{"id":77203,"date":"2025-12-05T11:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77203\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:37:07","slug":"texas-am-womens-basketball-nyceara-pryor-eye-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/77203\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&M women’s basketball, Ny’Ceara Pryor eye West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"

After having no winning streaks of three games or longer last season, Texas A&M women’s basketball<\/a> can hit that feat for a second time in the 2025-26 campaign with a victory Sunday.<\/p>\n

Next up for the Aggies is West Virginia, which has been ranked at times this season thanks to a win over then-No. 15 Duke. A&M (6-1) isn’t quite getting top 25 votes yet but it has four wins against power conference opponents. Last year, A&M didn’t reach four wins against large schools until SEC play in a Jan. 23 upset of Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Texas A&M owns victories over Colorado, which won 20 games last season, and Kansas State, which made the 2025 Sweet Sixteen. That’s pretty impressive considering the\u00a0Aggies lost most of their roster after suffering through an 11-game losing streak to end 2024-25.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s win\u00a0over Georgia Tech gave the Aggies multiple victories against teams\u00a0ranked in the top 50 for\u00a0NET, <\/a>a metric used to determine the\u00a0NCAA Tournament field. Don’t look now, but the\u00a0Aggies are putting together a solid nonconference slate that could serve as insurance if they falter in conference play.<\/p>\n

Intense roster turnover seems to be paying off for head coach Joni Taylor. Former Sacred Heart guard Ny’Ceara Pryor ranks in the top 15 among SEC players with 17.0 points per game and is No. 1 in free throws attempted (7.7). She’s also second in conference with 7.4 assists. Jordan Webster, a transfer from UC Riverside, has proven to be a strong weapon from deep (tied for 20th in conference at 1.7 3-pointers per game on 36.4% shooting).<\/p>\n

Fatmata Janneh, a 6-foot-2 junior, has two double-doubles and has been a field goal or rebound short of several more. The London native who had played at Saint Peter’s is second among SEC players in rebounds per game (11.0). She’s third on the\u00a0team at 9.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

One of the lone returners is Lauren Ware who is top-20 in rebounds per game and is among the conference’s best players at avoiding turnovers at just one per game while playing more than 28 minutes a night. Janae Kent, who spent last season at A&M after transferring in from LSU, is second on the team at 11.9 points per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Texas A&M is middling nationally in many statistics; not elite or awful in any category outside of free throws attempted (15th) and offensive rebounds allowed (19th).\u00a0<\/p>\n

A&M ranked in the top half of conference teams in rebounds, 3-pointers allowed and turnovers committed but is relatively low in most offensive categories (15th of 16 in points per game, 14th in 3-point percentage). They’ll need to pick up the efficiency; A&M is last among SEC squads at 39.9% from the field.<\/p>\n

For as many free throws as the Aggies take (second in conference), they could improve on a 64.4% percentage from the stripe. With so many new faces, A&M could still be rounding into form ahead of their conference opener New Year’s Day against Oklahoma.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But first is a 2 p.m. Sunday matchup with West Virginia and a noon Dec. 21 clash with Prairie View A&M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After having no winning streaks of three games or longer last season, Texas A&M women’s basketball can hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38001,38002,27,14539,38000,29,28],"class_list":["post-77203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-joni-taylor","tag-nyceara-pryor","tag-texas","tag-texas-a-m-aggies","tag-texas-a-m-women-s-basketball","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77203","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=77203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}