SAN DIEGO, Calif. --- Biola Women's Basketball closes out its 2016-17 exhibition contests with a road game at San Diego State on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.
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The game can be viewed live at
http://www.goaztecs.com/videos/ and live statistics will be available at
http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=144861.
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This is Biola's third and final exhibition against a NCAA Division I opponent this season. The previous contests were against Fresno State and Long Beach State; all three have been on the road.
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The Eagles (9-3) will not count the game towards their season record, but the hosting Aztecs (4-6) will, as it is a countable contest for them.
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San Diego State is riding a two-game winning streak, getting victories over CSU Fullerton and UC Santa Barbara in its last two times out.
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Biola's head coach,
Alan Nakamura, is an alumnus of San Diego State, graduating from there with a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology.
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San Diego State has played one common opponent of the Eagles' from this season. The Aztecs defeated San Diego Christian 80-70 back on Nov. 14. Biola has not yet played San Diego Christian this year, but will face the Hawks at least twice before the season is done.
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Biola has won six consecutive contests over the Hawks. San Diego Christian is on an upswing this season though, currently sporting an 11-1 overall record.
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Biola Women's Basketball has played San Diego State six times and split the all-time series 3-3. SDSU has won each of the last three matchups.
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Look for the Aztecs to rely a lot on McKynzie Fort in tonight's contest. Fort is averaging 15.8 points-per-game in her junior season and has started 65 consecutive contests for SDSU.
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If Biola can press the issue inside and score a lot of points in the paint they can definitely make a game out of this. The Aztecs' leading rebounder is a guard, and the Eagles have a definite size advantage over the SDSU starting forwards.
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Also, the standard contribution from
Annie Park and
DeMoria White will go a long way towards giving Biola a chance at a win over this NCAA Division I team. Either way it will be fun to watch. Tune in at the links above tonight at 6:30 p.m.
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