College of Idaho Women's Basketball to Travel to EOU to Wrap Up 2023

Women's Basketball | 12/28/2023 1:47:00 PM

MARGIN OF VICTORY: The 20-point win, 73-53, over Warner Pacific was the biggest margin of victory for College of Idaho since a 45-point rout of Walla Walla on December 30, 2022.

REED PROVIDES A SCORING PUNCH: Senior guard Jada Reed scored a season-high 11 points against Multnomah. It was the 11th time that she had registered double-digit scoring in her C of I career. 

MY FRIEND ANNA: Anna Mooney has had an assist in all 10 games, including a pair of three assist games. She is the only one on the team to achieve this feat.

BERESFORD BOARDS: Brooke Beresford has made an immediate impact with her team-best 5.2 rebounds per game to go along with 6.7 points per contest. The 5.2 rebounds by Beresford in her freshman campaign is the most by a freshman since Elisha Hensey averaged 5.3 boards per contest in 2013-14. 

CAREER DAY FOR MIA: Sophomore guard Mia Austin scored a career-high 26 points in the last meeting. Five times in her career, she has scored at least 20 points in a contest. 

DOWNTOWN: In nine of the 10 games, College of Idaho has made at least six 3-pointers. The Yotes did that in 18 contests in 2022-23 on its way to averaging 6.96 3-point field goals made per game. The 7.5 made per game is the highest since 2013-14 when the Yotes made 8.7 3-pointers per contest. Last time out, College of Idaho made 12 3-pointers in the win over Warner Pacific .
 
GETTING TO THE LINE: College of Idaho went to the free-throw line 24 times against Oregon Tech and made 18. The last time that Yotes reached that mark was in a 72-67 overtime loss at Southern Oregon on January 21, 2023. The 18 made free throws at home is the most since they drained 29 against Willamette on November 25, 2022. In that same game, they went to the line for 38 attempts against the Bearcats. 

DOUBLE DIGIT SCORING: Six Yotes have scored in double figures with Mia Austin scoring a team-best 24 points in the contest at NNU. She made 10 of 20 field goals, including four 3-pointers against the Nighthawks. Last season, nine-different Yotes recorded double digit scoring efforts. 
 
THANKSGIVING DISHES: College of Idaho handed out 14 assists in the home opener against The Master's. The Yotes closed out the 2022-23 season with four-straight games of at least 10 assists. In 22 of 29 games, last year, the Yotes had 10 or more assists.

WIN No. 1: Head Coach Kyle Erickson picked up his first win as a head coach in the previous meeting against Eastern Oregon. The win snapped an eight-game losing streak as College of Idaho knocked off No. 18 Eastern Oregon, 69-63.

HAIL TO THE CHIEF: Senior forward Emma Anderson, in addition to her basketball responsibilities serves as the ASCI (Associated Students of The College of Idaho) President. Her Vice President is Yotes football quarterback Andy Peters.

NEW HEAD COACH: Kyle Erickson, a 2012 graduate of Montana Western took the reigns of the College of Idaho women's basketball coach on April 3, 2023. He is the sixth head coach in the 29-year history of the program. For 13 of the 29 years at the helm is current C of I Vice President for Athletics, Reagan Rossi, who led College of Idaho to a 246-153 mark in 13 years as the head coach.

FLIRTING WITH PERFECTION: College of Idaho made 17 of 18 (94.4%) of its free-throw attempts to start the season against Montana Western. The 94.4% clip ties the third-best effort in program history with a similar effort last season against Eastern Oregon. Ironically, seven of the top nine performances have been away from the friendly rims of the J.A. Albertson Activity Center.