Women's Basketball Cruises Past Northeastern

Sunday, January 4

Charleston, S.C.

1:00 PM

College of Charleston

10-3,2-0CAA

Northeastern

4-8,0-2CAA

Northeastern

Col. of Charleston

1/4/2026 3:54:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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CHARLESTON, S.C. – Led by a career day from Tyja Beans, the College of Charleston women's basketball team (10-3, 2-0) cruised to a 85-58 win over Northeastern (4-8, 0-2) at TD Arena Sunday afternoon.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Powered by two Taryn Barbot triples, Charleston jumped out to a 15-3 lead at the first media timeout.
The Cougars traded buckets with the Huskies in the remainder of the quarter as Charleston headed to the second period with a 21-10 advantage.
Getting buckets from Tyja Beans and the Barbot Twins, CofC built a 37-21 lead with 4:16 left in the half.
Northeastern closed the half on a 9-2 spurt as Charleston took a 39-30 edge into the break.
Back-to-back threes in less than 10 seconds from Taryn Barbot gave Charleston a 53-36 lead with 4:46 left in the third.
Taryn then hit two more triples as the Cougars took a 67-44 lead into the last stanza.
As Tyja Beans earned a career-high in points (23) and tied a program record with her eighth steal of the game, CofC won the fourth quarter 18-14 and won the game by a final score of 85-58.

LEADING COUGARS

Junior Taylor Barbot had nine points, six assists and three steals.
Junior Taryn Barbot poured in eight triples and tallied a game-high 29 points. Barbot also grabbed four rebounds, dished out three assists and collected two blocks.
Junior Tyja Beans set career-highs with 23 points and eight steals. Her eight steals are tied for the most in a game in the D1 era. Beans also added three rebounds and three steals.
Junior Grace Ezebilo earned her 11th double-digit rebounding game with 10 boards.

KEY STATS

Charleston shot 45.2% from the field and 44.4% from beyond the arc, while holding Northeastern to 37.1% from the field.
The Cougars forced 23 turnovers, collected 16 steals and scored 31 points off turnovers.
CofC won the rebounding battle 45-37.
The Cougars outscored the Huskies 20-15 in the paint and 10-2 on fast break points.

OF NOTE

Taryn Barbot scored her 1,317th point as a Cougar and is now 13th on the Cougars all-time scoring list. She eclipsed the 20 point mark for the seventh time this year.
Tyja Beans set career-highs in points and steals with respective totals of 23 and eight. Her eight steals match the program record for steals in a game in the D1 era.
Taylor Barbot scored her 600th career point Sunday afternoon.

QUOTABLES

I'm happy we got the win today and I'm proud of our kids, Head Coach Robin Harmony said. It was great to see Beans and Taryn play with a lot of confidence today. We've done a good job getting to 2-0, and we'll take a look at film and clean some things up before heading to William & Mary and Hampton next weekend.

UP NEXT – Charleston will head to William & Mary for the Cougars' first road CAA game Friday night. 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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