NEXT UP...
#2 Hawai'i (15-15, 10-6) vs. #1 UC Davis (24-6, 15-1)
Saturday, March 16, 2019 | 3:30 p.m.
Honda Center | Anaheim, Calif.
RADIO: KDVS 90.3 FM
TV: ESPN3
 

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CAN'T MAKE THE TRIP?: Cheer on both the UC Davis men's and women's teams during their run to a Big West Tournament title by joining local Aggie fans at Woodstock's Pizza in Downtown Davis, which will host official watch parties for every game in Anaheim, Calif., this weekend. These free events are open to students, the public, faculty and staff, as Woodstock's will offer discounted pizza and beverage specials for Aggie fans.

For those fans in Southern California, a championship game pregame event will be held at JT Schmids across the street from the Honda Center beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday (March 16) prior to tip-off.

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OPENING TIP: In the Big West Conference Tournament championship game for the third time in four seasons, the top-seeded UC Davis women's basketball team will battle No. 2 Hawai'i for the league's NCAA berth on Saturday (March 16) at 3:30 p.m., at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.

AGGIE NOTABLES...
• UC Davis advances to the Big West Tournament championship game following an 82-50 win over UC Irvine in Friday's first semifinal
• It marks the Aggies' third appearance in the tournament title game in the last four seasons, looking for their first win since 2011 (66-49 vs. Cal Poly)
• This is UC Davis' sixth all-time appearance in the tournament championship game (2008, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2018, 2019)
• UC Davis is 12-10 all-time in Big West Tournament play, including a now 6-2 mark in the semifinal round
• Saturday marks a rematch of the 2016 Big West final won by the Rainbow Wahine, 78-59 — the only other meeting between the two schools in conference tournament history
• Friday's win over UC Irvine marked the Aggies' 15th consecutive victory (and 21 of their last 22 overall) dating back to a five-point loss at Hawai'i — the longest in the program's Division I history and tied for the third-longest single-season streak overall in school history
• The 24 wins this year are tied for the ninth-most in a season, just five behind the school record of 29 set in 1996-97
• Friday's victory was the Aggies' eighth of 30-or-more points this season — and their third straight
• UC Davis is winning by an average margin of 23.7 ppg during its 15-game winning streak, defeating each opponent by no fewer than 11 points
• Meanwhile, UC Davis' defense has limited 14 of its last 15 opponents to fewer than 60 points -- including nine opponents to 50 points or fewer
• UC Davis has held opponents to under 30 percent shooting from the field eight times this season — including a season-low .217 at UC Irvine on 3/2/19
• After shooting 53.8 percent against UC Irvine, the Aggies have now shot better than 50 percent seven times this season and has shot better than 40 percent in each of their last 12 contests
• Holding UC Irvine to five points in the third quarter, UC Davis has now held an opponent to single digits in a quarter 22 times this season
• Following her 25 points against UC Irvine, senior biomedical engineering major Morgan Bertsch now has 2,373 career points to rank fourth on the Big West scoring list — just 43 points behind Cal State Fullerton's Genia Miller (2,415 from 1987-91) for third
• The 25 points also gave Bertsch 705 for the season, breaking her own school single-season record of 702 set in 2017-18 as a junior
• With an appearance on the floor in Saturday's Big West Championship game, Bertsch will tie Pele Gianotti's school record for games played and consecutive games played in a career with 131
• With eight rebounds against the Anteaters, Bertsch now has 670 career boards, breaking a tie for eighth with Aimee Conner on the school's career list and standing 10 back of Kendall Greene (1992-96) for seventh
• Thanks to her 25 points in 25 minutes in the semifinal round, Bertsch has now scored as many (or more) points in as many minutes played in a game nine times
• Bertsch now ranks second on the school's single-season free throw makes list with 169, needing just four more makes to pass Sarah Allen (172 in 2003) for the record, while her 205 attempts rank second, trailing Allen's mark of 236 that same year
• Senior psychology major Kourtney Eaton's three assists against UC Irvine broke a tie with CSUN's Ashlee Guay for seventh on the Big West career list with 544 — seven shy of Long Beach State's Dana Wilkerson (551 from 1988-91) for sixth
• The 15 points for sophomore cell biology major Cierra Hall was a season-high and just two off her career high of 17 set against Long Beach State on Feb. 1, 2018
• It marked the seventh double-digit scoring performance of the year for Hall
• Eaton is only the third player since 1999-00 to break into the top 10 of the Big West's career list along with Long Beach State's Reta Sula (519 from 1997-01) and CSUN's Ashlee Guay (541 from 2011-15)
• With her three assists against UC Irvine, Eaton now has 135 for the year, moving her into fifth place on the school's single-season list and trailing Sara Lillevand (1990) and her own total from 2017 by seven for third place
• Thanks to her 16 points against the Anteaters, Kourtney Eaton has now scored double figures in four of her last six games, shooting .535 (23-for-43) overall and .500 (15-for-30) from beyond the arc
• Junior global disease biology major Kaitlyn Hsu scored a career high four points in the win over UC Irvine
• The starting lineup of senior Kourtney Eaton, senior Karley Eaton, junior Sophia Song, sophomore Cierra Hall, and senior Morgan Bertsch, is a perfect 11-0 this season
• Bertsch's 25 points fell just one shy of the school Big West Tournament record of 26 held by her (vs. UC Santa Barbara on March 9, 2016) and Kelsey Harris (vs. Long Beach State on March 11, 2015)
• Kourtney Eaton's 4-for-4 from beyond the arc set a new standard for three-point percentage for the Aggies in the tournament (previously, three players had been 3-for-3)
• The 82 points against UC Irvine are the most that the Aggies have ever scored in a Big West Tournament game (81 vs. UC Riverside on March 11, 2016)