THIS WEEK IN ALASKA ANCHORAGE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL...
 
Tue., Feb. 8 - New P.E. Building - Monmouth, Ore. - 4:15 pm AST
Alaska Anchorage (14-4, 7-3 GNAC) at Western Oregon (8-9, 4-6 GNAC)
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Sat., Feb. 12 - Patty Center - Fairbanks, Alaska - 3 pm AST
Alaska Anchorage at Alaska Fairbanks (2-15, 1-11 GNAC)
 
LIVE VIDEO: Tuesday at youtube.com/wouwolves
                        Saturday at youtube.com/channel/UCM0zSWh6A5uG-dFIPZ2BHqA
LIVE STATS: Tuesday at wouwolves.com/sidearmstats/wbball/summary
                       Saturday at alaskananooks.com/sidearmstats/wbball/summary
SOCIAL MEDIA: Check the @UAAWBB Twitter feed for in-game updates.
 
UAA PROBABLE STARTERS (2021-22 stats)
G—Nicole Pinckney, 5-5, Jr. (8.7 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 3.4 apg, 1.2 spg, .325 3FG)
G—Jahnna Hajdukovich, 5-8, Jr. (7.4 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 1.4 apg, .351 3FG)
F—Sala Langi, 5-9, Sr. (7.8 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 1.8 apg, 1.4 spg, .750 FT)
F—Jazzpher Evans, 5-6, Fr. (6.9 ppg, 2.9 rpg, 1.8 apg, 1.5 spg, .462 3FG)
F—Tennae Voliva, 6-0, Sr. (11.1 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 1.7 apg, 2.3 spg, .480 FG, .826 FT)
 
LONG ROAD TRIP STARTS: Thanks to the pandemic, the Seawolves embark on their longest stretch of league road games since the Great Northwest Athletic Conference began in 2001-02, playing at Western Oregon on Tuesday and Alaska Fairbanks on Saturday ... Tuesday's game is the first of five straight 'roadies' and is a rescheduled contest from Dec. 4.
 
SCOUTING THE FOES: Western Oregon snapped a 4-game losing streak with Saturday's 49-47 road win over Saint Martin's ... the Wolves have gone 6-2 at home this season, including impressive wins over MSU Billings and Chico State ... WOU is led by Meadow Aragon (11.9 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 2.4 bpg, .538 FG) and Tresai McCarver (10.9 ppg, 5.1 rpg, 3.9 apg, 1.8 spg, .341 3FG, .753 FT) ... Alaska Fairbanks is riding a 4-game skid, having earned its lone GNAC win 61-59 at MSU Billings on Jan. 29 ... with an 0-8 home record, the Nanooks are led by the freshman duo of Pearle Green (15.1 ppg, 2.5 apg, 1.6 spg, .331 3FG, .789 FT) and Destiny Reimers (11.9 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 2.4 apg, 1.6 spg, .403 FG, .694 FT).
 
THE SERIES...
vs. WOU: UAA leads 37-8 overall, 18-3 in Monmouth
Streak: UAA 33
Last: UAA 76-48 (2/27/20 at WOU)
Notes: The current 33-game win streak is UAA's longest against any opponent in program history ... UAA has won 18 of the last 20
games by double digits … the Seawolves have won 17 straight in Monmouth ... WOU's last win came by a 64-58 score on Dec. 6, 2003 in Anchorage … UAA leads 33-5 in GNAC matchups (since 2001-02) and 16-0 under head coach Ryan McCarthy … teams have played each season since 1998-99 ... first meetings were in 1979-80.
 
vs. UAF: UAA leads 73-30 overall, 26-23 in Fairbanks
Streak: UAA 27
Last: UAA 76-50 (1/15/22 at UAA)
Notes: UAA's current win streak is the longest in the series and the Seawolves' 2nd-longest against any program … UAF's last win was an 85-83 overtime decision, Jan. 27, 2007 in Fairbanks ... the Seawolves have won 13 straight in Fairbanks … UAA has won 14 straight and 26 of the last 27 meetings by double digits (+27.2 margin) ... UAA leads 32-7 in GNAC meetings and 17-0 under Ryan McCarthy … teams have played at least twice per season since 1979-80, not counting the basically non-existent 2020-21 campaign.
 
REGIONALLY RANKED RIVALS REPELLED: Playing as an unranked team for the first time since 2014, the Seawolves ran their winning streak to four games and earned a pair of critical victories over D2SIDA West Region ranked rivals Northwest Nazarene and Central Washington at the Alaska Airlines Center last week ... in the first game, Sr. C Tennae Voliva had 16 points (3-6 FG, 10-12 FT), 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals to help UAA grab an early 17-point lead and fend off NNU 74-69 ... Fr. G Jazzpher Evans had a UAA career-high 14 points (5-9 FG, 2-2 3FG), 3 assists and a team season-high 7 steals, and Jr. G Jahnna Hajdukovich broke out of a recent scoring slump with 12 points (3-7 FG, 4-4 FT) as the Seawolves forced 31 turnovers and overcame 35 of their own ... in a much more crisply played game Saturday, Voliva matched her career-high with 20 points (9-17 FG), along with 9 rebounds and 3 steals, to power a 78-68 victory over the Wildcats ... Sr. F Lauren Johnson had 11 points (3-3 3FG) and Evans added 10 points as UAA shot 50 percent from long range for the second game in a row and posted a season-high .525 FG% (31-59).
 
WINNING WAYS: UAA's 24-game win streak from Jan. 25, 2020 to Dec. 14, 2021 had been the longest in NCAA Div. II and finished two short of tying the school record set by the 2016-17 club ... the 12 straight road wins finished as the third-longest string in program history ... at 202-21 (.906), the Seawolves have the second-best winning percentage and fourth-most victories in NCAA Div. II since 2014-15, despite playing only three games in 2020-21 ... UAA is a combined 127-12 – including 58-6 on the road – in GNAC regular-season and tournament games over the last seven conference seasons (since Dec. 2014) ... UAA's Jan. 17 loss to MSU Billings ended school-record win streaks of 33 straight home games and 41 straight regular-season home games against league foes ... the Seawolves have gone a combined 203-18 (.919) in the last 15 seasons on their home courts, including 94-8 (.922) at the Alaska Airlines Center (since 2014-15) ... the 2019-20 Seawolves earned the program's fourth 30-win season in five years, starting with an NCAA Div. II-record 38 victories in 2015-16 ... UAA's run of six straight GNAC regular-season titles is the longest of any program – women's or men's – since the league was founded in 2001-02 ... UAA has recorded 25 wins for six straight seasons (excluding 2020-21) and has produced 16 20-win seasons in 44 years of program history ... the Seawolves have won 63 of their last 66 regular-season games against Div. II non-conference opponents ... UAA has posted 15 consecutive winning records and has qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 13 of the past 14 full seasons ... the Seawolves have won six of the 10 GNAC Tournament titles since the event started in 2011.
 
NIFTY NUMBERS: The Seawolves lead the GNAC stats in steals (12.4 spg), assists (15.9 apg) and turnover margin (+6.4), and rank second or third in seven other categories ... of 297 teams nationally, UAA ranks top-30 in turnover margin (14th), turnovers forced (20th, 22.8), steals (19th) and assists (30th) ... the Seawolves are attempting to finish top-10 nationally in steals for the eighth straight non-pandemic season in 2021-22, having led NCAA Div. II for four straight years from 2013-14 to 2016-17.
 
'WOLF BITES: A unanimous Preseason All-GNAC selection, Sr. F/C Tennae Voliva is proving the prognosticators correct with a team-high 11.1 points per game, along with GNAC ranks of 3rd in steals (2.3 spg), 4th in FT% (.826), 12th in rebounding (6.4 rpg) and 14th in blocks (0.7 bpg) ... on UAA's career lists, Voliva stands 7th in blocks (73), 12th in blocks per game (0.6), 12th in rebounds (582), 11th in games played (118), 18th in FG% (.489) and 7th in victories, sporting a 104-14 record in Green & Gold ... a three-time Academic All-GNAC honoree with a 3.89 undergrad GPA, Voliva was a CoSIDA Academic All-District honoree as a junior in 2019-20, and she is a candidate again for Academic All-America with a 4.00 graduate GPA in clinical psychology ... Sr. F Sala Langi has continued her under-the-radar solid play in her final season, ranking top-4 on the team in scoring (7.8 ppg), rebounding (2.9 rpg), assists (1.8 apg) and steals (1.4 spg, 15th in GNAC) ... Langi joined Voliva on this year's Preseason All-GNAC Team and trails her by just one game on UAA's career victories list with 103 ...  Jr. G Jahnna Hajdukovich ranks 8th in 3FG% (.351) 9th in and 3FGs per game (1.5) in the GNAC stats, tying for the second-most treys in Seawolf history with her 8 against UT Permian Basin ... the former Dimond High star now ranks in the top 20 in all UAA career 3FG categories, with 101 treys, 1.2 per game and a .348 3FG% ... Jr. PG Nicole Pinckney has taken her game to the next level in fifth season with the program ... the former Chugiak High star is 9th in the GNAC with 3.4 assists per game, 5th in assist-turnover ratio (1.6), 11th in 3FGs per game (1.4) and 13th in 3FG% (.325), draining 5 of 10 treys for a career-high 21 points in the win at Northwest Nazarene ... Pinckney was the Most Outstanding Player of the Nov. 19-20 Seawolf Hoops Classic, totaling 23 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists, 5 steals and just 2 turnovers in 52 minutes ... So. G Rachel Ingram has drained 17 treys in the last five games and now leads the GNAC-only stats with a .432 3FG% (19 of 44) ... in the overall GNAC stats, Ingram is 6th with 1.9 3FGs per game ... the Colorado native now ranks on UAA's career lists at 4th in 3FGs per game (1.9), 13th in 3FG% (.368) and 15th in 3FGs made (103) ... other Seawolves among the GNAC stats leaders include Fr. G Jazzpher Evans (14th in steals, 1.5 spg) and Jr. F Kimani Fernandez (8th in offensive rebounds, 2.3 orpg).
 
MASTER OF MAYHEM: In his 10th season at UAA and 11th as a head coach, Ryan McCarthy currently stands No. 3 among NCAA Div. II coaches in career winning percentage at .826 ... the winningest coach in UAA women's basketball history since coming north in 2012, McCarthy has led the Seawolf program to unprecedented heights, capturing six straight GNAC regular-season titles (five outright), four GNAC Tournament titles, seven 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 2019-20, McCarthy earned his fourth consecutive GNAC Coach of the Year honor and fifth in the last six 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 238-40 (.856) at UAA and 252-53 (.826) overall, having served in an interim capacity at Northwest Nazarene in 2010-11 … McCarthy is assisted in 2020-21 by 10th-year associate head coach Shaina Afoa (the 2017-18 WBCA NCAA Div. II National Assistant Coach of the Year) and former Seawolf great Kiki Robertson (1st season).
 
NATIONAL RANKINGS: The loss at MSU Billings has dropped the Seawolves – previously No. 19 – out of the WBCA Top 25 poll for the first time since November 2014 ... UAA had made 106 straight appearances in the WBCA poll (not including the pandemic season), starting with the rankings of Dec. 2, 2014 ... UAA had been no lower than No. 19 over the last 105 WBCA polls, spending 87 of those weeks in the top 10.
 
WBCA/USA Today NCAA Div. II
Top 25 Coaches' Poll - Feb. 1, 2022
UAA & opponents in bold; West Region teams in italics
Rk Team [1st-place votes]       Rec.  Pts  Last
 1 Glenville State (WV) [20]    18-0  562  1
 2 Ashland (OH) [3]             17-1  540  2
 3 Azusa Pacific (CA)           15-1  505  3
 4 Drury (MO)                   21-2  478  4
 5 North Georgia                16-1  461  6
 6 Fort Hays State (KS)         17-2  437  7
 7 Lander (SC)                  14-2  433  5
 8 Grand Valley State (MI)      17-1  384  11
 9 Western Washington           12-1  383  9
10 Texas A&M Commerce           17-2  375  10
24 Cal State East Bay           15-1   89  NR
WEST REGION TEAMS RECEIVING VOTES: 32) Cal State San Marcos 19; 35) Central Washington 9; 38) UAA 6.
 
D2SIDA West Region Media Poll - Feb. 7, 2022
 Rk  Team (1st-pl. votes)   Rec. Pts  Last
  1 Western Washington (4) 14-1  57   1
  2 Azusa Pacific (2)      17-1  53   2
  3 Cal State San Marcos   15-2  47   4
  4 Cal State East Bay     16-2  39   3
  5 Alaska Anchorage       14-4  38   t6
  6 Central Washington     15-5  35   5
  7 Northwest Nazarene     12-6  22   t6
  8 Montana State Billings 13-9  15   t9
  9 Biola                  13-7  11   RV
 10 Stanislaus State       11-6   3   8
 
2021-22 SEAWOLF INDIVIDUAL HONORS
JAHNNA HAJDUKOVICH
Seawolf Hoops Classic All-Tournament Team
SALA LANGI
Preseason All-GNAC Team
NICOLE PINCKNEY
Seawolf Hoops Classic Most Outstanding Player
TENNAE VOLIVA
Preseason All-GNAC Team
 
UAA School Records Broken/Tied in 2021-22
INDIVIDUAL
Game
Most 3FGs Made, 2nd Half — 7 by Rachel Ingram at Montana State Billings, 1/27 (old record: 6 by Jenna Buchanan vs Cal St. Dominguez Hills, 10/31/15; by Jackie Thiel vs Kuyper, 1/3/09; and by Ingram at Warner Pacific, 3/23/21)
Most 3FGs Made, Half — 7 by Rachel Ingram at Montana State Billings, 1/27 (ties record by Maria Nilsson vs Saint Martin's [1st half], 2/3/07)
TEAM
Game
Most Points, 2nd Quarter — 31 at Hawaii Pacific, Dec. 14 (ties record set vs William Jewell, 10/30/15 at Anaheim)
Most Points, 2nd Quarter (road) — 31 at Hawaii Pacific, Dec. 14 (old record: 27, twice, last at Western Oregon, Jan. 5, 2017)
Fewest Points Allowed, 1st Quarter — 2 vs Winston-Salem State, Nov. 27 (old record: 4, four times)
Misc.
Consecutive Wins, Alaska Airlines Center – 33, 11/16/19 to 1/15/22 (old record: 16, 11/5/15 to 2/25/16)
Consecutive Conference Regular-Season Home Wins – 41, 11/30/16 to 1/15/22