Women's Basketball Starts Long Week With Win Over Georgia State

Tuesday, February 16

Atlanta, Ga.

1 p.m.

Troy University

15-5,11-2Sun Belt

Georgia State

10-8,6-5Sun Belt

Troy

Georgia St.

Women's Basketball Starts Long Week With Win Over Georgia State

2/16/2021 4:28:00 PM | Basketball (W)

Box Score

By: Troy Athletics Communications

ATLANTA – On a frigid day in Atlanta, the Troy women's basketball team remained hot with its fourth straight win and 15th of the season. The Trojans defeated Georgia State 91-70 in the first of three meetings this week between the two programs.

Troy (15-5, 11-2 SBC) reached the 90-point mark for the seventh time this season in its victory at Georgia State (10-8, 6-5 SBC). The Trojans were led on Tuesday by a pair of seniors in Tyasia Moore and Janiah Sandifer. Moore, who got off to a red-hot start, ended the day with her second career double-double, second of the season, with a game-high 20 points and 10 rebounds. Sandifer added 19 points, fourth time this season with at least 19, on 4-of-6 shooting including a 3-for-5 night from behind-the-arc. 15 of Sandifer's 19 came in the second half.

On an afternoon where neither team could really settle into a rhythm due to multiple stoppages of play, 50 combined called fouls, the Trojans still managed to shoot 46 percent from the field on 30-of-65 shooting and 79 percent from the charity stripe, 27-for-34. Georgia State shot just under 45 percent on 28-of-64 shooting. The Panthers were led by Taylor Hosendove and Elexus Bell who each had a team-high 15 points.

"Really big thanks for Coach Neil Harrow and his scout. He really prepared the team in a short amount of time," head coach Chanda Rigby said. "The team really understood the game plan. Georgia State did a great job. Their game plan was to go inside with their bigger and stronger post players and they were really making us think hard about making some adjustments. But in the fourth quarter we challenged the post players to hold their ground in they did that to help us seal the game."

How It Happened
The Trojans got things going right off the bat, winning the opening tip and turning it into two quick points from Alexus Dye, who scored her only two points in the first half after getting into early foul trouble. After Georgia State picked up back-to-back buckets to take an early 4-2 lead, Troy took it right back with seven straight points and never looked back.

After outscoring Georgia State 23-18 in the first, Troy extended its lead to 11 after the second frame. The Panthers scored the first two points of the third quarter, but much like the first Troy went on a little 6-0 run to extend its lead to double-digits. The Trojans kept the intensity high, only allowing GSU to get within eight points the rest of the game.

The Trojans were dominant in the final quarter, outscoring Georgia State 26-17, highlighted by nine points from Sandifer and six from Moore. With the dominate fourth Troy was able to secure its largest lead of the afternoon, 21-points, on two Moore free throws with under 30 seconds to play. Troy's 21 point victory over Georgia State was its largest since beating the Panthers 111-90 back on Feb. 15, 2014. It was also the largest road win over GSU in program history, previous high was 18 back on Jan. 5, 2017.

Who Stood Out
Tyasia Moore was big for the Trojans on Tuesday as she earned her second double-double of the season. Moore scored a game-high 20 on 7-of-13 shooting while going a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line. Moore added an assist to her impressive stat line on Tuesday.

Quoting Coach Rigby
On so many players that can score
"Alexus Dye is a coach's dream. But it's even more of a coach's dream that you can have so many other players step in night-after-night and contribute in big ways and play and help us win ball games."

On Tyasia Moore's double-double
"I really think she's one of the most explosive players in the Sun Belt but I'm really proud that she is toughening up on the defensive side and also getting rebounds as well. A double-double out of her means a lot to us and it means she is doing whatever it takes to get the win."

Notables
• Troy improved to 14-26 all-time against Georgia State and 6-14 when the game is played in Atlanta
• The Trojans won their second straight game in Atlanta. It's just the second time in program history that Troy has won back-to-back games vs Georgia State in Atlanta
• Joining Moore and Sandifer with double-digit points was Tiyah Johnson (13) and Jasmine Robinson (10)
• Sharonica Hartsfield led the Trojans in assists with six. On the year she has 74 assists, fourth most in the Sun Belt and most amongst freshman and 77th in the NCAA and 7th most amongst NCAA freshman
• Jhileiya Dunlap had a game-high four blocked shots. In the last three games Dunlap has recorded 10 blocked shots. Her 27 blocked shots this season is second-most in the Sun Belt
• Alexus Dye's double-double streak came to end on Tuesday. She had earned a program record 11 straight double-doubles entering Tuesday. Dye still leads the nation with 16 double-doubles in 20 games
• After scoring 10 points on Tuesday, Jasmine Robinson is just 19 points shy of becoming the 25th member of the 1,000-point club at Troy

Up Next
Troy and Georgia State will meet twice more this week when the two programs square off in Troy on Friday and Saturday. Friday's game vs the Panthers will tipoff at 6 p.m. and will be Troy's final "Pink Game" of the season. Fans can purchase pick t-shirts for $10 and bid on a few silent auction items with proceeds going to the Kay Yow Foundation. On Saturday Troy will honor its senior class, a class that has won 80 games in their careers and a Sun Belt Conference Championship. Tipoff for senior day will be 4 p.m.

Radio Streaming
The Troy women's basketball games on Feb. 19-21 and 26-28 will be streamed live on TroyTrojans.com only with Troy baseball moving to WTBF. Dan Peck will still be on the call and Doug Amos will still be on ESPN+ for all four games. The move off WTBF ensures that all both men's and women's basketball and baseball will be streamed live.

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