Women's Hoops Travels to San Diego State

GAME 12 & 13: AIR FORCE (3-8, 1-5 MW)
at SAN DIEGO STATE (4-7, 2-3 MW)
6 p.m. PT, Friday, Jan. 22
1 p.m. PT, Sunday, Jan. 24
Viejas Arena, San Diego, Calif.

Air Force continues league action on the road with a two-game Mountain West series against San Diego State, January 22 and 24. Tip times are slated for 6 PT and 1 PT, respectively, in Viejas Arena.

THE SERIES AGAINST SDSU
The Falcons and Aztecs will be meeting for the 48th time in program history with San Diego State leading the all-time series, 36-11.
-Air Force is 6-16 against the Aztecs when playing at USAFA, 5-17 at San Diego and 0-3 on neutral turf
-Last season, Air Force beat SDSU in San Diego, 51-49, in their only meeting of the season
-Air Force and San Diego State split the 2018-19 regular season, 1-1
-Air Force won five of the last eight meetings
-The most points AF has ever put up on SDSU is 79 (2002) and the lowest scoring game for AF was 28 (2009)
-The series began in 1997

LAST TIME THEY MET
Riley Snyder hit the game-winning shot with five seconds remaining in regulation to propel Air Force to a 51-49 win against Mountain West foe, San Diego State, Saturday afternoon (Feb. 8, 2020) in Viejas Arena.

Snyder and Kaelin Immel led the Falcons with 17 points apiece. Snyder shot 47-percent from the field (8-17), tallied three rebounds and an assist while Immel snagged six boards and shot a perfect 4-4 from the free-throw line.

Point guard Briana Autrey-Thompson registered a career-best 11 assists while scoring five points and collecting four defensive rebounds. Emily Conroe scored eight points, snatched eight rebounds and blocked three shots on the day. Conroe's eight boards pushed her over 500 career rebounds, becoming the sixth Falcon in the Division-I era to accomplish the feat.

UP NEXT
The Falcons will take a break in action as the two-game series with San Jose State, slated for January 28 and 30, has been canceled. The San José State women's basketball program will not play the remainder of the 2020-21 season due to health and safety concerns stemming from COVID-19.

Air Force's next series will be against UNLV at the Academy. The Falcons and Rebels will meet in Clune Arena on Friday (Feb. 5) and Sunday (Feb. 7), with 6 p.m. and 1 p.m. MT tip times, respectively.

LAST TIME OUT
Air Force dropped a two-game league series against Wyoming in Laramie, falling 55-49 on Saturday (Jan. 16) and losing 59-46 on Sunday (Jan. 18).

REJECTED
Air Force senior Kassady Huffman leads the Mountain West (44^th in the nation) in blocks with 18 blocks this season, averaging 1.64 blocks per game (4^th in the MW).

SWIPED
Air Force is averaging 12.5 steals per game, leading the MW and ranking seventh in the NCAA. The Falcons have picked off 137 steals this season, the most in the MW and sixth most in Division I women's basketball. Air Force's staunch defense ranks them first in the league and 47^th in the nation in forced turnovers (19.91 per game).

Autrey-Thompson and Emily Conroe are first and second in the MW, respectively, in steals (38/26) and steals per game (3.45/2.60). Autrey-Thompson's 38 steals this season is good for 11^th in the nation while Conroe's 26 ranks her 56^th in the NCAA. Across the NCAA, Autrey-Thompson is 11^th in steals per game while Conroe is 50^th.

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Players Mentioned

Briana Autrey-Thompson

Emily Conroe

Kassady Huffman

Kaelin Immel

Riley Snyder

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