STOCKTON, Calif. - The Pacific women's basketball team (13-9, 6-5 WCC) will kick off the home portion of the second leg of West Coast Conference play this weekend, hosting Gonzaga and Portland on Thursday, February 6 and Saturday, February 8, respectively.

GAME INFO

Matchup: Pacific (13-9, 6-5 WCC) vs Gonzaga (22-1, 11-0 WCC)
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Location: Stockton, Calif.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Alex G. Spanos Center 
Links: Live Stats | Live Stream | Listen 

Matchup: Pacific (13-9, 6-5 WCC) vs. Portland (13-9, 6-5 WCC)
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2020
Location: Stockton, Calif.
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Venue: Alex G. Spanos Center
Links: Live Stats | Live Stream | Listen

 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 17 of the Tigers' 22 outings this year while averaging 15.1 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 tied for first in the WCC with nine double doubles, seven of which have come in conference play. Higgins has now logged 23 overall for her Pacific career, one short of tying Jane Romberg (1980-85) for fifth in program history.
• McDavid is the seventh Tiger all time to grab 200 offensive rebounds, doing so in just 71 career games. She enters Thursday at 224 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 27th in the country with 224 steals, with a WCC-leading 81 going to Higgins. The Granada Hills native is fourth in the nation in total takeaways. Her 81 after 22 games this season already have exceeded last season, when she logged 72 takeaways through the Tigers' first 22 contests on her way to being named the WCC Defensive Player of the Year. Higgins averages 3.7 takeaways per contest this season and set a new career high at San Francisco (Dec. 30) with nine, which ranks fourth all-time in single-game steals in Pacific history.
• Pacific has outscored its opponents off the bench in all but six games this season and has done so in nine of the 11 WCC contests played this season, including a 28-20 advantage at Pepperdine last Thursday and 13-4 in January against Gonzaga. The Tigers entered this season with seven redshirts on the roster and have seen significant contributions from each, particularly from Loretta Kakala, who set a career high against San Diego (Jan. 18) with 15 points on 7-of-11 shooting.

BY THE NUMBERS 

• 81 - Valerie Higgins has logged 81 steals this year, fourth in Division I and first in the WCC
• 17 - Brooklyn McDavid has scored in double figures 17 times this year
• 24 - McDavid is the 24th Tiger to reach 1,000 career points
• 3 - Pacific has won three WCC Player of the Week awards this year (Higgins 2, McDavid 1)
• 224 - McDavid has grabbed 224 career offensive rebounds, fifth in program history

LAST TIME OUT

• Pacific went 1-1 at the turn of WCC play last weekend with a hard-fought 59-54 loss to Pepperdine on Thursday, followed by a 87-70 win over LMU on Saturday that got the Tigers back into their offensive groove.
• Kaylin Randhawa averaged 18.0 points per game for the weekend, recording a career-high 23 points and five threes in Saturday's convincing win over the Lions.
• Loretta Kakala scored in double figures for the second time in three games with 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting at Pepperdine.
• Pacific converted 13 of 15 from the free throw line Saturday afternoon.
• Valerie Higgins recorded five steals against the Lions to give her 81 on the season, currently fourth in Division I.

SCOUTING THE PILOTS

• Portland enters Saturday's game with the Tigers seeking revenge from their last time the two squared off (Jan. 9).
• UP heads into the game as a top five defensive team in the conference at 62.7 opponent points per game, and has Alex Fowler pacing the Pilots on the other end of the floor with a 17.9 scoring average.

SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS

• Gonzaga enters Thursday's return game with the Tigers as one of the hottest three-point shooting teams in the conference and nation. The Bulldogs are firing 40.7 percent from behind the arc, third in the country, led by Katie Campbell's 43.1 percent.
• On the other end of the floor, the Bulldogs yield just 51.3 points per game, a mark that leads the conference and is third across the nation.

TRACK THE ACTION

• Don Gubbins will have both audio calls from the Alex. G. Spanos Center on Pacific All-Access. Fans will also be able to view the live action on the WCC Network. Live stats for both contests will be available on pacifictigers.com.

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