THIS WEEK IN ALASKA ANCHORAGE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL...
 
Tue., Feb. 11, 7 pm AST — Alaska Airlines Center — Anchorage, Alaska
Alaska Fairbanks (7-16, 2-12 GNAC) at #8 Alaska Anchorage (23-2, 13-1 GNAC)
&
Thu., Feb. 13, 5:30 pm AST — Alterowitz Gymnasium — Billings, Mont.
#8 Alaska Anchorage at Montana State Billings (12-11, 7-7 GNAC)
 
LIVE VIDEO: Both games at gnac.tv
 
LIVE STATS: Tuesday at goseawolves.com/sidearmstats/wbball ... Thursday at gnac.tv
 
TICKETS: AlaskaAirlinesCenter.com
 
SOCIAL MEDIA: Check the @UAAWBB Twitter feed for in-game updates.
 
UAA PROBABLE STARTERS
G—Yazmeen Goo, 5-10, Sr. (9.7 ppg, 2.5 rpg, 4.1 apg, 1.8 spg, .538 FG, .719 FT)
G—Safiyyah Yasin, 5-6, Sr. (13.2 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.3 apg, 2.4 spg, .419 FG, .378 3FG, .796 FT)
G—Jahnna Hajdukovich, 5-8, So. (5.4 ppg, 2.4 rpg, .351 3FG, .688 FT)
F—Sala Langi, 5-9, Jr. (5.7 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 1.3 spg, .468 FG, .788 FT)
F—Tennae Voliva, 6-0, Jr. (10.2 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 1.2 apg, 0.9 bpg, 2.0 spg, .495 FG, .674 FT)
 
SIX FOR SIX: With six games remaining on the Great Northwest Athletic Conference schedule, the Seawolves are just four victories shy of clinching no worse than a tie for their sixth straight GNAC regular-season title ... UAA has three home games and three road games remaining as it prepares to host 10th-place Alaska Fairbanks and travel to 6th-place Montana State Billings this week.
 
'COACH PAT' NIGHT: Tuesday's home game will feature tributes to longtime volunteer assistant coach Pat Flanigin, who passed away on Christmas Day after a long battle with cancer.
 
SCOUTING REPORT: Alaska Fairbanks has dropped 12 of its last 13 since opening the GNAC with an OT home win over Western Oregon on Dec. 5 ... the Nanooks are led by GNAC scoring leader Jocelyn Gandara (18.9 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 1.8 apg, 1.3 spg, .369 3FG, .738 FT) and Sam Tolliver (14.3 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.0 apg, 1.4 spg, .306 3FG, .583 FT) ... Montana State Billings has won three of its last five as the Yellowjackets currently hold down the sixth and final seed for the GNAC Tournament and are one game behind Central Washington for fifth place ... MSUB is led by D-I transfer Taryn Shelley (13.2 ppg, 8.4 rpg, 1.1 bpg, .461 FG, .714 FT) and Hannah Collins (11.9 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 2.7 apg, .395 3FG, .746 FT).
 
THE SERIES
vs. UAF: UAA leads 71-30 overall, 44-6 in Anchorage
Streak: UAA 25
Last: UAA 79-67 (1/14/20 at UAF)
Notes: UAA's current win streak is the longest in the series and the
Seawolves' 2nd-longest against any program, trailing only the current 32-game streak vs. Western Oregon … UAF's last win was an 85-83 overtime decision, Jan. 27, 2007 in Fairbanks ... the Seawolves have won 14 straight in Anchorage, with UAF's last win on Jan. 5, 2005 … UAA has won 12 straight and 24 of the last 25 meetings by double digits ... UAA leads 30-7 in GNAC meetings (since 2001-02) and 15-0 under Ryan McCarthy … teams have played at least twice per season since 1979-80.
 
vs. MSUB: UAA leads 37-27 overall, 15-15 in Billings
Streak: UAA 3
Last: UAA 80-33 (1/18/20 at UAA)
Notes: UAA has won 24 of 27 overall meetings since MSUB joined
the GNAC in 2007-08 ... UAA has won five straight in Billings ... UAA leads 23-2 in GNAC regular-season meetings and 14-3 under
Ryan McCarthy ... MSUB is UAA's 3rd-most common opponent (behind UAF and Seattle Pacific), despite splitting into different leagues from 2002-07 … teams played twice yearly from 1984-85
to 2000-01 as members of the Pacific West and Continental Divide
conferences.
 
SEAWOLVES TAME 'HAWKS, 'CATS: The Seawolves ran their winning streak to five games by sweeping one of the GNAC's toughest road trips last week, beating regionally 7th-ranked Northwest Nazarene, 68-54, and preseason coaches' poll favorite Central Washington, 67-59 ... in the first game, Jr. C Tennae Voliva has 12 points (5-9 FG), 9 rebounds and 2 blocks, while Sr. G Safiyyah Yasin added 12 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals to sweep the season series from the defending GNAC Tournament champs ... Sr. PG Yazmeen Goo had 7 points, 6 assists and 3 steals, while Jr. F Sala Langi and So. G Jahnna Hajdukovich had 8 points apiece as UAA held the Nighthawks to 31 percent shooting and 23 points under their season average ... on Saturday, Goo tied her career high with 16 points (5-8 FG, 6-6 FT) and dished 3 assists to power UAA back from an early eight-point deficit for its 16th straight win over CWU ... Voliva had 12 points (5-9 FG), 5 rebounds and 3 steals, Yasin scored all 11 of her points in the second half, and Hajdukovich tallied 9 points (3-3 3FG) as UAA shot a season-best .538 (7-13) from long range and committed just nine turnovers.
 
WINNING WAYS: UAA's 27-game GNAC win streak from Jan. 3, 2019 to Jan. 18, 2020 finished as the 2nd-longest in league history (since 2001-02), just ahead of its streak of 26 from Nov. 30, 2016 to Jan. 18, 2018) ... at 177-17 (.912), the Seawolves have the second-best winning percentage and second-most victories in NCAA Div. II since 2014-15, trailing Ashland (180-15, .923) for those honors ... UAA is a combined 112-9 – including 51-5 on the road – in GNAC regular-season and tournament games over the last six seasons (since Dec. 2014) ... UAA has stretched its Alaska Airlines Center win streak to a record 25 games, suffering its last home loss to Seattle Pacific in the 2018 GNAC Tournament semifinals ... the Seawolves have won 37 consecutive GNAC regular-season home contests, including 10-0 marks the previous three seasons ... UAA has gone a combined 193-16 (.923) in the last 13 seasons on its home courts, including 84-6 (.933) at the Alaska Airlines Center (since 2014-15) ... the Seawolves have won at least 30 games in three of the last four seasons, starting with their NCAA Div. II-record 38 victories in 2015-16 ... last year UAA became the first basketball program to win at least a share of five straight GNAC regular-season titles (four outright, tied in 2018) ... UAA has recorded 25 wins for five straight seasons and has now produced 16 20-win seasons in 43 years of program history ... the Seawolves have won 57 of their last 59 regular-season games against Div. II non-conference opponents ... UAA has clinched the program's 14th consecutive winning season and is seeking its 13th NCAA Tournament berth in 14 years ... the Seawolves have won five of the nine GNAC Tournament titles since the event started in 2011.
 
NIFTY NUMBERS: UAA has assumed its familiar position among the NCAA Div. II national stats leaders, ranking among the top 50 in 13 categories ­– including 6th in steals per game (13.4) and turnover margin (8.3), 9th in scoring margin (+21.2), 10th in scoring defense (53.6), 18th in turnovers forced per game (22.0), 21st in A/T ratio (1.18)  and 27th in assists per game (16.2) – despite not having a single player among the top 40 in any individual category ... in the GNAC stats, the Seawolves lead in eight of the 21 categories and rank second in four others ... the Seawolves are attempting to finish top-10 nationally in steals for the seventh straight season, having led NCAA Div. II for four straight years from 2013-14 to 2016-17.
 
GOO STUFF: An honorable mention All-GNAC selection the past two seasons, a Preseason All-GNAC Team pick this year and the most recent GNAC Player of the Week honoree, Sr. PG Yazmeen Goo has developed into one of the best floor generals in the country, helping UAA rank top 10 nationally in steals, turnover margin and scoring defense ... in the GNAC stats, the Bay Area product ranks 5th in assists (4.1 apg), 2nd in A/T ratio (2.0, 42nd nationally), 5th in steals (1.8 spg) and 4th in FG% (.538), despite logging a modest 22.6 minutes per game in UAA's balanced system ... on UAA's career lists, Goo continues to rise the charts at 4th in assists (425), 9th in assists per game (4.0), 4th in steals (253), 12th in steals per game (2.4), t-7th in FTs made (300), 13th in FTs made per game (2.8), 17th in FG% (.491) and 11th in victories (95).
 
YASIN HER LATELY: Another Preseason All-GNAC selection and the GNAC Player of the Week for Jan. 6-12, Sr. G Safiyyah Yasin (suf-FEE-yuh ya-SEEN) has been a problem for opposing defenses, ranking 8th in the GNAC with 13.2 ppg on shooting numbers of .419 FG, .378 3FG and .796 FT ... a key reserve in all 33 games last year, the Diablo Valley (Calif.) College transfer has topped the 20-point plateau three times – including a career-high 25 points in the win over S.F. State – and has scored double figures in 20 of 25 games ... in addition to her scoring, Yasin also holds GNAC ranks of 2nd in steals (2.4 spg, 58th nationally), 5th in A/T ratio (1.6), 9th in 3FG% and 9th in FT% ... on UAA's career lists, she is 10th in FT% (.785), 12th in 3FG% (.366) and 15th in steals per game (2.3).
 
T.V. SHOW: A key reserve in her first season and a half, Jr. F/C Tennae Voliva (t'NAY voh-LEE-vuh) has taken her game to the next level, averaging 10.2 ppg, 7.7 rpg and 0.9 bpg ... in the GNAC stats, she ranks 4th in rebounding, 4th in steals (2.0), 12th in blocks (0.9) and 9th in FG% (.495), with her rebounding average on pace to be the highest in the Ryan McCarthy era ... the former East Anchorage HS star earned her fifth double-double with 19 points and 10 points at Simon Fraser, following a 19-point, 12-rebound performance in the win over Northwest Nazarene ... Voliva has established career highs in points (20 vs. S.F. State), rebounds (12, four times), steals (6 at St. Andrews) and blocks (3 vs S.F. State), and she was named the Most Outstanding Player of the D2 West Coast Classic and all-tourney at the Seawolf Hoops Classic ... on UAA's career lists, she stands 13th in FG% (.497), t-15th in blocks (52) and t-14th in victories, sporting a 79-10 career record in Green & Gold.
 
PAW PRINTS: Fr. G Rachel Ingram has drained multiple three-pointers in 14 of 25 games thus far, with her 47 treys easily surpassing Jessica Madison's old UAA rookie record of 36 (2012-13) ... the Colorado Springs native ranks 3rd in the GNAC with her .409 3FG%, which is also among the top 10 freshmen nationally ... Ingram has also broken the UAA single-game freshman record with seven 3FGs made in the win over Concordia-Portland ... a transfer from Santa Fe (Fla.) College, Jr. G Stephanie Jackson has made an impact in her first season on both sides of the court, ranking 17th in the league with 2.3 assists per game and 16th with 1.5 steals per contest ... So. G Jahnna Hajdukovich shot 5 of 6 from long range last week to break into the GNAC top-20 rankings at 17th in 3FG% (.351) and 19th in 3FGs per game (1.3) ... the local Dimond High product now ranks 18th on UAA's career 3FG% last as well at .342.
 
MASTER OF MAYHEM: In his eighth season at UAA and ninth season as a head coach, Ryan McCarthy has ascended to the top of two impressive lists, as the NCAA Div. II active leader in career winning percentage (.822) and the all-time winningest coach in UAA women's basketball history ... since coming north in 2012, McCarthy has led the Seawolf program to unprecedented heights, capturing five straight GNAC regular-season titles (four outright), three GNAC Tournament titles, six straight NCAA Tournament berths, and ascending as high as No. 1 or No. 2 in the national rankings every season from 2014-15 through 2017-18 ... in 2018-19, McCarthy earned his third consecutive GNAC Coach of the Year honor and fourth in the last five seasons ... he was the WBCA NCAA Div. II West Region Coach of the Year three straight times from 2015-17 ... in 2016-17, the Anchorage native led UAA to its third straight top-2 regional seed and its second straight 30-win season (30-2), while recording the first 20-0 league record in GNAC history ... the previous season, McCarthy's crew set an NCAA Div. II record with 38 victories, advancing all the way to the 2016 National Title Game in Indianapolis ... his 2014-15 club claimed what was then the best winning percentage in program history with a 29-2 (.935) mark, sweeping both GNAC titles as well ... McCarthy led UAA to an improvement in overall wins (17, 19, 29, 38) his first four seasons and increased the Seawolves' GNAC victory total in each of his first five campaigns (11, 12, 17, 18, 20) … playing its up-tempo 'Mayhem' style, McCarthy's crews led the nation in steals per game for four straight seasons (2013-14 to 2016-17), while staying among the top 10 in steals each year since ... McCarthy sports head-coaching records of 213-36 (.855) at UAA and 227-49 (.822) overall, having served in an interim capacity at Northwest Nazarene in 2010-11 … McCarthy is assisted by 8th-year associate head coach Shaina Afoa (the 2017-18 WBCA NCAA Div. II National Assistant Coach of the Year), 2nd-year assistant and former Seawolf Sierra Afoa.
 
2019-20 SEAWOLF INDIVIDUAL HONORS
KIMANI FERNANDEZ
GNAC All-Academic Team
YAZMEEN GOO
Preseason All-GNAC Team (unanimous)
Seawolf Hoops Classic Most Outstanding Player
GNAC All-Academic Team
GNAC Player of the Week, Feb. 3-9
NICOLE PINCKNEY
D2 West Coast Classic All-Tournament Team
GNAC All-Academic Team
TENNAE VOLIVA
D2 West Coast Classic Most Outstanding Player
Seawolf Hoops Classic All-Tournament Team
GNAC All-Academic Team
SAFIYYAH YASIN
Preseason All-GNAC Team
D2 West Coast Classic All-Tournament Team
Seawolf Hoops Classic All-Tournament Team
GNAC Player of the Week, Jan. 6-12
 
UAA School Records Broken/Tied in 2019-20
TEAM
Game
Most 3FGs Made, Road – 14 at St. Andrews, 10/29 (ties record set at NW Nazarene, 2/16/13)
Most 3FGs Attempted – 40 at St. Andrews, 10/29 (ties record set vs Kuyper College, 1/3/09)
Fewest Points Allowed, 1st Qtr ­– 4 vs Menlo, 12/18 (ties record for fourth time)
Fewest Points Allowed, 3rd Qtr – 0 vs MSU Billings, 1/18 (old record: 2 vs New Hope Christian, 1/6/15)
Fewest Points Allowed in a Qtr ­– 0 vs MSU Billings, 1/18 (ties record established vs New Hope Christian, 11/6/15)
Largest Scoring Margin, 1st Qtr – +23 [28-5] vs MSU Billings, 1/18 (old record: +21 [30-9] at Saint Martin's, 2/23/19)
Misc.
Consecutive Wins, Alaska Airlines Center – 25, 11/16/19-current (old record: 16, 11/5/15-2/25/16)
Consecutive Conference Wins – 27, 1/3/19-1/18/20 (old record: 26,  11/30/16-1/18/18)
Consecutive Conference Home Wins (reg. season) – 37, Nov. 30, 2016-current (extends record)
Consecutive Wins vs. Opponent – 32 vs Western Oregon (extends record)
INDIVIDUAL
Game
Most 3FGs Made, Freshman ­– 7 by Rachel Ingram vs Concordia-Portland, 12/5 (old record: 6 by Jahnna Hajdukovich, 2/5/19 at UAF)
Season
Most 3FGs Made, Freshman ­– 47 by Rachel Ingram (old record: 36 by Jessica Madison, 2012-13)