Boise State women’s basketball will play its final home game of the season against Utah State on Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. Mountain Time. The event, which will be broadcast on the Mountain West Network and 670 KBOI AM, also marks Senior Day for the team.
During the Senior Day ceremony, Boise State will recognize players Dani Bayes, Madeline Cooke, Mya Hansen, Natalie Pasco, Josee Steadman and Tatum Thompson. Graduate assistant Maggie Cornelius will also be honored.
The Broncos have a notable group of high scorers; Natalie Pasco leads with 1,519 career points, followed by Tatum Thompson (1,200), Dani Bayes (1,164) and Mya Hansen (1,024). All these points were scored while playing for Boise State.
Utah State comes into the matchup tied for 11th in the Mountain West standings with a record of 6-21 overall and 2-16 in conference play. The Aggies are currently on a 15-game losing streak. Boise State has won its last nine games against Utah State and holds a 38-12 advantage in their all-time series.
In their previous meeting on Jan. 17 in Logan, Utah, Boise State secured a win with a score of 76-60. Four Broncos—Bayes, Pasco, Libby Hutton and Hansen—scored double digits in that game.
Boise State is aiming to achieve its 15th home victory this season—a milestone not reached since the 2007-08 campaign. The Broncos have started every game this season with the same five players: Bayes, Hansen, Hutton, Pasco and Thompson; they are the only team in the Mountain West to do so.
Each starter has scored over 200 points this season. The team was also first in the conference to have five players surpass both the 100-point and then the 150-point thresholds.
With a recent win at San Jose State on Feb. 21 by a score of 71-48, Boise State earned its thirteenth conference victory—the most since the 2019-20 season—and marked head coach Gordy Presnell’s fourth season achieving at least thirteen conference wins during his tenure at Boise State.
If they secure another win this weekend it would mark their fourteenth conference win for just the second time since joining the Mountain West Conference.
This year’s squad has already recorded twenty-two victories—the first time reaching that number since collecting twenty-nine wins in the 2019-20 season under Presnell’s leadership.
Throughout this season Boise State has outscored opponents by over one hundred points combined in third quarters alone (572 to 452). They are also dominant when it comes to rebounding; they have won sixteen out of seventeen games when outrebounding their opponents.
A Bronco player has been leading scorer in twenty-one out of twenty-nine games played so far this year; Tatum Thompson leads with seven such performances.
Head coach Gordy Presnell ranks eighteenth all-time among NCAA Division I women’s basketball coaches with seven hundred ninety-one victories and is fourth among active D1 head coaches nationwide.
The team leads both their conference and ranks third nationally for three-point shooting percentage at thirty-eight point nine percent (204-of-525). Individually Natalie Pasco leads all players in made three-pointers within Mountain West play as well as percentage from beyond-the-arc at forty-four point seven percent—ranking eleventh nationally.
Tatum Thompson is first among individual field goal percentages within conference rankings at forty-seven point six percent while Mya Hansen tops assist statistics both per game (4.3) and total assists (124).
Offensively Boise State averages seventy point eight points per game—the highest average within their league—and lead free throws made per contest at twelve point five per game as well as assists per contest averaging sixteen point one per outing.
Dani Bayes set one of college basketball’s best single-game three-point percentages this year shooting seventy-seven point eight percent against UC Davis on Nov.14—a mark that ties her for second-best single-game performance ever for her program—and she now ranks fourth all-time at Boise State for career three-pointers made trailing teammate Pasco who sits second overall with two hundred sixty-seven makes from long range.
On Jan.3 against Grand Canyon both Bayes and Thompson surpassed one thousand career points while Thompson also eclipsed five hundred rebounds during that same contest; Hansen achieved her own thousandth career point milestone versus New Mexico on Feb.7
The Broncos recently completed back-to-back fifteen-plus margin victories over Wyoming (77–40) then Utah State earlier this month—a feat not seen since their successful run during winter two-thousand nineteen-twenty campaign—and posted double-digit home winning streaks spanning multiple seasons including ten straight from February through December last year alone.
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