San Jose, Calif. – The San José State women's basketball team hosts the UNLV Rebels on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in The Event Center, with the Spartans looking to break through for their first conference win of the season.
San José State Spartans (1-14, 0-4 MW)
vs.
UNLV Rebels (4-11, 2-2 MW)
Saturday, January 19, 2019 - 2:00 p.m. (PT)
San Jose, Calif. (The Event Center - 5,000)
LIVE STATS
Fans can view live stats of all San José State women's basketball games, home and away, by accessing the Live Stats feature at www.sjsuspartans.com. Click on the link on the women's basketball schedule page to follow the action.
VIDEO STREAMING
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Keep up with Spartans women's basketball on all our social media platforms. The team's Twitter handle is @sjswbb, Facebook page is /SanJoseStateWBB and Instagram is sjsu_wbb.
COACH CRAIGHEAD AND PLAYER INTERVIEWS
All interview requests for Head Coach Jamie Craighead or any players should be made through the SJSU Athletics Media Relations Office, 408-924-1208, at least 24 hours in advance. Players are available as their class schedules, practices and meetings permit. On game days, players will not be available until post-game. Media members are also required to make arrangements with the San José State's Athletics Media Relations Office to attend any practice session.
QUICK LOOK AT UNLV
The Rebels posted a 2-9 mark in non-conference play and have started the Mountain West portion of its schedule with a 2-2 record. They have back-to-back wins against New Mexico and Air Force in their last two games. UNLV is 0-6 on the road this season, but two of those losses came at Duke and Portland State. Away from home the Rebels are being outscored by its opponents by an average of 9.7 points, scoring an average of 50.3 points per game while surrendering 63.0.
Katie Powell's 14.7 points per game average paces the Rebels. In addition, Powell leads the team in rebounding (6.1/g) and blocks (0.9/g). Nikki Wheatley is dishing out 1.8 assists and forcing 1.4 steals per game, both team highs.
Kathy Olivier is in her 11th season as the head coach at UNLV, where she brought a 157-158 record into the 2018-19 season. In 25-years as a head coach she entered 2018-19 with a career record of 389-366.
WILSON IS STARTING TO ROLL
In the first six games in which she appeared this season, Mikaylah Wilson (So., F, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) was shooting just 28.3 percent (13-of-46), but starting five games ago, things have taken a dramatic turn. In the last five games, four of them starts, Wilson has gone 18-of-25 (72.0 percent) and averaged 3.4 rebounds. In addition, over that stretch, she has four steals and four blocks.
IT'S ALL ABOUT POSITIONING
This season, Fieme'a Hafoka (Jr. , G, Kihei, Maui) has returned to her natural position, a wing, after a year out of position at trail post. After 15 games the change is paying dividends. Hafoka's scoring average is up to 9.4 ppg from 6.1 per game last year and that is just the beginning. Her shooting percentages are all up...field goal percentage is up from .355-to-.434, three-point field goal percentage is .360 this year compared to .243 a year ago and the free throw shooting us up to .625 from .600. In addition, her assists and steals averages are up from 1.8-to-2.7 and 1.2-to-1.5, respectively.
Earlier this season, Hafoka set her career scoring-high with 117 points against Pacific (11/29) and then matched it against Santa Clara (12/15).
SETTLING IN NICELY
Raziya Potter (Fr., G, Tracy, Calif.) has scored in double figures in seven-of-15 games this season and has made ten starts. After sputtering in the previous two games, she shot 60% (6-of-10) from the field leading the team in scoring with 14 points, grabbed four rebounds and had an assist at Boise State (1/12).
CYD IS NO KID
Cydni Lewis (So., F, Long Beach, Calif.) has emerged as one of the Spartans most dangerous threats...inside and outside, on offense and defense. Lewis ranks first on the team in rebounds (4.9/g) and blocks (1.0/g), and is its leading scoring (9.5/g). She is the squads third best percentage shooter (.387) among those that have attempted at least nine shots per game, leads the team in three-point shooting accuracy (.483) and has gone to the line a team-high 51 times, knocking down 33 of them (.647).
IT'S A THREE THING
Offensively the Spartans are not shy when it comes to long distance shooting. Nationally, SJSU ranks 31st in three-point attempts, 53rd in three-pointers made, 36th in three-pointers per game and is third the Mountain West at 8.3 threes per game.
In the 2017-18 season, two Spartans set program records for making threes. Analyss Benally (Jr., G, Shiprock, N.M.) sank 60, which are the most by a sophomore in program history and the ninth most by a Spartan in a single season. Coming into the Utah State game, her 87 career three-pointers place her 14 away from the top-10 on the program's career list.
Megan Anderson (So., G, Fresno, Calif.) dropped in 46 treys in 2017-18, a freshman record for San José State women's basketball and the 18th most for a single-season in program history. In addition to her program record, Anderson led all Mountain West freshmen and was the fourth most accurate freshman three-point shooter in the nation last season at .438. Her .438 three-point shooting percentage is also a single-season record for the program. Her 72 career-threes entering the UNLV game rank 16th all-time and her career .393 three-point shooting percentage is the best in program history.
MORE CAREER-LIST FACTS
In addition to Benally and Anderson, who are firmly planted on the SJSU women's basketball all-time lists, three other Spartans appear in the career record book.
With a pair of three-pointers at Fresno State (1/3), Andrea Kohlhaas (Sr., F, Besigheim, Germany) moved into the top-25 on the program's three-point list. Entering the UNLV game she has 48 threes in her career and sits in 24th place on the career list and is one from equlaing Emily Vann (2014-16) for 23rd place.
With one blocked shot at Fresno State (1/3), Cydni Lewis (So., F, Long Beach, Calif.) tied Paris Baird (2017-19) and Teoma Taylor (2000-04) for 18th place on the career list giving her 48 in 45 games. If she continues on her career per game pace for this season (1.1/g), she would finish the regular season with 66 career blocks which would slot her into 10th place on the career list. In addition to her shot-blocking prowess, Lewis is among the best percentage shooters in program history. She ranks 20th at .449 (129-of-287).
Alexis Harris (Jr., C, Palo Alto, Calif.) has swatted 37 shots in 66 career games for an average of 0.6 blocks per game which slots her into 21st place on the blocked shots per game list.
MARQUEZ
Point guard Danae Marquez (So., PG, Fresno, Calif.), who had two starts last season, is making a big impact this year, getting starts in 13-of-14 games this season, but it goes well beyond that. Marquez has upped her scoring from 5.2-to-6.4 points per game as well as increasing her assists from 3.3-to-4.1 a game. Her steals are up to 1.7 per game from 1.2, but perhaps the biggest surprise is she is second on the team in rebounding. The 5-5 guard is grabbing 3.7/g.
FAST BREAKS
Fieme'a Hafoka (Jr., G, Kihei, Maui) Captain...equaled her career-high with 17 points vs. Santa Clara (12/15) and shooting a team-best .434 from the field.
Analyss Benally (Jr., G, Shiprock, N.M.) has hit 104 buckets in her career, 87 of which are three pointers. She shares the team lead with 26 threes this year.
Cydni Lewis (So., F, Long Beach, Calif.) leads the team in blocks (15), rebounds (4.9/g), eighth and 17th in the MW, respectively.
Danae Marquez (So., PG, Fresno, Calif.) leads the team with 57 assists (4.1/g) which ranks sixth in the Mountain West. Second on the team (3.7/g) and set a single-game best with eight rebounds against CSUB (11/24). Is 15-of-15 from the free throw line
Raziya Potter (Fr., G, Tracy, Calif.) at San Diego (12/21) led the team with 15 points (6-of-9 FG) and added four rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocks. The team's third-leading scorer (8.7 ppg) and third in assists (2.1/g).
Megan Anderson (So., G, Fresno, Calif.) has made at least one three-pointer in 37-of-45 career-games. Hit a season-high three three-pointers at San Diego (12/21) and again at Utah State (1/16). Last season led team with a .438 three-point shooting percentage. Led all Mountain West freshmen and ranked fourth in the nation among freshman three-point percentage shooters. Program's best career three-point shooter (.393)
Alexis Harris (Jr., C, Palo Alto, Calif.) set career-highs with 9 rebounds & 4 blocks vs. Southern Oregon (12/20/17). Ranks 21st on the program's career shots blocked per game list (0.6/g).
Courtesy Clark (So., G, Sacramento, Calif.) equaled a career-high 8 pts against SFSU (11/6) and has already equaled or set new career bests in three-pointers, assists and steals.
Andrea Kohlhaas (Sr., F, Besigheim, Germany) Captain...returned to action against SFSU (11/6) after a year rehabbing a leg injury sustained in the fifth game of last season. Ranks 24th on program's career three-point list (48). This season 11-of-13 buckets have been 3-pointers.
Nefer León (Fr., G, Vitoria, Spain) scored a season-best five points at San Diego (12/21) and equaled it at Boise State (1/12).
Mikaylah Wilson (So., F, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) .737 shooting percentage in MW games is second in the league. In the last five games she is shooting .720 (18-of-25).