COLLEGE STATION, TX \u2013 The sixth-ranked LSU women\u2019s basketball team defeated Texas A&M, 98-54, on Thursday night inside the Reed Arena.<\/p>\n
The Tigers are back in action on Monday, Jan. 26 to face Florida. The game will tip off at 7:00 p.m. CT inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the victory, LSU improves to 18-2 overall, while Texas A&M drops to 8-7 on the season.<\/p>\n
After exchanging baskets at the start, LSU gained momentum as MiLaysia Fulwiley drained three back-to-back three-pointers, scoring nine-straight points for the Tigers. LSU closed the half carrying a 19-point advantage, 41-22. The Tigers shot 43.2 percent on 16-of-37 shots and drained five treys. The Aggies shot 33.3 percent on 9-of-27 shots from the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the second half, LSU extended their lead by 44 points, outscoring the Aggies 57-32. The Tigers shot 55.6 percent from the floor on 20-of-36 shooting, while Texas A&M were 9-of-27 (33.3%).\u00a0<\/p>\n
LSU had 49 rebounds, mostly defensive boards, and 22 assists on the game. The Tigers were also perfect at the line, going 20-of-20.\u00a0<\/p>\n
MiLaysia Fulwiley led the Tigers in scoring with 23 points on 8-of-13 shots and three treys. Grace Knox earned 19 points of 9-of-9 shots from the field. Kate Koval had 15 points to go with five rebounds. Amiya Joyner earned a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds. Jada Richard also scored 11 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Aggies were led by Fatmata Janneh with 14 points on 5-of-10 shots and two threes.<\/p>\n
Check back for the full recap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, TX \u2013 The sixth-ranked LSU women\u2019s basketball team defeated Texas A&M, 98-54, on Thursday night inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1191,1193,1194,1192,1190,1189,786,27,29,28,22811],"class_list":["post-134671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-geaux-tigers","tag-homepage-feature-headline","tag-latest-news","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-university","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-women-s-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}