SAN DIEGO - The San Diego State women's basketball team kicks off the 2020-21 season in Las Vegas with games against Washington (Wednesday at 7 p.m.) and Lamar (Friday at 3:45 p.m.).
Quick Hits
• The UW game will be played at T-Mobile Arena and will be streamed on FloHoops ($12.50). The Lamar game is taking place at the South Point Resort and also will be streamed ($10).
• The Aztecs went 14-17 in 2019-20 with a 9-9 mark in conference (tied for fifth place), their highest finish in seven years.
• San Diego State received one first place vote in the preseason Mountain West poll and were predicted to finish in fourth place, their highest preseason prediction since the 2013-14 preseason when they were picked to finish third.
• Junior guard Sophia Ramos (San Antonio, Texas) was one of five players selected to the Mountain West preseason all-conference team. Ramos was one of two players in the conference to rank in the top ten in points (15.4, 4th), rebounds (7.2, 9th) and assists (3.8 6th). Ramos scored in double-digits in 15 of the 18 MW games last season and had three games with at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and five assists, tied for the third most in the nation.
• Freshman guard Asia Avinger was tabbed the Mountain West preseason Freshman of the Year. Avinger was ranked No. 56 in the nation according to ESPN, the highest ranked recruit under Stacie Terry-Hutson (8th season).
• In addition to Ramos, the Aztecs return senior starting guard Téa Adams and sophomore forward Mallory Adams, an all-conference honorable mention selection in 2018-19, who was limited to six games last year due to injury.
• The Aztecs have eight newcomers (five freshmen and three transfers) who joined the program for the 2020-21 season, including Mercedes Staples, a former four-star recruit who appeared in 25 games and made two starts over 1.5 seasons at Minnesota.
• The Aztecs shot 35.8 percent from three last season, their best rate from deep since the 1991-92 season and the second-best in school history. Isabela Hernandez shot 43.1 percent from three last season as a freshman, the second-best in a single season
Opponent Notebook (Washington)
• The Huskies went 13-17 last season and 5-13 in the Pac-12.
• They came in 11th place and lost in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament to the No. 8 seed Utah.
• They lost four starters from last year's team including their leading scorer Amber Melgoza.
• UW's lone returning starter is Darcy Rees, a 6'4" junior center who averaged 6.9 points and 4.1 rebounds last season.
• They have three players who will not play this year either due to injury or opt-out: Grace Beasley, T.T. Watkins and Missy Peterson.
• The Huskies are coached by Jody Wynn (4th season). She has gone 31-61 in her three seasons in Seattle.
Washington Series Notes
• Washington leads the all-time series 3-1.
• The schools met four times in a five-year span (2011-15).
• The Aztecs won the first meeting 63-51 inside Viejas Arena (11-26-11).
• The Huskies have won the last three meetings.
• SDSU has never topped 63 points against UW.
• This will be their first meeting at a neutral site.
• The Aztecs are 69-115 all-time against schools currently in the Pac-12.
Opponent Notebook (Lamar)
• Lamar went 10-19 last season and 6-14 in the Southland conference (10th place).
• They return two starters and seven letterwinners.
• Angel Hastings is their top returning scorer. She averaged 12.4 points per game last season and made 53 three-pointers.
• Jaydn Pimentel started 17 games last season and had a team-high 89 assists.
• Aqua Franklin is in her second year coaching Lamar
Lamar Series Notes
• This is the first ever meeting between the two schools.
• SDSU is 8-1 all-time against schools currently in the Southland conference. Their lone loss came to Stephen F. Austin in 1996.
2019-20 Season by The Numbers
2 - SDSU had two players (Sophia Ramos & Taylor Kalmer) earn All-Mountain West honors, the first time that has happened since the 2012-2013 season.
2 - The Aztecs earned their first sweeps of New Mexico and Colorado State since the 2012-13 season.
4 - Following the 2019-20 season, head coach Stacie Terry-Hutson received a four-year extension. She set or tied personal bests for total wins, Mountain West wins, and road wins along with a handful of statistical highs in the 2019-20 season.
5 - The Aztecs won five road games, their most since the 2012-13 season.
6 - Sophomore forward Mallory Adams was limited to six games due to injury. She averaged 12.2 points and 8.9 rebounds per game as a freshman, the highest rebounding average for a freshman since 1983-1984.
6.5 - Sophia Ramos averaged a team-high 6.5 rebounds per game, the most by an Aztec guard since Chelsea Hopkins in the 2012-13 season.
8 - The Aztecs' GPA in the fall semester was their best over the past eight semesters.
9 - The Aztecs went 9-9 in the Mountain West to tie for fifth place, their highest finish since 2012-13.12 - SDSU played in 12 games that went to overtime or were decided by five points or less, including 11 of the final 18 games.
16 - Sophia Ramos was 16-for-16 from the free throw line vs. New Mexico on Jan. 29, tying the school record for free throws made in a game (Tina Hutchinson, 1984). Ramos was one of three players in the nation to make at least 16 free throws in a game without a miss.
25 - Senior Taylor Kalmer finished the year scoring in double-digits in 25 straight games, the longest streak for an Aztec in the Mountain West era (1999-present).
35.8 - The Aztecs shot 35.8 percent from three on the year. This was the second-highest percentage in the conference and 28th in the nation. It was the Aztecs' best rate from deep since the 1991-92 season and the second-best in school history.
38.6 - SDSU held opponents to 38.6 shooting from the field, the second lowest in the conference and the best percentage under head coach Stacie Terry-Hutson.
41.7 - SDSU shot 41.7 percent from the field this season, their best since the 2013-14 season.
43.1 - Freshman Isabela Hernandez shot 43.1 percent from three, the second-best in a single season in school history (minimum 50 attempts).
83.1 - Sophia Ramos had a free throw percentage of 83.1, the second-best in the Mountain West and eighth-best in school history. Ramos finished the year with 113 made free throws, the 10th most in a single season in program history.
1,380 - SDSU's average attendance in 2019-20, a new program record. The Aztecs also set a school record for total attendance last year (23,458).