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Aggies Fall in Overtime at Kansas State
MANHATTAN,
Kan. (AP) — Mariah White fought through traffic and banked in a runner
with 1.6 seconds left in overtime to lift Kansas State over No. 8 Texas
A&M 71-69 on Wednesday night.
Brittany Chambers scored
21 points, Tasha Dickey had 17 and Jalana Childs added 16 for the
Wildcats (10-3, 1-0 Big 12). White finished with 12 points, 11 assists,
five rebounds, three steals and a block.
Tyra White scored
17 points and Sydney Carter added 16 for the Aggies (9-3, 0-1). Kelsey
Bone chipped in 14 points and 10 rebounds.
Kansas State,
which trailed 34-25 at the half, shot a season-best 54 percent (27 of
50) from the field, while Texas A&M hit 42 percent (28 for 67).
The
Wildcats surged after the break and shot 60 percent in the second half,
which included a 14-4 run that brought KSU out of 39-29 hole 3 minutes
into the half.
Free throws proved costly for the Aggies, who went 10 for 19 from the stripe - including 4 for 11 in the second half.
The
Wildcats weren't much better at 13 for 21 from the free throw line, but
most of their makes came down the stretch and in overtime.
POSTGAME NOTES
TEAM NOTES
•
For the ninth time this season, Texas A&M used the starting lineup
of Adrienne Pratcher, Sydney Carter, Tyra White, Adaora Elonu and
Kelsey Bone… It marked the 10th start of Bone’s Aggie career, the 13th
career start for Pratcher, 83rd for White and 86th for Elonu.
• Texas A&M moves to 6-10 all-time in Big 12 Conference openers and 4-6 when starting league play on the road.
• Texas A&M is now to 7-13 in the all-time series with Kansas State and moves to 0-3 vs. K-State in Big 12 openers.
•
The Aggies played their first overtime game since Dec. 20, 2007 at No.
22 George Washington and are now to 13-10 all-time in overtime games.
• A&M outscored K-State 22-7 in second chance points and held a 24-11 advantage in offensive rebounds.
• The Aggie bench outscored the Wildcats’ bench, 13-3.
INDIVIDUAL NOTES
• Bone tallied her 12th career and third double-double as an Aggie. It was also her second straight.
• White has now started in 70 straight games, a streak that started on Jan. 4, 2010 against Lamar.
• White has now scored double figures in 19 of her last 20 games.
• In just six minutes in the first half, Gilbert tallied 4 points, four rebounds and a block.
• Elonu dished out a season-high three assists and grabbed a first-half season-high seven rebounds.
• Carter had a first-half season-high four rebounds.
•
Skylar Collins played a career-high 23 minutes and contributed 9 points
on 4-of-4 from the floor and 1-of-1 from the free throw line, with two
assists and two rebounds.
• Adaora Elonu added 8 points and nine rebounds
POSTGAME QUOTES
A&M HEAD COACH GARY BLAIR
Opening Statement
This
team has been playing like this for a long time. Everyone’s circle on
their calendar is when they play us. We have to respond. Getting to the
Final Four, getting to the NCAA Tournament is not very much in our
reach right now until we learn to play better and smarter. The smarter
team won tonight. The team that executed their offense in the last five
minutes of the game won tonight. We gave up 60 percent in the second
half. We have to get better. I had four seniors on the floor. I’m
frustrated as a coach and I have to teach better. Drills aren’t going
to get us better. Film, basketball IQ and finding a heartbeat as a team
is going to get us better.
On K-State’s Mariah White
Mariah
White played very well. She’s not a jump shooter, she’s a driver,
driver, driver and when everything was taken away she put the ball on
the floor. We allowed her to get side-by-side and the kid just made a
play (at the end). It wasn’t Chambers that beat us, it was White.
Carter did an adequate job (on Chambers) for the game.
SENIOR GUARD SYDNEY CARTER
On guarding Brittany Chambers
I’ve
got to make sure I’m not taking any plays off. I know she’s going to be
involved in every play, either she’s going to be a screen or she’s
going to be the shooter. I let her get away from me on a couple of
flair screens and she just knocked them down. I think I was doing a
pretty good job in the first half. I was wearing her down a bit and she
was running off screens and rushing shots off the dribble. In the
second half, they were running more flair screens for her and she was
knocking them down.
On K-State’s run to start the second half
I
think that’s where we kind of lost the game. We couldn’t seem to
capitalize and we just turned the ball over way too much. Me being a
senior out there, I can tell that this team is just way different than
last year. We don’t have a point guard and I’m kind of having to run
the point. We definitely need our point guards in there running the
show and Tyra and I need to knock down some shots. Their run was
something careless on our part. We need to do a better job and clean it
up.
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