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No. 10/10 Women’s Basketball’s defensive effort leads to 70-49 win at No. 24/25 West Virginia
01.06.2024 | Women's Basketball
Longhorns hold Mountaineers to 32 points under their season scoring average.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The No. 10/10 Texas women's basketball held West Virginia to 26.7 percent shooting and came away with a 70-49 win on Saturday at the WVU Coliseum.
Madison Booker scored 15 points and grabbed a season-high 12 rebounds for her first collegiate double-double. Booker added seven assists.
Shaylee Gonzales recorded 15 points as she made 3-of-6 from beyond the 3-point arc. Aaliyah Moore scored 12 points and added five rebounds. Taylor Jones and Khadija Faye added eight points each.
The Longhorns used a 10-3 run in the second quarter to go up 37-22 and took a 37-25 lead into halftime.
Texas came out strong in the second half with an 8-0 run and forced West Virginia to call a timeout. Shay Holle scored on a jumper and was fouled. She hit the free-throw to put Texas up 45-25 at the 6:49 mark of the third quarter.
The Longhorns outscored West Virginia 17-7 in the third quarter.
Up next Texas returns home to host TCU on Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 7:00 p.m. CT.
Postgame Notes
• The Longhorns improve to 15-1 overall and 2-1 in Big 12 action.
• Texas becomes the first team to beat West Virginia this season. The Mountaineers came into the game 13-0.
• West Virginia came into the game scoring 81.8 points per game and Texas held them to 49 points.
• The Longhorns made eight of their first 10 shots in the game.
• Texas outscored West Virginia 17-7 in the third quarter.
• Texas held WVU to nine points in the second quarter and seven points in the third quarter. That marks 18 times this season Texas has held an opponent to single digits for a quarter.
• For the 11th time this season the Longhorns shot 50 percent or better from the field as they shot 25-of-47 (53.2 percent).
• Texas shot 17-of-19 (89.5 percent) from the free-throw line.
• The Longhorns held West Virginia to 16-of-60 from the field (26.7 percent) and 4-of-31 from 3-point range (12.9 percent).
• Texas scored 32 points in the paint and had 20 points from the bench.
