Georgia head women’s basketball coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson has won 20 games so far in her first season in the Southeastern Conference. She has made her presence known in college basketball’s premier conference.
On Sunday against undefeated and top-ranked South Carolina, the Lady Bulldogs lost 73-63 in front of a sold-out crowd of 18,000 in Columbia. Aliyah Boston had 25 points and 11 rebounds, and Zia Cooke added 12 points as No. 1 South Carolina completed a perfect Southeastern Conference season with a 73-63 victory.
Georgia entered the game on a roll, winning five straight conference matchups heading into Sunday’s final game of the season and conference championship play.
LSU’s coach Kim Mulkey said after a recent loss to the Gamecocks “It’s South Carolina, in my opinion, and everyone else,” but Abrahamson-Henderson refused to place the Gamecocks on a pedestal.
“We have bigs and not everyone has that,” she said in a telephone interview prior to the game. “Now everyone else is using our game plan. Which is fine.”
In both regular season matchups with the Gamecocks, the Lady Bulldogs rose to the occasion. They led at halftime during a home loss 68-51 on Jan. 2 and kept the game close Sunday in hostile Colonial Life Arena on the Gamecock’s senior night celebrating Aliyah Boston and the class of 2019.
“They’re fearless. My teams are always fearless,” she said.
Abrahamson-Henderson, known as Coach Abe, made her mark at UAlbany, earning the school’s first women’s basketball NCAA tournament win against Florida in 2016.
In Abrahamson-Henderson’s tenure, UAlbany players set numerous new program records. Ebone Henry, the 2012-13 America East Player of the Year, finished her career with 1,642 points from 2009-13. Ebone Henry Harris the married mom of three children,…
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