CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's basketball team will host Our Lady of the Lake in an 11 a.m. Tuesday matchup in the Dugan Wellness Center in front of elementary schools from West Oso ISD and CCISD for Education Day, presented by Whataburger.
The Islanders (5-4) return home after picking up its first road win of the season with a 57-51 victory at UTRGV. Both teams scored more in the fourth quarter than they did in the entire first half, including a monster 27-points from A&M-Corpus Christi. It was carried by the explosive three-point attack as the Islanders went 5-for-7 from deep in the final 10 minutes, turning in their second straight game of shooting over 33.3 percent from beyond-the-arc.
Part of that attack was junior
Jaeda Whitner who nailed a trio of threes in the game. It was her third time this year to make multiple threes in a game, but first to make three. She ranks second in the conference in three-point field goal percentage (.476).
Senior
Violeta Verano and junior
Nabaweeyah McGill are both riding two-game streaks of scoring in double figures. They are two of eight Islanders averaging at least 5.0 ppg, including team-leader graduate
Alecia Westbrook who is averaging 9.8 points per outing.
Westbrook leads the team and the conference in rebounding with 7.9 per game. She is currently at 993 career rebounds, seven away from the 1,000 milestone, which ranks her sixth in the active career list among all NCAA players just behind Angel Reese of LSU (1,069).
McGill also ranks atop the conference standings, averaging 1.9 blocks per game. She has recorded at least two blocks in five games this season, helping the team average a league-best 4.78 blocks per game.
The team also leads the SLC in assists (14.67 apg), steals (10.89 spg), rebounds (39.8 rpg), and assist/turnover ratio (0.96). The Islanders will be going for their third win in a row, which would be the longest winning streak of the season.
OLLU (3-6) is led in scoring by Tiffany Lopez who contributes an average of 13.7 points each game while shooting over .500 FG%. Lopez also leads the team in rebounding (6.9 rpg) and blocking (1.1 bpg).
The Islanders are 4-2 at home this season, 228-150 all-time at home, and 61- 31 at the Dugan Wellness Center. They have won at least 10 home games in both of the last two seasons.
The game can be watched live with a subscription to ESPN+. Doug Kesterson will be on the call.
NOTES
- It will be the first ever meeting between A&M-Corpus Christi and Our Lady of the Lake. It will be the seventh home game for the Islanders this year, who are 4-2 on their home court so far.
- The Islanders average 64.0 points per game, with 30.4 coming from off the bench. The team's bench points per game average ranks them 18th in the nation.
- The Islanders rank second in the Southland Conference in their field goal defense (.348), three-point field goal defense (.266) and free-throw defense (.757). They also come in at second in defensive rebounds per game with 27.2.
- A&M-Corpus Christi has scored at least 50 points in every game this season. It is the first time since 2018-19 that the Islanders have scored at least 50 points in each of the first nine games of the season.
- The team is 4-0 this year when they outrebound their opponent and when they score more than 60 points.
- Westbrook is on track to become the sixth active player in the NCAA to reach 1,000 career rebounds. She also finds her name in the active career leader list in free throw attempts (9th, 606), free throws made (9th, 452), and double-doubles (13th, 36). She has broken the program records for career free throws made, career free throws attempted, career defensive rebounds, and career double-doubles last year alone and is chasing the program's career record of total rebounds, total points, and minutes played.
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