Tag: 2024 Womens NCAA Tournament

‘Tremendous year’: Texas A&M coach Joni Taylor reflects on loss vs. Nebraska in NCAA Tournament

“You’re looking at a team who won two conference games last year, nine games total. In year two we’re sitting here at the NCAA Tournament.”

The Texas A&M women’s basketball team narrowly lost to Nebraska in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night in Corvallis, Oregon.

After the loss, Aggies head coach Joni Taylor reflected on the progress that her team made this season.

“Tough, tough game. I’m really proud of our team’s fight to come back and take the lead being down as much as we were going into halftime and the third quarter,” Taylor recalled. “We’ve had a sense of resilience and fight all year long and really proud of how we handled ourselves and came back in the game. Obviously, Nebraska is a really good team, it came down to the end and they made more plays than we did.

“I don’t want to lose sight of the step we made from year one to year two in our program. You’re looking at a team who won two conference games last year, nine games total. In year two we’re sitting here at the NCAA Tournament, which was one of the goals for our program. So I don’t want how this game ended to overshadow the tremendous year that we had in year two of our program. We have our team returning with the exception of very few, so I’m really excited about the future of our program.

“Hats off to Nebraska, they made more plays than we did, they were really good tonight. We just didn’t have enough time on the clock to win the game.”

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Texas A&M Women receive an 11-seed in the NCAA Tournament, facing 6-seed Nebraska

the Aggie Women have earned an 11-seed in the NCAA Tournament, and will face 6-seed Nebraska in Corvallis, Oregon

The irony is not lost on us, as Texas A&M (19-12) has received a bid to the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball Tournament. It will face the 6-seed Nebraska Cornhuskers, the same matchup for both men’s teams in the NCAA Tournament, which was announced just two hours prior.

The matchup will occur in Regional 1 in Albany, as the first game will occur in Corvallis, Oregon. New Texas A&M athletic director Trev Alberts, who took a lateral promotion from Nebraska, must laugh at what both committees have conjured up.

After dealing with plenty of adversity during the preseason, including injuries to senior guard Aicha Coulibaly, the team’s leading scorer, A&M found their stride late, needing to win one game in the SEC Tournament to secure a bid to the Big Dance.

After defeating Mississippi State, Coulibaly and sophomore forward Janiah Barker went toe to toe with No. 1-overall seeded South Carolina but couldn’t finish the job in the Quarterfinal matchup, losing 79-68. Knowing their matchup, this team is healthy and determined and has a chance to make some news in a favorable bracket.

The date and time of the game are still unknown, but we will update this article when they become public.

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