LCU basketball completes sweep on San Antonio trip

Princis Goff helped lead the LCU women to an impressive Red River Athletic Conference road win Saturday in San Antonio. (Photo courtesy LCU Athletics)

SAN ANTONIO – The Louisiana Christian women’s basketball team pulled off Saturday’s big Red River Athletic Conference surprise, toppling a third-place Texas A&M-San Antonio squad that came into the day seven games over .500, riding a pair of double-doubles to pull off a 91-84 shocker.

It started a doubleheader sweep for the LCU basketball programs, with the men’s team posting its fourth consecutive victory in Saturday’s second game. It also completed a string of four wins in the Alamo City starting with Thursday night’s double dip at Our Lady of the Lake.

LCU plays a home doubleheader at H.O. West Fieldhouse Thursday beginning with a 5:30 women’s game against North American.

In the women’s game Saturday, the Wildcats scorched the Jaguars Den to the tune of a 36-for-61 (59%) shooting bonanza and nearly banked a field goal percentage north of 60% for the first time since December 2022.

Along with hot shooting, the LCU women posted an astounding 29-carom advantage on the boards, outrebounding the Jags 52 to 23 — which negated a minus 18 turnover differential.

The visitors from Pineville put on an offensive clinic, setting new 2024-25 benchmarks for points (91), field goals (36), three-point percentage (50%, 4-of-8), and field-goal percentage.

Louisiana Christian (5-9, 5-7 RRAC) got another outstanding performance from Princis Goff (24 points, 10 rebounds, 4 assists) in the upset of Texas A&M-San Antonio (12-6, 9-5).

More dynamic scoring came from McKayla Price (18, a season high) and Jakiya Thompson (13, a career best).

After numerous near-misses, Kylei Leblanc finally cobbled together her first career double-double, logging a game-best 12 boards as well as 11 points.

LCU MEN 75, A&M-SAN ANTONIO 67: The Wildcats played winning basketball by being nearly flawless from the charity stripe, swishing 20-of-21 of their freebies, a season-best percentage-wise.

Devin Carter led Louisiana Christian (7-9, 6-6 RRAC) with 18 points, 10 at the free throw line, while dropping the losers (5-13, 4-10 Red River)

Corey Lombard posted a perfect field goal percentage for the second time, going a perfect 5-for-5 inside the paint on top of making both free throw shots as he produced 12 big bench points.

Jon’Quarius McGhee is beginning to hit his stride of late, bringing in a career/contest-most nine rebounds along with 11 points.