Women's Basketball

Aztecs at Seattle U Monday

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SAN DIEGO – The Aztec women's basketball team (6-4) plays at Seattle (1-7) Monday at 11 a.m. for the Redhawks' Field Trip game.
 
Aztec Tidbits
• The game will be streamed on ESPN+ and Chris Ello will have the call on the Aztec Radio Network.
• SDSU is coming off a 67-63 win at San Diego Thursday night.
• The Aztecs shot 42% from three and were led by Adryana Quezada who had 18 points and nine rebounds.
Jada Lewis scored nine points and topped 1,000 points for her career.
Adryana Quezada is closing in on both 1,000 points and 500 rebounds for her career. She enters Monday's game with 976 points and 489 rebounds.
• Over the last two seasons, the Aztecs are 16-7 in non-conference games.
• SDSU has four players averaging at least 10 points per game: Adryana Quezada (14.9), Abby Prohaska (11.2), Kim Villalobos (10.5) and Jada Lewis (10.3).
Adryana Quezada leads the Mountain West in points (149), field goals (63) and field goal percentage (57.3%)
• SDSU leads the Mountain West with 12.9 made free throws per game and their free throw percentage of 78.7 is 21st in the nation. Abby Prohaska is shooting 91.9% from the line on the year, first in the Mountain West.
• The Aztecs are committing just 12.5 turnovers per game, 21st in the nation.
• The Aztecs' regular 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.
Sarah Barcello missed Thursday's game and was replaced by freshman Alyssa Jackson in the starting lineup. Jackson played 31 minutes and had a career-high eight points.
• SDSU is averaging 9.2 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 43 games.
• 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 57.3% from the floor, which leads 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 (91.9%) this season. She has shot 86.5% from the line in her career (128-148) and 89.2% (83-93) while at SDSU.
• Prohaska tied a career-high with five steals at San Diego Thursday.
Kim Villalobos (Los Angeles), SDSU's starting forward, leads the Aztecs in both assists and steals.
• She has 484 career rebounds.
• Villalobos 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 at least one steal in every game but one.
• Pepe tied a career-high with two blocks at San Diego Thursday.
Jada Lewis (Rocklin, Calif.)  is 63-for-72 (87.5%) from the free throw line in her career.
• Lewis is second in the Mountain West in minutes per game (34.2).
Alyssa Jackson (Fairfield, Calif.) is averaging 7.0 points over her last two games.
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 (Seattle)
• The Redhawks are 1-7 on the year.
• They are 1-2 at home.
• This will be their first game since Dec. 2, an 83-56 loss at Southern Utah.
• They average 10.9 steals per game, but have a turnover margin of -3.5.
• They shoot just 36.5% from the field and opponents are shooting 44.6% against them.
• Mya Moore leads the team with 12.8 points and 1.4 blocks per game.
• Irena Korolenko averages 8.0 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game.
• Head coach Skyler Young is in his first season at Seattle. He spent the past five seasons as an assistant at Portland.
• SDSU and Seattle have played just one time before, last year in San Diego, a 70-36 Aztec win. Kim Villalobos had 14 points and a career-high seven assists.