Mustangs Host Hawai’i Saturday For Senior Day

Saturday, February 26

San Luis Obispo, Calif.

2 P.M.

Hawai'i

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Photo by: Owen Main | Cal Poly Athletics

Mustangs Host Hawai’i Saturday For Senior Day

2/25/2022 12:51:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — The Cal Poly women's basketball team will host Big West leader Hawai'i Saturday at Mott Athletics Center for Senior Day. Tip time against the Rainbow Wahine (14-9, 10-3 BWC) is set for 2 p.m. Zach Anderson-Yoxsimer and Kevin Brown will be on the call for ESPN+ and GoPoly.com. Links for those as well as live stats can be found on the schedule page. Cal Poly will be celebrating Senior Day with a pregame ceremony. Cal Poly will honor six players: Kirsty Brown, Julia Nielacna, Hannah Scanlan, Zoe Stachowski, Maddie Vick, and Maddie Willett, as well as three team managers and an athletic trainer student assistant. The ceremony will begin at approximately 1:42 p.m. The Mustangs (3-18, 2-10 BWC) are coming off an 85-71 loss road loss to CSU Bakersfield. Nielacna scored a season-high 21 points, while Willett finished with 14 points and freshman guard Jazzy Anousinh added a season-high 11 points. As a team, Cal Poly made a season-high nine threes, including six in the first half. The Mustangs trailed by just four entering the fourth quarter, but a 13-2 run by CSU Bakersfield to open the fourth allowed the Roadrunners to pull away. Maddie Vick continues to lead Cal Poly in scoring (10.4 ppg) and assists (3.9 per game), which ranks fifth in the Big West. She also leads the Mustangs and is third in Big West in minutes per game (36.6). She has played 35+ minutes in 16 games this year. Willett is second on the team in scoring at 9.2 points per game. She also leads Cal Poly in threes made (29) and three point percentage (31.2). Her 1.4 threes made per game ranks tied for 12th 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 (11.5) and third in defensive rebounds per game (27.5). The Rainbow Wahine enter Saturday's contest atop the Big West standings and have won seven of their last eight games. They are coming off a 75-61 win over CSU Bakersfield on Thursday. Graduate forward Amy Atwell leads the Big West in scoring at over 18 points per game. She has had 10 games of scoring over 20 points, including two games over 30. As a team, Hawai'i is second in the conference in scoring at 64.6 points per game while also leading the conference in field goal percentage (41.2) and three-point percentage (34.5). This will be the first matchup against Hawai'i this season after the first one in Jan. was canceled due to COVID protocols. Cal Poly split the season series last year, but the Rainbow Wahine have won five of the last six. Brown Nearing Program Record: Kirsty Brown, a fifth-year player, needs to play in just two more games to become the Mustangs' program leader in career games played. The record is 124 and she currently sits at 123. 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.