Morris, Jones lead No. 19 Texas women past Princeton 74-50

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Sonya Morris scored 15 factors, Taylor Jones notched a double-double and No. 19 Texas breezed to a 74-50 victory over Princeton on Sunday.

Morris sank 5 of 10 pictures from the ground with two 3-pointers for Texas (3-3). Jones completed with 12 factors and 10 rebounds. Rori Harmon had 11 factors and Aaliyah Moore scored 10.

The Longhorns picked up their second straight win after a three-game dropping streak. Texas fell 16 spots within the AP ballot.

Kaitlyn Chen topped Princeton (3-2) with 15 factors. Julia Cunningham added 10 factors. Ellie Mitchell got here into the sport main the nation with 16.2 rebounds per recreation. She didn’t rating and had seven boards.

Moore scored 9 factors within the first quarter, hitting all 4 of her pictures to assist Texas seize a 17-13 lead.

The Longhorns upped their benefit to 29-20 at halftime. Texas shot 30% within the second quarter however the Tigers made solely 2 of 14 pictures (14.3%).

Jones had 10 factors, Harmon scored 9 and Texas made 8 of 15 third-quarter pictures to open up a 50-35 lead.

Previous to the sport, Texas retired the jersey of Annette Smith-Knight (1981-86). Smith-Knight is the all-time main scorer in Texas males’s and ladies’s basketball historical past with 2,523 factors. Smith-Knight led the Longhorns to an undefeated national-championship season in 1986. She was inducted into the Girls’s Basketball Corridor of Fame in 2013.

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