SAN DIEGO – The Aztec women's basketball team (5-4) heads across town to play at the University of San Diego (3-5) Thursday evening.
Aztec Tidbits
• This is SDSU's first road game since Nov. 18, snapping a streak of five straight road games.
• Two of the Aztecs' last three games have gone to overtime. Before then, their last overtime game was Dec. 10, 2020.
• SDSU is coming off a 76-71 overtime win vs. Cal State Los Angeles.
• Adryana Quezada led SDSU with 19 points and 10 rebounds, her first double-double as an Aztec. Abby Prohaska was a rebound shy of a double-double as well with 15 points and nine rebounds.
• Over the last two seasons, the Aztecs are 15-7 in non-conference games.
• SDSU has four players averaging at least 10 points per game: Adryana Quezada (14.6), Abby Prohaska (11.0), Kim Villalobos (10.7) and Jada Lewis (10.4).
• SDSU leads the Mountain West with 13.6 made free throws per game and their free throw percentage of 80.3 is 11th in the nation. Abby Prohaska is shooting 91.7% from the line on the year, first in the Mountain West.
• The Aztecs are committing just 12.9 turnovers per game, 30th in the nation.
• The Aztec starting lineup features two sixth year seniors (Barcello and Prohaska), two fifth year seniors (Lewis and Quezada) and a fourth-year senior (Villalobos). This is believed to be the most experienced starting five in the nation.
• SDSU is averaging 9.6 steals per game and has five players averaging at least one steal per game (Villalobos, Pepe, Quezada, Prohaska and Lewis). Since the beginning of last year, the Aztecs have had more steals than their opponent in 33 of their 42 games.
• Jada Lewis is one point away from 1,000 in her career.
• Both Adryana Quezada and Kim Villalobos have exactly 480 career rebounds.
• The Aztecs currently have three players (all newcomers) out with injury: Erin Houpt, Trinity Zamora and Mia Davis.
• SDSU announced the signings of four recruits to National Letters of Intent: guards Kaelyn Hamilton (McKinney, Texas), Natalia Martinez (San Leandro, Calif.) and Naomi Panganiban (San Diego) and forward Bailey Barnhard (San Diego).
Player Notes
• Adryana Quezada (Frisco, Texas) is shooting a career-high 56.0% from the floor, which is second in the Mountain West.
• She has scored in double-digits in all but one game.
• Against Penn, she became the first Aztec since 2020, and just seventh in the Mountain West era, to have at least 20 points, nine rebounds and five assists in a game. Out of those seven, Quezada accomplished the feat in the fewest number of minutes.
• Abby Prohaska (Liberty Township, Ohio) leads the Mountain West in free throw percentage (91.7%) this season. She has shot 86.4% from the line in her career (127-147) and 89.1% (82-92) while at SDSU.
• Kim Villalobos (Los Angeles) stuffed the stat sheet vs. Westcliff earlier this year and became just the second Aztec in the Mountain West era (1999-present) to have at least 15 points, 7 rebounds, 6 steals and 5 assists in a game, joining SDSU Hall of Famer Jené Morris.
• Khylee Pepe (Long Beach, Calif.), SDSU's backup post, has had three steals in four games this year.
• Jada Lewis (Rocklin, Calif.) is 64-for-72 (87.6%) from the free throw line in her career.
• Lewis is one point away from 1,000 in her career.
• Sarah Barcello (Phoenix, Ariz.) is averaging career best percentages from the field (45.8%) and from the free throw line (76.9%) and her three-point percentage of 34.4% is her best since her freshman year at Marist in 2018-19.
• Meghan Fiso (Seattle, Wash.) set a new career-high with 15 points vs. Penn.
Opponent Notebook (San Diego)
• The Toreros are 3-5 on the year
• They are 3-2 at home.
• They have lost their last three games.
• They have played two Mountain West teams, UNLV and Nevada, and lost by double-digits.
• They are second in the WCC in blocks per game (4.8) and three-point percentage defense (26.7%).
• They commit 20.2 turnovers per game and have a turnover margin of -3.1.
• Kasey Neubert is averaging 12.5 points and 9.3 rebounds per game.
• Veronica Sheffey averages 4.8 assists per game.
• Head coach Cindy Fisher (19th season) has led USD to six 20-win seasons over the last 12 years.
• SDSU is 31-15 all-time vs. the Toreros and 10-7 at USD. They have split the last six meetings.
Aztecs Play at USD Thursday Evening
