LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) — UNLV hosts San Diego State at the Cox Pavilion on Saturday, Feb. 12. Tip off is 2 p.m. PT.

The Lady Rebels have won nine straight games, a streak that leads the Mountain West and ranks 10th among NCAA Division I teams. It's UNLV's longest win streak since 10 straight wins in 2003-04.

The game will broadcast locally on YurView (Cox. channel 14, 1014 HD) with Matt Neverett and Steve Cofield on the call. A live video stream is available on the Mountain West Network. Live audio, featuring Wyatt Tomchek on play-by-play, can be heard at UNLVRebels.com. 

• All-time series: UNLV leads 34-29.
• Streak: Won 3.
• First meeting: Feb. 2, 1979. UNLV won 78-58 in Las Vegas.
• Last meeting: Feb. 16, 2021. UNLV won 73-71 in San Diego.

Lady Rebels' last time out: UNLV 69, Boise State 52

• UNLV swept the regular season series against Boise State for the first time since 2013.
• UNLV used a 17-0 scoring run to flip an 8-point deficit into a 9-point lead.
• Despite foul trouble, Desi-Rae Young totaled 14 points and nine rebounds to lead UNLV.
• The Broncos led 25-22 at halftime. 
• Essence Booker, held scoreless with 0-for-8 shooting through three periods, poured in 11 points in the fourth, including the game-winner from a turnover under the Boise State basket.
• UNLV handed Boise State its worst home defeat in conference play, and second worst home defeat of the season.
• Boise State outrebounded UNLV 32-30.
• UNLV converted 19 Boise State turnovers into 18 points. Boise State managed just seven points from UNLV's 16 turnovers.

Start me up

• UNLV's 19-4 start is the program's best in 20 seasons.
• The 2001-02 Lady Rebels (23-8, 9-5 MW) reached 21 wins before suffering a fifth loss.

Scouting San Diego State

• The Aztecs beat Nevada 68-57 on Wednesday, shooting a season-best 52 percent. Mercedes Staples scored a season-high 21 points on 9-for-13 shooting.
• Meghan Fiso, a sophomore transfer from Michigan, had the best game of her career. She set new career-highs for points (13) and assists (3).
• Sophia Ramos has scored in double-digits in all but two games this season and has scored 20 or more points in three of her last four games.
• Ramos is one of three active four-year players with career totals of at least 1,400 points, 500 rebounds, 350 assists and 150 steals (Ohio's Erica Johnson & Florida's Kiara Smith).
• Ramos is second in the conference in steals per game (2.1) and third in made threes (47).
• Mallory Adams (Frisco, Texas) is averaging 13.7 points and 8.1 rebounds in conference games and is making 2.9 three-pointers per game, the most in the Mountain West.
• The Aztecs are second in the conference in opponent field goal percentage (.384) and third in opponent three-point percentage (.298).

Setting records in the classroom

• The Lady Rebels finished the Fall 2021 term with a program record 3.44 team GPA.
• Six players — Essence Booker, Alyssa Brown, Alyssa Durazo-Frescas, Justice Ethridge, Jade Thomas and Taylin Smith — earned Dean's List distinction (for undergraduates only).
• Graduate senior Khayla Rooks crushed it in her first post-grad semester, earning a 3.80 GPA in cybersecurity studies.

NET effect

• UNLV hovers at No. 80 in the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings, leading all Mountain West teams by nearly 20 positions.
• UNLV 's position is about 10 steps higher than it was before defeating New Mexico on Jan. 27 and is 25 positions higher since conference play began.
• UNLV is one of 29 teams with a 9-1 or better record over its last 10 games.

Up the quad and to the gymnasium

A win Saturday gives UNLV at 10-game winning streak, matching its longest since it occurred in both 2002 and 2004. The Lady Rebels haven't had a longer streak since 1993.
22 games - 1989-90, 1978-79

1. 18 - 1992-93
2. 15 - 1977-78
3. 14 - 1990-91
4. 13 - 1988-89
5. 12 - 1984-85, 1975-76
6. 11 - 1982-83
7. 10 - 2003-04, 2001-02

Top 25 team / NCAA statistical rankings

UNLV ranks in the top 25 in five team statistical categories:

• 15th, free throws made (332)
• 18th, total rebounds (949)
• 22nd, rebound margin (+8.1)
• 27th, scoring offense (75.4)
• 21st, win percentage (82.6 percent)

Free range

• Essence Booker ranks sixth among Division I players with a .928 free throw percentage.
• Booker's 14-for-14 free throw shooting against Boise State set a UNLV record.
• UNLV's single-season free throw percentage record is .889 set by Shari Netzel in 1988-89.
• Booker has an active streak of 32 consecutive made free throws (and 57 of her last 58), matching the longest such streak of her career set earlier this season. 

Second impressions

• Freshman point guard Kiara Jackson is getting comfortable in the Mountain West. In UNLV's last three games, having faced opponents for a second time, Jackson's performance has improved three-fold in most areas.
• Jackson has scored 7.8 points per game in the last four games versus 3.9 in the previous eight.
• She has also improved assists per game to 2.3 from 1.5 and steals to 1.8 from 0.4.

Half-life

• Desi-Rae Young scores 9.4 (60 percent) of her 15.6 points per game in the second half. 
• Young has reached double-figure scoring in a single half 14 times (five in a first half, nine in a second half) this season. She has also reached 10 or more points in a single period five times.