The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff women’s basketball team couldn’t solve the Ole Miss defense Sunday.
UAPB lost 85-24 to Ole Miss at the Sandy and John Black Pavilion in Oxford, Miss., finishing the season-opening three-game road trip without a win.
UAPB (0-3) shot 14.8% from the field and made two of 22 3-pointers. The Lady Lions turned the ball over 22 times and scored fewer than 10 points in each quarter.
Junior guard D’Arrah Allen led the Lady Lions with 9 points, followed by freshman guard Janiyah Tucker with 8.
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No. 20 Ole Miss (1-1) set a new school record for fewest points allowed in a game. Senior guard KK Deans led the Rebels with 16 points and seven rebounds. Junior forward Christeen Iwuala followed with 12 points and junior guard Ayanna Thompson finished with 11.
UAPB transfer Starr Jacobs, who never appeared in a game during her one season in Pine Bluff because of injury, scored 9 points for Ole Miss.
As a team, the Rebels shot 43.5% and made nine of 23 3-pointers.
The Rebels scored the game’s first 11 points before Allen scored UAPB’s first points with a jumper. Ole Miss went on to lead 20-6 after the first quarter, then pulled away in the second quarter to lead 50-14 at halftime.
UAPB nearly went scoreless in the third quarter before Uriah Jennings beat the end-of-quarter buzzer with a corner 3-pointer, UAPB’s first make from deep. The Rebels closed out the game by outscoring the Lady Lions 20-7 in the fourth.
The game ended a three-game road set for UAPB. The Lady Lions’ next two games will be at home against non-Division I opponents, starting Nov. 18 against Texas A&M-Texarkana.