Charleston Defeats Drexel; Improves to 5-0 in CAA Play

Friday, January 16

Charleston, S.C.

7:00 PM

College of Charleston

13-3,5-0CAA

Drexel

8-7,1-3CAA

Drexel

Col. of Charleston

Charleston Defeats Drexel; Improves to 5-0 in CAA Play

1/16/2026 9:47:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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CHARLESTON, S.C. – The College of Charleston women's basketball team (13-3, 5-0) improved to 5-0 in CAA play with a 74-64 win over Drexel (8-7, 1-3) at TD Arena Friday night.

The 5-0 start is the best-ever start to conference play in program history. Charleston previously began conference play 4-0 in both the 1996-97 season (TAAC) and the 2009-10 season (SoCon).

HOW IT HAPPENED

After trading buckets in the opening minutes, Taylor Barbot connected with her twin sister Taryn who drilled a triple to put CofC in front 7-5 at the first quarter media timeout.
Charleston built a 13-7 lead thanks to a couple layups from Tyja Beans before Drexel scored the last four points of the quarter to make it a two point game in favor of the Cougars after the first 10 minutes.
The Cougars opened the second period on an 11-2 spurt as they took a 24-13 lead with 5:34 left in the stanza.
CofC built a 34-20 advantage, but the Dragons closed the half on a 7-2 run as Charleston held a 36-27 edge at the break.
Seven early second half points from Tyja Beans helped the Cougars hold a 47-34 lead at the third period media timeout.
With a 12 point advantage (54-42) at the start of the fourth quarter, a Sophia Tougas triple and a Taylor Barbot layup gave CofC a 59-44 lead with 8:53 to play.
From there, the Cougars never let Drexel get within 10 as they went on to win the contest 74-64 to improve to 5-0 in conference play for the first time in program history.

LEADING COUGARS

Junior Taylor Barbot had 14 points and four rebounds.
Junior Taryn Barbot scored a game-high 25 points while adding six assists, four steals and three rebounds.
Junior Tyja Beans earned her first double-double as a Cougar with 17 points and 11 boards. She also dished out five assists and had three steals on the night.
Senior Marissa Brown went a perfect 5-for-5 from the field as she tallied 11 points and five rebounds.
Junior Grace Ezebilo had her 13th double-digit rebounding game of the year with 12 boards.

KEY STATS

Charleston outrebounded Drexel 41-33,
CofC collected 17 offensive boards and had 15 second chance points.
The Cougars outscored the Dragons 40-28 in the paint.
CofC forced 19 Dragon turnovers as Charleston collected 13 steals and had 23 points off turnovers.

OF NOTE

Taryn Barbot scored her 1,369th point as a Cougar and is now 12th on Charleston's all-time scoring list.
CofC is now 7-14 all-time against Drexel.

QUOTABLES

I'm happy with how we played tonight, Head Coach Robin Harmony said. Our kids came out focused from the beginning and played well against a talented Drexel team. We showed how complete and good of a team we can be. We've got a couple things to clean up, and we'll be ready to go for another home game on Sunday.

UP NEXT

Charleston will stay at home for a contest against Elon at TD Arena Sunday afternoon. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m., the game will be streamed on FloCollege and a link to the stream as well as live stats can be found on the women's basketball schedule page at cofcsports.com.

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