Dec. 5, 2008
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- The Auburn women's basketball team now has a 744-325 all-time record
- Auburn is now 2-0 all-time against Sam Houston State and 13-1 against teams from the Southland Conference
- Auburn head coach Nell Fortner now has a 97-64 career record and an
80-53 record at Auburn
- Nell Fortner has led Auburn to a 53-15 record in non-conference play and a 22-3 mark in non-conference games at Beard-Eaves-Memorial Coliseum
- Auburn is now 151-78 all-time in the month of December
- Auburn is 9-0 for the 12th time in school history and for the second season in a row; the Tigers started the 2007-08 season 9-0 before falling to Texas A&M
- Auburn won the opening tip
- With a pair of free throws at 7:39 in the first half, DeWanna Bonner tied Mae Ola Bolton for sixth all-time at Auburn in career scoring with
1,616 points; she finished the game with 18 points for 1,624 on her career
- Sherell Hobbs' third steal of the game, with 20 seconds left in the first half, tied her with Carolyn Jones for seventh all-time in career steals with 192; she finished with four steals in the game for 193 on her career
- Alli Smalley led Auburn at the half with 12 points, followed by Bonner's 10; Whitney Boddie had six rebounds and eight assists
- Mary Beth Renz led Sam Houston State with six first-half points while Whitney Smith and Mary Beth Renz added four rebounds
- With its 119 points in the game, Auburn tallied more than 90 points for the fifth time this season; Auburn has not had five games in a season with 90 or more points since the 1999-2000 season
- Auburn scored 100 points for the first time in the Nell Fortner era and the first time since defeating Northwestern State, 103-52, on Dec.
30, 2003
- With her sixth field goal, Bonner tied Linda Godby for eighth place all-time at Auburn in career field goals with 590
- With her steal in the second half, Bonner broke into the top 10 all-time at Auburn in career steals, tying Charlene Thomas and Tasha Hamilton with 170
- Reneisha Hobbs' jumper with 39 seconds left in the game gave Auburn
117 points, breaking the school record of 116 points in a game
- Seven Tigers finished the game in double figures, the most in a game this season, with KeKe Carrier leading the team with 19 points - 14 of which came in the second half
- Whitney Boddie led the team in rebounding with 10
- Boddie tallied 13 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds in the game, picking up just the second triple-double ever at Auburn (among both men and women) Renz led Sam Houston State with 12 points and five rebounds; Smith also tallied five rebounds
- Auburn's 62 points in the first half are the most this season and one point shy of the school record for points in the first half
- Auburn finished the game with a 65-point margin of victory, the 12th-highest margin of victory ever at Auburn; it is the largest margin of victory in the Nell Fortner era and the biggest since defeating Alabama A&M by 67 (95-28) on Dec. 29, 2003
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