Alabama Women's Basketball Wins Season Series Against Auburn

Four players scored in double figures as the Crimson Tide won 69-46.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— This weekend was not a good one for Auburn fans.

After the Alabama men's basketball team escaped the Plains with a win, the women's team blew out the Tigers at home, 69-46, sweeping the season series.

Brittany Davis led all scorers with 18 points and 17 rebounds, one of four players in double figures. Aaliyah Nye scored nine of her 11 points in the second quarter. Sarah Ashlee Barker and Ryan Cobbins had 11 and 10 points, respectively.

Auburn's Kaitlyn Richardson scored a team-high 15 points to go with eight rebounds. Aicha Coulibaly scored 13 points, but it took her 20 shots to do so.

Both teams struggled in the first quarter, as both combined to shoot 1-for-10 on 3-pointers, and made nine turnovers. 

Alabama ended the quarter with the 11-8 lead, but the offense picked up exponentially, scoring 20 and 21 points in the second and third quarter while holding Auburn to 13 in both.

With the win, Alabama improved to 19-6 and 8-4 in SEC play, and extended its winning streak in the series to nine games. The Tigers slipped to 13-11, 3-9 SEC.  

Alabama's next game will be at home against Vanderbilt. Tipoff is Thursday at 6 p.m. CT on SEC Network+.

FINAL - Alabama 69, Auburn 46

Fourth Quarter

• Weathers splits the free throws after being fouled on the layup. 

• Loyal McQueen makes the layup and is fouled, she missed the free throw

• Alabama calls a timeout. Score is 66-44, and Curry had some words for the referee

• With that layup, Davis has scored 10 of her 18 points in the fourth quarter

• Abrams comes in for Ryan Cobbins

• Cunningham comes in for Barker

• Loyal McQueen draws a foul. She makes both free throws, her first points today

• Davis comes in for Barber

• Weathers comes in for Nye

• Media timeout. 

• McQueen comes in for Davis

• Davis is on a personal 6-0 run as Alabama pulls ahead by 20. Score is 60-40 Alabama

• Barker comes in for Cunningham

• Cunningham fouls Auburn's Coulibaly as she makes the layup, her second. Score is 54-38 after the missed free throw

• Jada Rice gets called for an offensive foul, her fifth and final foul. JeAnna Cunningham subs in

• Davis draws the foul. She makes both free throws. Score is 54-36 Alabama

• Rice comes in for Sarah Ashlee Barker

• Barker picks up her fourth foul. Davis comes in for McQueen

• Foul on Megan Abrams, her first. Rice and Barber come in for Abrams and Ryan Cobbins

• Alabama will have the first possession of the quarter

Third Quarter - Alabama 52, Auburn 34

• Abrams hits a 3-pointer off the glass to end the quarter. Alabama has an 18-point lead. 

• Karly Weathers picks up her third foul

• Megan Abrams comes in for Davis

• Cobbins' layup makes her the third double-digit scorer with 10 points. 

• Barker gets fouled again driving to the basket. She makes both free throws, giving her 11 points, the second double-digit scorer for Alabama (Nye also has 11)

• Alabama'a lead is now 15 after Ryan Cobbins' layup

• Jada Rice gets her fourth foul on Aicha Coulibaly. 

• Barker makes the layup and draws the foul. She makes the free throw, giving her nine points and Alabama a 43-26 lead

• Jada Rice and Karly Weathers come in for Nye and Cobbins

• Auburn's Kaitlyn Richardson splits the free throws

• Jada Rice is called for her third foul ahead of the media timeout. Score is 38-23 Alabama

• Ryan Cobbins comes in for Barker

• Sarah Ashlee Barker is called for her third foul

• Brittany Davis' 3-pointer makes it a 6-0 run for Alabama ahead of the media timeout. Score it 38-21

• Alabama begins with possession

Halftime - Alabama 31, Auburn 21

Second Quarter

• Barber makes both free throws , pushing the lead to 10. 

• Mar'shaun Bostic makes both free throws for Auburn. Score is 29-21 Alabama

• Karly Weathers gets called for her second foul while going for a steal

• McQueen returns for Nye, who has two fouls

• Barker commits her second foul on Aicha Coulibaly. She splits the free throws, ending Alabama's 9-0 run. Weathers came in for Barker

• Davis draws a foul against Auburn's Kaitlyn Duhon. She splits the free throws, making the score 27-18

• Aaliyah Nye converts the and-1 opportunity. Alabama is on an 8-0 run. Score is 26-18

• Nye hits her second 3-pointer to give Alabama a 21-18 lead before the media timeout

• Auburn takes the lead for the first time, but Nye quickly recovers it for Alabama. 18-16 Crimson Tide

• Barber, Davis and Nye come in for McQueen, Abrams and Weathers

• Jada Rice commits her second foul on Auburn's Kharyssa Richardson, her second foul

• Auburn starts the second quarter with possession

First Quarter - Alabama 11, Auburn 8

• Weathers dumps it off to Jada Rice for the last basket of the quarter.

• Megan Abrams and Nye come in for Barker and Davis

• Rice comes back in for McQueen

• Loyal McQueen, JeAnna Cunningham and Karly Weathers check in for Aaliyah Nye, Jada Rice and Hannah Barber

• At the first timeout, Alabama leads 4-2. Neither team has had much success offensively. Alabama currently has more turnovers (5) than points

• Brittany Davis scores the first points of the game for either team. Both offenses have struggled to start the game.

• Jada Rice wins the tip and the game is underway

Pregame

The game will tipoff at 4 p.m. CT

• Starters for Alabama:
• Sarah Ashlee Barker
• Hannah Barber
• Brittany Davis
• Jada Rice 
• Aaliyah Nye

• Some interesting notes before the game:
• Auburn leads the all-time series 34-31, but have lost the last eight games against the Crimson Tide
• Jada Rice (57) is only three blocks away from having the fourth-most blocks in a season, with 112 career blocks at Alabama, she's 13 away from being 5th on the career blocks list