WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – Friday night the Towson University women's basketball team began the first leg of its final regular season road trip at the College of William & Mary. The Tigers left with a win, final score of 82-75.
 
Towson was led by redshirt sophomore Kionna Jeter with 20 points while Nukiya Mayo dropped 17 and Janeen Camp scored 12. Dani Durjan and Q. Murray scored 10 each as five Tigers finished in double figures. Camp led the team in rebounds with eight and Murray recorded six assists.
 
Towson improves to 16-9 on the season and 10-4 in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) play.
 
How it Happened

• Game action was slow in the opening minutes before the Tribe rolled out to an 8-2 lead with seven minutes left in the first period.
• A three-pointer from Nukiya Mayo cut the lead to three, before William & Mary reached a peak lead of 11 points. At the end of the first the home team led by seven.
• Entering the second quarter, the Tigers scored just two points in the first four minutes. A three from Kionna Jeter cut the lead to 11 after the Tribe had reached a 14-point advantage.
• Q. Murray followed with a made free throw and Ryan Holder made a layup making it an eight-point game.
• Mayo scored four straight points and cut the lead before tying the game with a huge three. At the half Towson was tied 35-35 with William & Mary.
• Opening the second half, the Tribe scored seven straight points to reach a 42-35 lead. A three followed by a layup would give the home team a nine-point advantage with 7:34 to go in the third.
• Jeter scored five straight points cutting the lead to four and the back-and-forth scoring continued.
• At the end of the third, Towson trailed William & Mary 58-54.
• Freshman Janeen Camp scored the opening points in the beginning of the fourth quarter, and the battle ensued.
• William & Mary led by four points before the Tigers came back and tied it up 62-62 on a three from Dani Durjan. The Tribe's Bianca Boggs made a three before the media timeout, taking a 65-62 lead with 6:16 to go.
• Towson trailed until the four minute mark, when Mayo tied the game up with a free throw. The Tigers regained the lead with 2:08 left, a one-point advantage.
• In the final 120 seconds, there were five timeouts and two play reviews, and zero lead changes. Five of the six Towson players who played in the fourth quarter combined for 28 points.
• The Tigers saw points from Murray, Jeter and Mayo in the final two minutes as the road team rolled out to a seven-point lead to take the win.

Inside the Numbers

• This was Kionna Jeter's 12th game with 20 or more points. Her season-high 32 was scored in November against La Salle.
• Freshman Janeen Camp played a career-best 24 minutes. She now has five games this season in double-figure scoring.
• This is Nukiya Mayo's 19th game in double digits, she has scored 10 or more points in the last 15 games.
• Towson's 16-9 mark is the first time since 2011-12 season to win 12 games. In only seven seasons have the Tigers won more than 16 games, the last season with 17 wins was 2008-09.
• This is Towson's best CAA record since the 2009-10 season, when the Tigers won nine conference games. In the 2007-08 season Towson finished with a 12-6 CAA record, with four games remaining the Tigers have a chance to surpass that record.

Up Next
Towson continues its road trip at Elon on Sunday at 2 p.m.