Box Score The Chicago State women's basketball team dropped a 58-47 decision to the UTRGV Vaqueros Thursday night at the Jones Convocation Center in Chicago.
The Cougars opened the scoring with a beautiful jumper by Kyjai Miles. The Vaqueros bounced back with an 18-0 run leaving Chicago State trailing trailing 18-2.
From this point on, the Cougars only managed four points, with buckets by Laura Segues and Aaliyah Collins as the Vaqueros led 23-6 at the end of the first.
In the second quarter, the Vaqueros continued their streak as Kacee Kyle was sent to the line, converting one, and putting UTRGV up 24-6. The Cougars clawed back with a jumper by Janiah Newell to snap the streak, 24-8.
Throughout the rest of the quarter, the Vaqueros and Cougars converted buckets back-and-forth which kept the Vaqueros with the lead heading into halftime at 33-17.
To start the third quarter, the Cougars open up the scoring as Allysah Boothe poured in a three to cut the Vaqueros lead to 13, 33-20. UTRGV countered with a deuce from Sara Bershers, and the Cougars managed a 5-0 run with another trey from Boothe and a layup from Miles.
Ultimately, the Cougars finished off the third with an 8-0 run which featured buckets from Jazmine Covington, Christina Britter, and Quentarra Mitchell and trailed by 11, 44-33.
UTRGV opened the fourth with a 6-2 run and the Vaqueros Taylor Muff accounted for 11 UTRGV points and led 55-39 before CSU countered with an 8-2 run but lost 58-47.
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Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioning to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title and made an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. In 2021, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.
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