WESTERN OREGON WOLVES (2-4)
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Head Coach: Jessica Peatross
Record at WOU: 12-17 (2nd Season)

THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
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at Alaska (5-2)

• 8:30 p.m. (PT) Thursday
• Fairbanks, Alaska
• All-Time: 33-24 · Last 10: 7-3 · Streak: Lost 1
• Last: 77-73 OT loss in Fairbanks (1/27/24)

at Alaska Anchorage (8-1)

• 8:30 p.m. (PT) Saturday
• Anchorage, Alaska
• All-Time: 12-44 · Last 10: 1-9 · Streak: Won 1
• Last: 73-53 win in  Anchorage (1/25/24)

A LOOK INTO THE GAME

• This week signifies the start of GNAC play.
• The last time WOU was in Alaska, it broke a 20-year, 37-game losing streak to Alaska Anchorage - a 73-53 win on Jan. 25. Two days later, the Wolves had their five-game win streak over Alaska snapped in a 77-73 overtime loss.
• Alaska enters this week 5-2 and the second-highest scoring team in the conference at 75.4 points per game, leads the GNAC at 10.1 3-pointers per game (6th in NCAA D-II). Leading scorers: Reimers (13.4), Johnson (13.0), Pilot (10.3).
• Anchorage at 8-1 leads Division II in scoring (89.3) and scoring margin (48.6) and is third in scoring efense (40.8). Leading scorers: Mack (16.6), Evans (12.8), Long (12.4), Hollingshead (11.9).

• The Wolves dropped both games at the Big Island Holiday Classic this past week, falling to host Hawaii Hilo (56-49) on Wednesday and to undefeated and 18th-ranked CSU Dominguez Hills (95-50) on Friday.
• Alaska last played Nov. 23 - a 75-65 loss at Hawaii Pacific, snapping their three-game win streak. Destiny Reimers led the team with 17 points and eight rebounds.
• Alaska Anchorage is coming off back-to-back wins Friday and Saturday to South Dakota Mines, winning Friday 80-41 and Saturday 83-44. In Saturday's win, four players scored 16 or more points.

Pedrojetti closing in on 1,000
WOU's Bella Pedrojetti sits at 962 career collegiate points heading into this week's action - 38 away from reaching 1,000. Pedrojetti scored 639 of those points during her two seasons at Bushnell before transferring to WOU last season - where she has scored another 323. For her career, she is averaging - including a career-high 15.8 this season.

Vaifuna flirts with triple-double against Willamette
WOU guard Enid Vaifuna nearly went for a triple-double against Willamette on Nov. 23 in Monmouth, going for 15 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. A Western Oregon player hasn't had a triple-double in its NCAA era (since 2001). The GNAC has had seven triple-doubles in the conference's history - the last coming Jan. 12, 2023 (Samantha Bowman of Central Washington - 15 points, 19 rebounds, 10 assists vs. Alaska Anchorage).

Pedrojetti's 34 in opener most by a Wolf since 2008
Bella Pedrojetti scored a career-high 34 points in the Wolves' 81-77 victory over Multnomah on Nov. 10 in WOU's season opener in Monmouth. It's the most points by a Wolf since Leada Berkey scored a school-record 45 points against Central Washington on Feb. 21, 2008. It's the sixth time in WOU's NCAA era (since 2001) that a player has scored 34 or more points in a game and the third player to do so (Berkey scored 34 or more four times, Shannon Talbott scored 34 against UC Davis during the 2003-04 season).

Brown with quite the WOU debut with 17 boards in opener
Natalie Brown in her first game for WOU scored 18 points and grabbed 17 rebounds in the Wolves' win over Multnomah on Nov. 10. The 17 rebounds is tied for the most rebounds since Heather Laats grabbed 18 on Jan. 26, 2002. It was the fifth time since Latts' 18 rebound-game in 2002 that a Wolf has grabbed 17 rebounds (last done in 2022 by Meadow Aragon).

30th Anniversary of WOU's first of back-to-back NAIA National Titles
The Western Oregon women's basketball team owns the athletic department's two team national titles, winning them back-to-back in 1994-95 and 1995-96 (WOU finished as national runner-up in 1993-94). The 1994-95 team, coached by Rusty Rogers, went 23-9 and finished the season on a eight-game winning streak - capped with a 75-67 win over current GNAC foe Northwest Nazarene in the title game in Monmouth. The 1995-96 went 31-4 and won in the title game 80-77 over Huron (S.D.) in Angola, Indiana. From the 1990-91 to the 1998-99 seasons, the Wolves made the national tournamnent eight out of nine years and went a combined 217-85 (.719).