STOCKTON, Calif. – The Pacific women's basketball team (15-12, 8-8 WCC) is home for the final time in 2019-20, taking on San Francisco and Santa Clara to finish out the regular season and celebrate its three seniors.
GAME INFO
Matchup: Pacific (15-12, 8-8 WCC) vs. San Francisco (10-18, 3-13 WCC)
Date: Thursday, February 27, 2020
Location: Stockton, Calif.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Alex G. Spanos Center
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Matchup: Pacific (15-12, 8-8 WCC) vs. Santa Clara (10-17, 4-12 WCC)
Date: Saturday, February 29, 2020
Location: Stockton, Calif.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Alex G. Spanos Center
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
- Pacific will be honoring Callie Kaiser, Sofie Tryggedsson and Jessica Blakeslee as part of pregame Senior Day festivities on Saturday afternoon against Santa Clara.
- 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' 27 outings this year while averaging 14.7 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 Thursday at 242 for her career, fourth 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 35th in the country with 266 steals, with a WCC-leading 98 going to Higgins. The Granada Hills native is fifth in the nation in total takeaways. Her 98 after 27 games this season have already exceeded last season, when she logged 86 takeaways through the Tigers' first 27 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 in Pacific history in single-game steals. Higgins is two steals shy of joining Shari 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)
- 242 - McDavid has grabbed 242 career offensive rebounds, fourth in program history
LAST TIME OUT
- Pacific played just once last week, defeating Saint Mary's 65-53 at home in the Alex G. Spanos Center to complete the season sweep of the Gaels for the first time since the 2014-15 season.
- Kaylin Randhawa recorded 21 points for the Tigers, nine of those points coming off three-pointers.
- Jordan Cruz and Callie Kaiser each set season highs with 12 and 11 points, respectively. Cruz's 12 was also a career high.
- Pacific capitalized on their chances against the Gaels, scoring 19 points off of turnovers and eight from fast breaks.
- The Tigers performed well from behind the three-point line too, shooting 41.7 percent.
SCOUTING THE DONS
- Leilah Vigil ranks first in the conference and 27th nationally with 12 double doubles. She also leads the conference in offensive rebounds per game (4.0) and overall rebounds (285).
- The Dons find success in rebounding, ranking second in the conference with an average of 39.5 per game.
- Mikayla Williams ranks third in the conference with 88 free throws made this season.
- San Francisco struggles with defending the three, letting opponents shoot 35.3 from downtown.
SCOUTING THE BRONCOS
- Santa Clara averages 7.0 three-pointers made each game, ranking second in the WCC with a total of 190 made on 33 percent.
- Lauren Yearwood has accumulated 36 blocks this season, ranking third overall in the conference.
- The Broncos struggle with taking care of the ball, holding a -1.26 turnover margin.
TRACK THE ACTION
- Don Gubbins will have the final audio calls of the 2019-20 regular season from Stockton on Pacific All-Access. Both games can be viewed on the WCC Network.
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