Cal Poly Travels to Face CSU Bakersfield Tuesday

Tuesday, February 22

Bakersfield, CA

7 P.M.

CSU Bakersfield

Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics

Cal Poly Travels to Face CSU Bakersfield Tuesday

2/21/2022 1:24:00 PM | Women's Basketball

WEEKLY NOTES (PDF)

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Playing three of its final four games of the regular season on the road, the Cal Poly women's basketball team will begin that stretch Tuesday when traveling to face CSU Bakersfield.

Tip time from the Icardo Center is set for 7 p.m. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+. A link to that as well as live stats can be found on the schedule page.

The Mustangs (3-17, 2-9 BWC) are coming off a pair of losses last week to UC Davis and UC Riverside. Against the Aggies, junior guard Maddie Vick finished with a team-high 14 points, marking the 11^th time she has scored in double figures this season. Fellow junior guard Maddie Willett also finished in double digits with 11 points.

Against the Highlanders, Cal Poly led 22-12 after the first quarter but was held to four points in the second quarter. Freshman guard Annika Shah and senior forward Zoe Stachowski each finished with 11 points to lead the Mustangs. Willett added eight points and matched a career-high with nine rebounds.

Vick continues to lead the Mustangs in both scoring (10.6 ppg) and assists (3.8 per game). She also leads the Mustangs and is third in Big West in minutes per game at 36.6. She has played 35+ minutes in 15 games this year.

Willett is second on the team in scoring at 9.0 points per game. She also leads Cal Poly in threes made (27) and three point percentage (30.0). Her 1.4 threes made per game ranks tied for 12^th in the Big West.

As a team, Cal Poly leads the Big West in rebounding at 39.5 per game, ranking second in offensive rebounds per game (11.6) and third in defensive rebounds per game (27.9).

The Roadrunners (3-16, 2-8 BWC) head into Tuesday's game coming off splitting a pair of games last week. They fell to UC Riverside 56-47 Thursday before beating UC Davis 84-75 on Saturday. CSU Bakersfield is led by guard Jayden Eggleston's 15.9 points per game which ranks second in the Big West and is third in field goal percentage at 41.6-percent. This will be the first matchup with the Roadrunners this season after the first was canceled due to COVID protocols. Cal Poly leads the all-time series 7-5.

Brown Nearing Program Record: Kirsty Brown, a fifth-year player, needs to play in just three more games to become the Mustangs' program leader in career games played. The record is 124 and she currently sits at 122.

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.

Graduate 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.