Sunday, January 27
College Station
4 p.m.
Texas A&M
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Kentucky
No. 19 Women's Basketball Heads To No. 11 Kentucky For Pivotal SEC Game Thursday
Feb 27, 2019 | Women's Basketball
LEXINGTON, Ky. — No. 19 Texas A&M looks to secure a season-sweep of No. 11 Kentucky, and a third top-15 win of the season Thursday in a women's basketball game at Memorial Coliseum.
The game is broadcast on SEC Network + with Dick Gabriel and Christi Thomas on the call, available exclusively through WatchESPN and the ESPN app on smartphones, computers, tablets and connected devices (Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One). Radio listeners can hear Tom Turbiville and Steve Miller on The Zone 1150 AM/102.7 FM in Bryan-College Station, and online at 12thMan.com.
In the teams' first matchup, Texas A&M (21-6, 10-4 SEC) held on for a 73-71 victory on Jan. 27, as the then-No. 15 Wildcats closed an eight-point margin to a single point in the last two minutes of the game. Chennedy Carter and Kayla Wells each added 20 points in a game that Aggies led wire-to-wire.
Texas A&M is coming off of back-to-back wins over at least 17 points, and 20+ point performances from Carter and Wells each time. Wells had a career-high 29 points in the Aggies' Feb. 21 win over Tennessee, then had a team-high 24 at Florida Monday. Carter added 28 and 21 respectively.
"It's fun to play in games like this," said Wells of Thursday's matchup. "This is the type of game that players like me and my teammates live for. We're going to prepare and go out there and play hard."
Freshman Rhyne Howard leads Kentucky (23-5, 10-4 SEC) in scoring (16.7) and rebounding (6.7), but the focus Thursday is on senior guards Maci Morris (15.6 ppg) and Taylor Murray (12.9), playing their last regular season home game.
With a victory or some help Thursday, the Aggies can secure one of the top-four seeds and a coveted double-bye in the upcoming Southeastern Conference Tournament, held March 6-10 in Greenville, S.C. A victory over Kentucky clinches the No. 3-seed in the tournament or a Missouri loss to Arkansas clinches a top-four spot regardless of the Aggies' result.
SEC Tournament scenarios:
If Texas A&M beats Kentucky
Texas A&M guarantees the No. 3-seed
If Kentucky beats Texas A&M and Arkansas beats Missouri
Texas A&M guarantees the No. 4-seed
If Kentucky beats Texas A&M and Missouri beats Arkansas
Texas A&M can clinch the No. 4-seed Sunday with a win over Arkansas or a Missouri loss to Alabama
The game is broadcast on SEC Network + with Dick Gabriel and Christi Thomas on the call, available exclusively through WatchESPN and the ESPN app on smartphones, computers, tablets and connected devices (Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One). Radio listeners can hear Tom Turbiville and Steve Miller on The Zone 1150 AM/102.7 FM in Bryan-College Station, and online at 12thMan.com.
In the teams' first matchup, Texas A&M (21-6, 10-4 SEC) held on for a 73-71 victory on Jan. 27, as the then-No. 15 Wildcats closed an eight-point margin to a single point in the last two minutes of the game. Chennedy Carter and Kayla Wells each added 20 points in a game that Aggies led wire-to-wire.
Texas A&M is coming off of back-to-back wins over at least 17 points, and 20+ point performances from Carter and Wells each time. Wells had a career-high 29 points in the Aggies' Feb. 21 win over Tennessee, then had a team-high 24 at Florida Monday. Carter added 28 and 21 respectively.
"It's fun to play in games like this," said Wells of Thursday's matchup. "This is the type of game that players like me and my teammates live for. We're going to prepare and go out there and play hard."
Freshman Rhyne Howard leads Kentucky (23-5, 10-4 SEC) in scoring (16.7) and rebounding (6.7), but the focus Thursday is on senior guards Maci Morris (15.6 ppg) and Taylor Murray (12.9), playing their last regular season home game.
With a victory or some help Thursday, the Aggies can secure one of the top-four seeds and a coveted double-bye in the upcoming Southeastern Conference Tournament, held March 6-10 in Greenville, S.C. A victory over Kentucky clinches the No. 3-seed in the tournament or a Missouri loss to Arkansas clinches a top-four spot regardless of the Aggies' result.
SEC Tournament scenarios:
If Texas A&M beats Kentucky
Texas A&M guarantees the No. 3-seed
If Kentucky beats Texas A&M and Arkansas beats Missouri
Texas A&M guarantees the No. 4-seed
If Kentucky beats Texas A&M and Missouri beats Arkansas
Texas A&M can clinch the No. 4-seed Sunday with a win over Arkansas or a Missouri loss to Alabama
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