SAN MARCOS, TX — Da'Nasia Hood and
Kennedy Taylor showed all 1,057 in attendance on Saturday why the senior duo are standout performers in the Sun Belt Conference despite the Bobcats falling to UTA, 72-65.
Hood, who entered Saturday's contest against the Mavericks as the lone women's basketball student-athlete to average 20-or-more points in conference-only games, maintained the top spot in the league in terms of scoring average in conference play following a 21-point performance. Hood, just a week after tying her career high, set a new career high with 15 rebounds to cap her third-straight double-double performance and fourth in five games.
It's the sixth straight game Hood has scored 20-or-more points and she's reached that mark in all but one conference game. The exception being a 19-point evening at ULM on Dec. 30, 2021, when the Bobcats opened Sun Belt play. Hood has missed adding two more double-doubles to her conference-only total by a single rebound at ULM and Louisiana, respectively.
Assisting Hood on the offensive end Saturday afternoon was Texas State senior guard
Kennedy Taylor, who finished with a season-high 12 assists. Taylor's assist total was one shy of tying UTA's team assist total.
It's the first time Taylor has reached double-digit assists since being credited with 10 at Georgia State on Jan. 15, 2022, and it's the first time she's had 12 assists in a single game since Jan. 23, 2021, against ULM.
FROM HEAD COACH ZENARAE ANTOINE
"This game today was difficult from the standpoint of that I felt the team really did have an understanding of what it was going to take (to win). Because we had the opportunity to play this team twice this week, we did have time to watch film, make and discuss ways we can adjust. We definitely talked about (UTA being) a good third-quarter team and that's really where we struggled."
STAT LEADERS
SCORES BY QUARTER
- 1st | Texas State 15, UTA 11
- 2nd | Texas State 30, UTA 28
- 3rd | UTA 55, Texas State 47
- 4th | UTA 72, Texas State 65
GAME NOTES
- For the second time in her last three games, Kennedy Taylor was credited with double-digit assists as the Texas State senior guard finished with a season-high 12 against the Mavericks on Saturday afternoon. Taylor's 12 assists were one shy of tying her career high, which was set against UTA on Feb. 1, 2020.
- With her five-assist first half, Kennedy Taylor became the second student-athlete in Texas State women's basketball history to be credited with 500 assists during a career. Following her 12-assist afternoon, Taylor now trails Shelly Borton (1996-99) by 87 assists for the program's all-time career assist mark.
- For the fourth time in their last five games, the Texas State women's basketball team was credited with 40-or-more rebounds. On Saturday afternoon, the Bobcats brought down 48 rebounds, which is the most against a Division I opponent this season and just 12 shy of the season-high 60 against Arlington Baptist set on Nov. 29, 2021.
UP NEXT
- With its home-and-home matchups against UTA now behind it, Texas State (8-10, 3-4) will return to the road next week when the Bobcats travel to Arkansas to play Little Rock on Thursday, Jan. 27 and then Arkansas State on Saturday, Jan. 29.
- For the latest information on the team, follow @TXStateWBB on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. General athletic news can also be at @TxStateBobcats on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
