Category: Women’s Basketball

Trojans beat Mountaineers on the road 80-60

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( Photo / Troy Athletics ) Head Coach Chanda Rigby talks to Alexus Dye and Felmas Koranga during a timeout. Hanna Cooper Editor-In-Chief The Troy women’s basketball team continues to roll through the Sun Belt Conference sweeping a pair of contests against Appalachian State last weekend at the Holmes Convocation Center in Boone, North Carolina. Last Friday night, Troy defeated the Mountaineers, 80-60, powered by Tiyah Johnson who posted her first career double-double. The senior scored a game-high 17 points and collected 10 boards. “I think we had a lot…

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Trojans add top recruits to signing class

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(Photo/Chris Wallace) Japonica James averaged 14.6 points and 6.4 rebounds per game and was named to the All-Sun Belt First Team. Scott Shelton Sports Editor The Troy women’s basketball team capped off its 2020 recruiting class with a pair of top junior college (JUCO) players. Coming off a Sun Belt Conference championship, the Trojans signed Felmas Koranga, who previously played at Tyler Junior College. Koranga, who is from Rift Valley, Kenya, is set to become the first Kenyan-born female to play NCAA Division I basketball. “To sign the WBCA Two-Year…

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“Robbed”: Trojans react to championship season cut short

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(Photo/Chris Wallace) Hanna Cooper Staff Writer “Robbed”: Trojans react to abrupt end of historic season The Troy women’s basketball team was heading into the Sun Belt Conference tournament as the No. 1 seed and eyeing an NCAA tournament bid before the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to their championship run. The Sun Belt Conference announced the tournament was canceled just before the Trojans took off for New Orleans. As the regular season champions, Troy earned the automatic NCAA tournament bid. “We were all in the locker room because we had…

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Three Trojans enter transfer portal

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(Photo/Chris Wallace) Darian Adams ready to shoot during a game vs Little Rock Kennedy Roy Staff Writer Two Troy men’s team basketball players and a women’s team basketball player have decided to enter the transfer portal. Darian Adams and Davion Thomas of the men’s basketball team announced they would be moving on to another program. Adams, a guard from Montgomery, Alabama, completed his third season with the Trojans in March. “I’ve learned and experienced so much during my time at Troy, and it doesn’t feel right to say that my…

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Sun Belt Conference cancels basketball tournament amid coronavirus concerns

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The Sun Belt Conference has decided to cancel the remaining games of both its men’s and women’s basketball tournament. The announcement comes an hour after the conference decided to hold the tournament without fans in the arena. “After further discussion with the Presidents and Chancellors and Directors of Athletics and mounting concerns surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Sun Belt Conference has decided to cancel the remaining games of the 2020 Sun Belt Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships scheduled for March 14-15 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans,” the…

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