Mair Reaches 1,000 Points and 500 Assists in Setback at South Florida

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Mair Reaches 1,000 Points and 500 Assists in Setback at South Florida

11/20/2025 10:49:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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TAMPA, Fla. – Duke senior guard Taina Mair surpassed 1,000 career points and 500 career assists to headline the Blue Devils in an 85-72 loss in non-conference women's basketball action at South Florida Thursday night.

Mair finished her night with season highs in points (19) and rebounds (9) and totaled four steals while committing only one turnover. She moves to 1,017 points and 502 for her career. Ashlon Jackson matched a season-best 16 points, while Toby Fournier and Delaney Thomas rounded out Duke's double-digit scoring performances, logging 15 and 11 points apiece, respectively.

Duke trailed by as many as 20 points in the fourth quarter before putting together a 20-8 run to pull within 11 points. The Blue Devils ran out of time in the comeback effort, falling to 3-3 on the season.

South Florida had a hot hand all night, shooting 56.6 percent from the floor for the game. Stefani Ingram led all scorers with 27 points on 8-of-13 shooting, including 4-of-6 from behind the arc.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Mair got her 1,000th career point on her first shot of the game to give the Blue Devils the early 4-2 edge. South Florida answered with an 8-0 run to force Duke into the early timeout trailing 10-4. The Bulls hit their first five shots of the game while Duke was 2-of-5 from the field early on.
South Florida's hot shooting continued, extending its lead to 10 points, 16-6, before Mair keyed the Blue Devils on a 10-5 spurt to pull within five. The Bulls hit their 10th field goal of the game in the final second of the quarter, heading into the first break leading, 23-16.
Jackson knocked down a mid-range jumper in the paint to start the second quarter, but South Florida continued to have an answer to go back up by 11, 29-18.
Missed free throws by the Blue Devils and a pair of drives to the basket by the Bulls sent South Florida into the second quarter media timeout with its largest lead of the game, 33-20. The Blue Devils, trailing by as many as 14, started to chip away at the lead from the charity stripe. Duke sank six free throws to bring the deficit back within single digits, 35-26.
Arianna Roberson scored a three-point play moments later to make it an eight-point contest, but another layup from Kirsten Lewis-Williams with 24 ticks on the clock sent the home squad into the locker room with a 10-point advantage.
South Florida continued to force Duke to beat the Bulls from the free throw line, sending the Blue Devils to the charity stripe four times in the first couple of minutes. After going just 0-for-3 on free throws, Mair sank the second of her two freebies and Fournier got the block and transition layup to make it a nine-point game again, 41-32.
South Florida remained resilient, putting together another run to grab its largest lead of the game, 58-40. After the Bulls stretched the lead to 19, 53-44, Jackson drained a three to send Duke into the fourth quarter trailing 63-46.
The Blue Devils tried to chip away at the Bulls' lead in the final frame, spurred by five points from Fournier, but South Florida maintained its 76-58 advantage.
The teams traded points, with South Florida holding a 79-60 edge before Duke went on an 8-0 run, fueled by back-to-back threes from Jackson to pull within 11, 79-68.
South Florida closed out the game by converting six free throws and limiting Duke to just four additional points.

UP NEXT

Duke opens action in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Players Era Women's Championship Tournament against No. 2 South Carolina Nov. 26 and will face either No. 3 Texas or No. 4 UCLA the following day. Both games will be televised by truTV.

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