STOCKTON, Calif. – The Pacific women's basketball team (14-12, 7-8 WCC) is back home to close out the 2019-20 season, starting with this Saturday's Pink Game against Saint Mary's at 4:00 p.m.
GAME INFO
Matchup: Pacific (14-12, 7-8 WCC) vs. Saint Mary's (11-15, 6-9 WCC)
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2020
Location: Stockton, Calif.
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Venue: Alex G. Spanos Center
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
- The Tigers are led down low by Katrina McClane Award Watch List honoree Brooklyn McDavid, who has registered a double-digit scoring performance in 20 of the Tigers' 26 outings this year while averaging 14.9 points per game this season.
- Valerie Higgins became the first player this season to win two WCC Player of the Week awards after chasing a triple double (29 points, 11 rebounds, nine steals) at San Francisco on December 30. Higgins, a Preseason All-WCC selection and the reigning WCC Defensive Player of the Year, is second in the WCC with 10 double doubles, eight of which have come in conference play. Higgins has logged 25 overall for her Pacific career - fifth in program history - and after a 28-point/18-rebound performance against Portland on February 8, has now logged at least 10 doubles doubles in back to back seasons.
- McDavid is the seventh Tiger all-time to grab 200 offensive rebounds, doing so in just 71 career games. She enters Saturday at 239 for her career, fifth all-time. McDavid also became the 24th Tiger in program history to score 1,000 career points with her first two buckets in Pacific's 64-63 win over Pepperdine on January 4.
- Pacific ranks 32nd in the country with 260 steals, with a WCC-leading 96 going to Higgins. The Granada Hills native is fifth in the nation in total takeaways.
- Her 98 after 26 games this season already have exceeded last season, when she logged 83 takeaways through the Tigers' first 26 contests on her way to being named the WCC Defensive Player of the Year.
- Higgins averages 3.77 takeaways per contest this season and set a new career high at San Francisco (Dec. 30) with nine, which ranks fourth all-time Pacific history in single-game steals. At 3.77 per game with three games remaining, Higgins is on pace to break Sheri Bates' single season record of 104 set in the 1981-82 season.
- Higgins is two steals shy of joining Bates as the only Tigers ever to record 100 steals in a single season, and three shy of becoming just the fourth Tiger with 200 career steals.
BY THE NUMBERS
- 98 - Valerie Higgins has logged 98 steals this year, fifth in Division I and first in the WCC
- 20 - Brooklyn McDavid has scored in double figures 20 times this year
- 24 - McDavid is the 24th Tiger to reach 1,000 career points, as of 1/4/20 vs. Pepperdine
- 3 - Pacific has won three WCC Player of the Week awards this year (Higgins 2, McDavid 1)
- 239 - McDavid has grabbed 239 career offensive rebounds, fourth in program history
LAST TIME OUT
- Pacific put up a fight in each of their final road games of the 2019-20 season against San Diego and BYU.
- Higgins nearly missed out on a triple double with 19 points, nine rebounds and seven steals against the Toreros on Thursday, her third game in her last four with at least five steals.
- Sofie Tryggedsson had a career day Saturday in Provo, going for a career-high 24 points with another career high of six made threes on a combined 8-of-18 shooting clip.
- McDavid chased her second double double of the season in both outings, going for 17 points and seven rebounds against San Diego before logging 10 points and nine rebounds at BYU.
SCOUTING THE GAELS
- Saint Mary's comes into Saturday as one of the most potent teams from the perimeter, turning in a 36.7 three-point percentage and draining 242 threes, numbers that both rank in the top 15 nationally and top two in the WCC.
- Collectively, the Gaels rank third in the conference at both 68.8 points per game and 39.04 rebounds per contest, including 29.2 per game on the defensive glass.
- Taycee Wedin carries the hot hand from deep for the Gaels with a 46.1 three-point percentage. From the field overall, Sam Simons ranks fourth in the conference at 15.4 points per game while shooting 43 percent per outing.
TRACK THE ACTION
- Don Gubbins will have the audio call from Stockton on Pacific All-Access, and fans will be able to view the action on the WCC Network. Live stats will be available at pacifictigers.com.
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