GLOVER
BREAKS ANOTHER SCHOOL RECORDGREENSBORO, NC, January 23, 2006 – Senior guard Shareka Glover broke the single-game scoring for the North Carolina A&T’s women’s basketball team with 45 points on 15-for-31 shooting to lead the Aggies to an 87-78 win.
Glover broke Malveata Johnson’s 42-point performance against Coppin State in 2001. The accomplishment also adds to long list Glover is stringing together as she closes out her N.C. A&T career.
Already in January, she has reached 1,000 points for her career and broke the Aggies all-time assists record. She needs 18 more steals to capture the school’s record.
“I figured I had a lot of points, but I didn’t know I had 45,’’said Glover, who had four assists and seven rebounds to her totals. “I was in that zone, I just felt it. Once I hit my first couple of shots, I knew I was going to have a good night from there.”
“I like the fact that coached move me off the ball and let me play the shooting guard. I think that really helped.”
N.C. A&T women’s basketball coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs used freshman Krystal Hough and Timika Pearson at the point guard position throughout the night in order to slide Glover to the shooting guard spot. The Aggies needed the scoring boost, and Glover went after the record typical Glover crowd-pleasing style.
Glover’s three with 6:32 remaining gave the Aggies a 72-71 lead. The Aggies would never trail again. Until that point there had been 10 ties and 13 lead changes. It was the start of Glover making her claim on the record and the Aggies claim on the game official.
For her next three, she pulled up from the deep corner on the left side to give the Aggies a 75-71 lead, and to give her 37 points on the night. Following a free throw by Morgan State’s Shana Phillips, Glover coolly pulled up from about two feet from beyond the 3-point arc to push the Aggies lead to 78-72 with 3:59 remaining.
On the Aggies next possession, without hesitation, almost as if she knew her next basket would yield her the record, Glover came to the top of the key early in the Aggies possession and connected on a three for the record and an 81-72 Aggies lead.
From the 6:53 mark until the 2:02 mark, Glover scored 16 straight points for the Aggies. Her 16th consecutive point gave the Aggies an 83-76 lead. Kira Tillman and LaKeisha Williams buckets put the Bears away for good.
“She was in a zone tonight. There is not much else you can say but that,’’ Bibbs said about Glover. “She stepped it up and I appreciate any and everything she does for us.”
The Aggies head to the Tidewater area to face Norfolk State on Saturday at 4 p.m. It will be Bibbs’ 600th game coached. Bibbs then makes her return trip to Hampton University on Monday, where she spent seven years of career and won three MEAC Tournament titles.