2024-25 Red River Athletic Conference women's basketball standings

        NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana women's basketball defeated Texas A&M-Texarkana 67-43 Thursday to equal its best start of the Title IX era.
        The Gold Nuggets, ranked 25th in the NAIA, are 10-0 overall and 7-0 in the Red River Athletic Conference. XULA's 1980-81 team also started 10-0. The Gold Nuggets could break the record next Thursday when they play Southwest (N.M.) at 5:30 p.m. in the Convocation Center.
        Kam Shelley scored 16 points, Patricia Sosa Lora had 14 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks, and Joy Campbell had 12 points, five rebounds, eight assists and seven steals for XULA.
        Kayla Williams had 10 points and eight rebounds for the Eagles (1-11, 1-7).
        After a halftime tie at 30, XULA outscored TAMUT 23-6 in the third quarter and 14-7 in the fourth. Campbell, Shelley and Sosa Lora scored eight points apiece in the second half.
        "I didn't say much at halftime," 26th-year head coach Bo Browder said. "They knew they had to play much better in the second half, and they did."
        XULA limited TAMUT to 16 percent from the floor in the second half — 4-of-25. Overall the Eagles shot a season-low 30.2 percent.
        At home XULA has won nine straight and 13 of its last 14 games. Overall the Gold Nuggets won 24 of their last 27.
        XULA has a one-game lead in the loss column over LSU-Alexandria and LSU-Shreveport, both 7-1 in the RRAC. Elsewhere Thursday in the league:
        •  LSUA won 71-50 at home against Huston-Tillotson.
        •  LSUS won 61-48 at home against North American.
        •  Jarvis Christian won 70-61 at home against Louisiana Christian.
        •  Texas A&M-San Antonio — a first-year program but fourth in the RRAC at 6-2 — won 83-64 at Our Lady of the Lake.