Kevin DeVries, UW Athletics Communications Coordinator
LARAMIE, Wyo. — The Wyoming Cowgirls basketball team will compete in the second round of the 2024 Border Wars on Saturday, traveling south to take on Colorado State in a contest at 12:30 p.m. Wyoming won the season's first game on January 20th in Laramie, 67-63.
Saturday's game will be broadcast live on the Mountain West Network and can also be heard on the Cowgirl Radio Network with David Settle on the call.
The Cowgirls (14-9, 9-3 MW) are looking to bounce back from last Saturday's 56-42 loss at Boise State. Marlene Pedersen In the loss, he scored a game-high 16 points on 6-of-11 shooting from the floor. Get off the bench Marta Savic He also scored in double figures, scoring 10 points.
Pedersen, who ranks second on the team in scoring, shoots about 47 percent from the floor and is up to 10.7 points per game overall and 10.6 points per game in league play. Alison Fertig In Mountain West play, she leads the Cowgirls with an average of 13.4 points per game, 12.6 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. Fertig leads the league in MW play, shooting 61 percent from the floor and 59.2 percent for the season. Emily Melema He led UW with 64 assists and 33 steals on the year.
In his first matchup of the season against the Rams, Melema scored a career-high 25 points and made seven 3-pointers in the win. His seven threes are tied for the second-most in program history in a single game. Fertig finished the game with 16 points and nine boards on 6-of-9 from the floor against CSU.
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Colorado State is led by reigning Mountain West Player of the Year McKenna Hofschild, who leads the league in both points (23.6 PPG) and assists (7.3 APG). Hofschild, a finalist for the Becky Hammon Midfield Player of the Year Award, is shooting 48 percent from the floor overall and 41 percent from 3-point range. Hofschild led the Rams with 28 steals and had a 3-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio. Sydney Meck and Hannah Ronsiek rank second and third on the team with 8.3 and 7.9 points per game, respectively. Roncik leads CSU with 5.8 rebounds per game.
As a team, Colorado State is averaging just under 70 points per game and allowing 61.5 points per game. As a team, the Rams shot 44.2% from the floor and 36.3% from 3-point range. He shot 37% from the Rams' opponents and 29.4% from the field. CSU averages just nine turnovers per game with him, which is outweighed by nearly nine boards per contest. The Rams committed 100 fewer turnovers per game than their opponents this year.
History of the series with Colorado State University
The University of Wyoming defeated the Rams earlier this season, breaking a 56-56 tie in the history of both programs. The Cowgirls, who have lost four straight in Fort Collins, are looking for their first road series win since February 2020, a 43-40 victory. In seven career games with CSU, Fertig has averaged a double-double of 11.1 points and 10.1 rebounds per game.
