Alabama
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Alabama Women’s Basketball Falls on Road at South Florida Wednesday Night, 67-59
11/16/2022 9:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
JaMya Mingo-Young, Hannah Barber and Aaliyah Nye finished in double figures to lead the Crimson Tide
TAMPA – The Alabama women's basketball team fell 67-59 in a road contest against South Florida (4-0) on Wednesday night.
JaMya Mingo-Young led the Crimson Tide (2-1) with 14 points, four rebounds and two steals in the loss while Hannah Barber posted 11 points, two assists and a steal. Aaliyah Nye hit double figures, doing so for the first time of the season, as she finished with 10 points to go along with five boards.
South Florida (4-0) was led by a pair of 20-point scorers in Sammie Puisis, who posted a game-high 26 points, and Elena Tsineke, who ended the contest with 22 points, four assists and two steals.
Alabama Head Coach Kristy Curry Said
"Credit South Florida, I thought they did a really good job. It was an amazing environment. It's like I told our team, we can either take an easy route in November or we can put ourselves in a position that's a real challenge, one that we have an opportunity to grow from and there's certainly a lot that that we can take away. I was disappointed tonight in our ability to rebound the ball. I thought that anytime that you can give up 15 offensive boards you're going to have a hard time against a really good team that's been picked to win their league. We, at times, had some moments where we had some loose balls and things we didn't come up with. I think they had 19 points to our 10 so the transition category and the offensive boards, I thought was the difference in the game and we have to continue to improve."
Game Stats
- JaMya Mingo-Young tallied her first double-digit game this season, finishing with 14 points while knocking down 5-of-8 from the field including all three of her three-point attempts (3-of-3)
- Hannah Barber contributed 11 points on 4-of-10 shooting from the floor and 3-of-6 from deep
- Combined, Mingo-Young and Barber scored 25 of the team's 59 points while combining to shoot 50 percent from the floor (9-of-18) and 66.7 percent (6-of-9) from beyond the arc
- Aaliyah Nye added her first double-figure game to the mix off with her 10 points and five rebounds in 23 minutes of action off the bench
- Alabama held USF to its lowest shooting percentage of the season as the Bulls shot 37.9 percent from the floor and 30.4 percent from beyond the arc
- The game featured five lead changes and three ties
How It Happened
- South Florida had the first run of the game, scoring 10 unanswered points to take a 10-2 advantage at 3:54 mark in the first quarter
- JaMya Mingo-Young hit back-to-back three pointers to cut the Bulls' lead to 10-8 with 1:46 on the clock, but a jump shot from USF pushed the score back to 12-8 to cap the quarter
- Five points from Hannah Barber and a layup from Mingo-Young gave Alabama its first lead (17-15) since the opening basket of the game
- Alabama continued to control the second quarter of action, taking its largest lead of the half at 29-21 with 45 seconds remaining on the clock
- After shooting 33.3 percent from the floor in the first quarter, Alabama outscored USF 19-11 in the second stanza, shooting 58.3 percent (7-of-12) from the field and 66.7 percent (4-of-6) from distance
- Mingo-Young (11 points) and Barber (8 points) combined for 19 of the Tide's 29 first half points to help stake UA to a six-point halftime lead, 29-23
- USF opened the second half with a 7-0 run to take the lead at 30-29 (8:38), but the Tide responded with seven unanswered to regain its six-point advantage by the 7:04 mark
- South Florida would outscore the Tide 14-2 over the next seven minutes of action to head into the fourth quarter with a 44-38 advantage
- The Bulls outscored the Tide 21-9 in the third quarter
- Both teams scored the most points in any of the four quarters played on the night the final stanza, with USF outscoring UA, 23-21
Next Up
- Alabama heads to Nassau, Bahamas, to compete in the Pink Flamingo Championship
- The Crimson Tide opens the tournament against Utah at 1:30 p.m. CT on Nov. 21
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