Women's Hoops Heads to Fresno State

GAME 16 & 17: AIR FORCE (4-11, 2-8 MW)
at FRESNO STATE (11-6, 9-3 MW)
6 p.m. PT, Wednesday, Feb. 10
6 p.m. PT, Thursday, Feb. 11
Save Mart Center, Fresno, Calif.

Air Force hits the road for its last two road games of the regular season campaign, taking on Fresno State on February 10 and 11, in Fresno, California.

THE SERIES AGAINST FRESNO STATE
Air Force and Fresno State will be meeting for the 17th time. The Bulldogs are 15-1 in the all-time series.
-The series began in 1997
-Air Force's first win over FSU was last season at USAFA
-In their first-ever win against Fresno State, the Falcons dusted the Bulldogs, 88-65
-In Fresno State's 15 wins over AF, they average a 17-point margin of victory
-In 2014, the Bulldogs beat Air Force by 34 points for the largest margin of the series, 77-43

LAST TIME THEY MET
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 has now knocked off the league's top-two teams in the last two games.

The Falcons were 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.

The Air Force bench outscored the Fresno State bench, 20-11. 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.

UP NEXT
Air Force returns to the Academy for the first of a six-game home stint, February 15. The Falcons will host Nevada in a two-game series on Monday (Feb. 15) and Tuesday (Feb. 16), with tip times of 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., respectively.

LAST TIME OUT
Air Force dropped a pair of games against UNLV at the Academy. On Friday (Feb. 5), the Lady Rebels narrowly escaped the Falcons in a 52-49 win. On Sunday (Feb. 7), UNLV fared a bit better, defeating Air Force, 68-57.

REJECTED
Air Force senior Kassady Huffman had a career night against UNLV (Feb. 5) as she blocked seven shots, setting Air Force's single-game record for blocked shots in the Division I era. With her first block of the game, Huffman denied her 96th shot, taking the seat as the program's leader in career blocks in the Division I era. Air Force's all-time shot blocks leader is Mary Manning (1981-85) with 122 career blocks.

Huffman leads the Mountain West (21st in the nation) in blocks with 35 rejections this season. She averages 2.33 blocks per game to lead the MW while ranking 26^th across the nation. Air Force is third in the league in blocked shots (78).

SWIPED
Air Force is averaging 11.8 steals per game, leading the MW and ranking 10th in the NCAA. The Falcons have picked off 177 steals this season, the most in the MW and eighth most in Division I women's basketball. Air Force's staunch defense ranks them first in the league and 48tt in the nation in forced turnovers (19.27 per game).

Autrey-Thompson and Emily Conroe are first and second in the MW, respectively, in steals (43/34) and first and third in the league, respectively, in steals per game (3.07/2.43). Autrey-Thompson's 43 steals this season is good for 16tt in the nation while Conroe's 34 ranks her 68th in the NCAA. Across the NCAA, Autrey-Thompson is 16th in steals per game while Conroe is 66th.

SHACKLES
Air Force forces 19.27 turnovers per game, a mark that ranks them first in the MW and 48^th in the nation. The Falcons' 3.46 turnover margin is third best in the league and 47^th best in the nation.

AUTREY-THOMPSON LEADS FROM THE FRONT
Air Force point guard Briana Autrey-Thompson is the Falcons' second leading scorer after 15 games, averaging 12.4 points per game. She led the Falcons with a 25-point showing in the season-opener against Denver, marking a career-high performance for the junior out of Suffolk, Virginia. Two games later, she pushed her career scoring high to 26 points against Western Colorado. Autrey-Thompson has displayed her utility on both sides of the ball, averaging 4.5 assists per game (2^nd in the MW) with 63 assists this season (7th in the MW) and averaging 3.07 steals per game (1st in MW, 16th in the NCAA).

SNYDER SCORES
Riley Snyder leads the Falcons in scoring, averaging 15.1 points per game so far this season, a mark that ties her for third in the Mountain West. She has four 20-point games and 10 games scoring in the double-digits this season. Snyder has also been one of the Falcons' most prolific shooters, knocking down 27 three-pointers this season. Snyder is also fifth in the league in field goals attempted (231).

Snyder is trending upwards on the career points ladder with 957 to date, a mark that ranks her 10th in the Division I era. Her 427 points last season is the third most single-season points in the Division I era, behind two of Kaelin Immel's single-season marks [(2017-18, 464, 1st) (2019-20, 445 pts, 2nd)].

CLIMBING THE ALL-TIME LADDER
Kaelin Immel became the Academy's all-time leading scorer in the Division I era with 1,408 career points. She became the 16th all-time Falcon to achieve 1,000 career points at Air Force. Fifth all-time leading scorer in program history and leading scorer in the Division I era.

Emily Conroe is climbing the all-time points ladder with 1,014 career points, a mark that ranks her eighth in the Div. I era., and making her the 17th all-time Falcon to reach the 1,000-point mark. She picked up her 500th career rebound at San Diego State (Feb. 8, 2020). She now has 678 career rebounds, 464 are defensive and 214 are offensive. Conroe is the sixth Falcon in Div. I history to achieve the 500-rebound feat. She is currently third in Div. I career rebounding.

PUTTING IN THE TIME
Junior guard Emily Conroe has played in 106 career games making 90 starts. With the exception of three games, she has played in every game that Air Force has scheduled since she arrived in 2017.

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Players Mentioned

Briana Autrey-Thompson

Emily Conroe

Kassady Huffman

Kaelin Immel

Riley Snyder

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