ARCATA – By virtue of its 85-55 victory on Saturday over the No. 3 seed Chico State in the CCAA Championship game, the Humboldt State women’s basketball team earned the conference’s automatic bid in the NCAA Division II West Region Tournament that begins on Friday in Seattle, Wash.
The Jacks earned the No. 7 seed in the regional bracket and will face a familiar opponent, No. 2 seed UC San Diego (25-4).
Live Stats
All Lumberjack basketball home games can be tracked online by using the Live Stats feature on hsujacks.com. Real time statistics, momentum tracker and other information are featured on the game viewer. The feature can be found at
http://www.sidearmstats.com/humboldt/wbball/.
On-the-Air
Every Lumberjack basketball game is broadcast live over the local airways on KATA, 1340 AM, beginning with the pregame show 15 minutes prior to game time. Bicoastal Media Sports Director J.B. Mathers describes the action from Lumberjack Arena and HSU Assistant Athletic Director Dan Pambianco goes on the road with the Jacks. … Audio is also streamed live over the Internet through the hsujacks.com web site. The new UStream format allows an interactive chat between listeners during the webcast. The specific URL for access is located at
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/humboldt-state-athletics.
Head-To-Head
Friday’s game will be the 13th meeting between HSU and UC San Diego, the fourth time this season and the third time in three weeks. The Tritons hold a 7-5 lead in the all-time series. … The two teams first met in the 2002-03 season with the Jacks taking a 69-59 win in La Jolla. This season the squads split the regular-season series, with each team winning on its home court. On Jan. 21, the Jacks beat the Tritons 84-80 in Lumberjack Arena, and then two week ago, in each teams season finale, UCSD hammered HSU 86-51 in La Jolla. The squads met again in the semifinal of the CCAA Tournament and HSU again defeated the Tritons by four points, 82-78 in Lumberjack Arena… The Jacks have dropped five the nine meeting between the schools as members of the CCAA. The previous three season series have been sweeps (UCSD in 2006-07 and 2008-09 and HSU in 2007-08).
Projected Starters
F - #00 Bree Halsey, 5-11, So., Fresno, Calif.
G - #13 Luiza Osborne, 5-5, Sr., Woodland Hills, Calif..
G - #21 Paige Peterson, 5-10, Sr., Moorpark, Calif.
G - #32 Andrea Bobic, 5-8, Sr., Lancaster, Calif.
C - #34 Brittney Taylor, 6-0, Sr., Playa del Rey, Calif.
Lumberjack Links
Following are links to more information on the Lumberjacks basketball program
Complete Roster
Schedule
2009-10 Statistics
Lumberjack Notes
At 19-10 overall, HSU won the CCAA Tournament and its automatic bid to the NCAA Division II West Region Tournament. The Jacks were awarded a No. 7 seed and will be playing in the NCAA's for the third time in head coach Joddie Gleason’s six years. … HSU is averaging 70.5 points per game and giving up 64.1 for a +6.4 scoring margin. Their field goal percentage is .419 to the opponent's .376. From 3-point range, HSU is shooting at a .363 clip compared to .297 for their opposition. The Jacks average 7.2 threes per game and give up 4.5. ... The Jacks have three players who received 2009-10 All-CCAA honors. Brittney Taylor and Andrea Bobic were first-team selections and Paige Peterson earned second-team status. In the CCAA Tournament the trio were named to the All-Tournament team and Bobic was honored as the Tournament MVP. … The Lumberjacks are led by two-time first-team All-CCAA performer Brittney Taylor. She is leading the Lumberjacks and the CCAA in scoring at 18.2 ppg , is shooting .537 from the field and has grabbed 7.3 rebounds per outing. Bree Halsey is the squad’s top rebounder, at 8.5 rpg, and is averaging 7.9 points per contest. Andrea Bobic, is at 13.0 points per game and Paige Peterson is averaging 10.0 points and 3.9 assists.
UC San Diego Notes
The Tritons (25-4) are the No.2 seed in the NCAA Division II West Region Tournament. UCSD is led by 2009-10 CCAA MVP Chelsea Carlisle (17.5 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 3.5 apg) and all-conference second-team selections Tiffany Hunter (11.3 ppg, 7.2 rpg, 1.3 spg), and Annette Ilg (12.0 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 2.2 apg). As a team the Tritons are averaging 73.2 ppg and sport a scoring margin of +13.1. They are shooting .434 from the field while their opponents are hitting at a .391 clip. … Charity Elliot is in her third season as the head coach at UC San Diego and was named the CCAA Coach of the Year for the second year running.
Head Coach Joddie Gleason’s Comments
“We are excited to get to the NCAA Tournament. This was one of our goals at the beginning of the year. We didn’t play well down the stretch of the regular season and thought our chances to get an at-large bid were slim. Nobody thought we could win the CCAA Tournament and we did, so right now we are flying high.” … “Having played and won three elimination games just to get here will be an advantage for us as we go into the tournament. We understand what it is like to, and have played with, our backs to the wall. We performed under that pressure, which can only help us.” … “We are happy to play UCSD on a neutral court as opposed to at their place. We knew that if we made the tournament we would play either UCSD or Seattle-Pacific and regardless of which, we would get them would be on a neutral court. We got the seventh seed and avoided the host school, but to be honest we don’t care who we play at this point.” … “It’s kind of nice to play a known team (UCSD). It is really a chess match between the two of us right now. We are trying to figure out what they are going to attempt to do to stop us and we are doing the same thing. One of our keys for this game is applying defensive pressure. We have to try to slow them down and force them to do something they don’t want to do. (Chelsea) Carlisle makes such good decisions that it is tough to slow them down. If we rebound and take care of the ball we will be okay. Right now it is “survive and advance” time and we are ready.”