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This Sunday will be the last WBB game between the two schools in the foreseeable future as A&M moves to the SEC July 1st. It marks the final State Farm Lone Star Showdown in WBB. Texas snapped an 11 game losing streak to the Aggies with a 76-71 in College Station on Sunday, Jan. 08, 2012. For the Texas seniors, winning this game would give them a sweep after being swept by A&M for the first three years of their college careers. It would be especially sweet as it would be on their senior day. A&M is looking to remain tied for second with OU while Texas is looking to end up as high as possible in the conference standings. Texas wants to end this conference season with a three game winning streak to make a strong case for inclusion in the NCAAs. A&M wants to win the last game of conference, not just because it’s Texas they are playing but to gain a bit of momentum heading into the post season after their loss to Baylor last Monday. Final standings in conference are also in play, depending on the outcome of this game and others being played this weekend.
A&M is led by four players in double figures that score 48.1 pts of the 65.1 ppg that A&M is averaging. Tyra White (#20, 6-0 Sr. G) averages 13.3 ppg. Adaora Elonu (# 21, 6-1 Sr. F) is at 11.9 ppg. Kelsey Bone (# 3, 6-4 Jr. C) adds 11.8 ppg. Sydney Carter (# 4, 5-6 Sr. G), with an average of 11.1 ppg, completes the quartet. Alexis Standish (# 10, 5-8 Fr. G) pitches in with 5.1 ppg while Karla Gilbert (# 34, 6-5 Soph. C) averages 4.8 ppg. While Carter (64-201, 31.8%) and White (94-234, 38.0%) have taken the most shots, their post players have been the most effective with Bone (90-164) at 54.9%, Elonu (75-157) at 59.9%, Gilbert (29-49) at 59.2% and Kelsey Assarian (# 40, 6-1 Sr. F) at 42.1% on 8-19. Every player that averages at least 14 mpg has taken at least two treys except for Gilbert who has yet to attempt a 3pter. The four players that have made threes for A&M are guards with Standish having the best percentage, 38.5% on 20-52 while Carter has taken the most treys, 16-71 for 22.5%. White is hitting 33.3% (7-21) while Adrienne Pratcher (#32, 5-7 Jr. G) is at 27.3% (6-21). A&M has three players that have gotten to the FT line at least 55 times. Carter is tied with Standish for the team lead in FT percentage, having hit 45 of 55 for 81.8%. Elonu is second on the team in FT % at 75.4% (52-69). She leads the team is FTs attempted and made. Standish is 9-11 for 81.8%. White is having trouble from the FT line, averaging 56.4% on 31-55.
A&M’s top three rebounders are Bone (6.5 rpg), Elonu (6.3 rpg) and White (5.9 rpg). Five players have at least 31 assists with another over 20. Carter leads with 49 assists while Standish totals 41, White 36, Pratcher 32 and Elonu 31. Bone adds 23 assists to the team total of 245. Elonu leads with 22 blocks while Gilbert is second with 19. White (12) and Bone (10) join them in reaching double digit blocks in conference. Four players are double figure steals, led by Carter’s 33. Elonu has 25, Bone 24 and White 21.
Eight players make up the main rotation with all eight having played in all 17 Big 12 games. Only Assarian of those eight average less than 15 mpg at 9.3 mpg. A&M’s starting five all average over 22 mpg with White (35.6 mpg), Carter (35.4 mpg) and Elonu (29.1 mpg) logging the most minutes as well as having started all 17 conference games. Bone (25.2 mpg) has started 16 of 17 games and Standish (22.1 mpg) has started 15 of 17 conference games. Off the bench, Pratcher (15.5 mpg), Gilbert (14.5 mpg) and Assarian (9.3 ppg) have played in all 17 games. Also seeing action but not in all games are: Kristi Bullock (# 5, 6-1 Jr. F/G; 3.6 mpg in 13 games), Sklyar Collins (# 25, 5-9 Sr. G; 9.2 mpg in 16 games), Tori Scott (# 15, 5-10 Fr. G; 3.1 mpg in 10 games) and Cierra Windham (# 12, 6-0 Jr. F/G; 2.9 mpg in 8 games).
Horns have three players averaging double figures in scoring and one on the cusp: Chassidy (16.9 ppg), Ashleigh (11.5 ppg), Yvonne (11.5 ppg) and Chelsea (9.3 ppg). The four posts in the main rotation are averaging between 4.6 ppg (Ashley) and 4.2 ppg (Anne Marie). Horns have five players averaging between 47.1 % (Ronisha, 8-71), and 41.1% (Yvonne, 74-180). The other three are Chelsea (35-78, 44.9%), Nneka (29-68, 42.6%) and Anne Marie (33-78, 42.3%). Chassidy is just off that, hitting 39.3% of her FGs (99-252). Ashleigh joins Chassidy as the other Horn that has attempted over 200 FGs (70-207, 33.8%). Horns are second in the league in 3pt FG percentage at 34.8%. Chassidy’s 41.4% (41-99) from BTA leads the team while Chelsea is second at 38.5% (15-39). The other guards, Yvonne and Ashleigh are at 26.8% (15-56) and 31.4% (16-51), respectively. Ronisha (1-3, 33.3%) has the only 3 made by the posts. The Horns have slowly been creeping toward 70% from the FT line. They are now making 68.6% with four players over 70% and one just under at 69.6%. Chassidy tops the team and the league at 90.7% (49-54). She was second nationally this past week with a FT percentage of 90.3%.The other sharpshooters from the FT are: Yvonne (32-44, 72.7%), Ashleigh (40-56, 71.4%), and Chelsea (26-37, 70.3%). Nneka, at 69.6% (16-23), is the top post player at the FT line.
Two guards rank first and third in rebounding: Chassidy (5.8 rpg) and Ashleigh (4.9 rpg). Nneka is second at 5.1 rpg. Ashley (4.8 rpg) and Anne Marie (4.1 pg) also grabbing over 4 boards a game. Yvonne is one assist from hitting 100 in conference play. That ranks her second in the league with an average of 5.8 assists per game. Ashleigh is second with 52 while Chassidy is third with 22 and Ashley has 19. Ashley tops the team with 40 blocks which ranks second in the league (2.35 bpg). Through last week’s standings which go through 02/26/12, Ashley is ranked ninth with 86 blocks (3.1 bpg). Nneka is second in blocks with 12 during conference games. Three Horns have at least 20 steals, topped by Yvonne with 40. Ashleigh adds 33 and Chassidy 22. Ashley tops the post players with 19 steals.
Five Horns are averaging at least 22 mpg with three others 17-18 mpg. The starting backcourt are all averaging over 32 mpg with Chassidy putting in 35.8 mpg, Yvonne 33.6 and Ashleigh 32.5. Ashley averages 24.6 mpg and Chelsea 21.8 mpg. Nneka is at 18.4 mpg, Anne Marie at 17.7 and Cokie at 17.1. Ronisha has gotten into the last two games and had a very productive game against Missouri, grabbing seven rebounds and scoring six points. She has averaged 15.5 mpg in the last two games against OU and Mizzou.
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Texas A&M
Ashley (6-4) Bone (6-4)
Anne Marie (6-3) Elonu (6-1)
Yvonne (5-7) Carter (5-6)
Ashleigh (5-8) Standish (5-8)
Chassidy (5-10) White (6-0) [/pre]
Ashley matched the point total of Bone and Elonu with her 17 points as she hit on 8 of 12 FGs. Penetration by the guards led to a 40 to 24 advantage for Texas in points in the paint. Horns had the edge in fast break points, 20-9 as well as points off turnovers, 13 to 12, a category A&M usually feasts on. Horns held A&M without a FG for the last 3 minutes of the game. A similar defensive effort will be needed Sunday. The starters for both teams scored 64 points. The Texas bench, providing 12 pts to 7 for A&M’s reserves, helped pull out the win for the Horns. A&M will start the same five as in their last game. Texas has had Anne Marie starting with Cokie coming off the bench. In addition, Chelsea has been playing better since returning from her injury and Ronisha comes in off two good games where she provided scoring and rebounding off the bench. Pratcher and Gilbert were the main reserves for A&M while Nneka, Anne Marie and Chelsea came in off the bench for the Horns. In the last two games, Texas has used a base rotation of nine players. Prior to that, they have used eight players. A&M routinely uses nine. Depth should not be an issue for either team.Stats are conference stats only. [pre] TEAM STATISTICS UT A&M
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SCORING................. 1098 1106
Points per game....... 64.6 65.1
Scoring margin........ -3.2 +7.8
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 411-1064 430-1022
Field goal pct........ .386 .421
FG made per game...... 24.2 25.3
FG att per game....... 62.6 60.1
2POINT FG-ATT........... 323-811 375-834
2-point FG pct........ .393 .450
2-pt FG made per game. 19.0 22.1
2-pt FG att per game.. 47.7 49.1
3 POINT FG-ATT.......... 88-253 55-188
3-point FG pct........ .348 .293
3-pt FG made per game. 5.2 3.2
3-pt FG att per game.. 14.9 11.1
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 188-274 191-284
Free throw pct........ .686 .673
F-Throws made per game 11.1 11.2
F-Throws att per game. 16.1 16.7
REBOUNDS................ 662 626
Rebounds per game..... 38.9 36.8
Rebounding margin..... -1.5 +2.3
ASSISTS.................. 219 245
Assists per game...... 12.9 14.4
TURNOVERS................ 262 244
Turnovers per game.... 15.4 14.4
Turnover margin....... +0.12 +5.71
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.84 1.00
STEALS.................. 143 159
Steals per game....... 8.4 9.4
BLOCKS.................. 87 83
Blocks per game....... 5.1 4.9
ATTENDANCE.............. 32606 62165
Home games-Avg/Game... 8-4076 9-6907
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st aver 2nd aver OT1 aver OT2 aver Total aver
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Texas.................... 484 28.5 614 36.1 - - - - 1098 64.6
Texas A&M................ 543 31.9 555 32.6 8 0.5 - - 1106 65.1 [/pre]
This should be a close game if you go by the stats. A&M has an edge scoring margin (+7.8 to -3.2) and FG % (42.1% to 38.6%) while Texas has the edge in 3pt shooting (34.8% to 29.3%) and FT percentage (68.6 to 67.3). One area where A&M holds a big statistical edge is Turnover Margin as they are a plus 5.71 while Texas is at a plus 0.12. Texas came away with a 76-71 win in College Station the time these two met. The one area that Texas did not do well in was FT shooting as they shot 46.7%. Maybe they were just trying to keep all shooting percentages in the 40s as they hit 47.8% of their FGs and 45.5% of their threes.
A&M was 15-22 from the FT line compared to the Horns’ 7-15. They did a very good job of getting the FT line. Horns will need to reverse that Sunday. They need to get to the FT to take advantage of their FT shooting. It is especially important for the guards to be shooting FTs.
A&M should bring a good sized crowd for the last game at the FEC. They have the last few times. They expect to win over the Horns. The loss in College Station was a bit of shock. Time for the Horns to do it again.
BEVO’S BARGAINS:
• Scout Day: $5 arena reserved ticket for all girl and boy scouts and guests. Scouts will receive a UT Athletics Scout patch at the game. ADVANCE SALE ONLY by calling (512) 232-3865. The deadline to order is Friday, Feb. 24 at noon.
• Faculty/Staff Day: $5 arena reserved ticket available to all University of Texas faculty and staff. Faculty and Staff may purchase tickets at Bellmont Hall (M-F; 9 a.m. -- 4 p.m.) or at the Frank Erwin Center's north or south box offices starting one hour prior to the game. Valid UT ID must be presented at the time of purchase. • Teacher Appreciation Day: $5 arena reserved ticket for all teachers and guests. ADVANCE SALE ONLY by calling (512) 232-3865. The deadline to order is Friday, Feb. 24 at noon. • Texas Rewind: Following the game, select players and coaches will host a FREE Q&A session in the Lone Star Room for fans.
• Longhorns Kids Court: Youth 18 and under can enjoy inflatables, face painting, basketball goals and more for FREE presented by Carus Dental. Located at the Denton Cooley Pavilion, doors open 90 minutes before tip.
• Dads and Daughters Day: Dad, spend some quality time with your daughter by bringing her out to a Texas Longhorns Basketball game! $5 general admission ticket, must be purchased at the door.
Game time is 12 noon, Sunday March 4th. The game will be on FSN nationally. KVET 1300 AM will broadcast the game on radio in the Austin area. To listen inside the FEC, use 103.1 FM. Other radio stations: XM Ch. 202; Sirius Ch. 213.
This will be senior day for Ashley Gayle, Ashleigh Fontenette and Yvonne Anderson. They will be honored at 11:45 am before the game. Coach G's first recruiting class have all left their mark as Ashley will finish as the all time shot blocker for UT while Yvonne and Ashleigh have reached the 1000 pt threshold.
texassports.com game preview.
A&M is led by four players in double figures that score 48.1 pts of the 65.1 ppg that A&M is averaging. Tyra White (#20, 6-0 Sr. G) averages 13.3 ppg. Adaora Elonu (# 21, 6-1 Sr. F) is at 11.9 ppg. Kelsey Bone (# 3, 6-4 Jr. C) adds 11.8 ppg. Sydney Carter (# 4, 5-6 Sr. G), with an average of 11.1 ppg, completes the quartet. Alexis Standish (# 10, 5-8 Fr. G) pitches in with 5.1 ppg while Karla Gilbert (# 34, 6-5 Soph. C) averages 4.8 ppg. While Carter (64-201, 31.8%) and White (94-234, 38.0%) have taken the most shots, their post players have been the most effective with Bone (90-164) at 54.9%, Elonu (75-157) at 59.9%, Gilbert (29-49) at 59.2% and Kelsey Assarian (# 40, 6-1 Sr. F) at 42.1% on 8-19. Every player that averages at least 14 mpg has taken at least two treys except for Gilbert who has yet to attempt a 3pter. The four players that have made threes for A&M are guards with Standish having the best percentage, 38.5% on 20-52 while Carter has taken the most treys, 16-71 for 22.5%. White is hitting 33.3% (7-21) while Adrienne Pratcher (#32, 5-7 Jr. G) is at 27.3% (6-21). A&M has three players that have gotten to the FT line at least 55 times. Carter is tied with Standish for the team lead in FT percentage, having hit 45 of 55 for 81.8%. Elonu is second on the team in FT % at 75.4% (52-69). She leads the team is FTs attempted and made. Standish is 9-11 for 81.8%. White is having trouble from the FT line, averaging 56.4% on 31-55.
A&M’s top three rebounders are Bone (6.5 rpg), Elonu (6.3 rpg) and White (5.9 rpg). Five players have at least 31 assists with another over 20. Carter leads with 49 assists while Standish totals 41, White 36, Pratcher 32 and Elonu 31. Bone adds 23 assists to the team total of 245. Elonu leads with 22 blocks while Gilbert is second with 19. White (12) and Bone (10) join them in reaching double digit blocks in conference. Four players are double figure steals, led by Carter’s 33. Elonu has 25, Bone 24 and White 21.
Eight players make up the main rotation with all eight having played in all 17 Big 12 games. Only Assarian of those eight average less than 15 mpg at 9.3 mpg. A&M’s starting five all average over 22 mpg with White (35.6 mpg), Carter (35.4 mpg) and Elonu (29.1 mpg) logging the most minutes as well as having started all 17 conference games. Bone (25.2 mpg) has started 16 of 17 games and Standish (22.1 mpg) has started 15 of 17 conference games. Off the bench, Pratcher (15.5 mpg), Gilbert (14.5 mpg) and Assarian (9.3 ppg) have played in all 17 games. Also seeing action but not in all games are: Kristi Bullock (# 5, 6-1 Jr. F/G; 3.6 mpg in 13 games), Sklyar Collins (# 25, 5-9 Sr. G; 9.2 mpg in 16 games), Tori Scott (# 15, 5-10 Fr. G; 3.1 mpg in 10 games) and Cierra Windham (# 12, 6-0 Jr. F/G; 2.9 mpg in 8 games).
Horns have three players averaging double figures in scoring and one on the cusp: Chassidy (16.9 ppg), Ashleigh (11.5 ppg), Yvonne (11.5 ppg) and Chelsea (9.3 ppg). The four posts in the main rotation are averaging between 4.6 ppg (Ashley) and 4.2 ppg (Anne Marie). Horns have five players averaging between 47.1 % (Ronisha, 8-71), and 41.1% (Yvonne, 74-180). The other three are Chelsea (35-78, 44.9%), Nneka (29-68, 42.6%) and Anne Marie (33-78, 42.3%). Chassidy is just off that, hitting 39.3% of her FGs (99-252). Ashleigh joins Chassidy as the other Horn that has attempted over 200 FGs (70-207, 33.8%). Horns are second in the league in 3pt FG percentage at 34.8%. Chassidy’s 41.4% (41-99) from BTA leads the team while Chelsea is second at 38.5% (15-39). The other guards, Yvonne and Ashleigh are at 26.8% (15-56) and 31.4% (16-51), respectively. Ronisha (1-3, 33.3%) has the only 3 made by the posts. The Horns have slowly been creeping toward 70% from the FT line. They are now making 68.6% with four players over 70% and one just under at 69.6%. Chassidy tops the team and the league at 90.7% (49-54). She was second nationally this past week with a FT percentage of 90.3%.The other sharpshooters from the FT are: Yvonne (32-44, 72.7%), Ashleigh (40-56, 71.4%), and Chelsea (26-37, 70.3%). Nneka, at 69.6% (16-23), is the top post player at the FT line.
Two guards rank first and third in rebounding: Chassidy (5.8 rpg) and Ashleigh (4.9 rpg). Nneka is second at 5.1 rpg. Ashley (4.8 rpg) and Anne Marie (4.1 pg) also grabbing over 4 boards a game. Yvonne is one assist from hitting 100 in conference play. That ranks her second in the league with an average of 5.8 assists per game. Ashleigh is second with 52 while Chassidy is third with 22 and Ashley has 19. Ashley tops the team with 40 blocks which ranks second in the league (2.35 bpg). Through last week’s standings which go through 02/26/12, Ashley is ranked ninth with 86 blocks (3.1 bpg). Nneka is second in blocks with 12 during conference games. Three Horns have at least 20 steals, topped by Yvonne with 40. Ashleigh adds 33 and Chassidy 22. Ashley tops the post players with 19 steals.
Five Horns are averaging at least 22 mpg with three others 17-18 mpg. The starting backcourt are all averaging over 32 mpg with Chassidy putting in 35.8 mpg, Yvonne 33.6 and Ashleigh 32.5. Ashley averages 24.6 mpg and Chelsea 21.8 mpg. Nneka is at 18.4 mpg, Anne Marie at 17.7 and Cokie at 17.1. Ronisha has gotten into the last two games and had a very productive game against Missouri, grabbing seven rebounds and scoring six points. She has averaged 15.5 mpg in the last two games against OU and Mizzou.
[pre]
Texas A&M
Ashley (6-4) Bone (6-4)
Anne Marie (6-3) Elonu (6-1)
Yvonne (5-7) Carter (5-6)
Ashleigh (5-8) Standish (5-8)
Chassidy (5-10) White (6-0) [/pre]
Ashley matched the point total of Bone and Elonu with her 17 points as she hit on 8 of 12 FGs. Penetration by the guards led to a 40 to 24 advantage for Texas in points in the paint. Horns had the edge in fast break points, 20-9 as well as points off turnovers, 13 to 12, a category A&M usually feasts on. Horns held A&M without a FG for the last 3 minutes of the game. A similar defensive effort will be needed Sunday. The starters for both teams scored 64 points. The Texas bench, providing 12 pts to 7 for A&M’s reserves, helped pull out the win for the Horns. A&M will start the same five as in their last game. Texas has had Anne Marie starting with Cokie coming off the bench. In addition, Chelsea has been playing better since returning from her injury and Ronisha comes in off two good games where she provided scoring and rebounding off the bench. Pratcher and Gilbert were the main reserves for A&M while Nneka, Anne Marie and Chelsea came in off the bench for the Horns. In the last two games, Texas has used a base rotation of nine players. Prior to that, they have used eight players. A&M routinely uses nine. Depth should not be an issue for either team.Stats are conference stats only. [pre] TEAM STATISTICS UT A&M
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SCORING................. 1098 1106
Points per game....... 64.6 65.1
Scoring margin........ -3.2 +7.8
FIELD GOALS-ATT......... 411-1064 430-1022
Field goal pct........ .386 .421
FG made per game...... 24.2 25.3
FG att per game....... 62.6 60.1
2POINT FG-ATT........... 323-811 375-834
2-point FG pct........ .393 .450
2-pt FG made per game. 19.0 22.1
2-pt FG att per game.. 47.7 49.1
3 POINT FG-ATT.......... 88-253 55-188
3-point FG pct........ .348 .293
3-pt FG made per game. 5.2 3.2
3-pt FG att per game.. 14.9 11.1
FREE THROWS-ATT......... 188-274 191-284
Free throw pct........ .686 .673
F-Throws made per game 11.1 11.2
F-Throws att per game. 16.1 16.7
REBOUNDS................ 662 626
Rebounds per game..... 38.9 36.8
Rebounding margin..... -1.5 +2.3
ASSISTS.................. 219 245
Assists per game...... 12.9 14.4
TURNOVERS................ 262 244
Turnovers per game.... 15.4 14.4
Turnover margin....... +0.12 +5.71
Assist/turnover ratio. 0.84 1.00
STEALS.................. 143 159
Steals per game....... 8.4 9.4
BLOCKS.................. 87 83
Blocks per game....... 5.1 4.9
ATTENDANCE.............. 32606 62165
Home games-Avg/Game... 8-4076 9-6907
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st aver 2nd aver OT1 aver OT2 aver Total aver
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Texas.................... 484 28.5 614 36.1 - - - - 1098 64.6
Texas A&M................ 543 31.9 555 32.6 8 0.5 - - 1106 65.1 [/pre]
This should be a close game if you go by the stats. A&M has an edge scoring margin (+7.8 to -3.2) and FG % (42.1% to 38.6%) while Texas has the edge in 3pt shooting (34.8% to 29.3%) and FT percentage (68.6 to 67.3). One area where A&M holds a big statistical edge is Turnover Margin as they are a plus 5.71 while Texas is at a plus 0.12. Texas came away with a 76-71 win in College Station the time these two met. The one area that Texas did not do well in was FT shooting as they shot 46.7%. Maybe they were just trying to keep all shooting percentages in the 40s as they hit 47.8% of their FGs and 45.5% of their threes.
A&M should bring a good sized crowd for the last game at the FEC. They have the last few times. They expect to win over the Horns. The loss in College Station was a bit of shock. Time for the Horns to do it again.
BEVO’S BARGAINS:
• Scout Day: $5 arena reserved ticket for all girl and boy scouts and guests. Scouts will receive a UT Athletics Scout patch at the game. ADVANCE SALE ONLY by calling (512) 232-3865. The deadline to order is Friday, Feb. 24 at noon.
• Faculty/Staff Day: $5 arena reserved ticket available to all University of Texas faculty and staff. Faculty and Staff may purchase tickets at Bellmont Hall (M-F; 9 a.m. -- 4 p.m.) or at the Frank Erwin Center's north or south box offices starting one hour prior to the game. Valid UT ID must be presented at the time of purchase. • Teacher Appreciation Day: $5 arena reserved ticket for all teachers and guests. ADVANCE SALE ONLY by calling (512) 232-3865. The deadline to order is Friday, Feb. 24 at noon. • Texas Rewind: Following the game, select players and coaches will host a FREE Q&A session in the Lone Star Room for fans.
• Longhorns Kids Court: Youth 18 and under can enjoy inflatables, face painting, basketball goals and more for FREE presented by Carus Dental. Located at the Denton Cooley Pavilion, doors open 90 minutes before tip.
• Dads and Daughters Day: Dad, spend some quality time with your daughter by bringing her out to a Texas Longhorns Basketball game! $5 general admission ticket, must be purchased at the door.
Game time is 12 noon, Sunday March 4th. The game will be on FSN nationally. KVET 1300 AM will broadcast the game on radio in the Austin area. To listen inside the FEC, use 103.1 FM. Other radio stations: XM Ch. 202; Sirius Ch. 213.
This will be senior day for Ashley Gayle, Ashleigh Fontenette and Yvonne Anderson. They will be honored at 11:45 am before the game. Coach G's first recruiting class have all left their mark as Ashley will finish as the all time shot blocker for UT while Yvonne and Ashleigh have reached the 1000 pt threshold.
texassports.com game preview.
