COMMERCE, Texas – With three games left in the first half of the conference slate, the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi women's basketball team will play two on the road at Texas A&M-Commerce Thursday and Northwestern State Saturday.
The Islanders (12-5, 5-1 SLC) are hitting the road after garnering recent wins over McNeese (83-63) and Nicholls (58-52) to get to 100 all-time wins at the American Bank Center. The win over the Colonels was fueled by a 10-0 scoring run with the help of the go-ahead three-pointer by senior
Mireia Aguado to finish the rallied win.
Aguado shot 50 percent from the field (5-of-10) to end with 13 points. That was mirrored by graduate
Alecia Westbrook and senior
Paige Allen who also each contributed 13 points. With a final rebound at the game buzzer, Allen came away with her second-ever double-double.
Allen has grabbed at least six rebounds in every SLC game this year, while Westbrook has recorded either 10+ points or 10+ rebounds in every league game.
Junior
Nabaweeyah McGill continues to lead the league in blocks, averaging 1.6 per game. She also ranks fifth in off. rebounding with 2.1 per game. West[1]brook seconds the conference in rebounding (7.9 rpg), def. rebounding (5.6 drpg), and steals (2.1 spg), while also ranking third in off. rebounding (2.4 orpg).
Westbrook is one of three Islanders in the top-five for steals, as Aguado ranks fourth (1.9 spg) and junior
Tymberlin Criswell ranks fifth (1.8 spg). Aguado also finds herself in the top-five for FG% at a .491 clip.
The Islanders lead the Southland Conference in scoring margin (+10.5), FG% defense (.342), 3FG% defense (.243), rebounding (41.5 rpg), assists (14.41 apg), and steals (11.35 spg).
Thursday's game will tip at 6:30 p.m. CT while Saturday is set for 1p.m. Both games can be watched live on ESPN+ or head live for free on 1440 AM K-E-Y-S with Doug Kesterson on the call.
NOTES
- Last season was the first times these two teams ever met, with A&M-Corpus Christi beating A&M-Commerce twice for the 2-0 lead in the all-time series. The Islanders held the Lions to under 60 points in both meetings last year. The teams played each other last in the 2022-23 regular season finale, as A&M[1]Corpus Christi's 61-53 win secured them the SLC Regular Season Championship.
- The Islanders lead Northwestern State 16-5 in the all-time record and have won nine of the last ten meetings. They have not lost to the Lady Demons since 2015-16 and have only lost to them on the road twice.
- Last season, the Islanders were 8-1 on the road against SLC opponents en route to their championship title, their best road conference record in program history since joining the league in 2006-07.
- The Islanders are 11-0 this year when they score 60 or more points. They have scored at least 50 points in every game this season, the first time since 2018-19 that the Islanders have scored at least that many in each of the first 17 games of the season.
- A&M-Corpus Christi ranks top-10 in the NCAA in FG% defense, 3FG%, and free throw attempts per game (23.94). The Islanders average 66.2 points per game, with 27.1 coming from off the bench. The team's bench points per game average ranks them 25th in the NCAA.
- In their last road SLC game, the Islanders went 24-of-25 from the free throw line for a 96.0 percent clip, breaking the program single-game record previously set at 94.7 percent at Centenary on Jan. 27, 2001. The Islanders have attempted at least 24 free throws in every SLC game this year.
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