It was a career night for a few Aggies as Texas A&M defeated the A&M Commerce Lions 87-63 at Reed Arena.
After a relatively close first quarter, the Texas A&M put the clamps on the Lions, only allowing seven points in the second quarter, and they never scored over 20 points in any quarter. Lauren Ware and Janiah Barker lead the Maroon & White, dominating the paint with both notching double-doubles. Ware led the way with 19 points and 16 rebounds, both career highs. Then Barker added 19 points and 12 rebounds for her sixth double-double of the season.
However, the Aggie had a very similar problem as the men’s team in their victory as well. They shot a horrible 12% from the three-point line on 17 attempts. With the lopsided rebounding advantage, the Aggies maintained the lead and gave them multiple second-chance points. That is one area they need to make sure they clean up as they head into SEC play.
After defeating Texas A&M Commerce, Coach Taylor about what she learned about her team during non-conference play.
“I think you’ve got to always try to make opponents go to plan B and I’m not sure we really did that tonight. They just missed some shots. Some of that has something to do with our defense. Obviously, we defend at a high level, but they were still able to get the looks that they wanted and when you play against teams in our conference, you’re going to pay for that. Hopefully we’ve learned some things from that. I think offensively, we did some good things that we worked on after the break and so we learned some good things from that as well. Some things we put in some tweaks we’ve made, but we’ve got to be better locked in. We can’t let people get to what they want.”
This team looks poised to make some noise when SEC play starts in a few weeks when they open against Coach Taylor’s former team, Georgia. Below, you can check out some of the best highlights from their 12th win of the season.
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