UAB UAB 5-1,0-0 C-USA

Western Caro. WCU 4-5,0-0 SoCon

UAB UAB

5-1,0-0 C-USA

Final

Dec. 03, 2022

Western Caro. WCU

4-5,0-0 SoCon

Score By Periods
Team	1	2	3	4	F
UAB UAB	19	14	21	17	71
Western Caro. WCU	14	20	11	13	58

Summary
Box Score

Game Recap: Women's Basketball | 12/3/2022 5:19:00 PM | Denise Gideon, Director of Media Relations

Catamounts Drop Hard-Fought Battle With UAB

Kyla Allison led Catamounts with 13

The Basics
Score: UAB 71, Western Carolina 58
Records: Western Carolina 4-5; UAB 5-1
Location: Ingles Court in the Ramsey Center – Cullowhee, N.C.

CULLOWHEE, N.C. – Graduate student Kyla Allison scored 13 points led three Catamounts in double figures as Western Carolina women's basketball dropped a hard-fought game, 71-58, to UAB Saturday on Ingles Court in the Ramsey Center.

Turning Point:
Trailing by one, 34-33 at the half, UAB outscored Western Carolina 34 to 24 in the second half including going 12-for-12 from the free throw line.

Individual Leaders

Allison paced the Catamounts with 13 points hitting a pair of three-pointers and ripping down six rebounds.
Junior Mya Love and freshman Reagan Trumm each had 12 points.
Joi Reid led the Catamounts with eight rebounds.
UAB's Margaret Whitley led all scorers with 21.

Inside the Box Score

The Catamounts shot a scorching 50 percent in the second quarter which helped them to a 9-3 run in the final five minutes and take a 34-33 lead into the half.
UAB blazed onto the court in the third quarter shooting 55.6 percent (5-of-9) including 8-for-8 from the free throw line.
All told, UAB was 21-of-27 from the free throw line and 12-for-12 in the second half.
Western Carolina had its best free throw shotting performance, as a team, this season hitting 16-of-18 for 88.9 percent.
Western Carolina just edged UAB in rebounds pulling down 35 to the Blazers 31. Each team had 22 defensive boards.
Western Carolina had 18 turnovers turning into 18 UAB points.
Twenty-eight of the Catamounts' 58 points were from their bench.
UAB drained 10 three-pointers while WCU hit six.

News & Notes

The Catamounts 88.9 percent free throw percentage, against UAB, is good for a tie for 14^th in the WCU record books.
Love has scored in double figures in back-to-back game.
In three of her last four contests Allison has scored in double figures.
Western Carolina has scored 50 or more points in the last three games.
Western Carolina suffered its first home loss of the season after falling to UAB. The Catamounts are now 3-1 at home on the year.
Trumm has hit at least one three-pointer in the last three games and six of the last seven.

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