Box Score
Box Score
San Marcos, Texas – The Texas State women's basketball team saved its best offensive game for the last game of the regular season. The Bobcats scored a season-high 100 points, beating San Jose State 100-67.
Texas State started red-hot from the arc, with six of its first eight field goals coming from three-point range. Ayriel Anderson and Kaylan Martin each had two made threes during the stretch, as the Bobcats took a 22-8 lead six minutes into the game. The team finished with a season-high 12 three-pointers on the game.
The Bobcats kept up the hot shooting finishing the first half 17-of-32 from the field (53.1 percent). Diamond Ford had a hot start herself with 14 points and contributed on the defensive end with five steals, as Texas State took a 49-34 lead into the locker room. Ford finished the game with 25 points, six assists and seven steals in one of her most complete performances of the season.
With the performance she moved into third place on both the single-season scoring list and career-scoring list with 617 and 1,877 points respectively.
The second half was more of the same for the Bobcats who finished the game with their most points since the first meeting with the Spartans when they scored 96. Texas State led by as much as 37 points, going up 98-61.
Texas State ended the game shooting a season-high 54.9 percent from the field, and limited the Spartans to 38.8 percent. The Bobcats are now 9-3 when holding opponents under 40 percent shooting and 5-2 when scoring 80+ points.
Texas State's two other seniors Morgan Passino and Bree Dawson also contributed to the cause. Passino had four rebounds, an assist, a block and a steal while Dawson contributed with six points, two assists, a block and a steal.
The Bobcats will next play in the first game of the WAC Tournament on Tuesday, March 12 at 2:00 p.m., central at the Orleans arena in Las Vegas. Texas State will be the No. 10 seed and face either Denver or Louisiana Tech in the 7-10 matchup.