Posted: Dec 10, 2021
THE TEAMS
Santa Clara (5-1) vs. Kansas (7-1)
GAME INFO
When: Sunday, Dec. 12 at noon Pacific
Where: Allen Fieldhouse
Video: BigXII Now/ESPN+
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Game Notes: Santa Clara
SERIES HISTORY
Santa Clara is 1-1 all-time against Kansas.
The last meeting was a 78-68 loss on the road for the Broncos.
NOTES
- The Broncos are averaging 73.2 points per game this year while shooting 45.9-percent from the field and 36.7-percent from beyond the arc. Defensively, they have allowed 61.0 ppg while forcing 17.0 turnovers per contest.
- Lindsey VanAllen leads the team in scoring with 16.3 ppg. Merle Wiehl leads with 7.0 rpg and scores 12.5 ppg. Ashley Hiraki is scoring 12.5 ppg with a team-best 4.0 apg.
- VanAllen and Hiraki have all scored in double-figures in five of the first six games each.
- 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 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 won their last game over UC Merced 91-52 on December 1.
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