OPENING TIP: A three-game homestand comes to a close on "Field Trip Day" for the Aggies as local elementary and middle school students will join the UC Davis women's basketball team for their 11 a.m. tip-off against Cal State Fullerton on Thursday (Feb. 20) at The Pavilion. The Aggies then jet off for the Islands for a first-place showdown with Hawai'i on Saturday (Feb. 22) at 7 p.m. HT at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu.

NEXT UP…
GAME 25: Cal State Fullerton (13-10, 5-5) at UC Davis (14-10, 9-2)
WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020 at 11 a.m. PT
WHERE: The Pavilion in Davis, Calif.
RADIO: KDVS 90.3 FM (PxP: Greg Wong)
STREAMING VIDEO: BigWest.TV
LIVE STATS: UCDavisLiveStats.com

GAME 26: UC Davis (14-10, 9-2) at Hawai'i (14-10, 8-3)
WHEN: Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. HT
WHERE: Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu, O'ahu
RADIO: KDVS 90.3 FM (PxP: Greg Wong)
STREAMING VIDEO: BigWest.TV
LIVE STATS: HawaiiAthletics.com
 

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WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE?: As part of UC Davis' inaugural "Field Trip Day," a number of organizations will be participating in a STEM fair (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) on the upper east concourse of The Pavilion. Those scheduled to be in attendance include the UC Davis chemistry department, CalTeach/MAST (Mathematics and Science Teaching program), UC Davis engineering department, and the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. Sports clinic stations will also be set up for students to try their hand at various athletic activities prior to tip off.

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BE A FOLLOWER: Fans can get an inside look at UC Davis women's basketball by following them on their many social media accounts. Like or follow us on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook, at @UCDavisWBB. In-game updates will also be available on the team's Twitter feed.

IN THE POLLS: Neither UC Davis, Cal State Fullerton, nor Hawai'i, are ranked nationally entering this week's games.

ABOUT CAL STATE FULLERTON: The Titans enter the week with a 13-10 overall record and a 5-5 mark in Big West Conference play after splitting with UC Irvine (L, 82-75) and Cal Poly (W, 67-60) last week... Cal State Fullerton is 6-6 away from home this season, having lost three of its last four... Junior Raina Perez leads a trio of Titans in double figures at 20.3 ppg to go with 4.2 assists per game... Junior Taylor Turney (13.9 ppg) and sophomore Amiee Book (12.4 ppg) are also in double figures for Fullerton, which is averaging 69.7 ppg while allowing 69.3 ppg this year.

SERIES NOTES: UC Davis leads the all-time series with Cal State Fullerton by a 21-10 count, having won the last 11 straight following a 72-61 victory at Titan Gym earlier this year... The Aggies, however, are just 8-7 at home against the Titans, having won the last five dating back to 2014... The 61 points scored by Fullerton in the last meeting was the highest offensive output for the Titans against UC Davis since 2015 (67) as the Aggies had held them to under 59 points in the previous eight games.

ABOUT HAWAI'I: The Rainbow Wahine, at 14-10 overall and 8-3 in league play, will come in well-rested to face the Aggies, having not played since a 70-66 win over CSUN at home on Feb. 13... Hawai'i will not have left the Islands since a Feb. 8 contest at UC Santa Barbara, posting a 9-4 record at the Stan Sheriff Center this year... The Rainbow Wahine have won six straight since a 62-55 loss at Long Beach State on Jan. 23... The sharp-shooting duo of Julissa Tago and Amy Atwell have combined to hit 103 of the team's 182 three-pointers, averaging 14.0 ppg and 11.1 ppg, respectively.

SERIES NOTES: UC Davis leads the all-time series with Hawai'i by an 11-9 count, having won the last three straight... The Aggies are just 4-5 on the road against the Rainbow Wahine, but have won two of the last three after losing four straight... UC Davis has swept the regular season series in two of the last three years.

ALL HAIL HALL: In averaging a double-double during a 2-0 week, UC Davis junior cell biology major Cierra Hall was named the Big West Player of the Week for the first time in her career on Feb. 17, averaging 15.5 ppg and 10.0 rpg while shooting 65 percent (13-for-20) from the field. Also picking up honors from College Sports Madness, Hall became the first Aggie honored by the league since Morgan Bertsch on March 4 of last season. For the complete release: https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2020/2/17/womens-basketball-all-hail-hall-for-big-west-player-of-the-week.aspx.

GUESS WHO'S BACK: The second time is, hopefully, the charm for former UC Davis women's basketball standout Morgan Bertsch, who signed a contract with the WNBA's Dallas Wings and will join them for training camp prior to the 2020 season. She returns to the franchise that selected her in the third round (29th overall) of the 2019 WNBA Draft -- the first Aggie to be drafted and the first from a Big West school since 2011. For the complete release, visit: https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2020/2/11/womens-basketball-bertsch-inks-contract-with-wnbas-dallas-wings.aspx.

ALL SHE DOES IS WIN: Head Coach Jennifer Gross solidified her hold on third place in career coaching victories at UC Davis with her 170th win against UC Irvine last week, breaking a tie with Pam Gill-Fisher (1975-79, 1981-86, 1987-88) thanks to a Jan. 25 win at Cal Poly. Having won better than 61 percent of her games at the helm since taking over the progam in 2011-12, Gross now sets her sights on Jorja Hoehn, who won 205 games in nine seasons from 1988-97, and Sandy Simpson, who won 251 games in 14 years from 1996-97 and 1998-2011.

AGGIES' RUN ROLLS ON: Thanks to wins over Cal Poly and UC Irvine last week, UC Davis extended its streak to 28 consecutive home Big West victories, having sent opponents home empty-handed from The Pavilion for more than three years since falling to Long Beach State, 61-54, on Jan. 12, 2017.

HOME IS WHERE THE WINS ARE: Ten of the Aggies' 14 victories this season have come at The Pavilion, averaging 70.0 ppg and shooting .443 from the floor, while holding opponents to just 58.1 ppg and .332 from the field. Compare that to the road, where UC Davis is averaging 64.3 ppg to the opposition's 66.5 ppg, shooting .399 to the opposition's .417. Standing 10-2 at home this season, the Aggies are a combined 48-6 at The Pavilion over the last three-plus years and have posted a winning home mark in each of the last seven seasons -- including double-digit wins in each of the last four.

CLOSING ON A MILESTONE: The Aggies are just five wins shy of 250 wins in the program's Division I history, entering the week with a 245-158 (.608) record.

DOUBLE-DIGIT DIVA: With her two performances last week, Hall has reached double digits in her last four games, averaging 16.0 ppg and 9.0 rpg in the process while shooting .571 (24-for-42) from the floor. In fact, the Cypress, Calif., native has shot better than 50 percent from the field in each of her last five games.

LEAPS & REBOUNDS: Hall's week was punctuated by her second double-double of the season against UC Irvine -- one that included a career-high 14 rebounds, eclipsing her previous best of 13 accomplished twice. The 14 boards are tied for the third-highest total in the program's Division I history, matching Sydnee Fipps' total against Sacramento State in 2013, and just one shy of the record of 15 held by Celia Marfone against both UC Riverside in 2014 and UC Irvine in 2016.

CAROM QUEEN: Thanks to her 20 rebounds combined in last week's two games, Hall now trails Fipps (2011-15) by only 14 for sixth place on the school's Division I career list with 527, while her 174 rebounds this season are just five shy of breaking into the single-season top 10 and just 34 behind Marfone's record of 208 set during the 2014-15 campaign. Hall, who is one of only three different Aggies in the program's Division I era to grab 200 rebounds in a season, enters the week ranked No. 6 in the Big West in rebounding.

GIMME A (SECOND) CHANCE: Four of Hall's 14 rebounds against UCI came on the offensive end, giving her 67 offensive rebounds for the year and breaking her own program single-season Division I record. Her total represents the most in a season since Ellen Porshneva had 70 offensive rebounds in 2004-05.

WHO'S CRASHING?: Apparently everyone. Thanks to some hard work on the boards, UC Davis is the only school to have three players rank among the top 10 in the Big West in rebounding entering this week's games: junior Cierra Hall (6th - 7.25 rpg), sophomore Sage Stobbart (9th - 6.46 rpg), and sophomore Kayla Konrad (10th - 5.75 rpg). At least one Aggie has posted double-digit rebounds in each of the last three games and eight of the team's last 10 games.

DIALED IN: UC Davis has made a three-pointer in 518 consecutive games dating back to Feb. 15, 2003, at Cal State San Bernardino. Since then, the Aggies have shot .350 (3,603-for-10,287) from beyond the arc.

NO GRAY AREA HERE: Freshman Campbell Gray had herself a day against UC Irvine, posting a career-high 10 points in the win over the Anteaters -- the first double-digit scoring performance of her career.

HERE'S A QUARTER: UC Davis' 16 rebounds in the second quarter against UC Irvine were the most by the Aggies in a single quarter this year, topping the 15 grabbed against Hawai'i (twice) and Santa Clara. A big part of that record was Hall, who grabbed six in the second quarter -- the most by a UC Davis player in a quarter this year -- after hauling down five in the first period. A player had posted five rebounds in a quarter 12 times until Hall's second-quarter performance.

AWW, SHOOT!: The Aggies have shot better than 40 percent from the field in each of their last six games (its longest such run thsi year), shooting .443 (147-for-332) -- including a best of .481 against Cal Poly -- in that stretch.

DENIED: The Aggies limited the Anteaters to just 28 percent shooting from the field in last Saturday's victory -- the sixth time this year that a UC Davis opponent has shot less than 30 percent from the floor and the lowest since CSUN shot just .250 on Jan. 29 at The Pavilion.

IN THE MARGINS: With their 13-point win over Cal Poly, and a 12-point triumph over UC Irvine, the Aggies posted their seventh and eighth double-digit victories of the season. On the flip side, eight of UC Davis' 10 defeats this year have come by single digits.

SCORE!: The 71 points scored against Cal Poly marked only the second time in the last 10 games that the Aggies have topped the 70-point plateau. That hasn't been a problem, however, as the Aggies are 9-1 in those contests.

MAKING THE ADJUSTMENT: UC Davis has outscored the opposition by a combined 29 points over the first two quarters this season, but the third period has been where the Aggies have really done their damage this year, holding a plus-82 (402-320) advantage coming out of the locker room after the break.

MINUTE WOMEN: UC Davis has seven players averaging better than 20 minutes per game this season -- led by Katie Toole's 27.9 minutes per contest -- showcasing depth that hasn't been seen since the 2015-16 season when the Aggies finished the year with seven players averaging better than 20 minutes per.

PASSING FANCY: Thanks to her nine assists last week, junior Mackenzie Trpcic collected only the eighth 100-assist season in the program's Division I history with 107 -- standing just 47 behind Kourtney Eaton's single-season record of 154 set in 2017-18. Trpcic is only the fifth different player on that 100-assist list joining Kourtney (four times) and her sister Karley (102 in 2018-19), Dani Nafekh (130 in 2015-16), and Molly Greubel (103 in 2013-14).

SEASON OF GIVING...: Junior guard Mackenzie Trpcic is a giver. Her 107 assists and 4.46 assists per game entering the week both rank among the top two in the Big West, and among the top 100 in the NCAA in those categories (No. 80 and No. 82, respectively). It's not uncharted territory for the Hamilton, Ontario, native, who finished her sophomore year at Albany No. 14 in the nation in assists per game (6.47) following a school sophomore season record 207 helpers in 2017-18 -- which also ranked No. 15 in the country at the end of the year.

HELPING HANDS: UC Davis has finished with double-digit assists in all but one game this season (at Cal Poly) and is averaging 16.5 apg over its last six -- well above its current season average of 15.3 apg.

THE RIGHT TOOLE FOR THE JOB: Senior Katie Toole has finished in double figures in 20 of 24 contests this season -- a far cry from her 2018-19 season that saw her score just 50 combined points in 23 games. The Farmington, Utah, native continues to enjoy the finest season of her collegiate career, entering the week ranked seventh in the league in scoring (14.1 ppg), while standing among the top 10 in points (6th - 338), field goal percentage (2nd - .520), field goals (5th - 131), and three-point percentage (2nd - .434). Meanwhile, her 338 points stand just 64 shy of breaking onto the program's single-season Division I scoring list, trailing Alyson Doherty (402 in 2014-15) for 10th place.

GOTTA SHOOT THE THREE: UC Davis enters the week with 210 three-pointers this season -- extending a run that has seen the Aggies hit at least 200 three-pointers in every season since the 2008-09 campaign. UC Davis, however, is still a ways off the single-season record of 289 triples sunk in 2017-18.

ROLLIN' IN THE DEEP: The Aggies enter the week with a Big West-best 210 made three-pointers (28 better than second-place Hawai'i) and 8.75 per game ranking among the top 20 in the nation in both categories at No. 19 and No. 12, respectively, entering the week.

DEEP FROM DEEP: Entering Thursday's clash against Cal State Fullerton, the Aggies feature four of the Big West Conference's top 10 sharpshooters -- and three of the top five overall. Senior Katie Toole ranks second at .434 for the year, followed by sophomore Makaila Sanders' .418 in third, freshman Evanne Turner and her .417 in fourth, junior Mackenzie Trpcic in sixth at .382. Senior Sophia Song ranks just outside the top 10 in 11th at .333 for the season. Overall, UC Davis ranks No. 22 in the country in three-point percentage as a team (.364) following last week.

SWAT TEAM: Opponents have found little room inside against the Aggies as of late as the UC Davis defense is averaging 5.67 blocks per game over its last three contests, entering the week ranked third in the Big West with 75 blocks overall and averaging 3.13 blocks per game this season.

SAGE ADVICE: Don't go inside against the sophomore, who has found her stride during the second half of Big West Conference play. After becoming the first Aggie to post back-to-back double-doubles for the first time since Sydnee Fipps did so during the 2013-14 campaign, Sage Stobbart is averaging 14.0 ppg and 11.0 rpg in her last three games, shooting .607 (17-for-28) from the field and swatting 3.3 bpg.

SAGE STO-BLOCK: Stobbart's 59 career blocks stand just six shy of the career top 10 (Lauren Juric with 65 from 2008-12 is 10th), while her 29 blocks this year are one short of her career high and nine shy of the single-season list (Staci Stevens is 10th with 38 in 1987-88). On the program's Division I career list, Stobbart's 59 blocks rank sixth, just seven shy of Marly Anderson and Juric for fourth.

BIG WEST BOOST: Since the start of conference play, Stobbart has been a beast on the boards, grabbing more than half (89) of her 155 rebounds in Big West play and averaging 8.1 rpg in 11 games -- including double digits in three of her last five contests -- trailing teammate Hall by just two rebounds since the start of league action. In the process, Stobbart has raised her season average by more than a full rebound since the start of Big West play, up from 5.1 rpg to 6.5 rpg entering the week.
 

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