(RV) ARIZONA STATE (12-0) at GONZAGA (6-4)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16 | 6 P.M. PT | McCARTHEY ATHLETIC CENTER (6,000)
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THE TIPOFF
– The Gonzaga girls’s basketball workforce stays house to play Arizona State on Tuesday, Dec. 16.
– Freshman Lauren Whittaker is capturing at 57.4% from the ground, which ranks first within the West Coast Convention and thirty sixth within the nation. With 195 factors up to now this season, she ranks second in scoring amongst different freshmen within the nation.
– In opposition to Colorado State, Whittaker scored 29 factors, making her simply the third freshman in GU historical past to scored 29 factors or extra in a recreation. (Jill Barta and Heather Bowman are the one different two.)
– Gonzaga is at present ranked twenty ninth within the nation and first within the WCC in three-point proportion at 37%. Individually, Allie Turner leads the workforce in made threes this season with 24 and ranks sixty fifth nationally.
– The Zags have outrebounded their opponents in 9 of the ten video games this 12 months and has a rebound margin of +8.8 to rank forty first within the nation.
– Whittaker has scored not less than 20 factors in 4 video games up to now this 12 months. She has reached double figures in scoring in 9 of 10 video games performed and has three double doubles.
– The Zags symbolize the final two WCC Freshman of the Yr with Allie Turner profitable it in 2025 and Zee Aokuso in 2024 throughout her time at Saint Mary’s.
– Turner was just lately named to the 2026 Becky Hammon Participant of the Yr Preseason Watch Listing. She was one in all 25 gamers within the nation to make the checklist.
– The Bulldogs had been picked to complete second within the West Coast Convention within the preseason coaches ballot. Sophomore Allie Turner and junior Zee Aukoso had been named to the WCC Preseason Crew as effectively.
– Head coach Lisa Fortier at present sits at 295-78 in her profession. Amongst lively Division I coaches with not less than 5 years on the stage, she is at present ranked fifth in profitable proportion (.791). Fortier can be now tied in second place on the WCC profession teaching wins checklist with 171.
THE SERIES
SERIES INFO: ASU leads the sequence general, 4-0. The Zags have solely performed ASU at house as soon as (2007).
STREAK: Arizona State – 4
FIRST MEETING: In 1999, ASU received 96-52 in Tempe, Arizona.
LAST MEETING: The Zags misplaced 78-60 on the highway in 2008.
SCOUTING THE SUN DEVILS
– Arizona State enters the matchup unbeaten at 12-0 in non-conference play and is outscoring opponents by a median of 16.0 factors per recreation.
– The Solar Devils are a powerful defensive workforce, limiting opponents to 53.6 factors per recreation whereas holding them to only 34.4 p.c capturing from the sector.
– ASU includes a balanced offensive assault led by Gabby Elliott (15.3 ppg) and McKinna Brackens (14.4 ppg), with three starters averaging double figures.
– Arizona State controls the glass successfully, averaging 41.2 rebounds per recreation and proudly owning a +7.3 rebounding margin.
– Defensively, the Solar Devils apply constant strain, forcing 21.5 turnovers per recreation and averaging 11.3 steals.
WHITTAKER TAKEOVER
– Lauren Whittaker scored 29 factors in opposition to Colorado State. She is the primary freshman to succeed in not less than 29 factors since Jill Barta in 2016 when she scored 31.
– Whittaker is one in all three freshmen in GU historical past to succeed in 29 factors or extra in a recreation, becoming a member of Barta (2016) and Heather Bowman (2006).
– Whittaker recorded her first double double of her profession in opposition to SDSU. She is one in all 11 freshmen in GU historical past to file a double double with factors and rebounds. (Jill Barta, Heather Bowman, Anne Bailey, Kelly Bowen, Janelle Bekkering, Courtney Vandersloot, Jenn Wirth, Ashley Anderson, Emma Wolfram, Shelby Cheslek)
– Up to now this season, Whittaker has had 5 video games with 20 or extra factors. She is one in all 4 freshman in GU historical past to have a number of 20+ level video games. (Allie Turner x5, Heather Bowman x8, Jill Barta x8)
– With three double doubles up to now this season, Whittaker is one in all 5 freshmen in Gonzaga historical past to have a number of double doubles in a season. (Barta x4, Bowman x4, Anne Bailey x2, Shelby Chelsek x2)
TRIPLE THREATS ALL AROUND
– In opposition to UC Davis, Gonzaga made its most threes in a recreation up to now this season with 12. 5 Bulldogs made not less than one three within the recreation together with Zeryhia Aokuso, Ines Bettencourt, Teryn Gardner, Allie Turner, and Lauren Whittaker.
– 4 Zags have a capturing proportion past the arc above 40% (Bettencourt, Gardner, Turner, and Whittaker).
– Whereas Turner has made essentially the most three pointers with 24 at 40.7%, Gardner is capturing at 46.9% with 15 made this season.
A.T. = AUTOMATIC FROM THREE
– Allie Turner is tied for #1 amongst all returners in three factors made in 2024-25 and the primary freshman since 2020-21 to file 100+ three pointers in a single season.
– Turner’s 105 made threes is essentially the most made in a single season at Gonzaga final season. She broke the file in opposition to UTSA to move Brynna Maxwell’s file of 96 in a single season (2023-24). She is one in all two gamers in Gonzaga historical past, males’s or girls’s, to succeed in 100 threes in a single season with the one different Bulldog being Dan Dickau in 2001-02.
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