Category: college basketball

Former Judson star Amira Mabry returns in Tulane’s victory over UTSA

Former Judson standout Amira Mabry scored 15 points for Tulane against UTSA on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024, at the Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
Former Judson standout Amira Mabry scored 15 points for Tulane against UTSA on Sunday. – photo by Joe Alexander
Former Judson High School girls basketball player Amira Mabry was back in San Antonio on Sunday as a starting forward for Tulane.

Mabry scored 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting as Tulane beat UTSA 75-64 in an American Athletic Conference women’s game at the UTSA Convocation Center.

Mabry, who earned San Antonio Express-News Super Team honors at Judson, is averaging 10 points per game this season.

St. Mary’s men roll past Arkansas-Fort Smith: photo gallery

Davion Coleman shot 9-of-15 from the field and scored 23 points to lead St. Mary's past Arkansas-Fort Smith. - photo by Joe Alexander
Davion Coleman shot 9-of-15 from the field and scored 23 points to lead St. Mary’s.
Davion Coleman had 23 points to lead St. Mary’s men’s basketball to a 90-57 victory over Arkansas-Fort Smith on Thursday at Greehey Arena.

Edward Manuel had 13 points for the Rattlers and Keith Dinwiddie and Franklin Agu had 11 each.

St. Mary’s women beat Arkansas-Fort Smith: photo gallery

Freshman forward Taylor Haggan led St. Mary's with 20 points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots. - photo by Joe Alexander
Freshman forward Taylor Haggan led St. Mary’s with 20 points, 10 rebounds and three blocked shots.
St. Mary’s women’s basketball beat Arkansas-Fort Smith 59-57 on Thursday at Greehey Arena.

Taylor Haggan led the Rattlers with 20 points and 10 rebounds and Ariah Powell had 11 points.

Trinity women roll past St. Thomas

Jamie Ruede, who led Trinity with 16 points, does a postgame interview. Trinity women's basketball beat St. Thomas 83-39 an SCAC game on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, at Calgaard Gym. - photo by Joe Alexander
Jamie Ruede, who led Trinity with 16 points, does a postgame interview. Trinity women’s basketball beat St. Thomas 83-39 an SCAC game on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, at Calgaard Gym.
The Trinity women’s basketball team beat St. Thomas from Houston 83-39 on Friday at Calgaard Gym in a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference game.

Trinity is 11-5 overall and 6-1 in conference. St. Thomas is 2-5 in conference.

The Tigers play in the second game of a back-to-back on Saturday against Centenary at 6 p.m.

Trinity coach Cameron Hill. Trinity women's basketball beat St. Thomas 83-39 an SCAC game on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, at Calgaard Gym. - photo by Joe Alexander
Trinity coach Cameron Hill.

Jacob Harvey, Christian Green lead Trinity men past Mary Hardin-Baylor

Jacob Harvey hit 6-of-10 on his 3-pointers to lead Trinity with 24 points. Trinity men's basketball beat Mary Hardin-Baylor 83-64 on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, at Calgaard Gym. - photo by Joe Alexander
Jacob Harvey hit 6-of-10 on his 3-pointers to lead Trinity with 24 points.
Jacob Harvey had 24 points and Christian Green had 20 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Trinity men’s basketball team to an 83-64 victory over Mary Hardin-Baylor on Tuesday at Calgaard Gym.

The Tigers remained undefeated at 5-0. Trinity plays on the road Friday at Southwestern and Saturday at Texas Lutheran before playing at home again on Dec. 15 against Austin College.

UTSA guard Deborah Nwakamma – photo gallery

Deborah Nwakamma of UTSA women's basketball playing against Florida International on Feb. 25, 2023, at the Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
Deborah Nwakamma playing against Florida International on Feb. 25, 2023, at the Convocation Center.
Deborah Nwakamma of the UTSA women’s basketball team is a 5-foot-8 senior guard from Nigeria.

Nwakamma played in 25 of UTSA’s 32 games this season and made five starts, averaging 3.5 points and 2.4 rebounds in 14.8 minutes per game. She scored a season-high 16 points against Abilene Christian on Nov. 20, 2022, at the Convocation Center.

UTSA guard Queen Ulabo – photo gallery

Queen Ulabo playing for UTSA women's basketball against North Texas on Jan. 26, 2023, at the Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
UTSA’s Queen Ulabo against North Texas on Jan. 26, 2023, at the Convocation Center.
Queen Ulabo is a 5-foot-10 senior from Nigeria.

Ulabo played in 29 of UTSA’s 32 games this season and started 11. She averaged 3.6 points and 2.1 rebounds in 11.9 minutes per game.

Her junior year, she played in all 28 games, made 24 starts and averaged 6.4 points and 5.7 rebounds.

UTSA sophomore Lamin Sabally – photo gallery

Lamin Sabally of UTSA men's basketball playing against Louisiana Tech on Jan. 28, 2023, at the Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
Lamin Sabally playing against Louisiana Tech at the Convocation Center.
Lamin Sabally played in 21 of UTSA men’s basketball’s 32 games this season and made six starts.

The 6-foot-8 sophomore from Berlin averaged 3.0 points and 2.3 rebounds in 11.0 minutes per game. He recorded season highs of eight points at Middle Tennessee on Feb. 4 and eight rebounds against Trinity on Nov. 7.

UTSA guard-forward Aleu Aleu – photo gallery

Aleu Aleu playing for UTSA men's basketball against Grambling on Nov. 25, 2022, at the Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
Aleu Aleu playing against Grambling on Nov. 25, 2022, at the Convocation Center.
Aleu Aleu averaged 2.6 points in 11.7 minutes per game this season for the UTSA men’s basketball game.

The 6-foot-9 guard/forward recorded a season-high nine points on Jan. 16 against Rice at the Convocation Center and nine rebounds on Nov. 17 against Texas State at the Convo. He played in 23 of 32 UTSA games this season and made six starts.

This was his second season at UTSA. He played in high school in Austin and was at Temple Community College before joining the Roadrunners.

UTSA center Massal Diouf – photo gallery

Massal Diouf of UTSA men's basketball playing against Middle Tennessee on Jan. 5, 2023, at the Convocation Center. - photo by Joe Alexander
UTSA’s Massal Diouf playing against Middle Tennessee on Jan. 5, 2023, at the Convocation Center.
Massal Diouf played in 27 of UTSA’s 32 games this season and made 21 starts.

The 6-foot-9 freshman center from the Netherlands had season highs of seven points against Florida International on Feb. 23 and seven rebounds against UAB on Dec. 31.