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Trojans March Down to South


Welcome back to Inside Troy Women’s Basketball.
The Trojans are coming off of a game where they beat the Louisiana Ragin Cajuns 90 to 64.
That margin of win difference marked two games in a row where the Trojans won by 22 or more points.
But the biggest standout from this game to me was Sky’Lynn Holmes.
She finished the game with 15 points, which is a good amount for her.
But where she shined was on the glass where she had 20 rebounds!
I remember hearing her name called a lot at work at WTBF, but I did not think at the time it was that much.
And this was a home game, so I really wish I could’ve been there to talk to Head Coach Chanda Rigby myself about that rebounding performance.
And looking forward to the South game tomorrow, I don’t think it’s going to take a game like this from Holmes for the Trojans to win.
Will Holmes put up 10 points and 10 rebounds?
Probably.
But what doesn’t happen every night is when the entire team has a good shooting night from three collectively.
Even in this last game, they only shot a little over 30 percent from three the entire game.
And they STILL won by 26.
The Trojans constantly get open and take good shots, but just don’t hit them.
And what is scary, is that this team is 5th in the nation in scoring, WITHOUT shooting a high percentage from 3.
Last post I mentioned that the team’s goal is to score 15 or more points every 5 minutes.
Equaling 30 points a quarter, or 60 points a half.
Which sounds crazy. But it’s honestly not that far off.
The Trojans score so many points because they get steals and rebounds, run in transition, and get easy buckets.
But if they hit their 3s, they could get close to that goal of 15 points every 5 minutes.
But do they have to do this to beat South?
No.
What the Trojans need to do in order to beat South tomorrow is keep doing what they’ve done all season.
Which is rebound, get steals, and play defense.
If they do that, which they have so far this season, the scoring will come naturally for them.
I will have another blog post shortly after the South game discussing the outcome, and talking about the upcoming matchup. This post will come sometime early next week.
As always, feel free to comment and let me know how I did and what you think I need to improve on.

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