Date(s): Friday, Nov. 11, 2022

Opponent: St. Andrews

Time(s): 6 p.m.

Location: Corbett Sports Center, East Greensboro, N.C. 

A&T Team Leaders:

Points: Jazmin Harris (18.0)

Rebounds: Jazmin Harris/D'Mya Tucker (9.0)

Assists: Maleia Bracone (3.0)

Steals: Maleia Bracone (3.0)

Field Goal Percentage: Jazmin Harris (.455)

3-pt Field Goal Percentage: Maleia Bracone (.125)

Free Throw Percentage: Jazmin Harris and Nyah Willis (8-for-8, 1.000)

A&T CAA Leaders (Top-10)  

 Points: Jazmin Harris (18.0) – 8th

Rebounds: Jazmin Harris and D'Mya Tucker (9.0) – T-5th

NORTH CAROLINA A&T AGGIES (0-1, 0-0 CAA): North Carolina A&T women's basketball opened the season with a 77-57 loss at Duke Monday in Durham, N.C.

Jazmin Harris led the Aggies with a game-high 18 points. Harris and teammate D'Mya Tucker had a game-high nine rebounds. Maleia Bracone and Nyah Wills joined Harris in double figures with 11 and 10 points, respectively. 

Coming into the season, the Aggies will turn to junior D'Mya Tucker and sophomore Jordyn Dorsey for leadership as team captains. The Aggies also hope to get redshirt freshman center Chaniyah Clark fully healthy. She adds versatility to the lineup as a post player. 

Tarrell Robinson is in his 11th season. He needs three wins to become the school's all-time winningest coach as he enters tonight's game 189-109 overall record. He is 98-27 inside Corbett Sports Center, putting him two wins shy of 100.   

ST. ANDREWS KNIGHTS (0-2, 0-2 AAC): NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) school St. Andrews opened the season with two double-figure conference losses to Truett-McConnell and Montreat, respectively.

After 23 years as an NCAA Division II team, the Knights became an NAIA school following the 2011-12 season. Located in Laurinburg, N.C., St. Andrews competes in 25 varsity sports. Ashley Starks leads the team with 17.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game. Chesley Grant averages 12.0 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. 

Shareka Maner enters her second season as the Knights head coach. The Knights went 1-25 last season.

THE SERIES:  The Aggies lead the series 1-0, with the only matchup in 2018 when A&T won 90-40 on Jan. 2 in Corbett Sports Center.

QUOTABLE: "We're excited to open at home tomorrow after a good second-half performance at Duke early in the week. We hope to build off of it going into this game." Head Coach Tarrell Robinson

GAME NOTES: 

• Jazmin Harris has scored in double figures in nine straight games while averaging 16.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.0 blocks. 
• The last she failed to score in double figures came on Feb. 2, 2022, when she had five points against High Point University. 
• Robinson has 189 coaching victories at A&T. That puts him 11 wins shy of becoming the third A&T basketball coach in history – men or women – to win 200 games at A&T. Cal Irvin won 323 games as the head A&T men's basketball coach from 1952-72. Don Corbett won 254 games as the head men's basketball coach from 1979-93. 
• The Aggies have won the last three home openers and are 8-2 under Robinson.
• The Aggies are predicted to finish ninth in their newest conference, the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA).