San José State University’s women’s basketball team is set to host Mountain West Conference leader San Diego State University on Saturday, February 7, at the Provident Credit Union Event Center in San Jose. The game will begin at 2 p.m. PT and be broadcast on the Mountain West Network with Daniel Barrera providing play-by-play commentary.
This matchup marks the second meeting between the two teams in as many weeks. Their previous encounter took place on January 24 in San Diego, where the Aztecs defeated the Spartans 94-66.
San José State enters Saturday’s game with a season record of 3-20 overall and a conference record of 1-11. In their most recent outing, they lost to Fresno State by a score of 79-50. Maya Anderson led the Spartans during that game, scoring 14 points and collecting nine rebounds.
San Diego State comes into the contest leading the Mountain West standings with an overall record of 17-4 and an 11-1 mark in conference play. On Wednesday night, SDSU lost to Grand Canyon University, finishing with a score of 57-44. Head coach Stacie Terry-Hutson is currently in her thirteenth season at San Diego State and holds a coaching record of 196 wins and 199 losses. The Aztecs have achieved more than twenty wins each season for the past three years.
The historical series between these teams dates back to the late 1970s, with San José State holding an all-time record of eleven wins and thirty-one losses against SDSU since their first meeting in December 1977.
Through February 5, several members of the Spartans are ranked nationally across multiple statistical categories. The team is ranked fifty-fifth nationally for blocks per game (4.1), ninety-sixth for defensive rebounds per game (26.4), and twenty-first for three-point attempts per game (26.5). Individually, Maya Anderson ranks forty-eighth nationally for field goal attempts (319), while Gabriela Pato is eighty-third in total blocks (30).
Maya Anderson continues to lead San José State both offensively and defensively this season, averaging nearly thirteen points per game with a total of two hundred ninety-six points scored so far. She has been her team’s top scorer in eleven games—including a career-high twenty-nine points against Sacramento State—and has reached double figures fifteen times this year.
Anderson also leads her team in rebounding with one hundred fifty-three boards (6.7 per game) this season—topping her teammates’ totals in eleven games throughout various matchups.
