GAME 12: FRESNO STATE (7-4, 0-0 MW) vs CSUB (0-9, 0-0 BW)
Saturday, Dec. 14, 2024 | 1 p.m. PT | Mountain West Network | Save Mart Center | Fresno, Calif.
MEDIA COVERAGE
Watch: Mountain West Network
Listen: Bulldog Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Matt Norville
Analyst: Marc Q. Jones
Sidelines: Taylor Martinez
Stats: Statbroadcast
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FRESNO, Calif.- Fresno State women's basketball returns home to the Save Mart Center as the Bulldogs begin to close out the non conference portion of the schedule. Fresno State will host CSU Bakersfield in a double header matchup on Saturday afternoon. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. PT streaming live on the Mountain West Network.
BULLDOG BONES
Fresno State returns home with a 7-4 record
Fresno State has won its last four home games with a 5-1 record at SMC
Bulldogs are now 0-2 against Top 5 ranked opponents
Fresno State is set for their final two match ups before conference play begins on Dec. 29 at UNLV
Saturday's theme night is Blackout, where the Bulldogs will don black uniforms against the Roadrunners
Bulldogs and Roadrunners will meet for the 14th time in program history
Fresno State ranks No. 31 nationally in three-pointers made per game and continue to hold first in the Mountain West (8.7 avg)
Bulldogs average 64.8 points per game
Bulldogs tack on their second road loss of the season at USC, 89-40
For the third time this season, Fresno State has scored less than 50 points (at USC, 40), (vs. UCLA, 41), (at Hawaii, 47)
Jacobs is shy of one more double-double to tie Alex Sheedy, at 15, for No. 10 in career double-doubles and with four more this season joins No. 10 (Yvette Roberts & Maddi Utti) with 11 double-doubles in a single season
Head coach Jaime White brought in her 300th career win this past weekend with a win over UT Martin (75-66) at the Rainbow Wahine Showdown
In Fresno State's win over Tennessee-Martin, Mia Jacobs became the only DI player over the last 25 seasons to have a game with the following stat-line: 14-plus rebounds, 12-plus free throws made, 5-plus steals and 3-plus 3-pointers made.
ABOUT THE MATCH UP
Fresno State and CSU Bakersfield will meet for the 14th time in program history. Fresno State leads the all-time meetings at 9-4 and the home series at 5-2.
Roadrunners come into Saturday's contest with a slight upper hand after winning the last two meetings. In the last two meetings, the outcome has been decided by three or fewer points. The last win for CSUB at the Save Mart Center was in 2021 (81-69).
Last time out the Bulldogs made the trip down the 99 to the Icardo Center. 'Dogs held a two-point lead as the final thirty seconds winded down. A three-pointer by the Roadrunners and a missed jumper by the 'Dogs called game in Bakersfield.
A LOOK AROUND THE MW
Fellow Mountain West teams will begin to wrap up the non conference play. Fresno State is set for their final two match ups at home before conference play begins on Dec. 29 against reigning MW Champions, UNLV at the Cox Pavilion.
Air Force is riding on a six-game win streak and looks to close in on their tenth win of the season. SDSU has already cracked ten wins (10-1) coming off over CSUF. Boise State also sits with a strong record heading into MW play at 9-2.
Fresno State was selected to finish 9th this season.
BENCH PRODUCTION
In all but three games the bench has scored at least 10 points with four games grabbing 20 or more points.
Top scorers from the bench are Holly Griffiths (4.2 ppg), Malaya LeSueur (2.2 ppg) and Avery Watkins (1.7 ppg).
Against USC, Griffiths saw a new season-high 11 points and sits three points shy of a new career-high. Amounting to almost half of the bench's points against the Trojans (21).
OPPONENT OUTLOOK
CSU Bakersfield will see its first female head coach in program history in Ari Wideman after the Roadrunners spent 13 seasons with Greg McCall.
Roadrunners come into Saturday's contest with a 0-9 record, the worst start to the season in the last five years
Behind a brand new head coach and four new additional coaching staff, the team welcomes 10 new players to its five returners
Ary Dizon comes to the court off a redshirt season in 2023-24, this season Dizon has put up 6.8 ppg, 2.4 bpg and 4.9 rpg
Dizon leads the Big West in blocks with 22 blocks through nine games and sits 15th in the nation
Roadrunners average 42 ppg
CSUB has seen a double-figure deficit in eight of their nine losses this season