MONROE, La. – The ULM women's basketball team (10-12, 5-8 Sun Belt) defended Fant-Ewing Coliseum from beginning to end Wednesday night as they beat Georgia State (9-15, 4-8 Sun Belt) 81-62. The 19-point victory was the largest in program history over the Panthers and the second win in a row by ULM in the series.
 
On her sixth made shot of the evening in the third quarter, graduate student J'Mani Ingram managed to reach 1,000 points for her career on her way to finishing the game with 18 points. Jazmine Jackson led ULM in scoring with 19 points on the night while Marcavia Shavers recorded her seventh double-double of the season with 13 points and 19 rebounds.
 
Ingram headlined the initial offensive efforts of the Warhawks as she scored three of the team's first four baskets. A second-chance three-pointer by Asjah Inniss off an offensive rebound by Shavers kick-started a 15-2 run by ULM to put them up as much as 13 in the first quarter. A 5-0 run by the Panthers helped bring the lead down to nine after one quarter of play.    
 
ULM's hot-shooting from the prior game continued to carry over into the second quarter as a three-pointer by Keshunti Nichols helped initiate a 7-0 run to put the home side up 14. GSU would cut the lead down to 10 in response to a three-pointer by Katelyn Chomko but an aggressive Jackson kept the lead at double figures with back-to-back perfect trips to the charity stripe. The Warhawks had to settle for a 12-point lead at halftime after the Panthers banked in a three-pointer at the buzzer.
 
A three-point shootout broke out to begin the third quarter as either side knocked down two efforts from long-range in a span of less than two minutes. Ingram would convert her 100th career steal into a breakaway layup at the other end prior to knocking down a fadeaway jumper off the glass for her 1,000th career point. GSU would remain hot from three and an 11-0 run would cut ULM's lead down to five prior to a three-point answer from Nakiyah Mays-Prince.
 
Neither side could buy a basket to begin the fourth quarter before a three-point play by Ingram restored a double-digit lead for ULM. The Warhawks continued to punish the Panthers inside offensively while holding them to just three total baskets for the quarter. ULM would finish the game on a 14-5 run and hold the Panthers to eight points in the final stanza to seal the win.
 
The Warhawks recorded their most rebounds in a game this season with 53 while holding the Panthers to just 27. They held GSU to 33 percent shooting for the game and also recorded 20 or more assists as a team for just the second time this season.
 
ULM will take a brief pause from conference play as they wrap up the MAC/SBC Challenge on Saturday against Buffalo. Tipoff from Alumni Arena is scheduled for noon CT.