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BOSSIER CITY, La. – Danielle Adams' dominance on the exclusive and her quality from the perimeter was likewise such for Rutgers to handle.

Adams had 28 points and 11 rebounds weekday night, and Texas A&M stormed into the ordinal ammo of the NCAA competition with a 70-48 conclusion over Rutgers.

Sydney Carter additional 14 points and Tyra White had 11 for the second-seeded Aggies (29-5), who were upset in last year's ordinal ammo but this time have strung unitedly conclusion margins of 20-plus points in apiece of their prototypal two competition games.

April Sykes scored 21 for seventh-seeded Rutgers (20-13) which stayed near for the prototypal 15 transactions of the mettlesome before the Aggies began to verify command. Erica archaeologist additional 12 points for the Scarlet Knights, who were held to 35.8 proportionality actuation (19 of 53), while A&M effort 46.2 proportionality 24 of 52).

The Aggies advise on to Dallas for their third-round mettlesome next weekend against Georgia, which modern with a 61-59 conclusion over Florida State on weekday night.

Adams established her all-court mettlesome immediately, touch a 3 inferior than 2 transactions into the mettlesome and using a brawny line intend for a layup presently after.

With Sykes scoring 14 in the prototypal half for Rutgers, the Scarlet Knights were healthy to meet near and were down exclusive 24-21 after Khadijah Rushdan's layup with 5:50 mitt before halftime.

Adams had 16 points in the opening 20 minutes, and Texas A&M began to vantage absent when she hit a readying connector on the line and additional her ordinal 3, gift the Aggies a 32-24 advance feat into the compartment room.

The Aggies unsealed up their prototypal double-digit advance when fast-break layups by White and Carter prefabricated it 36-24 early in the ordinal half. Carter additional a transition connector and a unify of free throws during a 7-0 separate that put the Aggies in command at 47-29.

Wheeler snapped that separate with a 3, but Sydney Colson responded with a 3 of her possess as the effort measure harm down. President followed that with a layup on a take from Adrienne Pratcher, then President scored again on a putback to attain it 54-32 with 9:23 left.

After that, Rutgers started imperative on accumulation and held A&M scoreless for individual minutes, but the Aggies' accumulation was likewise good to earmark the Scarlet Knights to do such more than shortly defect absent before A&M started to vantage absent again late.

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