USU Women's Basketball Concludes Regular-Season Action At San Jose State Saturday Add Comment    Mar 05, 2011

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USU Women's Basketball Concludes Regular-Season Action At San Jose State Saturday

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GAME #28

Utah State (15-12, 9-5 WAC) at San Jose State (2-26, 2-13 WAC)

Broadcast: 1390 AM www.UtahStateAggies.com

UTAH STATE AGGIES (15-12, 9-5 WAC)

USU Probable Starters Ht. Pos. Cl. PPG RPG

22 Ashlee Brown 6-0 F RS-JR 15.7 8.6

42 Banna Diop 6-6 C SO 8.7 5.9

13 Alice Coddington 5-10 G SR 7.3 4.0

21 Amber White 5-10 G/F SR 6.7 3.2

12 Jenna Johnson 5-10 G SO 5.9 2.8

USU Bench Ht. Pos. Cl. PPG RPG

4 Devyn Christensen 5-6 G SO 11.2 2.2

1 LaCale Pringle-Buchanan 5-10 G SR 3.9 0.9

2 Jennifer Schlott 5-6 G FR 3.4 1.2

54 Maddy Plunkett 6-2 F JR 2.5 1.9

20 Chelsea Burns 5-10 G/F RS-SO 2.4 1.8

11 Stacey Howard 6-0 F SR 2.0 1.4

24 Pualei Furtado 5-5 G SO 0.9 0.6

34 Reyneisha Mays 6-3 F JR 0.7 0.5

15 Kamie Imai 5-8 G FR 0.4 1.0

TIP OFF -

Utah State womens basketball (15-13, 9-6 WAC) will conclude regular-season action at San Jose State (2-26, 2-13), Saturday, Mar. 5 at 8 p.m. The Aggies already defeated the Spartans (72-57) in Logan on Jan. 29.

THE OPPONENT

- SJSU (2-26, 2-13) is led by Sara Plavjanin averaging 11.1 points per game and 3.9 rebounds per game. Sayja Sumler and AJ Newton are both averaging 9.0 ppg as well. The Spartans two wins this season came against Idaho and Hawaii in The Event Center in San Jose, Calif. Utah State leads the series 8-3.

 

LAST TIME OUT -

Sophomore Banna Diop led the Aggies, tying her career-high 22 points and adding 11 rebounds for a double-double but it would not be enough for USU to overtake Hawaiis second-half perimeter shooting as Utah State fell in overtime, 72-71, to the Rainbow Wahine on senior night in Honolulu, Mar. 3. Diops 22 points led all scorers. Junior Ashlee Brown added 17 points in the game and eight rebounds to go with six assists. Senior Alice Coddington and sophomores Devyn Christensen and Jenna Joshnson all added six points on the night.

 

AGGIES VS SAN JOSE STATE IN THE WAC

2005-06

San Jose State 61, USU 53 (in Logan)

San Jose State 70, USU 49 (in San Jose)

2006-07

USU 58, San Jose State 50, (in Logan)

San Jose State 65, USU 57 (in San Jose)

2007-08

USU 68, San Jose State 58 (in Logan)

USU 61, San Jose State 60, (in San Jose)

2008-09

USU 64, San Jose State 54 (in San Jose)

USU 62, San Jose State 51 (in Logan)

2009-10

USU 65, San Jose State 54 (in Logan)

USU 66, SJSU 46 (In San Jose)

2010-11

USU 72, San Jose State 57 (in Logan)

Overall Record: 8-3

IN CHARGE OF THEIR OWN DESTINY -

Utah State can solidify the third seed for the WAC tournament with a win at San Jose State. The Aggies swept fourth-place Nevada (9-6) who has one game remaining at Fresno State, thus earning the tiebreaker vs. the Wolf Pack. The third seed would be the highest seed ever for USU. In 2009 the Aggies were the fifth seed which was its best finish.

STEALING A SCHOOL RECORD

- Alice Coddington is now the Utah State career steals leader as she nabbed a steal at Idaho Feb. 19 putting her at 217 steals in her career, above current USU assistant Danyelle Snelgro (216). She now has 218 steals. Coddington is closing in on another Utah State record as she is third in USU history for most assists with 304 currently, also behind Snelgro in second with 336 and Taylor Richards (2005-08) with 371.

SWEEPING THE COMPETITION

- USU has swept Boise State, Idaho and Nevada this season. It is the first time the Aggies have swept the Wolf Pack and Nevada defeated WAC-leader Louisiana Tech on Feb. 28, 71-66. The last time USU swept Boise State was the 2008-09 and the last time Utah State the Vandals was the 2006-07 season. USU will look to complete the sweep against SJSU on Mar. 5.

WAC WINS

- The Aggies have nine WAC wins so far this season which ties the 2008-09 team that had a 9-7 record. The nine wins in 2008-09 is the most for Utah State since joining the WAC in 2005-06.

WAC WINING STREAK -

The fifth-straight WAC win for the Aggies against Idaho (70-64) on Feb. 10 was their longest-conference win streak since the 1975-76 season when USU finished 10-3 in Intermountain Athletic Conference action. It is the first time since the 2004-05 season that USU has been three games over .500 in WAC action.

DEVYN DOMINATES -

Despite starting only eight games, Christensen had logged over 600 minutes this season. She has 17 double-digit games including a career-high 25 points at Boise State on Feb. 5. In the seven games she has started the guard has averaged 17.1 points per game.

D FOR DEFENSE -

The Aggies forced a season high 30 turnovers at Idaho Feb. 19. USUs defense forced 20 Hawaii turnovers on Jan. 27 and forced 23 turnovers in the following win against San Jose State, Jan. 29, which is the 10th time this season USU has caused 20 or more miscues. The Aggies also forced 25 turnovers in their 84-69 win at Boise State and 28 turnovers in the 70-64 win over Idaho Feb. 10. The Aggies also forced 27 turnovers in an overtime loss (72-71) at Hawaii.

WINDING DOWN -

Utah State has only one regular-season game remaining, against the seventh (San Jose State). Last year, the Aggies were 4-10 at this point, this season USU is 9-5.

PERFECT UNDER 59 -

The Aggies are 6-0 when holding the opponent to 59 points or less.

THREE-POINTERS TO WIN

- USU is 13-1 when shooting better than its opponents from behind the arc. On the season, the Aggies are 81-of-274 (.296) from three-point range, which is seventh in the WAC. The Aggies defeated Nevada, 79-73 on Feb. 3, shooting 4-of-14 (28.6 percent) from behind the arc, while the Wolf Pack shot 7-of-23 (30.4 percent) and also defeated Idaho (70-64) on Feb. 10 shooting 33.3. (6-of-18), while Idaho shot (56.3 (9-of-16) from three-point range which are the only USU wins when the opponent shot better from three-point range. On Feb. 26 the Aggies shot 31.8 percent from behind the arc while Louisiana Tech shot 29.4 percent and USU fell, 78-70 to the first-place Lady Techsters.

RECORD-SETTING DAY -

The Aggies set a school record shooting 60.8 percent from the field against Utah Valley on Dec. 1 in USUs 80-66 win over the Wolverines. The previous record was 58.3 percent against New Mexico State in 1982.

BLOCK PARTY

- The Aggies set a new school record with 14 blocks in a 69-57 win against Boise State (Jan. 6). The Aggies 14 blocks topped their school record of 11 set twice last year vs. North Dakota State and San Jose State.

BROWN DOUBLE-TROUBLE -

Junior Ashlee Brown nabbed her eighth double-doubles this season setting a modern-era record for more double-doubles in one season knocking off Ali (Aird) Marchant who nabbed second in 2003-04. Brown has ten 20+ point games including a career-high 26 points at Northern Arizona (Dec. 4). Brown now has nine double-doubles on the season.

PEBLEYS 80TH WIN

- In her eighth year at the helm of the Aggies, head coach Raegan Pebley notched her 80th win as the Aggies defeated Hawaii, 54-41 on Jan. 27. Pebley is the winningest coach (86) above Cindy Perkins (51) on the all-time win list.

NEXT UP -

Following the game against Hawaii the Aggies will travel to San Jose State to take on Spartans on Saturday, Mar. 5 at 8 p.m. MT. Utah State defeated SJSU (72-57) in Log

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