bit of our lack of focus today. Again, I don't want to say we didn't try hard, I just think our focus wasn't good and our attention to detail was not very good. But again, it would be disrespectful not to give Kansas some credit for how they played. We played good enough to win and we'll move on and get ready for Oklahoma State."
KANSAS HEAD COACH BRANDON SCHNEIDER
"I thought the biggest difference in terms of runs was their start to the third quarter. We had possessions to start the third quarter. We had a wide-open three and turned it down, they turned it into a transition layup, and then they had one of their spurts -- which they're very capable of. But overall, statistically, we didn't make free throws and we weren't as competitive on the glass as what you have to be to win a game like this."
UP NEXT
Texas goes on the road to challenge Oklahoma State on Saturday. Tip-off at Gallager-Iba Arena is slated for 1 p.m. CT and the game will be nationally televised by Fox Sports Network. The game will be available on radio at 105.3 FM in Austin and online at TexasSports.com/audio.
