Women's Basketball Set For Senior Day Tomorrow

Sunday, February 24

Salt Lake City, UT

12:00 PM

University of Utah

Washington State

Photo by: Steve C. Wilson

2/23/2019 11:46 AM | Women's Basketball

Game Notes (PDF)

Game 27 vs. Washington State
Date: Sunday, Feb. 24
Time: 12 p.m. MT
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah (Jon M. Huntsman Center)
Radio: ESPN 700
TV: UtahUtes.com
Stats: UtahUtes.com

The Basics: The Utah women's basketball program will host Washington State on Sunday, Feb. 24 for its Senior Day and final regular season home game. The game will tip off at 12 p.m. MT. with the Senior Day ceremony taking place after the game.

How to Tune In: The game against Washington State will be streamed live on UtahUtes.com and Pac-12.com/Live. Fans can also catch the game in action on the radio with Tyson Ewing calling the shots on ESPN 700.

Get Your Tickets!: Single-game tickets are available at UtahTickets.com or by calling 801-581-UTIX.

The Opponent: The Washington State Cougars enters the game 9-17 overall and 4-11 in Pac-12 play. The Cougars were coming off a two-game winning streak before falling to Colorado on Friday night, 72-61. They are led in scoring by junior Borislava Hristova who is putting up 20.7 points per game, which ranks third in the Pac-12 and 15^thnationally. Point guard Chanelle Molina is also putting up 16.2 points per game while leading the Cougars in assists with 139, ranking in the top-30 nationally in assists and assists per game. Washington State currently ranks fourth in the Pac-12 in three-point field goal percentage, shooting 35.5-percent from the arc.

Next Up: Utah will hit the road for Los Angeles for its final two regular season games. The Utes take on UCLA on Friday, March 1 and then head to UCLA on Sunday, March 3.

Three Pointers:
• Utah claimed its 19^thwin of the season on Friday against Washington, the most wins in a season under the direction of Lynne Roberts and the most wins in a season since 2012-13 (24).
• Utah's nine Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors set a Pac-12 record for most freshman of the week honors by a program in a season, passing Cal who had eight in 2015-16. Edwards's six awards is the third most by a player in a season (Kristine Anigwe - Cal, 8; Kelsey Plum - Washington, 7).
• The Utes have four seniors on the team this season in Erika Bean, Megan Huff, Sarah Porter and Daneesha Provo. The quartet has accounted for 48-percent of Utah's point total this season.

Last Time Out: Utah snapped its six-game losing streak with a convincing 88-56 win over Washington on Friday night. The Utes finished the game with five double-digit scorers with all eight players scoring at least a basket. Megan Huffonce again led the Utes with a double-double, scoring 17 points and 10 rebounds along with three steals. Kiana Moore put up 17 points as well, shooting 5-of-11 from the floor and a perfect 4-of-4 from the free throw line. Andrea Torres put up 14 points on 5-of-9 shooting with Erika Bean and Sarah Porter contributing 12 each.

Utah vs. The Pac-12: The Utes are 113-155 against the current members of the Pac-12. Since joining the Pac-12 in 2011-12, Utah is 52-89 in conference play.

Erika Bean | Sacramento, Calif.
Erika Bean has played in over 120 games, starting in over 85 of them with close to 3,000 minutes on the court in a Utah uniform. She ranks fourth all-time at Utah in career assists and is just one of four Utes to ever achieve the 500-career assist number. She ranks 14^thin the nation among active players in career assists and has had 130-plus assists in three of her four years as a Ute. She ranks in the top-10 all-time at Utah in career assist average, putting up over four per game in the last four seasons. The Utah floor general has been ranked in the top-five in total assists and assists average in the Pac-12 in back-to-back seasons, also ranking in the top-30 nationally in those categories last year and in the current season. She is averaging a career-high 6.6 points per game this season that included her going for a career-best 23 points in Utah's win over No. 6 Stanford.

Megan Huff | Federal Way, Wash.
Megan Huff leads the Utes in points and rebounds this season, ranking in the top-five in the Pac-12 in both, while also ranking second in the league in double-doubles. The Pac-12 first-team all-conference selection from a year ago and current semifinalist for the national power forward player of the year award ranks in the top-35 nationally in defensive rebounds per game, double-doubles, field goals made and points per game. Through just two seasons as a Ute, Huff ranks in the top-10 all-time at Utah in single-game points, single-season scoring average, career scoring average and career three-point percentage. She has played in over 55 games for the Utes and over 1,500 minutes, scoring in double-digits in over 80-percent of the games she has played in, including her career-high 38 points in Utah's game against No. 4 Oregon.

Sarah Porter | San Diego, Calif.
Sarah Porter came to Utah after graduating from the University of California-Santa Barbara where she was a three-point shooting threat, filling an immediate role for the Utes. The San Diego, Calif. native set the UC Santa Barbara single-game record for threes during her time with the Gauchos, ranking in the top-15 in the Big West in three-point percentage in back-to-back seasons. At Utah, Porter has been lethal from the three, ranking in the top-10 in the Pac-12 in three-point percentage also jumping in the Utah record books to rank second all-time in single-game threes made when she went 6-of-7 for a Utah career-high 20 points this season. Her momentum changing three-pointers have been critical to the Utes this year, playing in every game but one this season.

Daneesha Provo | Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
One of the most dominant three-point shooters in the Pac-12 in the past two seasons, Daneesha Provo has averaged 8.6 points per game in her three seasons with the Utes. In 2017-18, Provo ranked in the top-20 in the Pac-12 in scoring, field goal percentage, free throw percentage, three-point percentage and three-pointers made per game. Provo started the season scoring 13.5 points per game through 13 games before suffering a season-ending injury in January. Prior to her injury this season, Provo ranked in the top-15 in the league in field goal percentage, steals per game and three-pointers made per game. She was shooting 51-percent from the floor while serving as one of Utah's best defenders, averaging 2.1 steals per game. She has scored in double-digits in 29 games in a Utah uniform, including her career-high 27 points against Seattle U this season.