Women's Basketball Looks for Lucky No. 7 at Cal Poly

Tuesday, December 18

Robert A. Mott Gymnasium

7:00 PM

University of San Francisco

Cal Poly University

Freshmen Zhane Dikes (1) and Denae Mary Willams (33) combine for 15.8 points and 8.5 rebounds a night for the Dons.

Photo by: Mike Johnstone

12/17/2012 10:34:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Complete game notes (PDF)
San Francisco Dons
6-4 overall; 0-0 West Coast Conference
vs.
Cal Poly Mustangs
5-4 overall; 0-0 Big West Conference

Game 11
Tuesday || Dec. 18, 2012 || 7 p.m.
San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Robert A. Mott Gymnasium (3,032)
Listen: www.usfdons.com/live

Just the Facts, Ma'am

San Francisco is riding a two-game winning streak after dominating San Jose State in Saturday's 92-64 home victory. The Dons posted two straight 90-plus point performances for the first time since the start of the 2000-01 season.
Cal Poly's two-week break in between games was not kind to the Mustangs, who are fresh off a 73-56 defeat off the hands of San Diego State on Sunday. Cal Poly fell to 5-4 on the season, despite a career-high 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting off the bench by Nikol Allison after the lull in the action from Dec. 2-16.

In It to Win It

USF's 6-4 start is the best opening to a season since the Jennifer Azzi era began in 2010-11. The last time the Dons were above the .500 mark 10 games into the season was 2007-08, when USF finished 14-16 overall and notched its last double-digit win tally on the year.

Know the Foe

Cal Poly, two-time defending conference champions, have played the 59th toughest schedule in the nation, thus far. The Mustangs opened the season on the road against No. 15 Oklahoma State and Oregon State, earning its first win of the season against the Beavers. One of the team's other dropped decisions came against No. 8 California in mid-November.
Cal Poly participates in the Big West Conference, as do five other USF foes this season. Thus far, the Dons have played to a 2-2 record against Hawaii, UC Davis, Cal State Fullerton and Cal State Northridge. The team has yet to play Pacific (Dec. 29) to round out the six WCC vs. Big West contests on the 2012-13 schedule.

USF and Cal Poly—The Series

The Dons and the Mustangs have met 18 times over the years, with USF maintaining a 12-6 all-time advantage. The Dons look to break a four-game slide against the Mustangs.

1980-81    69-47, USF
1981-82    77-65, CP
1982-83    74-68, USF
1984-85    74-61, USF

1985-86    75-63, USF
1994-95    91-53, USF
1996-97    101-42, USF
2000-01    71-63, USF
2001-02    73-69, OT, USF

2003-04    64-62, USF
2004-05    61-56, USF
2005-06    71-67, USF
2006-07    60-38, CP
2007-08    77-67, USF

2008-09    85-83, CP
2009-10    73-52, CP
2010-11    80-55, CP

2011-12 82-66, CP

San Jose State Remix

As a team, the Dons finished with some season highs against the Spartans, including assists (18), free throws (21) and free throw percentage (.808). Individually, Alicia Scafidi posted her first career double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds.
Mel Khlok's 29 points and nine rebounds represent season-bests for the senior from Sacramento.

Tenacious D

The Dons' fierce defense holds opponents to 34.4 percent shooting from the field and 27.4 percent from beyond the arc. This mark tops the West Coast Conference and ranks tied for 45th in the nation, and bests some formidable teams in the national Top 25 rankings.
USF's opponent field goal percentage mark surpasses teams like No. 8 Louisville, No. 11 Penn State, No. 13 Tennessee, No. 14 UCLA and No. 17 Dayton, to name a few.

On the Air

Listen to longtime voice of the Dons, George Devine, call all the action from the USF women's basketball team all season long at www.usfdons.com.
Devine is in his 17th season as the play-by-play voice of the Dons. Listen to the call and follow along with live stats and video for all home contests at War Memorial Gym, in partnership with Stretch Internet. Hear the call for both home and away games by going to www.usfdons.com/live.

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