Top 25 Wednesday’s women’s games
No. 4 North Carolina 88, Coastal Carolina 49
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Cetera DeGraffenreid scored 20 points and tied a career high with eight steals for North Carolina. She’la White added 16 points for the Tar Heels (2-0), who overcame a sluggish first half in which they trailed 20-19 with 6 minutes remaining. Chay Shegog scored 15 points and Laura Broomfield had 12 points and a career-high 14 rebounds for North Carolina.
No. 7 LSU 61, No. 24 Middle Tennessee 40
BATON ROUGE, La. — Taylor Turnbow had 17 points and 12 rebounds to lead LSU. LaSondra Barrett added 10 points for LSU (2-0). All-American forward Alysha Clark had 16 points and a game-high 20 rebounds for Middle Tennessee (1-1). The Blue Raiders beat the Lady Tigers each of the last two seasons, including last year’s game in which Clark scored 37.
No. 12 Virginia 110,
South Carolina Upstate 63
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Chelsea Shine had a career-high 27 points and 11 rebounds to lead Virginia. The sophomore forward, celebrating her 20th birthday, shot 10 for 13 from the field. Monica Wright and Simone Egwu added 19 points each to help the Cavaliers (3-0) to their highest scoring output in nine years.
No. 15 Texas A&M 86, Rice 50
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Danielle Adams scored 15 points in only 18 minutes and Texas A&M cruised. Adams, a junior-college transfer, has averaged 20 points in her first two games with A&M.
No. 19 Kansas 66, Iowa 55
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Danielle McCray scored 20 points and Kansas used a late 11-0 run to beat Iowa. McCray missed nine of her first 10 shots and had only five points at the break.
No. 22 Vanderbilt 90, Southern Illinois 64
CARBONDALE, Ill. — Hannah Tuomi had 20 points and eight rebounds for Vanderbilt.
No. 25 Mississippi State 81, Utah Valley 35
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Alexis Rack scored 16 points to lead Mississippi State (3-0).
Associated Press