Cougars Snap Losing Skid With Big Win Over UNCW At Home

Sunday, January 26

TD Arena

1:00 PM

College of Charleston

10-8, 3-4CAA

UNCW

5-13, 2-5CAA

OT 1

UNCW

Charleston

Photo by: AlSamuels.com

Cougars Snap Losing Skid With Big Win Over UNCW At Home

1/26/2020 4:32:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score

Final Score: College of Charleston 67, UNCW 63
Location: Charleston, S.C. (TD Arena)
Records: CofC (10-8, 3-4 CAA) UNCW (5-13, 2-5 CAA)
The Short Story: The College held on to snap a four-game losing skid and earned its 10^th win on the season, the first 10-win season since the 2015-16 season.

QUICK FACTS

Sophomore Tyler Collins, freshman Taylor Williams and senior Deja Ford led the Cougars in scoring with 15, 14 and 11 points, respectively.
Sophomore Arynn Eady poured in nine points while grabbing a career-high 18 boards, which ties for fourth most in a single game in program history. In addition, she recorded a career-high five blocks, the first Cougar to do so since the 2014-15 season.
Charleston logged 17 turnovers compared to UNCW's 14.
CofC scored 16 second chance buckets to UNCW's seven.
There were six lead changes and six ties throughout the course of the game.

HOW IT HAPPENED

There were three lead changes and three ties within the first six minutes of the first quarter.
The Cougars went on a 10-0 run midway through the first, sparked by three consecutive buckets by Ford and a basket from Latrice Perkins to take a seven-point lead.
CofC and UNCW scored 12 and nine points, respectively, in the second quarter, with the Cougars leading 29-22 at the half.
Collins opened up the scoring in the second half with a made three pointer that re-gave CofC a 10-point lead.
UNCW went on a 9-0 run mid-way through the third quarter and cut the Cougar lead to just two and eventually took the lead with 48 seconds left in the third, but a Perkins' layup gave the Cougars the lead back.
Leading by seven at the 1:59 mark of the fourth quarter, the Seahawks stormed back and tied the game, forcing OT.
UNCW took a two-point lead in the first minute of OT but Perkins and Collins knocked down some free throws to regain the lead.
A made free throw by both Eady and Collins sealed the victory for the Cougars.

HEAD COACH ROBIN HARMONY
"I'm really happy to get out of here with a W at home. We needed that win desperately. We had opportunities to where we were getting ready to put it away and then we let them come back. Credit to our team that when we did get into overtime, we fought and we didn't hang our heads because that could have been a blowout right then and there. But our kids continued to fight, we got some lucky bounces and we hit some big free throws when we needed to."

WHAT'S NEXT
The College returns to action as it treks north for a two-game road stint beginning with Northeastern on Friday, Jan. 31 with tip-off scheduled for 7 p.m.