Frisco Liberty beats Mansfield Timberview: Live score, Texas high school state girls basketball championship updates recap (3/2/2024)

Jacy Abii scores 30 points, grabs 12 boards to lead Liberty to UIL Class 5A repeat title comeback

Frisco Liberty and Mansfield Timberview clash in the Texas (UIL) Class 5A state girls basketball championship on Saturday afternoon in a battle of Lone Star State powerhouses.

Tipoff is set for 3 p.m. The game is being streamed on the NFHS Network (subscription required).

Stay with SBLive for up-to-date coverage — photos, stories and highlights — of every game. Scroll down for live score and game updates from the Class 5A title. Refresh this post for the latest. 

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FINAL: FRISCO LIBERTY 60, MANSFIELD TIMBERVIEW 51

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Mansfield Timberview's Chrishawn Coleman rises up for a layup in the UIL Class 5A state championship on Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio / Photo by Tommy Hays, SBLive Sports

SECOND HALF

-- That's it. Frisco Liberty takes its largest lead of the game — nine — late and suffocates Timberview down the stretch to win back-to-back UIL Class 5A state championships.

-- Impressive sequence that demonstrates the talent on the floor: Jacy Abii has her pocket picked by Chrishawn Coleman, who goes the other way and has her shot rejected by Abii from behind on the fast break. Abii playing extremely poised with foul trouble all second half.

-- Jacy. Abii. She hits a massive corner 3 puts Liberty ip 56-48 on Timberview with around 3:18 left in the fourth.

-- Mansfield Timberview is on a 2:15 scoring drought, over which Liberty has scored seven unanswered. Timberview's biggest lead was 12.

-- At a point early in the third quarter, Mansfield Timberview looked poised to pull away in the class 5A state title. But Frisco Liberty had other plans, mounting a comeback on the shoulders of Jacy Abii and Aziyah Farrier. Abii had 11 of her game-high 27 points in the third quarter.

FIRST HALF

Emilee Jones scored 12 and Chrish Coleman had 11 as Mansfield Timberview jumped out to a 29-22 halftime lead over Frisco Liberty in the Class 5A state title.  

Sophomore phenom Jaci Abii had 12 points and six rebounds for the Redhawks, but picked up three first half fouls.

Catch up on everything you missed in the UIL Class 3A, 2A and 1A state championships:

Texas (UIL) high school girls basketball: Live scores, updates of 1A/2A/3A state championships (3/2/2024)

PHOTO GALLERY

All photos by Tommy Hays.

-- Andy Buhler | andy@scorebooklive.com | @sblivetx