ARLINGTON, Texas – The UT Arlington women's basketball team hit the road again for their final road non-conference game of the 2024-25 campaign, traveling to San Antonio to battle the Roadrunners of UTSA on Thursday, Dec. 19. Tipoff is slated for 4 p.m. from inside the Convocation Center.
 
SERIES HISTORY
This will be the 64th overall meeting between the two programs, with the first meeting coming back in January of 1982. The two met last season where the Roadrunners defeated the Lady Mavs 70-66 inside the College Park Center back in November 2023. The Lady Mavs first game inside the CPC came against UTSA back on February 1, 2012, a 51-40 win for the Lady Mavs. In their previous 10 matchups, the two are 5-5 with the Lady Mavs winning four in a row prior to last season's loss. UTA holds an 11-18 record in San Antonio.
 
SCOUTING UTSA
The Roadrunners are 7-2 on the season and are coming off a close loss to Stanford, 62-57. Both of UTSA's loses this season came against Power 4 opponents (ACC's Stanford and the SEC's Texas A&M). As a team, the Roadrunners average about 68 points per game while holding opponents to 55 points per game. UTSA shoots around .413 from the field as a team. Jordyn Jenkins leads the Roadrunners, averaging 19.8 points and 7.9 rebounds per game. Nina De Leon Negron is second on the team in scoring, averaging 10 points per game.
 
KICKIN' IT WITH KOI
Fifth year transfer Koi Love is establishing herself as one of the premier players in the Western Athletic Conference not just on the offensive end but the defensive side of the ball as well.
 
Through nine games, Love is averaging 16.2 points per game, which is currently the second best mark in the WAC and the 117th best mark in the nation as of 12/17. Love has put up 146 total points in the Lady Mavs nine games, which is fifth in the conference. She has made 62 field goals in the early going, which is fourth in the WAC. Love's 49.2 field goal percentage is the fourth best mark in the WAC and 107th overall. She is also tied for second in the WAC with three 20 point performances.
 
Love's 24 steals are the fifth most in the WAC and 86th in the NCAA. Her average of 2.67 steals per game is the second best mark in the conference and 39th nationally.
 
In just her second game in the orange and blue, Love finished with a game high 21 points to go along with one rebound, one assist and one steal in 16 minutes. Love's impressive 10-for-11 night from the floor moved her into the record books as well, putting her in a tie for 9th place with a 90.9 field goal percentage, first time since 2020 that's been done.
 
Love recorded 20 points in her Lady Mavs debut, that's the most in a debut for the Lady Mavs in over 10 years. In her first game donning the blue and orange, Love swiped a career high five steals and tied her career high with two made three pointers in 33 minutes of action.
 
ALL AROUND HOOPER
Avery Brittingham is showing why she's a Preseason All-WAC selection in the early portion of the season. Through nine games, she has already posted a triple double, one of 11 that's happened throughout NCAA Division I.
 
She leads the league in rebounds per game at 9.1, 57th nationally and tied for third in the league in total rebounds with 82. She leads the WAC with four 10 rebound games.
 
In the early part of the season, Brittingham has posted four double doubles through nine games which is tops in the league and 34th in the country. She is currently second on the team in points per game at 13.0.
 
Brittingham's 36 total assists lead the team while her average of 4.0 per game are the fifth best mark in the conference. Her 10 assist game against Arlington Baptist is one of six 10 assist outings this year in the WAC.
 
IF IT'S FREE, IT'S FOR ME
As a team, the Lady Mavs are one of the best teams in the conference and the nation in getting to the free throw line in the early part of the season, averaging 21.89 free throw attempts per game, which is the best mark in the WAC, and 17th nationally. Their average of 13.44 free throws made per game is tops in the league and 71st nationally.
 
Brittingham's 56 total free throw attempts is the third best mark in the conference and the 61st best nationally.
 
TAKING CARE OF THE ROCK
The Lady Mavs are one of the best in the conference when taking care of the basketball. They average 16.4 turnovers per game, which is the third best mark in the conference and the 152nd best in the nation.
 
YOUNG VETERAN
Koi Love was named the Western Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Week after her performance against Houston in which she recorded her second double double of the season against the Cougars. A certified bucket, Love leads the Lady Mavs in scoring with 16.2 points per game which has her second in the conference and 117th nationally.
 
Not only does Love get it done of the offensive side of the ball, she's also establishing herself as one of the better defenders in the league, averaging 2.67 steals per game which is the second best mark in the league and 39th in the country. Her 24 total steals has her with the fifth best mark in the WAC and 86th nationally.
 
DEFENSIVE INTENSITY
The Lady Mavs force 19.22 turnovers a game, the fourth best mark in the WAC and the 87th best in the NCAA.
 
Their 10.4 steals per contest are the fifth best mark in the conference and 63rd in the country.
 
The Lady Mavs have the fourth best turnover margin in the WAC and the 98th best in the NCAA at 2.78. The Lady Mavs assist to turnover ratio of 0.86 is the fourth best in the WAC. Brittingham is tied for the third best assist to turnover in the WAC at 2.00 and is the 80th best mark in the country.
 
BIG FISH, NOT THE LITTLE ONE
Freshman guard Kendal Robinson is coming off her best performance of her young collegiate career in which happened to be the very first start of her Lady Mavs career. Against Big 12 opponent Houston, Robinson put up career bests in points with 10, field goals made with four, three pointers made with two in 27 minutes and 47 seconds, the first time she's crossed the 20 minute mark in a college game.
 
Her last four games have been some of her best in which came against big time opponents (Big 10's Purdue, ACC's SMU and the Big 12's Houston) in which she is averaging 5.5 points per game while averaging around 17.5 minutes a game. In that span she has connected on four three point shots.
 
GRABBING BOARDS ON TOP OF BOARDS
Avery Brittingham is proving once again that she is one of if not the best rebounder in all of the WAC. 
 
Her 9.1 rebounds per game are the top mark in the conference and the 57th best mark in the country. She averages almost one whole rebound more than the next closest in the conference.
 
Brittingham's 82 total rebounds is tied for the third most in the conference.
 
STILL THROWING A BLOCK PARTY
The Lady Mavs are still one of the better shot blocking teams in the WAC a year later after leading the league and having two of the top shot blockers in the conference a season ago.
 
UTA has 39 blocked shots through nine games as a team, the third highest total in the conference. Averaging 4.3 blocks per game, the top mark in the conference and 54th nationally. Avery Brittingham averages 1.33 blocks per game, the second best mark in the WAC and 97th nationally. Koi Love is tied for fourth in the conference with 1.11 blocks per game. 
 
In nine games, the Lady Mavs have posted at least one block. Their best block performance as a team came against Arkansas when they had nine, the second most by a WAC team on the season, and have two other games on the year where they posted seven apiece.
 
LAST TIME OUT
The UT Arlington women's basketball team remains undefeated at home after defeating Florida International 72-56 on Monday evening inside the College Park Center.
 
The Lady Mavs had four players with double digit scoring efforts led by Koi Love and Taliyah Clark who both finished with 17 points apiece. Love finished 8 of 14 from the floor while Clark finished 6 of 13 from the field, including a game high four three pointers. Love chipped in with seven rebounds, three assists and two steals in 33 minutes while Clark added four rebounds, two assists and two steals in 31 minutes of action.
 
Avery Brittingham finished with 12 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and four steals in 34 minutes of action. It's Brittingham's seventh game this season registering double digit scoring efforts while the four steals mark a season high. 
 
Nya Threatt recorded her best offensive output against the Panthers, finishing with 12 points to go along with four rebounds, three assists and a steal in 32 minutes. Zoe Nelson finished with nine points, five rebounds, and a pair of assists and steals in 30 minutes.
 
The Lady Mavs won the opening tip and never trailed once in the first quarter despite a four-minute stretch where they couldn't score.
 
The Panthers managed to take the lead in the second quarter, a one-point lead with 2:49 left in the half. It was a short-lived lead for FIU, with the Lady Mavs immediately reclaiming the lead and never looked back, going into halftime up 34-26.
 
The Lady Mavs' best quarter came in the fourth, when UTA put up 20 points. Their largest lead came in the fourth quarter as well when the Lady Mavs found themselves up 19, 64-45, with about six and a half minutes left to go in the game.
 
As a team, the 47 percent is the second highest shooting percentage the Lady Mavs have posted this season. UTA forced FIU into 24 turnovers which resulted in 24 points for the Lady Mavs. The Lady Mavs had their best night from the free throw line, making 11 of their 13 free throws for 84.6 percent.
   
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