LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) — The UNLV Lady Rebels (5-2) take step two of their three-game road stretch at Cal State Bakersfield (1-4) Sunday, Dec. 5. A victory would give UNLV its best start since beginning the 2016-17 season with nine wins to two losses.
Tip off is 1 p.m.
The game can be viewed live on ESPN+ and listened to at UNLVRebels.com, featuring Wyatt Tomchek on play-by-play.
All-time series: Tied, 2-2.
In Bakersfield: CSUB leads 1-0.
First meeting: Nov. 20, 2006. UNLV won 60-52 in Las Vegas.
Last meeting: Dec. 21, 2014. CSUB won 74-71 in Bakersfield.
Scouting Cal State Bakersfield
- UNLV and Cal State Bakersfield are meeting for the fifth time, but first since the 2014-15 season, a 74-71 loss in Bakersfield.
- In that contest, CSUB rallied from a 9-point halftime deficit. Current CSUB assistant Ty Outland scored a game-high 23 points.
- Cal State Bakersfield has lost four consecutive since winning its season opener against NCCAA-member Bethesda University of California.
- The Roadrunners were picked sixth in the Preseason All-Big West Coaches Poll and fifth in the preseason media poll.
- Jayden Eggleston, a Centennial H.S. (Las Vegas) graduate and former teammate of UNLV's Justice Ethridge and Jade Thomas, leads the Roadrunners in scoring at 16.0 points per game.
Lady Rebels' last time out
- UNLV recorded one of its best all-around performances with a 73-63 victory at Utah Valley on Wednesday, Dec. 1.
- The Lady Rebels led wire-to-wire for the second straight game and led by as much as 23 with 4:26 remaining in the game.
- Essence Booker led all scorers for the second straight game with16 points (5-10 FG, 6-6 FT).
- Khayla Rooks totaled 13 points, including 5 of UNLV's first 10, five rebounds, five assists and three steals.
- Nneka Obiazor finished with eight points and eight rebounds.
Feelin' it
- UNLV's 45.5 percent field goal shooting ranks in the top 40 of Division I teams and is second best among Mountain West teams (New Mexico, .459).
- Nneka Obiazor (.551), Desi-Rae Young (.481) and Essence Booker (.463) all rank in the top 150 for field goal percentage among Division I players.
- Obiazor, Young and Booker are second, third and fourth, respectively, within the conference.
