TROY, Alabama – The Troy women's basketball team led early, but opened Sun Belt play with a poor second quarter in a 101-81 loss to Arkansas State on Wednesday night at Trojan Arena.
Troy (5-5, 0-1) had a lead early in the second quarter, but Arkansas State (7-3, 1-0) used an 11-2 run to go ahead 39-32 with 3:12 to go before halftime. The Red Wolves went into halftime with an 11-point lead, 47-36. In all, Troy got outscored 24-10 in the second quarter and shot just 4-of-16 from the floor.
From there, Arkansas State continuously got behind the Troy press and the Red Wolves shot 54 percent (39-of-72) on the night as Troy never got within single digits in the second half and the Red Wolves pushed the lead to as many as 20 points.