SAN ANTONIO – On Saturday at 1:30 p.m. CT, the UTSA women’s basketball team will face off against Temple inside the Liacouras Center in American Conference action in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+, and Neal Raphael will deliver all the action on the radio in the greater San Antonio area on The Bull 93.3 FM and worldwide on the iHeartRadio app. Fans can purchase tickets at goutsa.com/wbbtickets.
The Roadrunners (6-6, 1-0 American) opened American play with a thrilling 65-63 victory over Tulane at the Convocation Center and will look to keep the momentum going against the Owls (6-6, 0-0 American).
Senior Ereauna Hardaway led the way with 16 points, seven assists, five rebounds and a steal in the win over the Green Wave. Junior Cheyenne Rowe posted her second double-double of the season, scoring 13 and securing 12 boards, while freshman Adriana Robles charted 11 points and junior Jayda Holiman 10. As a team, UTSA hauled in 24 more rebounds than its opposition, scored seven more points on the break, and six more on second chances in a bout that featured 19 lead changes.
Temple has yet to open conference play, and nobody who’s traveled to the Liacouras Center has left victorious as the Owls are 5-0 at home across the campaign. They last fell to Princeton on Dec. 22, 87-77, just days after a 59-39 thrashing of Coppin State.
Kaylah Turner provides the bulk of the offense for Temple, averaging 17.8 points per game at a 45.0% clip, with Jaleesa Molina (10.2) and Tristen Taylor (10.1) joining her in the double-digit scoring club. Turner isn’t afraid to shoot from beyond the arc, with 3.33 three-point makes per game, sitting third across the NCAA. She has gone 40-of-64 across the season, for the 13th-most makes, and 46.0% from range is 20th. Additionally, Turner's scoring output paces the American entering conference play.
Molina tops the conference and ranks 24th nationally with five double-doubles on the year. She posts 8.4 rebounds per game, which ranks second on the team behind Saniyah Craig, who leads with 8.9.
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