Posted: Dec 13, 2021
THE TEAMS
Santa Clara (5-2) vs. Kansas City (9-1)
GAME INFO
When: Tuesday, Dec. 114 at 10 a.m. Pacific
Where: Municipal Auditorium
Video: Roos All-Access
Live Stats: SideArm
Game Notes: Santa Clara
SERIES HISTORY
This will be the first meeting between the two teams.
NOTES
- The Broncos are averaging 72.0 points per game this year while shooting 44.6-percent from the field and 34.5-percent from beyond the arc. Defensively, they have allowed 63.7 ppg while forcing 16.7 turnovers per contest.
- Lindsey VanAllen leads the team in scoring with 15.9 ppg. Merle Wiehl leads with 7.1 rpg and scores 13.6 ppg. Ashley Hiraki is scoring 11.9 ppg with a team-best 3.6 apg.
- VanAllen has scored in double-figures in six of the first seven games.
- Santa Clara won its first two games by 10-plus points for the first time since 1999-2000 when they beat Oakland 84-66 and Drexel 71-49. The Broncos finished that season 21-9 and went to the WNIT.
- The team's 39 attempted 3-pointers at Kansas tied a program record. They also attempted 39 January 8, 2006 at Portland.
- The Broncos went 14-11 last season and 9-8 in West Coast Conference play. They were the fourth seed and made it to the semifinals of the WCC Tournament for the first time since 2016.
- Santa Clara brings back all but one player from last season and returns 82-percent of their scoring and 86-percent of their rebounding.
- Newcomers Sydney Bevington and Rafailia Stergaki join the team.
- Bill Carr enters his sixth season at the helm of the Broncos.
- The Broncos fell at Kansas on Sunday.
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