Texas A&M women’s basketball used a strong defense and near triple-double Wednesday night to blow past an in-state foe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A&M breezed past the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders 81-43 in their season opener. The Aggies held the Islanders to 14-of-41 (34.1%) shooting from the field while shooting 30-for-76 (39.5%). A strong run at the end of the first half\u00a0built a 20-point lead for the hosting Aggies. After leading by just four after the opening quarter, A&M won the second period 25-7.<\/p>\n
Transfer guard Ny’Ceara Pryor racked up 16 points, eight assists, eight steals and six rebounds. The last Aggie to record\u00a0more than seven steals in a game was Curtyce Knox (Nov. 26 against Abilene Christian). Five Aggies scored eight or more points, with four in double figures.<\/p>\n
Samora Watson led the way for the visitors with 12 points.<\/p>\n
The win was a nice start for an\u00a0Aggies team that was hurt by injuries last season and was picked to finish 13th in the conference, per the preseason media poll.<\/p>\n
A&M next takes\u00a0the court against Tarleton State at 11 a.m. next Thursday in the program’s annual elementary school day game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&M women’s basketball used a strong defense and near triple-double Wednesday night to blow past an in-state…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,14539,24812],"class_list":["post-40389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-texas-a-m-aggies","tag-texas-am-womens-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40389","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=40389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}