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PORTLAND PILOTS (14-10, 7-6 WCC)
at BYU COUGARS (19-5, 9-4 WCC)
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2014
Tip-off: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Provo, Utah
Arena (Capacity): Marriott Center (20,900)
TV: BYUtv
Online: Video Stats
POR vs. BYU
Overall Series: 4-13
Here: 2-7
There: 2-5
Neutral: 0-1
Last 5/10: 0-5/1-9
Last 1: BYU 75, @POR 68 (Jan. 11, 2014)
PORTLAND PILOTS (14-10, 7-6 WCC)
at SAN DIEGO TOREROS (19-5, 8-5 WCC)
Date: Saturday, February 15, 2014
Tip-off: 2:00 p.m.
Location: San Diego, Calif.
Arena (Capacity): Jenny Craig Pavilion (5,100)
Online: Video Stats
POR vs. USD
Overall Series: 32-32
Here: 17-12
There: 10-17
Neutral: 5-3
Last 5/10: 1-4/3-7
Last 1: @POR 72, #24 USD 51 (Jan. 8, 2014)
THIS WEEK
• The Pilots begin the final stretch of the WCC schedule with a pair of road games this week against the Brigham Young Cougars and the San Diego Toreros.
• On Thursday the Pilots will be in Provo, Utah, for a 6 p.m. (Pacific) game against BYU at the Marriott Center.
• Portland then heads to San Diego, Calif., on Saturday to face the Toreros at 2 p.m. at the Jenny Craig Pavilion.
LAST WEEK
• The Pilots picked up their first WCC weekend sweep of the season with home wins over LMU and Pepperdine.
• Against the Lions, Portland shot nearly 60 percent and Jasmine Wooton scored 21 points as the Pilots led from start to finish for an 84-66 win.
• On Saturday, Hannah Mattson had a career-high 11 points and Wooton added a career-best eight assists as the Pilots cruised past the Waves 78-59; UP recorded 25 assists on 31 field goals.
• During the two wins, Wooton averaged 19.0 points, 6.5 assists and 3.5 rebounds; she shot an impressive 76.5 percent (13-for-17) from the field, hit four of seven three-pointers and was 8-for-10 at the foul line.
ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Portland junior Kari Luttinen is quickly approaching the 1,000 career point plateau, entering the weekend with 879 career points; Luttinen is looking to become the 22nd career 1,000-point scorer in program history.
• Luttinen is also currently ninth all-time at UP with 103 career three-pointers, while senior Amy Pupa is sixth all-time with 679 career rebounds.
• The 72-51 win over No. 24 San Diego on Jan. 8 was Portland's first win over a ranked opponent since Dec. 6, 2003, when the Pilots topped No. 20 Oregon 76-58 at the Chiles Center.
• Jasmine Wooton exploded for a career-high 36 points during a 73-65 win at Pacific on Dec. 28; it's the most points scored by a Pilot since Martha Sheldon also scored 36 in 1991.
• Cassandra Brown has scored 20 or more points a team-best six times this season; Brown, who mainly comes off the bench for the Pilots, is averaging a career-best 14.0 points per game, which ranks 11th in the WCC.
• Brown, a redshirt-junior, missed all of last season while recovering from off-season surgery.
• Earlier this season Kari Luttinen became the first UP player to score 20 points or more in three straight games since January of 2012; Luttinen posted 20 points against Columbia (Nov. 29), 21 against Oregon State (Dec. 6) and a career-high 25 points vs. Boise State (Dec. 8).
• Five different Pilots (Brown, Luttinen, Wooton, Byrd, Thompson) have scored 20 or more points in a game this season.
• Portland leads the WCC with 158 three-pointers made this season.
• On Nov. 15 in Seattle, Portland notched the program's first ever win against the Washington Huskies with a 91-77 victory.
• The Pilots matched a program record with 15 three's against the Huskies, while the 91 points were the most for the Pilots since also scoring 91 against Washington State in 2010.
• Portland freshman Hannah Mattson was named the 2012 Alaska State High School Player of the Year; she missed most of her senior year with an injury.
SOLLARS SAYS GOODBYE
• Jim Sollars, who is in his 28th year as head coach of the Pilots, will retire following the 2013-14 season.
• Sollars, who also served the university as a history professor during his first 11 years on The Bluff, ranks second all-time in WCC wins (171) and he's been named league coach of the year five times.
• He has won 388 games at UP, 411 victories overall at the NCAA Division I level, has posted a 565-507 career record as a collegiate head coach and he led the Pilots to four straight NCAA Tournaments (1994, 1995, 1996 & 1997) in the mid-1990's.
• Under Sollars' leadership at Portland, 39 players have earned All-WCC honors, four players have been named the WCC Player of the Year, and he has coached two Pilots (Laura Sale and Deana Lansing) to honorable mention All-America status.
• He's also guided 40 WCC All-Academic Team selections, 14 CoSIDA Academic All-Region Team picks and one WCC Scholar Athlete of the Year, while two athletes earning first team CoSIDA Academic All-America honors.
SECOND TIME AROUND
• This the second time this season to face BYU and San Diego for the Pilots, who split with the two teams in January in Portland.
• On Jan. 8, the Pilots notched their first win over a ranked opponent since 2003 when they topped San Diego 72-51; Cassandra Brown was 4-for-4 on three's and scored 18 points.
• Three days later the Pilots nearly erased a 19-point, second-half deficit, but BYU prevailed 75-68; Cassandra Thompson had 19 points.
THAT'S A LOT OF POINTS
• Junior guard Jasmine Wooton had a historic day when she erupted for 36 points during a 73-65 win at Pacific on Dec. 28.
• The 36 points are the most scored by a Pilot since Martha Sheldon also scored 36 back in 1991, and Wooton is the first Portland player to score 30 or more points since Cassandra Brown dropped 32 on Santa Clara at the WCC Tourney on March 1, 2012.
• Wooton also hit 10 free throws against the Tigers, the most by a Pilot since Alexis Byrd in 2011, and she hit a career-best six three-pointers.
THAT TOO IS A LOT OF POINTS
• Portland has scored 80 or more points six times this year after accomplishing that feat just once last year.
• The 91 points against Washington were the most points scored by the Pilots since also putting up 91 points against Washington State in 2010.
• Cassandra Brown, Alexis Byrd, Kari Luttinen, Cassandra Thompson and Jasmine Wooton all have games of 20 or more points this season; CB has reached the 20-point plateau six times, while Luttinen has scored 20 or more points five times.
DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK
• Cassandra Brown is enjoying a break-out season after missing all of last year while recovering from off-season surgery.
• The redshirt-junior guard leads the Pilots in scoring (14.0 ppg) and she's scored 20 or more points a team-best six times.
• She ranks 11th in the WCC in scoring and is seventh in free throw shooting (.815).
• During the 91-77 win at Washington, she registered her first career double-double with 28 points and 12 boards, while also burying six three-pointers.
