Boise State women’s basketball will host San Diego State, the top team in the Mountain West Conference, on February 25 at 6:30 p.m. MT. The game will be broadcast on the Mountain West Network and 670 KBOI AM.
San Diego State enters the matchup with a 22-4 overall record and a 16-1 mark in conference play. The Aztecs have already secured the regular season championship, with their only conference loss coming against Grand Canyon earlier this year. They lead the Mountain West in field goal percentage (43.6%), three-pointers per game (8.4), and winning percentage (84.6%). Nala Williams is currently first in the league for assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.4. San Diego State has won its last four games against Boise State and leads the all-time series 17-13.
In their previous meeting on December 20, San Diego State defeated Boise State 83-54 in San Diego. Libby Hutton led Boise State with 14 points, while Izzie Harms added 10 points as a freshman. For San Diego State, Naomi Panhaniban scored 18 points, Kennedy Lee had 16, and Kendall Mosley finished with 11.
Boise State is notable for starting the same five players throughout every game this season—the only team in the Mountain West to do so. Starters Dani Bayes, Hansen, Libby Hutton, Pasco, and Tatum Thompson have each scored more than 200 points this season. The Broncos were also first in their conference to have five players surpass both the 100-point and 150-point thresholds.
Three players—Tatum Thompson (411 points), Bayes (362), and Pasco (359)—have each surpassed the 300-point mark this season; no other team in the Mountain West has accomplished this feat.
Bayes, Hansen, Pasco, and Tatum Thompson have all achieved over 1,000 career points while playing for Boise State.
On February 21, Boise State recorded its thirteenth conference win of the season with a victory over San Jose State—the first time since the 2019-20 season that they reached that number of wins. Head coach Gordy Presnell has now overseen four seasons with at least thirteen conference wins during his tenure at Boise State.
If Boise State secures another win this season, it would be their fourteenth conference victory—the highest since collecting nineteen wins during the 2018-19 campaign.
The Broncos recently achieved their twenty-second win of the year for just the seventh time overall under Coach Presnell’s leadership and could reach twenty-three wins for only the fifth time in Mountain West play if they continue their success.
This season, Boise State has outscored opponents by more than one hundred points combined during third quarters across all games played.
When outrebounding opponents this year, Boise State holds a perfect record of sixteen wins without a loss.
In twenty-one out of twenty-eight games played so far this season, a member of Boise State has been recognized as leading scorer; Tatum Thompson leads among teammates with seven such performances.
Head coach Gordy Presnell ranks eighteenth all-time in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history with seven hundred ninety-one victories and is fourth among active Division I head coaches.
Boise State leads both its conference and ranks second nationally by converting nearly thirty-nine percent of its three-point attempts (198-of-510). Pasco leads individually within Mountain West play for three-pointers made per game at an average of two-and-a-half while shooting forty-five percent from beyond-the-arc—tenth-highest nationwide.
Tatum Thompson sits atop individual rankings within her conference for field goal percentage at forty-seven point five percent. Hansen leads all players within Mountain West competition for assists per game at four point three; collectively as a team they also lead in assists per game at sixteen point one.
Boise State averages seventy-one points per contest—the best scoring offense within their league—and leads all teams in free throws made per game at twelve point seven.
Dani Bayes recorded one of college basketball’s top single-game three-point shooting performances by making seven-of-nine attempts against UC Davis on November fourteenth; her seventy-eight percent accuracy tied her for second-best single-game performance ever recorded by a Bronco player.
Bayes is now fourth all-time in program history for career three-pointers made (203), trailing teammate Pasco who is second (265).
After earning their sixth road win at San Jose State—the most since reaching that total during the twenty-nineteen-twenty campaign—Boise’s nine-game conference winning streak ended on February eleventh after losing to Fresno State. This was their longest such streak since joining Mountain West play more than ten years ago; only regular-season games are included when counting streaks.
Both Bayes and Tatum Thompson surpassed one thousand career points against Grand Canyon earlier this year; Tatum Thompson also passed five hundred rebounds during that contest while Hansen reached her own thousandth point milestone against New Mexico earlier this month.
The Broncos posted consecutive fifteen-plus point victories over Wyoming and Utah State earlier this winter—a feat last accomplished during Presnell’s tenure six years ago—and held North Dakota scoreless from three-point range during tournament action last November to tie a program record for defensive performance from long distance when facing twenty or more attempts by an opponent.
At home inside ExtraMile Arena where they have started undefeated each of past two seasons—they’ve won ten straight home games spanning late last winter through end-of-year holidays—and extended their nonconference home win streak to twenty-two matches which ranks fourteenth nationally among Division I programs.
Tatum Thompson was named preseason Player of Year for upcoming campaign while Pasco joined her on preseason All-Mountain West squad.
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