Women vs South Alabama

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Haven't seen anything on Precious or Romi or if they're gonna play tonight.

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Whatever this illness is needs to run its course.

Edit: Romi isn't at warmups. Precious was on the court for warmups but not participating wearing a mask.

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Duhon immediately gets fouled and goes 1-2 from the line.

A quick turnover by USA and Shaw makes a jumper.

Coulibaly steals but Richardson commits the offensive foul. Pretty obvious charge, too. Defender was set for a long time.

3-0 Auburn

Auburn almost causes a shot clock violation and then a bad possession by us and Coulibaly has to take a VERY long 3.

Coulibaly gets hit in the face going for a rebound. She stays on the court for awhile before getting taken out of the game and has to go the locker to get checked out.

3-0 Auburn with 7:31 in the 1st.

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USA gets a long 2 and is fouled by Honesty. Baaaaaad foul.

3-3

Duhon with a jumper!

5-3 Auburn

Richardson is fouled and makes 1-2. Good hustle by Duhon and it goes out on USA. Shaw travels. Graves with a reach in foul, another really bad foul far away from the basket.

Bostic with a jumper!

8-5 Auburn and Bostic causes the offensive foul! Going to the media timeout with 4:35 left in the 1st.

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Auburn gets an offensive rebound but Graves immediately turns it over and USA hits a 3 on the other end. Defense left her wide open.

8-8

Auburn causes a turnover and Duhon gets the easy layup.

10-8 Auburn

Bostic fouls and USA hits both FTs.

10-10 and Coulibaly is back on the court!

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Coulibaly comes in and immediately gets a rebound on her own missed layup and then gets fouled. Makes both FTs and Auburn is in the bonus with 2:15 left.

12-10 Auburn

USA gets an offensive board and 2nd chance points.

12-12

Johnson fouled and makes both FTs.

14-12 Auburn

USA gets a couple of offensive rebounds but luckily they turn it over and can't make Auburn pay for poor box outs.

Richardson gets an offensive rebound and Coulibaly gets fouled. Early foul trouble for USA and she makes both FTs.

16-12 Auburn

Coulibaly misses a 3 to end the 1st.

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Auburn has been leaving USA wide open and they finally get a 3 to fall.

16-15 Auburn

Richardson travels and leads to a USA 3 on the other end.

18-16 USA.

ANOTHER turnover this time by Shaw and USA with an easy layup. Turnovers were a problem last game and they've continued and Auburn has to call a timeout 75 seconds into the quarter.

20-16 USA

 

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Richardson and Duhon doing work on the boards as they both get an offensive rebound and Duhon gets the layup.

20-18 USA

Duhon fouls and USA makes 1-2.

21-18 USA

Richardson inside and Wells with the steal, pass to Bostic for the layup AND-1! Makes the FT!

23-21 Auburn

Duhon with the steal and the fast break layup! Coulibaly block leads to a layup on the other end!

27-21 Auburn and USA has to call a timeout with 6:24 left!

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Right out of the timeout, USA turns the ball over and Duhon lays it up!

29-21 Auburn as they're on an 11-0 run!

Wells with the layup! Amazing run by Auburn!

31-21 Auburn!

Back-to back turnovers by Bostic and Honesty luckily no points for USA, though.

USA committing a lot of turnovers and they're big Center has 3 fouls. Both teams going back and forth on missed shots and turnovers.

Steal by Honesty who passes to Shaw for the layup!

33-21 Auburn!

Edit: Too much content in one post, breaking it up. lol

 

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USA FINALLY scores again at the 1:32 mark. Their last score before that was at 8:45. They get 4 unanswered points.

33-25 Auburn

Duhon gets an offensive board and is fouled. Makes both FTs!

35-25 Auburn

USA layup and then a 3 second turnover by Richardson. USA misses a 3 at the end of the half.

35-27 Auburn at half. Shooting has been rough but Auburn is fighting hard on the boards and getting to the foul line.

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Honesty with a great pass to Coulibaly AND-1 to get the scoring started! Missed the FT, though.

37-27 AU

Duhon with great defense and gets the block! Coulibaly fouled on the inbounds and makes 1-2.

USA with the layup.

38-29 AU

Richardson in the paint!

Coulibaly offensive foul.

40-30 Auburn

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Shaw gets the steal and then immediately throws it away but USA player steps out of bounds after the steal.

Wells fouled going inside and makes both FTs.

42-30 Auburn (I think this is the largest lead)

Coulibaly fouled on the fast break and makes both! USA gets a layup but Coulibaly comes back with a 3! That was the first made 3 out of 10 shots.

USA jumper.

47-34 Auburn

Auburn offensive rebound and Coulibaly is fouled and makes both.

Media timeout with 5 minutes left

49-34 AU

 

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Damn, nice step back 3 by USA out of the media timeout.

49-37 AU

Bostic turns it over, bad possession. Shaw foul and USA makes both FTs.

49-39 AU

And another turnover by Auburn. We just get in these spells where we can't do anything right.

Shaw misses a 3 but Duhon is there for the rebound and the 2nd chance points. She's having a great game!  15 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals, and 2 blocks.

51-39 Auburn

Shaw fouled and makes both FTs

53-39 Auburn

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USA makes a 3. Wish we could do that.

53-42 AU

Duhon commits the shooting foul but USA misses both FTs. Travel by Richardson and then another missed 3 by Auburn. Really wish we would stop taking the 3. 1-13 tonight.

Honesty with a bad reach in and USA was in the bonus. USA makes both FTs.

53-44 more sloppy minutes. Gotta play better.

Bostic fouled, makes 1-2 but Coulibaly fouls going over the back and USA makes both FTs. Awful end to that quarter.

54-46 Auburn going to the 4th

 

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Won't be doing any more play by play as I have to take a shower and get ready for bed. Will post the final score when the game ends. I hope that we can hold on to win this.

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Auburn has allowed WAY too many offensive rebounds in the 4th and the lead is down to 6.

66-60 Auburn with 2:03 left

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Auburn wins 71-62.

We had a 15 point lead in the 3rd and let it get down to 6 due to not boxing out. There was a point where 4 straight possessions by USA had an offensive rebound and 2nd chance points. And we have got to clean up those turnovers.

Freshman Duhon was the player of the game, IMO. She had 17 points on 7-11 shooting, 7 rebounds (5 offensive), 2 blocks, and 3 steals.

[AUlurker 178]

Coach J had the flu as well. It's been pretty bad in the area this fall. The men's team is dealing with it too

[augolf1716 21,103]

AUBURN, Ala. – Missing three key players and their head coach due to illness, the Auburn women's basketball team willed its way to a 71-62 victory over South Alabama Thursday night at Neville Arena.
 
The Tigers (2-0) used a 15-0 run through the middle of the second quarter to turn an early deficit into a lead they would not relinquish. South Alabama (1-1) would not go quietly, however, getting as close as five points in the fourth quarter before Auburn made two key buckets down the stretch to seal the win.
 
Head coach Johnnie Harris was unable to be on the sidelines, so associate head coach Damitria Buchanan assumed the reins for Thursday's game. Auburn was also without junior Precious Johnson, sophomore Romi Levy and freshman Mya Pratcher, all of whom missed the game with illness.
 
"We really fought hard," Buchanan said. "Credit to South Alabama, they're a really good team. We had one day to prepare for them, then coming into today we had to deal with a little bit of adversity when it came to bodies and coaches. We were able to pull it out, and I credit everybody in our program for being able to work together to get this win. It wasn't easy, and I don't think it would have been easy if we had been full strength, because they're a really good team."
 
Freshman Kaitlyn Duhon had a monster game in her second collegiate appearance, scoring 17 points to go along with seven rebounds, three steals and a pair of blocks. Junior Aicha Coulibaly led the Tigers with 19 points and pulled down five boards on the night.
 
Kharyssa Richardson, another freshman, contributed nine points and seven rebounds, and classmate Sydney Shaw finished with eight points and shared the team lead with three assists. Senior Honesty Scott-Grayson knocked down two key 3-pointers, finishing with six points to go along with five rebounds and three assists.
 
Auburn shot 37.7 percent from the field (23-61) and struggled from long range, hitting just 4-of-20 3-point attempts. But they were solid at the free-throw line for the second straight game, hitting 21-of-26 (80.8%). South Alabama won the rebounding battle 47-41, but the Tigers turned 20 Jaguar turnovers into 28 points.
 
A 16-12 Auburn lead after one period quickly turned into a 21-18 Jaguar advantage as South opened the second quarter on a 9-2 run. But South would not score again for more than six minutes as the Tigers went on a 15-0 run, ultimately taking a 35-27 lead at the break.
 
The Tigers would lead by as many as 15 in the third quarter before the Jaguars closed the gap to as few as five points early in the fourth. Leading by just six with two minutes to play, Richardson sunk a driving layup to push the lead to 8, and Scott-Grayson knocked down her second corner trey of the night to seal the win.
 
Kelsey Thompson led South Alabama with 21 points and eight rebounds. Nadia Howard added 12 points.
 
After playing two games in three days, Auburn will get a much-needed break over the next few days as their next game will be next Wednesday, Nov. 16, when they host Georgia Tech at Neville Arena.

[Dual-Threat Rigby 8,662]

That heralded recruiting class has seemed to produce some real winners, so far