Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Jackson lifts Volunteers over ’Horns

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TOP 25/SEC WOMEN NO. 9 TENNESSEE 88, NO. 12 TEXAS 82

AUSTIN, Texas — Meme Jackson scored a career-best 33 points, Evina Westbrook had 23 and No. 9 Tennessee beat No. 12 Texas 88-82 on Sunday.

Jackson made two free throws with 21.6 seconds left to give Tennessee (8-0) a fivepoint lead. She entered Sunday averaging 10 points per game.

Audrey Warren had a season-best 21 points for Texas (7-2), and Danni Williams scored all 14 of her points in the second half.

Tennessee got a five-point swing when the Longhorns’ Jada Underwood missed an open layup and Jackson hit a three-pointer for a six-point lead with 4:24 remaining.

In other Top 25/SEC women’s games Sunday, Jenna Allen scored 27 points — including a big three-pointer in the final minute — and Michigan State handed No. 3 Oregon its first loss of the season, 88-82. … Asia Durr scored 32 points as No. 5 Louisville beat No. 19 Kentucky 80-75. … No. 8 Oregon State overpowere­d Santa Clara 82-31. … Destiny Pitts scored a career-high 35 points and No.

14 Minnesota beat Boston College 7769. … No. 17 Arizona State beat Colorado State 70-39. … Allazia Blockton scored 21 points as Marquette beat

Northweste­rn 76-57. … Mart’e Grays scored a career-high 26 points for No. 20 DePaul in beating Oklahoma 87-76. … Beatrice Mompremier had 16 points and 10 rebounds as No. 25 Miami beat New Orleans 78-38.

SUN BELT WOMEN ARKANSAS STATE 73, TULSA 60

Arkansas State University (4-4) rallied from a 15-point second-quarter deficit to defeat Tulsa (5-5) on Sunday at First National Bank Arena in Jonesboro.

Trailing 36-21 with just over three minutes remaining in the second quarter, the Red Wolves went on an 8-0 run to pull within 36-29 at halftime.

ASU ended the third quarter trailing 47-43 then outscored Tulsa 30-13 in the fourth to pull out the victory.

The Red Wolves had three players with 10 or more points with Akasha Westbrook leading the way with 15. Peyton Martin had 14 and Morgan Wallace chipped in 10 for ASU.

Tulsa’s Morgan Brady led all scorers with 18 points, including 6 of 13 three-pointers.

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