Thursday, December 2
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
11 A.M.
vs
Nevada
Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics
Mustangs Host Nevada Thursday, Denver Saturday
11/30/2021 2:58:00 PM | Women's Basketball
WEEKLY GAME NOTES (PDF)
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Cal Poly women's basketball team will wrap up its five-game homestand this week with a pair of day games. The Mustangs (1-3) will host Nevada Thursday morning at 11 a.m. for their annual 'Field Trip' day which will see hundreds of kids from local elementary school get the opportunity to attend the game for free. They will then welcome in Denver to Mott Athletics Center on Saturday for a 2 p.m. tip off. The first 150 fans into Mott will receive a free pair of Cal Poly socks. Zachary Anderson-Yoxsimer and Daniel Gillman will have the call for both games which will be available to watch on ESPN+ and listen to through GoPoly.com. Links for those as well as live stats can be found on the schedule page. Last week, Cal Poly played three games in a span of five days, going 1-2. The Mustangs fell in their home opener to No. 10 Louisville, 32-72, which was the highest-ranked women's basketball opponent to play Mott. They then opened their annual Holiday Beach Classic with a 63-51 win over St. Thomas. A strong second half surge by Cal Poly, spearheaded by a 35-7 run, led the Mustangs to the win over the Tommies. Junior guard Maddie Vick led Cal Poly with 10 points and six assists as the Mustangs had five players score at least six points. Cal Poly fell the next day to Montana State, 55-67. Vick set a career-high with 19 points and Kirsty Brown nearly recorded a double-double with 13 points and nine rebounds. However, the Mustangs shot just 1-16 from three in the loss. Through the first four games of the season, Vick leads the team in scoring at 10.3 points per game. Brown and junior guard Maddie Willett are tied for second at 7.3 points per game. Nevada comes into Thursday's game with a record of 3-3 and have won their last two games. Last week at their own tournament, the Wolfpack went 1-2, losing to Drake before picking up wins over Idaho and San Francisco. Nevada has three players averaging double figures, led by senior guard Da'Ja Hamilton's 11.8 points per game. As a team, they rank sixth in the nation in free throw percentage at 82.1. Denver will play UC Santa Barbara before facing the Mustangs Saturday. The Pioneers head into the week with a 2-4 record and are coming off going 1-1 last week their own tournament in which they beat Texas A&M Corpus Christi before falling to Wyoming. Junior guard Meghan Boyd leads Denver in scoring so far this year at 10.9 points per game. Brown Nearing Program Record: Kirsty Brown a fifth-year player, needs to play in just 19 more games to become the Mustangs' program leader in career games played. The record is 124 and she currently sits at 106. Returning Mustangs: The Mustangs return a total of eight players from last season. Those include junior guard Maddie Willett who started 23 of 24 games last year and was third on the team in scoring at 7.8 points per game and had seven games in which she scored double figures. Senior forward Kirsty Brown returns for her fifth season. Last year, she was fourth on the team in scoring 6.4 points per game, second in rebounding at 5.6 per game, and had three double-doubles. Junior guard Maddie Vick played in all 24 games last season and came off the bench to lead the team in assists per game at 2.8. She also ranked third in the Big West in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.6. New Stangs: Cal Poly will have plenty of youth on this year's team as they welcome six freshmen. The Mustangs also added two Division I transfers in redshirt freshman guard Sarah Dumitrescu from Ole Miss and junior forward Julia Nielacna from San Francisco. At USF, Nielacna was second on the team in scoring as a freshman in 2019-20. Last year, she averaged 8.0 points per game while shooting 44-percent from the field and 35-percent from three. As a freshman last season at Ole Miss, Dumitrescu averaged 4.5 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in six games before missing the rest of the season due to injury.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Cal Poly women's basketball team will wrap up its five-game homestand this week with a pair of day games. The Mustangs (1-3) will host Nevada Thursday morning at 11 a.m. for their annual 'Field Trip' day which will see hundreds of kids from local elementary school get the opportunity to attend the game for free. They will then welcome in Denver to Mott Athletics Center on Saturday for a 2 p.m. tip off. The first 150 fans into Mott will receive a free pair of Cal Poly socks. Zachary Anderson-Yoxsimer and Daniel Gillman will have the call for both games which will be available to watch on ESPN+ and listen to through GoPoly.com. Links for those as well as live stats can be found on the schedule page. Last week, Cal Poly played three games in a span of five days, going 1-2. The Mustangs fell in their home opener to No. 10 Louisville, 32-72, which was the highest-ranked women's basketball opponent to play Mott. They then opened their annual Holiday Beach Classic with a 63-51 win over St. Thomas. A strong second half surge by Cal Poly, spearheaded by a 35-7 run, led the Mustangs to the win over the Tommies. Junior guard Maddie Vick led Cal Poly with 10 points and six assists as the Mustangs had five players score at least six points. Cal Poly fell the next day to Montana State, 55-67. Vick set a career-high with 19 points and Kirsty Brown nearly recorded a double-double with 13 points and nine rebounds. However, the Mustangs shot just 1-16 from three in the loss. Through the first four games of the season, Vick leads the team in scoring at 10.3 points per game. Brown and junior guard Maddie Willett are tied for second at 7.3 points per game. Nevada comes into Thursday's game with a record of 3-3 and have won their last two games. Last week at their own tournament, the Wolfpack went 1-2, losing to Drake before picking up wins over Idaho and San Francisco. Nevada has three players averaging double figures, led by senior guard Da'Ja Hamilton's 11.8 points per game. As a team, they rank sixth in the nation in free throw percentage at 82.1. Denver will play UC Santa Barbara before facing the Mustangs Saturday. The Pioneers head into the week with a 2-4 record and are coming off going 1-1 last week their own tournament in which they beat Texas A&M Corpus Christi before falling to Wyoming. Junior guard Meghan Boyd leads Denver in scoring so far this year at 10.9 points per game. Brown Nearing Program Record: Kirsty Brown a fifth-year player, needs to play in just 19 more games to become the Mustangs' program leader in career games played. The record is 124 and she currently sits at 106. Returning Mustangs: The Mustangs return a total of eight players from last season. Those include junior guard Maddie Willett who started 23 of 24 games last year and was third on the team in scoring at 7.8 points per game and had seven games in which she scored double figures. Senior forward Kirsty Brown returns for her fifth season. Last year, she was fourth on the team in scoring 6.4 points per game, second in rebounding at 5.6 per game, and had three double-doubles. Junior guard Maddie Vick played in all 24 games last season and came off the bench to lead the team in assists per game at 2.8. She also ranked third in the Big West in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.6. New Stangs: Cal Poly will have plenty of youth on this year's team as they welcome six freshmen. The Mustangs also added two Division I transfers in redshirt freshman guard Sarah Dumitrescu from Ole Miss and junior forward Julia Nielacna from San Francisco. At USF, Nielacna was second on the team in scoring as a freshman in 2019-20. Last year, she averaged 8.0 points per game while shooting 44-percent from the field and 35-percent from three. As a freshman last season at Ole Miss, Dumitrescu averaged 4.5 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in six games before missing the rest of the season due to injury.
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