FAIRFAX, Va. – Led by the fifth-highest points in George Mason women's basketball history, the Patriots opened the 2024-25 season with a dominant 106-51 win over the Johnson C. Smith Golden Bulls.
Graduate student
Ta'Viyanna Habib led the team with 19 points, shooting 75% from the floor and 80% from three off a career-high four made three-pointers.
Graduate student
Nalani Kaysia moved up the Patriots' All-Time Blocks List to #26 with her 40
th block. She also added 10 points, five rebounds, three assists, and two steals to her two blocks.
All fourteen Patriots scored, including graduate student
Khamya McNeal, sophomore
Louis Volker, and freshmen
LeAire Nicks and
Sarah Oduro who scored their first points in the green & gold.
The Golden Bulls scored the first five points of the game, but it was all George Mason after that. The Patriots finished the first quarter on a 16-3 run.
At one point, the Patriots went on a 62-15 run, including 29 points in the first six minutes of the second half. Habib hit back-to-back-to-back three pointers to open the second half and came one point shy of her career high, 20 points.
Buzzer beaters from junior
Nekhu Mitchell at halftime and junior
Jada Brown at the end of the third quarter topped off a great start for the 2024-25 season for the Patriots.
PATRIOT POINTS
- The Patriots' 106 points are the most since Nov. 19, 2014 when Mason downed Delaware State 110-91 in EagleBank Arena
- Nalani Kaysia moved up to 26th on the Patriots' All-Time Blocks List
- Kennedy Harris tallied a new career high in assists (5) in just 19 minutes
- Ta'Viyanna Habib shot 75% from the floor, 80% from three on 4-5 shooting from behind the arc
- All 14 players scored at least two points
- Four Patriots finished in double-digits: Habib (19), Mitchell (11), Kaysia (10), and Page Greenburg (10)
UP NEXT
The Patriots will return to EagleBank Arena on Saturday, Nov. 9 to host Towson. Tip-off is set for 3 p.m.
