NORFOLK, Va. – For the second time in the last three games, Texas State overcame a double-digit deficit on the road to win as it dealt Old Dominion its first loss at home this season with a 52-46 victory on Thursday at Chartway Arena.
 
Texas State (14-6, 6-3 Sun Belt) trailed by as much as 12, but with a stifling defense that limited the Monarchs (13-9, 5-4 Sun Belt) to 25.6 percent shooting in the second half, the Bobcats climbed back to win and claim a winning record on their three-game road swing.
 
The Bobcats also dropped ODU's home record to 9-1 and held the Monarchs to their fewest points in a game this season.
 
Texas State, meanwhile, has held back-to-back opponents under 50 points for the first time since November 2019.
 
The trio of Da'Nasia Hood (11 points), Kennedy Taylor (7) and Ja'Kayla Bowie (7) combined for 25 of the 33 second-half points by the Bobcats. The three combined to shoot 8-of-19 from the field (42.1 percent) and chipped in six free throws out of nine attempts in the final 20 minutes.
 
Hood, who missed the last two games, finished the game with a team-high 18 points. Bowie added 13, which were her most points since the conference opener on December 29 against Georgia Southern (14).
 
Texas State trailed 18-6 halfway through the second quarter, but it managed to pull within two late in the period with a three-pointer by Hood.
 
After coming out of halftime down 23-19, the deficit for Texas State swelled to 31-23 as the Bobcats were only 2-of-10 from the field to start the second half.
 
However, a three-pointer by Hood – one of her two in the game – snapped the cold stretch offensively and set off a run to end the game in which the Bobcats were 8-of-17 shooting (47.1 percent) in the final 12 minutes.
 
The Bobcats took the lead, and never looked back, after Bowie scored six straight points and made it 35-34 with 8:48 remaining in the game. Almost a minute-and-a-half later, Taylor drilled a fastbreak three-pointer near the top of the arc to put the Bobcats up 38-34.
 
Texas State stretched it out to as much as seven points after six straight points by Lauryn Thompson made it 43-36, but Old Dominion narrowed the advantage down to 45-44 with just over three minutes remaining. The Bobcat defense limited the Monarchs, though, by holding them to only one field goal on their final 10 attempts.
 
STAT LEADERS

• Points – Da'Nasia Hood (18)
• Rebounds – Da'Nasia Hood (9)
• Assists – Kennedy Taylor (7)
• Steals – Kennedy Taylor, Tianna Eaton, Lauryn Thompson, Da'Nasia Hood (1)
• Blocks – Tianna Eaton (2)

 
SCORES BY QUARTER
1st | ODU 11, Texas State 4
2nd | ODU 23, Texas State 19
3rd | ODU 32, Texas State 29
4th | Texas State 52, ODU 46
 
GAME NOTES

• Texas State outscored Old Dominion, 23-14, in the fourth quarter.
• The Bobcats limited the Monarchs to 29.9 percent shooting, the second-lowest field goal percentage by a Sun Belt opponent this season (lowest: 23.3 percent by Arkansas State).
• The Bobcats have held 5 different opponents this season to under 30 percent shooting in a game, including 2 Sun Belt teams.
• Over the last 5 games, Texas State's defense has held opponents to a 32.3 percent field goal shooting (93-of-288). From three-point range, opponents are shooting 21.1 percent over the same stretch (15-of-17).
• The Bobcats are 5-0 on Thursdays in conference play this year.
• ODU outrebounded Texas State, 49-39. However, Texas State had 31 defensive rebounds to ODU's 29. The Monarchs had 20 offensive rebounds to Texas State's 8.
• ODU had 10 second-chance points while Texas State had 4.
• Texas State led for 9:49 of the game while ODU led for 28:21.
• Hood's 18 points now give her 1,598 in her career.
• Texas State has not lost back-to-back games since late November.
• The last time Texas State held back-to-back opponents under 50 points was Nov. 27-30, 2019. It beat New Orleans, 51-49, on Nov. 27, 2019 and then topped Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 57-48, on Nov. 30, 2019.
• The Bobcats have held 3 of their last 5 opponents under 50 points.
• Texas State had 16 assists on its 18 field goals made, its best rate this season.

UP NEXT
After a three-game road swing, Texas State returns home for three straight home games. The Bobcats face Southern Miss (14-6, 7-2 Sun Belt) on Saturday in Strahan Arena at 4 pm.