Jan. 13, 2010
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego State women's basketball team outscored UNLV 27-2 in the final seven minutes of the first half to easily give head coach Beth Burns her 300th career victory, as the Aztecs ran away with a 70-41 decision over the visiting Lady Rebels Wednesday at Viejas Arena. With the win, SDSU improved to a perfect 3-0 in conference play and won its seventh in a row overall, moving to 11-4 on the season. UNLV, meanwhile, dropped its seventh consecutive meeting with the Aztecs and stayed winless in the MWC (0-3), falling to 7-10 this year.
"It's really exciting and it means an awful lot," said Burns, who is in her 18th year as a head coach, including 13 seasons on The Mesa. "I'm excited for our team that we're playing so well and were able to win it in such a resounding fashion."
SDSU senior Jené Morris (San Francisco, Calif.) recorded a game-high 18 points, six assists and four steals in just 27 minutes of action. Junior Jessika Bradley (Sacramento, Calif.) had one of the best all-around games of her short Aztec career with 13 points, seven rebounds and a career-best six blocked shots, which tie as the most by a player in the Mountain West Conference this season.
San Diego State junior Coco Davis (Sacramento, Calif.) also chipped in 10 points with a pair of 3-pointers, classmate Allison Duffy (Lakeside, Calif.) had seven points and six boards and senior Quenese Davis (Sacramento, Calif.) just missed her ninth consecutive game in double-figure scoring, ending up with nine points to go with four assists.
The game was close for the first three minutes before the Aztecs came out of a 4-4 tie with 11 unanswered points to go up 15-4 at the 13:01 mark of the first half. UNLV then went on a run of its own, scoring seven in a row to get back to within four points at 15-11 and again at 17-13.
Quenese Davis, however, hit a 3-pointer 15 seconds later and the Lady Rebels made only one more field goal in the final nine minutes of the first half, as SDSU went into the locker room up by 32 points at 49-17.
UNLV came out of the break outscoring the Aztecs 10-4 to get to within 26 points at 53-27, but SDSU increased its lead back up to 30 points on a Duffy lay-up with 14:37 left in the game and went on to win by 29, 70-41.
San Diego State finished ahead in every statistical category, posting a 47.5 field-goal percentage, including a 59.4 mark in the first half, owning a +15 margin on the boards and tying a season-high with 10 blocked shots. The Aztecs also had 11 steals and were 5-for-7 (71.4 percent) from beyond the arc in the first 20 minutes of the game.
UNLV had only one player score in double-figures, as Sandrine Nzeukou scored 10 points on 5-of-7 shooting.
San Diego State heads to Ft. Worth, Texas this weekend for an important Saturday match-up with No. 22 TCU, beginning at noon CT/10 a.m. PT at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.