LAS VEGAS, Nev. – The UT Arlington women's basketball team (15-12, 10-6 WAC) is geared up and ready for the 2025 Hercules Tires Western Athletic Conference Championship as the Lady Mavs enter as the third overall seed and face the sixth-seeded California Baptist Lancers (12-18, 9-7 WAC) inside the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday, March 13, at 4:30 p.m. CT. 
 
The three seed is the highest the Lady Mavs have entered the WAC Tournament during their four-year tenure and will be the second time they've met CBU in the tournament as well as being the second matchup with the Lancers in as many weeks.
 
The Lady Mavs enter the game with their most all-conference selections during their tenure in the WAC with four: Aspen Thornton (Co-Sixth Player of the Year), Avery Brittingham (First Team), Koi Love (First Team) and Kendal Robinson (Freshman Team). The two First Team selections mark the first time in program history the Lady Mavs have two players selected in the same season.
 
SERIES HISTORY
This will be the eighth all time meeting between the two programs and the second time they've met in WACVegas. UTA picked up their first win in the all-time series in their last matchup and hold a 1-6 overall record against the Lancers. The Lady Mavs split the season series with CBU, dropping the first game 90-79 and winning the regular season finale 87-73. The Lancers knocked the Lady Mavs out of the conference tournament last season, 83-67 in the WAC semifinals. As a team, the Lady Mavs average 75.14 points per game in their seven games against the Lancers.
 
SCOUTING CALIFORNIA BAPTIST
The Lancers come into the game on a two-game skid and finished the regular season with 9-7 WAC record and head into WACVegas as the sixth overall seed. CBU had two all-conference selections in Khloe Lemon and CeCe Legaspi. Legaspi was the WAC Freshman of the Year as well as being named to the All-Freshman Team while Lemon picked up All-WAC Second Team honors. In neutral site games this season, CBU is 0-2. The Lancers have four players averaging double figures in points on the season: Lemon (19.1), Grace Schmidt (13.1), Nhug Bosch Duran (10.6), Anaiyah Tu'ua (10.2).
 
ALL-WAC HISTORY
With the four selections this season, that makes eight total in the Lady Mavs' four-year history in the WAC. Gia Adams (First Team) and Avery Brittingham (Second Team) were the Lady Mavs two selections last season while Starr Jacobs (WAC Player of the Year, First Team & All-Defensive Team) and Kayla White (Second Team & All-Newcomer Team). During the Lady Mavs first stint in the WAC back in 2012-13, UTA did not have anyone named to the All-WAC teams. Brittingham is the lone repeat honoree for the Lady Mavs in their WAC tenure.
 
PROGRAM FIRST
The two First Team selections mark the first time in program history the Lady Mavs have two players selected in the same season.
 
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED
Fifth year transfer Koi Love has solidified herself as one of the top scorers in the Western Athletic Conference which culminated in being named to the All-WAC First Team.
 
Through 27 regular season games, Love averaged 16.1 points per game, which is the top mark in the WAC and the 120th best mark in the nation as of March 11. She has made 185 field goals on the season, which is tops in the WAC and 97th in the NCAA while her 52.1 field goal percentage is the third best mark in the WAC and 53rd overall. She has seven 20-point performances on the season and a record nine WAC Newcomer of the Week honors.
 
CERTIFIED BALLER
Avery Brittingham has proven time and time again that she is one of the premier players in this league and the league agrees after she was named to the All-WAC First Team for the second time in her career which also marks her third career All-WAC honor. She has posted a league high 13 double doubles through 27 regular season games which is 35th in the country. She nearly averages a double-double for the season with 13.1 points per game and 8.9 rebounds per game. Her 1.67 assist to turnover ratio is third in the conference.
 
IF IT'S FREE, IT'S FOR ME
As a team, the Lady Mavs are one of the best teams in the nation in getting to the free throw line for the season, averaging a league high 22.37 free throw attempts per game which is the seventh best mark nationally. Their average of 15.89 free throws made per game is tops in the league and 13th nationally. Their 71.0 free throw percentage is the fifth best mark in the WAC. Avery Brittingham is third in the conference and 92nd in the country with 149 free throw attempts.
 
HIGH OCTANE OFFENSE
The Lady Mavs have the second-best scoring offense in the conference and 67th best in the country, averaging 72.8 points per game. Their 4.5 scoring margin is the fifth best mark in the WAC and 125th in the NCAA. The bench averages 20.6 points per game, the second-best mark in the conference and 101st nationally. Their field goal percentage of 42.3 percent is the third best mark in the conference and 123rd nationally.
 
QUEENS OF THE BOARDS
The Lady Mavs are one of the top rebounding teams in the country, averaging 37.81 rebounds per game which is best mark in the conference and 106th in the country. Offensively, UTA averages 12.5 which is fourth best in the WAC and 94th best in the NCAA. Defensively, their average of 25.3 is second in the WAC.
 
Avery Brittingham's 8.9 rebounds per game are second in the conference and are 68th nationally while her 240 total rebounds are the most in the WAC and 119th in the NCAA. Koi Love's average of 7.0 rebounds per game is the sixth best mark in the conference.
 
20 PLUS CLUB
The Lady Mavs have had at least one player record 20 plus points in a game 13 times this season. To conclude the regular season, Koi Love and Taliyah Clark posted 26 and 21 points each respectively, the first time this season the Lady Mavs had two players score 20 or more in the same game. It was Love's seventh 20-point performance, which leads the Lady Mavs, and was Clark's third such performance which is the second most performances on the team. Avery Brittingham has two 20-point performances while Aspen Thornton joined the list after going for 29 on the road at Grand Canyon.
 
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. The Lady Mavs average 4.3 blocks per game, the best mark in the conference and 38th nationally. The Lady Mavs have three of the top 10 shot blockers in the WAC with Avery Brittingham averaging 1.04 which is fourth, Zoe Nelson sits sixth in the conference with 1.00 block per contest while Koi Love is ninth with 0.89 blocks per contets.
 
UTA has posted at least one block in each of their 27 regular season games, with 24 of those seeing the Lady Mavs with multiple blocked shots. 14 of those contests, UTA finished with five or more blocks. Through conference play, the Lady Mavs have 71 blocked shots, second most in that span behind California Baptist who has 76.
 
THE FACILITATORS
The Lady Mavs are one of the top teams in the conference when it comes to dishing out assists, their 15.6 per game are the second most in the WAC and 54th overall in the NCAA. Their 0.95 assist to turnover ratio is the second-best mark in the conference and 101st nationally.
 
Avery Brittingham's 115 total assists lead the team and are the fifth most in the WAC while her average of 4.3 per game are also the fifth best mark in the conference and 90th nationally. 
 
DEFENSIVE INTENSITY
The Lady Mavs force 19.30 turnovers a game, the fourth best mark in the WAC and the 41st best mark in the NCAA. Their 10.0 steals per contest are the fourth best mark in the conference and 45th in the country. The Lady Mavs have the sixth best scoring defense in the conference at 68.3.
 
Koi Love's 63 steals are the sixth most in the WAC and 103rd in the country. Her average of 2.33 steals per game is also the sixth best mark in the conference and 55th nationally. Brittingham's average of 1.96 steals per contest is the eighth best mark in the WAC.
 
TAKING CARE OF THE ROCK
The Lady Mavs are one of the best in the conference when taking care of the basketball, averaging 16.4 turnovers per game which is the second-best mark in the WAC.
 
UTA has turned the ball over less than their opponent in 16 games this season, holding a 11-5 record in those contests.
 
FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING
Last time out, the Lady Mavs had three players (Koi Love, Avery Brittingham & Zoe Nelson) finish with a double-double, the first time that's happened this season.
 
SLIM MARGINS
The Lady Mavs are one of the better teams in the conference when it comes to causing havoc and creating turnovers while also limiting their turnovers in the process which culminates in the fourth best turnover margin in the WAC and the 80th best in the NCAA at 2.93.
 
THE PRICE IS WRIGHT
Head coach Shereka Wright overtook Samantha Morrow (2007-13) for the fifth most wins in school history with 75 after their then sixth conference win of the season over Southern Utah on Jan. 30, 2025. After the Lady Mavs win against California Baptist at home, Wright now has 79 wins and trails Krista Gerlich (121), Donna Capps (119), Connie Kelch (117) and Mike Dean (115). Wright's .568 winning percentage is the third best in program history.
 
TRIPLE DOUBLE FACTORY
There have been 31 triple doubles in all of NCAA Division I so far in the season and the Lady Mavs have three of those 31 with Avery Brittingham (2) and Koi Love (1). UTA is the only team with multiple players to post a triple double. Brittingham is tied for fifth amongst active players with four career triple double performances. In program history, the Lady Mavs have five with three of those coming this season and Brittingham is the only player with multiples, three in her tenure with UTA.
   
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