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St. Andre Notches Career-High as Roos fall to UTEP
11/13/2022 4:12:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Sanaa' St. Andre scored 22 first half points to keep the Roos in the game, but KC fell to the Miners
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Early foul trouble plagued Kansas City Women's Basketball against UTEP as a pair of Roo starters combined for just 10 first half minutes, falling, 68-59. Sanaa' St. Andre kept the Roos in the game with 22 first half points, finishing with a career-high 26.
KEY MOMENTS
- 1Q / 6-0 | The game got off to a slow start offensively for both sides, but a pair of St. Andre buckets followed by a Rain Green floater put the Roos up by six before UTEP responded with a run to tie it up.
- 1Q / 16-15 | St. Andre scored two quick buckets in the final 35 seconds of the quarter, finishing the first quarter with 12 points and giving the Roos a lead going into the break.
- 2Q / 20-24 | UTEP opened the quarter on a 9-2 run, but a fall-away floater by Tamia Ugass ended the Roos' two-minute scoring drought.
- 2Q / 30-36 | After the Miners extended their lead to a game-high nine points, Machia Mullens found St. Andre for a triple with just six seconds remaining in the half.
- 3Q / 37-41 | After playing just two minutes in the first half due to foul trouble, E'Lease Stafford scored KC's first seven points in the third quarter, including a triple that cut the deficit to four.
3Q | That's ca$h @eleasekstafford pic.twitter.com/tb0FpjZGDc
— Kansas City Women's Basketball (@KCRoosWBB) November 13, 2022
- 3Q / 41-46 | UTEP extended its lead back out to nine, but back-to-back St. Andre buckets brought the Roos within five going into the media timeout.
- 3Q / 46-54 | The Miners took a double-digit lead, but Stafford's second three-pointer of the quarter gave Kansas City some life entering the fourth.
- 4Q / 57-61 | After UTEP opened up a 13-point lead, the Roos made a run. Ugass made a floor burn play to get a steal and Green found Stafford in transition for an and-one bucket that cut the Miner lead to four. However, UTEP would close the game on a 7-2 run to secure the victory.
STATS TO NOTE
- St. Andre led the Roos with 22 points in the first half, no other Kansas City player had more than two.
- The Roos finished with 13 blocks, setting a program record. The Roos' previous high was 12, set against Centennial on Jan. 26, 2008. The team's last time in double-digits was 10 blocks in a 98-62 win over Peru State on Nov. 29, 2018.
- After being held scoreless in the first half, Stafford led Kansas City by scoring 17 second half points.
- The Roos committed 21 turnovers on the day, which UTEP converted into 19 points.
- After pulling down a program-record 24 rebounds in Friday's win, Dani Winslow played the full 40 minutes and grabbed 17 board this afternoon.
COACH DIONNAH JACKSON-DURRETT, QUOTED
"Give UTEP credit. They came in, they had a game plan, and when you step up and you take charges like that … we have to make an adjustment."
"Now we understand how to prep with one day and go into the next game. Our starters played a lot of minutes on Friday and turned around and Dani plays 40 minutes tonight … When we come to conference play we'll be able to prepare a little different because we'll have a deeper bench."
UP NEXT
The Roos have a quick break before closing their season-opening homestand with a game against Utah Tech at 7 p.m. on Friday. Kansas City defeated the Trailblazers in a 76-62 decision last season.
