Charleston Cruises to Seventh Straight Victory

Sunday, January 18

Charleston, S.C.

1:00 PM

College of Charleston

14-3,6-0CAA

Elon

7-10,2-3CAA

Elon

Col. of Charleston

1/18/2026 3:43:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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CHARLESTON, S.C. – The College of Charleston women's basketball team (14-3, 6-0) cruised to a 87-64 win over Elon (7-10, 2-3) at TD Arena Sunday afternoon.

With the win, the Cougars improved to 6-0 in conference play for the first time ever.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Led by five quick points by Taryn Barbot, CofC jumped out to a quick 9-2 advantage less than three minutes into the game.
Charleston increased it's lead to 10, but Elon made it a 21-16 game in favor of the Cougars at the end of the first quarter.
After trading buckets to start the second period, Anilys Rolon hit back-to-back triples to cap an 11-0 Cougars run and give them a 36-21 lead with 6:27 left in the half.
Sophia Tougas drilled her second three of the game to put Charleston up 46-25 before CofC took a 53-31 edge into the break.
CofC opened the second half with nine straight points as the Cougars took a 62-31 advantage with 6:32 left in the third.
The two teams traded scores through the remainder of the period as Charleston held a 75-43 lead with 10 minutes to play.
In the final stanza, four different Cougars scored as CofC went on to win 87-64.

LEADING COUGARS

Junior Taylor Barbot had 14 points and six assists.
Junior Taryn Barbot scored 20 points for the ninth time this season. She also added four assists and three rebounds.
Junior Tyja Beans scored 18 points and collected six boards and two steals.
Junior Grace Ezebilo had her 14th double-digit rebounding game of the year with 13 boards. She also scored four points and collected three steals. Ezebilo's third steal of the game was the 100th of her career.
Freshman Anilys Rolon scored 14 points, including 11 in the second quarter.

KEY STATS

Charleston shot 48.4% from the field and held Elon to a 38.6% clip.
CofC forced 17 Elon turnovers and scored 20 points off Phoenix errors.
The Cougars outscored the Phoenix 32-22 in the paint.

OF NOTE

Taryn Barbot scored her 1,389th point as a Cougar and is 12th on Charleston's all-time scoring list.
Four different Cougars scored in double figures, while 10 different Cougars scored in the contest.
CofC is now 19-24 all-time against Elon and the Cougars have won four-straight against the Phoenix.
The Cougars have now won seven-straight contests.

QUOTABLES

I'm happy we got the win and were able to play a lot of kids today, Head Coach Robin Harmony said. We came out and controlled the game from the beginning and put together a good overall performance on our home court. We've still got some things to clean up, but I'm happy with our performance today.

UP NEXT

Charleston will hit the road for a matchup at UNCW Friday, January 23rd. Tip-off is set for 7 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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