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CSUN Hosts UC Irvine in Lone Big West Contest
2/12/2016 8:47:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Matadors Face Anteaters as CSUN Plays Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. --- The CSUN women's basketball team (5-18, 3-6 Big West Conference) hosts UC Irvine on Saturday, Feb. 13 in a 4 p.m. Big West contest at The Matadome in its lone contest this week. Mark Roberts will be calling the action on the CSUN Sports Network and BigWest.TV and live stats will also be available at GoMatadors.com. Fans are also encouraged to check with the CSUN Athletic Department's official Twitter accounts (@GoMatadors, @CSUNCapeCrew and @_AlwaysFamily_) for updates throughout the weekend.Â
Last week, the Matadors dropped a pair of hard-fought road games at Long Beach State and UC Riverside. Against the 49ers, the Matadors stormed back in the second half to force the extra frame and had a pair chances that just did not fall to send the game to a second overtime. Channon Fluker pulled down a career-high 19 rebounds and added 17 points while Emily Cole finished with 12 points on four 3-pointers.Â
Two days later and on ESPN3, the Matadors once again clawed back in the fourth quarter to give the first-place Highlanders a scare. Katelin King scored all of her career-high 17 points, including five 3-pointers, in the fourth quarter and Fluker posted her sixth-straight double-double in Big West play.Â
This week, CSUN has just one Big West Conference game on the slate. On Saturday, Feb. 4, the Matadors host the UC Irvine Anteaters in a 4 p.m. contest. The game will be part of the Play 4 Kay Initiative to support breast cancer awareness. The game will feature $1 admission for all fans wearing pink and the first 250 fans with a ticket will receive a free t-shirt.Â
The Anteaters enter the weekend sitting in eighth place in the Big West Conference standings with a 1-9 mark in league play. UCI comes to the San Fernando Valley off an 80-62 home loss to UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, Feb. 11 at the Bren Events Center. Earlier this season, CSUN scored an 83-64 victory at UCI. Â
Next week, the Matadors travel to UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, Feb. 18 for a 7 p.m. contest in The Thunderdome. Two days later, CSUN returns to The Matadome to host Cal Poly in a 4 p.m. contest broadcast on ESPN3.
CSUN Team Notes
- Sophomore Tessa Boagni has scored at least 20 points three times this season, including a career-high 28 points at Portland State
- Boagni has scored in double-figures 11 times and led CSUN in scoring six times this season
- Freshman Channon Fluker is averaging 17.4 points and 12.3 rebounds per game in Big West Conference play
- Fluker is tied for second in the Big West Conference with seven double-doubles
- Freshmen Cheyenne Allen set a new career high with 11 rebounds in CSUN's contest with UC Santa Barbara on Jan. 16
- Allen has scored in double-figures three times this season, including a career-high 12 points at Portland State
- Sophomore Katelin King scored all 17 points in CSUN's game at UC Riverside in the fourth period, setting a new career high
- King has knocked down a 3-pointer in nine of 10 games she's appeared in, shooting 36.2 percent (17-47) for the season
- Junior Emily Cole has scored in double-figures four times in 2015-16, two more than she totaled in her first two seasons
- Cole needs 11 more 3-pointers to move into 10th in program history at 85 treys for her career
- Sophomore Serafina Maulupe leads the Matadors in both assists (59) and steals (29) on the season
- Maulupe has scored in double-figures a team-best 14 times this season
- Senior Jasmine Johnson ranks fifth in the Big West Conference in free throw shooting at 81 percent for the season
- Johnson scored a career-high 17 points to go with season-high nine rebounds at LBSU
- Freshman Claudia Ramos is tied for third on the team with 17 3-pointers on the season and is shooting 30.9 percent from deep on the year
- The Matadors' 79-52 win over Cal State Fullerton on Jan. 30 was CSUN head coach Jason Flowers' 50th career Big West Conference win
Scouting UC Irvine
- The UC Irvine Anteaters enter Saturday's game with a 4-20 overall record and a 1-8 mark in the Big West Conference
- The Anteaters lost 80-62 to the visiting UC Santa Barbara Gauchos Thursday eveningÂ
- Junior Mokun Fajemisin leads the Anteaters in scoring and rebounding, averaging 9.6 points and 7.6 rebounds per game
- Senior Raelyn Cheung-Sutton is tied for second on the team in scoring at 8.2 ppg and sports a team-best 5.6 assists per game
- Junior Shereen Sutherland is averaging 8.1 ppg white shooting 41 percent from the field
- As a team, UCI is shooting 34.6 percent from the field and 22.8 percent from 3-point range for the season
- The Anteaters average 36.8 rebounds, 12.0 assists and 17.6 turnovers per game for the season
- CSUN leads the all-time series with UC Irvine 25-22 and has won the last four meetings
- Doug Oliver is in his fourth season as the head coach of UC Irvine
