MONROE, La. – For the third time this season, Texas State overcame a double-digit deficit to win as it rallied to take down ULM 65-57 on Thursday at Fant-Ewing Coliseum.
 
Trailing by 10 through the first 13 minutes of the game, the Bobcats (13-5, 5-2 Sun Belt) were lifted by senior guard Kennedy Taylor, who scored 11 of her 13 points after the first quarter and nine in the second half. It was her fifth straight double-digit scoring effort.
 
Texas State, which evened its road record to 3-3 this season, has now registered two of its three double-digit comebacks on the road. It did it at Sam Houston, where the Bobcats trailed by 12 in the second quarter, in the second game of the season.
 
Guard Taelour Pruitt joined Taylor in double figures in scoring with 11. It was her first game with 10 or more points since mid-December. She finished the game 4-of-5 from the field, including one three pointer, to go with her 2-of-2 outing at the free throw line.
 
Texas State as a team was 18-of-22 at the charity stripe.
 
Nicole Leff and Jaeda Reed had nine points each. Reed, playing in her third game of the season, scored seven of her nine points in the first half to help Texas State take a 28-28 score into the break.
 
The Bobcats scored 18 of the final 26 points in the first half, 10 of which came at the free throw line.
 
Texas State had to fight back after missing 16 of its first 20 shots from the field, but after ULM (6-12, 2-5 Sun Belt) turned an offensive rebound into a second-chance three-pointer, the Bobcats called a timeout with 7:22 remaining in the second quarter.
 
The Bobcats used stops on the defensive end and free throws on the other side to make it a five-point deficit at 22-17 with 4:13 remaining in the first half. Then after a Pruitt lay-up, Reed scored five straight points for the Bobcats to pull them within two at 26-24. Later, a three-point play by Leff evened the score at 28-all entering the break.
 
In the third quarter, Texas State shot 50 percent to help it overcome a back-and-forth score. The lead changed three times until a Ja'Kayla Bowie three-pointer gave the Bobcats a 43-42 lead with 2:41 left in the quarter – a lead Texas State would never relinquish.
 
The Bobcats scored seven points in the first minute-and-a-half of the fourth quarter to open up their first double-digit lead at 56-46. They would stretch it to as much as 12 when Tianna Eaton hit a lay-up that made it 60-48.
 
The Warhawks trimmed it down to five points with less than a minute to go, but as Taylor's three-point attempt to beat the shot clock bounced out, Bowie had the board and putback to put the Bobcats up seven with 34 seconds left.
 
STAT LEADERS

• Points – Kennedy Taylor (13)
• Rebounds – Tianna Eaton (8)
• Assists – Kennedy Taylor (6)
• Steals – Ja'Kayla Bowie & Taelour Pruitt (2)
• Blocks – Tianna Eaton (2)

 
SCORES BY QUARTER
1st | ULM 16, Texas State 10
2nd | Texas State 28, ULM 28
3rd | Texas State 49, ULM 46
4th | Texas State 65, ULM 57
 
GAME NOTES

• Texas State has won 3 straight games.
• The Bobcats are 2-1 in conference road games this year.
• The Bobcats have held their last three opponents to a combined field goal shooting percentage of 32.5 (55-of-169).
• For nearly a nine-minute stretch in the end of the third quarter (4:35 mark) to the start of the fourth (6:08 mark), Texas State was 12-of-18 from the field.
• Texas State has won 8 straight against ULM.
• Kennedy Taylor has scored in double-digits in 5 straight games, her longest such streak of the season.
• Texas State trailed by six after the first quarter, which was its largest first-quarter deficit since Nov. 30, 2022 at UTSA (trailed 15-7; W, 60-55).
• Thursday marked the third time this season Texas State has overcome a double-digit deficit to win. The Bobcats trailed by 12 in the second quarter at Sam Houston before winning 75-70. They then trailed by 12 early in the game against UTSA at home before winning 60-55.
• The Bobcats had 11 shots blocked, 7 of which were by ULM's Emma Merriweather.
• Texas State had 7 steals to ULM's 1.
  • The Bobcats have 7+ steals in 16 of their 18 games this year.

 
UP NEXT
The Bobcats will continue their three-game road swing with a 1 pm contest at South Alabama on Saturday. The Bobcats last faced the Jaguars in the Sun Belt Conference Championship tournament last March, when they won 80-66 to advance to the quarterfinals. The game can be watched on ESPN+.