
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.