Air Force Academy
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Women’s Basketball Opens 2022-23 at Denver on Monday
11/5/2022 2:58:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Air Force (0-0) at Denver (0-0)
Hamilton Gymnasium | Denver, Colo.
Monday, Nov. 7, 2022 – 7:30 p.m. CT
Air Force | Denver | Mountain West
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U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – The Air Force women's basketball team, set on building off of its 2021-22 success, opens its season on Monday evening against Denver.
Scouting Air Force
Air Force women's basketball rosters 13 players in 2022-23, including the addition of six freshman newcomers (Mackenzie Le, Milhanie Perry, Faith Shelton, Griffin Greenwood, Parker Brown, Emily Adams).
Senior Kamri Heath returns for a fourth season with the Falcons with the program's fourth-highest points per game in 2021-22 (7.6). Heath logged the second most total rebounds this season's returning players (97), second to Jo Huntimer's 117.
Sophomore Huntimer returns to action for the Falcons, who in her inaugural season quickly proved instrumental to the program's 2021-22 success. To open her intercollegiate career, Huntimer set a new benchmark for assists by a freshman in the program's Division I era (122), the most by a first-year player since Kallie Quinn (1994-95). Huntimer's 2.14 assist-to-turnover ratio was 5th in the MW and 32nd in Division I.
Scouting Denver
Denver closed its 2021-22 season with a 10-20 record which includes a 5-13 mark against Summit League opponents. The Pioneers fell in the opening round of the Summit League Tournament to eventual WNIT Champion South Dakota State.
The Pioneers return seven of their 2021-22 roster, including key starting forward Mikayla Minett. As a junior, Minett led Denver in blocked shots (54) and blocks per game (1.8), both top-three Summit League figures for the season.
Coach G Gaining Ground
Falcons' Head Coach Chris Gobrecht was named 2021-22 Mountain West Coach of the Year following Air Force's successful 2021-22 campaign – A season punctuated by Gobrecht's fourth career WNIT appearance as a head coach, and Air Force's first postseason appearance and subsequent win in program history – a 64-60 victory over WCC opponent San Francisco on March 17.
Gobrecht boasts 598 career wins, a figure tied for 16th among active division I women's basketball head coaches.
Last Time Out
The curtain dropped on Air Force's 2021-22 season on March 20, as the Falcons fell to UCLA in the second round of the WNIT, 61-45. Then-senior Haley Jones led the Falcons' efforts, leading the team in points (10) and rebounds (12). Jones' 276 rebounds to close her final season was the second most in a single season in the Falcons' Division I era.
Senior Riley Snyder posted nine points in the contest. Snyder, an All-Mountain West selection, closed her Air Force career with 1,614 points – the fourth-highest scoring total in program history, and 18th cadet in program history to score over 1,000 career points. Snyder was one of eight players ever to have played in at least 117 games, while her 110 starts is third all-time since the program's start in 1976.
All-Time vs. Denver
Monday's match at Denver marks the third-consecutive season debut shared between Air Force and the Pioneers, with the Falcons opening 2021-22 with a 79-62 win at Clune Arena. The win, coupled with a subsequent 82-79 victory over the Pioneers on 12/20/2020, marked the first back-to-back Air Force victories over Denver in consecutive seasons since the 1989-1990 seasons, and only the second such occurrence in program history.
Denver holds a 40-24 edge in the all-time series against the Falcons. Air Force maintains a 31-48 record all-time against Summit League opponents.
