San Jose, Calif. – Wrapping a two-game stretch away from home, the San José State women's basketball team plays at Colorado State on Wednesday evening. Tip off in Moby Arena, between the Spartans and Rams, is set for 7:00 p.m. (MT).
San José State Spartans (2-21, 1-11 MW)
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Colorado State Rams (8-15, 2-10 MW)
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 7:00 p.m. (MT)
Fort Collins, Colo. (Moby Arena - 8,745)
LIVE STATS
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VIDEO STREAMING
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SOCIAL MEDIA
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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 SJSU Athletics Media Relations Office to attend any practice session.
QUICK LOOK AT COLORADO STATE
The Rams posted a 6-5 mark in non-conference play, are currently 8-15 overall and sit in tenth place in the Mountain West with a 2-10 record. They have lost the last three in a row, including a 54-45 loss at San Diego State lat week. CSU is 8-6 on its home court this season, but have posted a 2-4 home record in conference games. The Rams are outscoring opponents by an average of 4.4 points (58.4-to-54.0) in its 14 home games, but in league play they are being outscored by 9.2 points per game (59.5-to-50.3) in Mountain West home games.
Lore Devos' 13.9 points per game average paces the Rams. In addition, Devos leads the team in rebounding (5.5/g). Grace Colaivalu is dishing out 4.7 assists, Myanne Hamm is at 1.7 steals and Tatum Neubert is blocking 1.23 shots per game, all team highs.
Ryun Williams is in his seventh season as the head coach at Colorado State, where he brought a 136-58 record into the 2018-19 season. In 20-years as a head coach he entered 2018-19 with a career record of 394-211.
BENALLY MOVES INTO CAREER THREE-POINTERS TOP-10 AT SJSU
With four threes and a single-game scoring high of 17 points against Boise State (2/9), Analyss Benally (Jr., G, Shiprock, N.M.) moved into the 10th spot on the Spartans career three-pointers list and entering the Colorado State game has made 103 threes in 70 career games (1.5/g). However, if you take into account that she played sparingly as a freshman (17 games and made just one three-pointer) the numbers are even more impressive. In the last 53 games, Benally has made 102 threes, slightly less than 2.0 per game. That average would rank third in SJSU history behind Rebecca Woodberry (2013-15) who made 171 in 61 games (2.8/g) and Dezz Ramos (2015-17) 145 in 61 games (2.4/g).
If Benally continues at her pace of the last 53 games she would set the program's career three-pointers mark with 214 passing Kari Steele (1993-97) who currently holds the record with 199.
WILSON EMERGES IN MOUNTAIN WEST PLAY
In the first seven games in which she appeared this season, Mikaylah Wilson (So., F, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) was shooting just 32.6 percent (17-of-52), averaging 5.5 points and 3.1 rebounds, but since the start of Mountain West play, 12 games ago, things have taken a dramatic turn.
In the last dozen games, all of them starts, Wilson is averaging 7.7 ppg, has gone 40-of-81 (49.4 percent) from the floor and has averaged 5.9 rebounds. In addition, over that stretch, she has nine steals and 13 blocks. In the game at San Diego State (2/2), Wilson recorded the second double double of her career with 16 points and 11 rebounds and two games later, vs. New Mexico (2/13), picked up her third and second in three games with 14 points and a career-high 12 rebounds.
THE GAME IS SLOWING DOWN FOR POTTER
Raziya Potter (Fr., G, Tracy, Calif.) has scored in double figures in 11-of-23 games this season and has made 17 starts. She is the team's leading scorer in the regular season (9.3 ppg) and in Mountain West play (9.0 ppg). In the last seven games, she is averaging 10.7 points and shooting .422 (27-of-64) from the field. Over the same time span she is averaging 2.7 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game and has six steals and five blocks.
DANAE HAVING A SEASON AND AGAINST UTAH STATE...A DAY
Point guard Danae Marquez (So., PG, Fresno, Calif.), who had two starts last season, is making a big impact this year, getting starts in 20 of the 22 games in which she has appeared this season, but it goes well beyond that. Marquez has upped her scoring from 5.2-to-7.1 points per game as well as increasing her assists from 3.3-to-4.1 a game. Her steals are up to 1.5 per game from 1.2, and the 5-5 point guard is grabbing 3.0 rebounds per game.
In the team's win against Utah State (1/30), Marquez scored a career-high 21 points, dished out five assists, and grabbed two rebounds and had two steals. She was 6-of-6 from the free throw line down the stretch to secure the victory.
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 23 games the change is paying dividends. Hafoka's scoring average is up to 8.7 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-.420, three-point field goal percentage is .356 this year compared to .243 a year ago and the free throw shooting us up to .750 from .600. In addition, her assists average is up from 1.8-to-2.6. Earlier this season, Hafoka set her career scoring-high with 17 points against Pacific (11/29) and then matched it against Santa Clara (12/15).
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 in blocks (1.0/g), second on the team in rebounds (4.8/g), and is its third-leading scorer (8.8/g). She is the squads third best percentage shooter (.383) among those that have attempted at least eight shots per game, leads the team in three-point shooting accuracy (.386) and has gone to the line a team-high 70 times, knocking down 47 of them (.671).
IT'S A THREE THING
Offensively the Spartans are not shy when it comes to long distance shooting. Nationally, SJSU ranks 37th in three-point attempts, 61st in three-pointers made and 46th in three-pointers 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. Entering the Colorado State game, her 103 career three-pointers put her in tenth place 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 87 career-threes entering the Colorado State game rank 13th all-time and her career .382 three-point shooting percentage is the best in program history.
MORE CAREER-LIST FACTS
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 Colorado State game she has 53 threes in her career and sits in 22nd place on the career list and is one from equaling Chasity Shavers (2008-10) for 21st place. Kohlhaas not only launches threes, she makes them at a .333 percentage rate which ranks eighth on the program's career list.
With one blocked shot against New Mexico (2/13), Cydni Lewis (So., F, Long Beach, Calif.) passed Trisha Montgomery (1991-93) and Ta'Rea Cunnigan (2011-15) for 14th place on the career list. She currently has 55 in 53 games. If she continues on her career per game (1.0/g), she would finish the regular season with 66 career blocks which would slot her into 10th place on the career list.
Alexis Harris (Jr., C, Palo Alto, Calif.) has swatted 44 shots in 74 career games for an average of 0.6 blocks per game which slots her into 22nd place on the blocked shots per game list. She entered the program's career top-25 with a pair of blocks at UNLV (2/16) and currently ranks 24th on the all-time list.
With five assists against UNLV (1/19), Danae Marquez (So., PG, Fresno, Calif.) moved into the program's top-25. Entering tonight's game has 188 in her Spartans' career and is in 17th place. She is two assists from equaling Joi Turner (1993-97) for 16th place.
Mikaylah Wilson (So., F, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) ranks 23rd on the program's career blocked shots list. She has blocked 45 in her Spartans career and is one from 22nd place and two from 21st place.
FAST BREAKS
Fieme'a Hafoka (Jr., G, Kihei, Maui) Captain...equaled her career-high with 17 points vs. Santa Clara (12/15) and is shooting a team-best .420 from the field.
Analyss Benally (Jr., G, Shiprock, N.M.) has hit 126 buckets in her career, 103 of which are three pointers. She leads the team with 42 threes this year and is 18 from equaling her career-high for a season.
Cydni Lewis (So., F, Long Beach, Calif.) leads the team in blocks (22), is second in rebounds (4.8/g) which rank tenth and 20th in the MW, respectively.
Danae Marquez (So., PG, Fresno, Calif.) leads the team with 90 assists (4.1/g) which ranks sixth in the Mountain West. She is fifth on the team (3.0/g) and set a single-game best with eight rebounds against CSUB (11/24).
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 leading scorer (9.3 ppg) and third in assists (2.2/g).
Megan Anderson (So., G, Fresno, Calif.) has made at least one three-pointer in 43-of-53 career-games. Hit a season-high four three-pointers at Air Force (1/26). Program's best career three-point shooter (.382)
Alexis Harris (Jr., C, Palo Alto, Calif.) set career-highs with 9 rebounds & 4 blocks vs. Southern Oregon (12/20/17). Ranks 22nd on the program's career shots blocked per game list (0.6/g) & swatted two at UNLV (2/13).
Andrea Kohlhaas (Sr., F, Besigheim, Germany) Captain...ranks 22nd on program's career three-point list (53). This season 16-of-18 buckets have been 3-pointers and her .333 three-point field goal percentage is eighth all-time.
Mikaylah Wilson (So., F, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) is shooting 50.0 percent (40-of-80) in the last 12 games.