SAN DIEGO – The San Diego State women’s basketball team is hosting Pacific Sunday at 1 p.m. for their final home non-conference game. It will broadcast locally on KUSI and simulcast on the Mountain West Network.
Aztec Tidbits
This is SDSU’s Filipino Heritage Game, and the first 500 fans will receive a Philippine inspired T-shirt.
The Aztecs split their two games at the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas. They beat Maryland Eastern Shore 58-45 and then lost to Penn State 83-67.
Nat Martinez scored a career-high 20 points against Penn State, her second time scoring 20+ against a Big Ten team (Wisconsin last year).
SDSU is turning the ball over just 12.6 times per game, the 24th fewest in the nation. Their 1.10 assist-to-turnover ratio is the second best in the Mountain West.
The Aztecs have made more three-pointers than their opponent in six of their seven games.
Eight different Aztecs have already scored in double-digits in a game, and three different players have scored 20 or more points.
SDSU was picked to finish second in the MW Preseason poll, their highest preseason selection since 2012-13.
Entering this year, SDSU had 70 wins over the past three seasons, tied for the most in a three-year span in SDSU history (1994-96).
This is the first time in program history that SDSU doesn’t return a single scholarship upperclassman (who played last year).
The Aztecs have seven newcomers this year, the most ever under head coach Stacie Terry-Hutson (13th season). They added five transfers with four of them coming from Mountain West schools.
SDSU has set a program record for attendance in each of the past two seasons.
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Since the beginning of last year, SDSU is 24-2 when three or more players score in double-digits.
Since the beginning of the 2022-23 season, the Aztecs are 62-11 (.849) when they score 60 or more and 41-6 (.872) when they score 70 or more.
Since the beginning of the 2022-23 season, SDSU is 40-13 (.755) in home games.
Player Notes
Nat Martinez (Sophomore, Guard, San Leandro, Calif.)
Nat Martinez had a career-high 24 points vs. Penn State in the Bahamas. She was 7-for-15 from the field, 5-for-10 from three and 5-for-6 from the line. She also had a career-high two blocks and drew eight fouls.
She was named to the Mountain West All-Freshman Team a year ago.
She shot 41.9% from three last year, the fifth best in a single season in program history.
She was named the Mountain West Freshman of the Week three times, tied with Naomi Panganiban for the school record.
Nala Williams (Senior, Guard, Long Beach, Calif.)
Nala Williams tied a career-high with eight assists against Maryland Eastern Shore (Nov. 22).
Against Cal State Bakersfield Nov. 15, she became the first Aztec in the Mountain West era (since 1999) to have at least 25 points, 10 rebounds and three three-pointers in a game.
In her career, she has 1,551 points, 534 rebounds, 366 assists and 316 steals in 99 games.
Her 314 career steals are tied for the fourth most in the nation across all divisions among active players.
She has scored in double-digits in 76 of her 99 career games and has scored 20 or more 30 times. Her career-high is 42.
Last year at Cal State Dominguez Hills, Nala Williams was named the DII National Player of the Year and the National Defensive Player of the Year.
She helped her school go 36-2 and make the national title game.
She had 152 steals last year (4.0/game), which was the most in the nation across all divisions. No one else had more than 140 steals and only three other players had 130 or more.
She shot a career-best 40% from three last year and made 76 three-pointers.
Naomi Panganiban (Sophomore, Guard, San Diego, Calif.)
Naomi Panganiban has just five turnovers in 183 minutes so far this season.
She has scored 10 or more points in a team-high five games.
Panganiban was named to the preseason All-Mountain West Team.
Last year, she was named to the Mountain West All-Freshman Team and to the Mountain West All-Tournament Team.
Her 10.3 points per game led all Mountain West true freshmen last season.
She averaged 12.3 points in the Mountain West Tournament and scored 17 points on 7-for-14 shooting in 46 minutes in the championship game.
She was named the Mountain West Freshman of the Week three times, tied with Nat Martinez for the school record.
Playing for the Philippine National Team at the FIBA Asia Cup, she tied for the team lead in scoring (13.2 ppg) despite being the youngest on the team.
The Philippines clinched a spot in the FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournament for the first time ever.
Bailey Barnard (Sophomore, Forward, San Diego, Calif.)
Bailey Barnhard has led the Aztecs in rebounding in every game but one.
She scored a career-high 13 points and tied a career-high with eight rebounds vs. Maryland Eastern Shore (Nov. 22).
Kennedy Lee (RS Junior, Forward, Louisville, Ky.)
Kennedy Lee set career highs for points (24) and three-pointers (7) last vs. CSUN (11-13).
Her seven made 3-pointers tied for the 2nd most ever made by an Aztec.
She became the first Aztec to make seven threes in a game since Jan. 15, 2022 (Mallory Adams).
She became the fifth Aztec to make seven threes in a game under head coach Stacie Terry-Hutson.
Kaelyn Hamilton (Sophomore, Guard, McKinney, Texas)
Kendall Mosley (Freshman, Guard, Prosper, Texas)
Kendall Mosley was named the preseason MW Freshman of the Year.
She was the 2024-25 6A MVP in Texas.
She was named the District 5-6A Offensive MVP each of the last two years.
CJ Latta (Sophomore, Guard, Paul, Idaho)
CJ Latta made 26 starts as a freshman at Utah State last year.
Her 9.1 points per game were the third most in the Mountain West by a true freshman, trailing only current teammate Naomi Panganiban (10.3) and former USU teammate Taliyah Logwood (9.7).
She led the Aggies in three-pointers (56), assists (2.3), and assist-to-turnover ratio (+1.28).
She ranked third all-time at USU with six games of 15 points or more as a freshman.
Opponent Notebook (Pacific)
The Tigers are 4-4 on the year.
They went 15-19 last year and 9-11 in the WCC.
They are holding opponents to 22.9% shooting from three, 13th best in the nation.
Winner Bartholomew leads the team in scoring (12.7) and rebounding (6.1).
Head coach Bradley Davis is in his 11th season as Pacific’s head coach and 20th at Pacific overall. His daughter Genevieve is a manager for the Aztecs.
Series History
San Diego State leads the all-time series 6-5.
All 11 meetings were between 1981 and 1990 when they played in Western Collegiate Athletic Association and Big West together.
SDSU is 4-2 against the Tigers at home.
The Aztecs are 73-51 against teams currently in the WCC.