SAN DIEGO – The Aztec women's basketball team (5-10, 3-6) hosts New Mexico (7-2, 4-2) for a two-game series this week. SDSU will take on the Lobos Wednesday at 6 p.m. and Friday at noon. Both games will be streamed on the Mountain West Network.
Aztec Notes
• The Aztecs lost both of their games at Wyoming last week.
• The Lobos have only played nine games this year and have yet to play at home due to state regulations banning athletic contests.
• The Aztecs have won their last four meetings against the Lobos and six of their last seven.
• San Diego State and the Mountain West announced a revised schedule for the remainder of the regular season in order to make up previously postponed games. With the new schedule, the Aztecs will play six straight home games: New Mexico (Feb. 3 & 5), UNLV (Feb. 15 & 16) and Fresno State (Feb. 20 & 21) before traveling to Boise State for games on Feb. 26 and 28.
• The Aztecs are first in the conference in three-point field goal percentage defense (.279) and second in field goal percentage defense (.377) and in scoring defense (63.5).
• SDSU is committing just 14.0 personal fouls per game, the 14th-fewest in the nation.
• Mallory Adams had her top two scoring outputs of the season at Wyoming, scoring 12 and eight points. She enters the New Mexico series with exactly 500 career points.
• Freshmen Kamaria Gipson and Kim Villalobos each had three blocks in a game last week, the highest by an Aztec this season.
• Sophomore Isabela Hernandez currently has a career three-point percentage of 40.2 in 92 attempts. If she maintains that rate when she reaches 100 attempts (the minimum required), she will have the best career three-point percentage in program history.
• The Aztecs have had 11 different players score at least 10 points in a game and have had six different players lead the team (or tie for the lead) in scoring.
• Despite having four games canceled or postponed, the Aztecs are tied for the most games played (15) in the Mountain West.
• The Mountain West posted a .600 win percentage (27-18) in nonconference play in 2020-21. If the season were to end today, this would be the conference's best win percentage in non-conference action since the 2009-10 season (.622).
Opponent Notebook (New Mexico)
• New Mexico is 7-2 on the year and 4-2 in conference, putting them in third place.
• Due to state regulations that prohibit them from playing in their home state, the Lobos haven't played a single home game all year.
• Last week, they split their two-game series with Fresno State, playing in Canyon, Texas.
• They return two starters and eight letterwinners from last year's team that went 15-17 and 6-12 in the Mountain West.
• Jaedyn de la Cerda leads the team in scoring, averaging 16.2 points per game, good for third in the conference. She also brings in a team-high 7.1 rebounds per game.
• Ahlise Hurst is averaging 2.67 made three-pointers a game, second-best in the conference.
• LaTora Duff leads the team with 3.8 assists per game and has an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.48.
• New Mexico leads the conference and is top five in the nation in points per game (5th, 85.4) and made three-pointers per game (3rd, 10.2).
• The Lobos also lead the conference in assists per game (17.2) and turnover margin (+4.4). They are second in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.29), scoring margin (+10.1), steals per game (9.2) and turnovers forced per game (17.8).
• New Mexico has a rebound margin of -4.1, 10th in the league.
• The Lobos allow 75.3 points per game, which is 312th in the nation.
• Head coach Mike Bradbury is in his fifth season at New Mexico.
Series Notes
• New Mexico leads the all-time series 34-32.
• The Lobos have more wins against the Aztecs than any other program. However, SDSU has won the last four meetings and six of the last seven.
• The Aztecs are 15-12 all-time against the Lobos at home.
• SDSU began the all-time series on a 12-game winning streak.
• New Mexico won 19 straight games against SDSU from 2001-08.