SAN DIEGO – The Aztec women's basketball team (6-7, 0-2) hosts Colorado State (10-1, 1-0) Monday evening at 6 p.m.
Aztec Tidbits
• SDSU is coming off a 73-67 loss at Fresno State last Friday afternoon.
• The Aztecs trailed by as much as 14 points in the second half but rallied to tie it up midway through the fourth quarter before the Bulldogs pulled away.
• SDSU scored a season-high 38 points in the paint, but were whistled for 26 fouls, also a season-high, which led to 26 made free throws for the Bulldogs.
• Sophia Ramos was one of four Aztecs in double-figures. She had 19 points and five made threes.
• Kim Villalobos (Van Nuys, Calif.) earned her first start of the year Friday and scored 12 points. She is shooting a team-best 54.8 percent from the floor, an improvement of nearly 20 percent from last year (35.1%) when she made the Mountain West All-Freshman Team.
• Mallory Adams (Frisco, Texas) scored 10 points on Friday and now is just 10 points away from 700 in her career.
• Sophia Ramos (San Antonio, Texas) is one of nine active four-year players in the nation with at least 1,200 points, 400 rebounds, 300 assists and 100 steals in their career. Out of that group, she has played the fewest games (89).
• On Friday, Ramos passed Marsha Overton (1980-83) and Jamey Cox (2000-03) to move into 12th place in SDSU history for career points. She now has 1,282 points in her career and is now chasing Brooke Meadows (1986-899, who finished with 1,310 points.
• Ramos is shooting a career-best 43.5 % from three this year, the second highest percentage in the conference. Ramos leads SDSU in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals and enters the week in the top 100 nationally in ten statistical categories.
• SDSU has three active players in the top seven all-time in career three-point percentage. Mercedes Staples (Centerville, Utah) is fourth at 38.0 percent (49-129), Isabela Hernandez (Bellingham, Wash,) is fifth (36.7%, 51-139) and Sophia Ramos is seventh (36.0%, 126-350).
• The Aztecs are committing just 13.5 turnovers per game, the 37th fewest in the nation.
• The Aztecs went 6-5 in non-conference play, their first time having a winning record in OOC play since the 2017-18 season.
• The Aztecs officially joined the Jordan Brand family this season, becoming just the ninth women's basketball program in the Jordan lineup.
Opponent Notebook (Colorado State)
• The Rams are 10-1 on the year.
• They won their Mountain West opener, beating Boise State 81-77 at home on Dec. 8.
• Their lone loss was against No. 10 Louisville (71-56, Nov. 28).
• The Rams commit the fewest turnovers (9.9) and fouls (11.2) per game in the nation.
• They are also top ten in the nation in defensive rebounds per game (6th, 31.3), assist-to-turnover ratio (7th, 1.44) and free throw percentage (78.4%). However, they have only shot 153 free throws, the second lowest in the conference.
• They are last in the conference in steals per game (5.1).
• McKenna Hofschild leads the team in scoring (15.2 ppg) and assists (5.5). Her assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.4 is the third-best in the conference.
• Upe Atosu (12.2) averages 12.2 points per game.
• Karly Murphy averages 10.8 points and a team-high 8.6 rebounds per game.
• Head coach Ryun Williams (10th season) is the winningest coach in program history and is a two-time Mountain West Coach of the Year.
Series Notes
• Colorado State leads the all-time series 31-30.
• The Aztecs are 18-10 against the Rams at home.
• Colorado State won both meetings last year and has won 13 of the last 16.
• Two of the last three meetings have gone to overtime.
• Their first meeting also went to overtime, a 73-69 CSU win Feb. 28, 1991.
• The Aztecs then won the next 10 matchups.
Aztecs Host Colorado State Monday Night
