Saturday, February 22
Laramie, WY
2:00 PM MT
Air Force Academy
at
Wyoming
Photo by: U.S. Air Force photo / Trang Le
Women's Basketball Travels to Wyoming for Saturday Game
2/21/2020 12:00:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Air Force women's basketball tips off in Arena-Auditorium at 2:00 p.m. MT
GAME 27: AIR FORCE (7-19, 5-10 MW) at WYOMING (13-11, 9-6 MW)
WHEN: 2 p.m. MT, Saturday, February 22
WHERE: Arena-Auditorium - Laramie, Wyoming
THE SERIES
The Falcons and Cowgirls will be meeting for the 55th time in what has become the program's second-longest rivalry behind Colorado State (62 games). Wyoming leads the series all-time series with 52 wins to Air Force's three.
- Air Force looks to make even on the narrow 65-63 loss to Wyoming earlier this season (Dec. 4), at USAFA.
-Wyoming has won the last three meetings
-The last Air Force win was Feb. 27, 2018, at USAFA (57-47)
-All three Air Force wins against Wyoming have been at USAFA
LAST TIME THEY PLAYED
Air Force fell to Wyoming, 65-63, after a fourth quarter rally came up short by a bucket in the Mountain West Conference opener, December 4, in Clune Arena. The Falcons were led by Riley Snyder who dropped a game-high 20 points on the night.
Snyder knocked down 8-17 attempts from the field (.471), and shot a perfect 2-2 from the free throw line to lead Air Force in shooting. The sophomore forward also led the Falcons with seven rebounds. Junior co-team captain Kaelin Immel scored seven points in each half to hit her season scoring average while also dishing out a game-high five assists while snagging four rebounds.
Sophomores Haley Jones and Cierra Winters were rocks in the Cowgirls' boots as the pair picked off a game high two steals apiece while combining for 14 points and five rebounds. Winters had season-best performance, tallying six points off the bench to lead all Air Force subs in scoring. The Air Force bench outscored the Wyoming bench, 13-10.
Allyah Marlett, the Falcons' leading freshman scorer, tallied eight points on the night and collected four rebounds, hanging around her season averages. As a class, the freshmen combined for 12 points and seven rebounds.
Wyoming was led by sophomore forward Tereza Vitulova who registered a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds. The Cowgirls shot exceptionally well in the first half, draining 71-percent from deep (5-7) and 63-percent from the field (17-27). Wyoming collected 37 rebounds to Air Force's 29, but also turned the rock over 14 times to the Falcons' 10.
Air Force assists leader Briana Autrey-Thompson missed the first meeting between the teams this sea-son. She averages a career 15.0 ppg against Wyoming.
STARTERS LAST GAME (GP-GS)
#1, Briana Autrey-Thompson, 8.3 PPG, 4.6 APG (16-16)
#13, Emily Conroe, 8.7 PPG, 7.4 RPG (26-26)
#23, Riley Snyder, 13.8 PPG, 3.7 RPG (26-22)
#32, Kaelin Immel, 15.7 PPG, 3.9 RPG (26-26)
#33, Nikki McDonald, 2.5 PPG, 2.8 RPG (26-7)
NEXT UP
The Falcons will quick turn to the road-slate finale against New Mexico, Monday (Feb. 24), in Dreamstyle Arena. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. MT. Air Force will look to make even this season's 75-53 home loss to the Lobos on January 11.
LAST GAME
Air Force upended the Mountain West Conference regular season champions Fresno State, 88-65, handing the Bulldogs their first conference loss of the season and snapping their 14-game win streak. Air Force, who has now knocked off the league's top-two teams in the last two games, improves to 7-19 with a 5-10 mark in conference while the Bulldogs remain atop the MW at 22-5 with a 15-1 mark in conference play.
Air Force was led by Riley Snyder and Kaelin Immel who scored a game-high 22 points apiece. Snyder, who has scored 20 points or more in the last three games, shot a stellar 69-percent from the field (9-13) and 60-percent from three-point land (3-5). Immel notched her second-straight 20-point scoring performance while dishing out four assists and snagging five rebounds. Immel also knocked down a game-high six free throws. Both Snyder and Immel have six 20-point performances on the season.
Freshman guard Allyah Marlett led the Falcons off the bench with 10 points while shooting perfect from deep (2-2). The Air Force bench outscored the Fresno State bench, 20-11. Sophomore forward Haley Jones was big in the paint, collecting a game-high 10 rebounds while scoring six points and passing out four assists. The Falcons' key facilitator, Briana Autrey-Thompson, dished out a game-high six assists and collected a career-best seven rebounds. She scored nine points for Air Force on the game. Emily Conroe rounded out the Falcons' double-digit scorers with 10 points while collecting seven rebounds and picking off a game-high three steals. Conroe was also perfect from the free throw line (4-4).
The Falcons handily out-rebounded the Bulldogs, 40-25, while picking off 11 steals. Air Force's defense held Fresno State 12 points shy of their season scoring average (77.0).
Fresno State was led by Haley Cavinder who scored 19 points in 40 minutes of action. Hanna Cavinder and Aly Gamez put up 15 and 13 points, respectively, and Maddi Utti picked up a team-high nine rebounds.
AIMING AT THE TOP
For the second-straight game Air Force knocked off one of the Mountain West's top teams. On Wednesday, the Falcons handed regular season champions Fresno State their first conference loss, 88-65. Last Saturday (Feb. 15), the Falcons battled San Jose State to a 67-66 win, knocking off the Mountain West's then-number two team in their home gym.
Sophomore forward Riley Snyder was superb for the Falcons at San Jose State as she led the squad to victory with a career-high 32 points, setting a new high-scoring standard for Air Force this season. The native of Fruita, Colorado, shot 52-percent from the field (11-21), 63-percent from deep (5-8) and perfect from the free throw line (5-5). Her five three-pointers marked a career-best and the most by any Falcon this season. Snyder rounded out her stat line with eight rebounds, three assists and a steal. The performance marked the first 30-point showing of her career and fifth game with 20 or more points this season.
Air Force's co-team captains, Kaelin Immel and Emily Conroe, led from the front, combining for 28 points, 17 rebounds and six assists. Immel tallied 22 points, four assists, three rebounds and sunk a career-best nine free throws. Conroe snagged a career-best 14 rebounds while scoring six points and dishing a pair of assists. The duo also swiped two steals apiece.
IMMEL SETS THE STANDARD
Junior co-team captain Kaelin Immel is the Falcons' leading scorer, averaging 15.7 ppg. The native of Beaverton, Oregon, has 21 double-figure scoring marks and five 20+ point performances on the season, highlighted by a season-high 28 points against defending Mountain West champs, Boise State. She is the fifth-leading scorer and has the 10th-best field goal percentage (.400) in the MW.
CLIMBING THE ALL-TIME LADDER
Immel became the 16th all-time Falcon to achieve 1,000 career points at Air Force. Immel, who now has 1,257 career points, is the seventh all-time leading scorer in program history and second-leading scorer in the Division I era. The next rung up on the all-time ladder is Amanda Williams (1984-88) with 1,314 career points. Raimee Beck (2007-11) is top career scorer in the Division I era with 1,386 points.
CONROE ON THE CAREER STATS LADDER
Junior teammate Emily Conroe is following Immel's lead in the all-time points pursuit with 890 career points, a mark that ranks her 10th in the Div. I era, recently surpassing Elycia Hall (1995-99) who had 854 career points.
Emily Conroe picked up her 500th career rebound at San Diego State (Feb. 8). She now has 533 career rebounds, 376 are defensive, and 157 are offensive. Conroe is the sixth Falcon in Div. I history to achieve the feat. She is currently sixth in the Div. I career-rebounding record book while former teammate, Cortney Porter, is fourth with 571 from 2015-18.
SNYDER SCORES
Sophomore forward Riley Snyder has 19 double-figure performances this season, six of which were 20-point performances. Air Force's last three games have been against the MW's top teams (Boise State, San Jose State, Fresno State), in those three games, Snyder averaged 26.3 ppg.
WHEN: 2 p.m. MT, Saturday, February 22
WHERE: Arena-Auditorium - Laramie, Wyoming
THE SERIES
The Falcons and Cowgirls will be meeting for the 55th time in what has become the program's second-longest rivalry behind Colorado State (62 games). Wyoming leads the series all-time series with 52 wins to Air Force's three.
- Air Force looks to make even on the narrow 65-63 loss to Wyoming earlier this season (Dec. 4), at USAFA.
-Wyoming has won the last three meetings
-The last Air Force win was Feb. 27, 2018, at USAFA (57-47)
-All three Air Force wins against Wyoming have been at USAFA
LAST TIME THEY PLAYED
Air Force fell to Wyoming, 65-63, after a fourth quarter rally came up short by a bucket in the Mountain West Conference opener, December 4, in Clune Arena. The Falcons were led by Riley Snyder who dropped a game-high 20 points on the night.
Snyder knocked down 8-17 attempts from the field (.471), and shot a perfect 2-2 from the free throw line to lead Air Force in shooting. The sophomore forward also led the Falcons with seven rebounds. Junior co-team captain Kaelin Immel scored seven points in each half to hit her season scoring average while also dishing out a game-high five assists while snagging four rebounds.
Sophomores Haley Jones and Cierra Winters were rocks in the Cowgirls' boots as the pair picked off a game high two steals apiece while combining for 14 points and five rebounds. Winters had season-best performance, tallying six points off the bench to lead all Air Force subs in scoring. The Air Force bench outscored the Wyoming bench, 13-10.
Allyah Marlett, the Falcons' leading freshman scorer, tallied eight points on the night and collected four rebounds, hanging around her season averages. As a class, the freshmen combined for 12 points and seven rebounds.
Wyoming was led by sophomore forward Tereza Vitulova who registered a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds. The Cowgirls shot exceptionally well in the first half, draining 71-percent from deep (5-7) and 63-percent from the field (17-27). Wyoming collected 37 rebounds to Air Force's 29, but also turned the rock over 14 times to the Falcons' 10.
Air Force assists leader Briana Autrey-Thompson missed the first meeting between the teams this sea-son. She averages a career 15.0 ppg against Wyoming.
STARTERS LAST GAME (GP-GS)
#1, Briana Autrey-Thompson, 8.3 PPG, 4.6 APG (16-16)
#13, Emily Conroe, 8.7 PPG, 7.4 RPG (26-26)
#23, Riley Snyder, 13.8 PPG, 3.7 RPG (26-22)
#32, Kaelin Immel, 15.7 PPG, 3.9 RPG (26-26)
#33, Nikki McDonald, 2.5 PPG, 2.8 RPG (26-7)
NEXT UP
The Falcons will quick turn to the road-slate finale against New Mexico, Monday (Feb. 24), in Dreamstyle Arena. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. MT. Air Force will look to make even this season's 75-53 home loss to the Lobos on January 11.
LAST GAME
Air Force upended the Mountain West Conference regular season champions Fresno State, 88-65, handing the Bulldogs their first conference loss of the season and snapping their 14-game win streak. Air Force, who has now knocked off the league's top-two teams in the last two games, improves to 7-19 with a 5-10 mark in conference while the Bulldogs remain atop the MW at 22-5 with a 15-1 mark in conference play.
Air Force was led by Riley Snyder and Kaelin Immel who scored a game-high 22 points apiece. Snyder, who has scored 20 points or more in the last three games, shot a stellar 69-percent from the field (9-13) and 60-percent from three-point land (3-5). Immel notched her second-straight 20-point scoring performance while dishing out four assists and snagging five rebounds. Immel also knocked down a game-high six free throws. Both Snyder and Immel have six 20-point performances on the season.
Freshman guard Allyah Marlett led the Falcons off the bench with 10 points while shooting perfect from deep (2-2). The Air Force bench outscored the Fresno State bench, 20-11. Sophomore forward Haley Jones was big in the paint, collecting a game-high 10 rebounds while scoring six points and passing out four assists. The Falcons' key facilitator, Briana Autrey-Thompson, dished out a game-high six assists and collected a career-best seven rebounds. She scored nine points for Air Force on the game. Emily Conroe rounded out the Falcons' double-digit scorers with 10 points while collecting seven rebounds and picking off a game-high three steals. Conroe was also perfect from the free throw line (4-4).
The Falcons handily out-rebounded the Bulldogs, 40-25, while picking off 11 steals. Air Force's defense held Fresno State 12 points shy of their season scoring average (77.0).
Fresno State was led by Haley Cavinder who scored 19 points in 40 minutes of action. Hanna Cavinder and Aly Gamez put up 15 and 13 points, respectively, and Maddi Utti picked up a team-high nine rebounds.
AIMING AT THE TOP
For the second-straight game Air Force knocked off one of the Mountain West's top teams. On Wednesday, the Falcons handed regular season champions Fresno State their first conference loss, 88-65. Last Saturday (Feb. 15), the Falcons battled San Jose State to a 67-66 win, knocking off the Mountain West's then-number two team in their home gym.
Sophomore forward Riley Snyder was superb for the Falcons at San Jose State as she led the squad to victory with a career-high 32 points, setting a new high-scoring standard for Air Force this season. The native of Fruita, Colorado, shot 52-percent from the field (11-21), 63-percent from deep (5-8) and perfect from the free throw line (5-5). Her five three-pointers marked a career-best and the most by any Falcon this season. Snyder rounded out her stat line with eight rebounds, three assists and a steal. The performance marked the first 30-point showing of her career and fifth game with 20 or more points this season.
Air Force's co-team captains, Kaelin Immel and Emily Conroe, led from the front, combining for 28 points, 17 rebounds and six assists. Immel tallied 22 points, four assists, three rebounds and sunk a career-best nine free throws. Conroe snagged a career-best 14 rebounds while scoring six points and dishing a pair of assists. The duo also swiped two steals apiece.
IMMEL SETS THE STANDARD
Junior co-team captain Kaelin Immel is the Falcons' leading scorer, averaging 15.7 ppg. The native of Beaverton, Oregon, has 21 double-figure scoring marks and five 20+ point performances on the season, highlighted by a season-high 28 points against defending Mountain West champs, Boise State. She is the fifth-leading scorer and has the 10th-best field goal percentage (.400) in the MW.
CLIMBING THE ALL-TIME LADDER
Immel became the 16th all-time Falcon to achieve 1,000 career points at Air Force. Immel, who now has 1,257 career points, is the seventh all-time leading scorer in program history and second-leading scorer in the Division I era. The next rung up on the all-time ladder is Amanda Williams (1984-88) with 1,314 career points. Raimee Beck (2007-11) is top career scorer in the Division I era with 1,386 points.
CONROE ON THE CAREER STATS LADDER
Junior teammate Emily Conroe is following Immel's lead in the all-time points pursuit with 890 career points, a mark that ranks her 10th in the Div. I era, recently surpassing Elycia Hall (1995-99) who had 854 career points.
Emily Conroe picked up her 500th career rebound at San Diego State (Feb. 8). She now has 533 career rebounds, 376 are defensive, and 157 are offensive. Conroe is the sixth Falcon in Div. I history to achieve the feat. She is currently sixth in the Div. I career-rebounding record book while former teammate, Cortney Porter, is fourth with 571 from 2015-18.
SNYDER SCORES
Sophomore forward Riley Snyder has 19 double-figure performances this season, six of which were 20-point performances. Air Force's last three games have been against the MW's top teams (Boise State, San Jose State, Fresno State), in those three games, Snyder averaged 26.3 ppg.
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