DULUTH, Ga. - Kelsey Bone had 18 points and 15 rebounds, with most of her production coming in the second half, and Texas A&M beat Kentucky 75-67 on Sunday night to win the Southeastern Conference tournament championship in its first year in the league.
The Aggies, the No. 4 seed, were the surprise of the tournament by beating the top two seeds in the tournament. No. 19 Texas A&M (24-9) beat top-seeded Tennessee in the semifinals before beating No. 2 seed Kentucky (27-5) in the final.
Kristi Bellock had 15 points and Courtney Walker had 14 for the Aggies.
Bone had 18 points and 15 rebounds, with most of her production coming in the second half.
In other women’s games Sunday where automatic NCAA berths were decided, freshman Alexis Jones scored a career-high 24 points and No. 6 Duke claimed its eighth Atlantic Coast Conference tournament title by routing No. 15 North Carolina 92-73 in the championship game In Greensboro, N.C. Elizabeth Williams also had 24 points and Haley Peters scored 17 for the top-seeded Blue Devils (30-2). … Tolu Omotola scored 16 points and top-seeded Liberty (27-6) gave the school a double dose of Big South championship celebrations with a 54-45 victory over Longwood in Conway, S.C. … Drey Mingo scored 24 points, and Purdue won its second consecutive Big Ten tournament championship, beating Michigan State 62-47 in Hoffman States, Ill. ... Amber Orrange capped a career-high 20-point performance scoring on a spinning drive with 8.3 seconds left, and No. 4 Stanford (31-2) won the Pacific-12 Conference tournament title rallying past No. 14 UCLA 51-49 in Seattle.
Sports, Pages 17 on 03/11/2013