Tritons Journey to Northridge, Host Bakersfield

LA JOLLA, Calif.— UC San Diego ladies’s basketball will journey to face CSUN and play host to Cal State Bakersfield this weekend.
 
The Tritons (10-5, 5-0 Big West) will look to proceed a powerful begin to convention play, going through the Matadors (6-9, 2-4 Big West) on the highway on Thursday at 6 p.m. and internet hosting the Roadrunners (6-10, 1-5 Big West) on Saturday at 4 p.m. The video games will likely be broadcast on ESPN+ with stay statistics obtainable through UCSDTritons.com.
 
DETAILS
Game 16
UC San Diego (10-5, 5-0) at CSUN (6-9, 2-4)
Thursday, Jan. 15 | 6 p.m.
Premier America Credit Union Arena (2,300) | Northridge, Calif.
All-time sequence: 5-3
Division I sequence: 5-2
Last assembly: UCSD 78, CSUN 64 (Feb. 27, 2025)
Streak: W2
Watch on ESPN+ | Live Stats
 
Game 17
UC San Diego vs Cal State Bakersfield (6-10, 1-5)
Saturday, Jan. 17 | 4 p.m.
LionTree Arena (4,000) | La Jolla, Calif.
All-time sequence: 11-13
Division I sequence: 7-3
Last assembly: UCSD 63, CSUB 45 (Feb. 13, 2025)
Streak: W3
Watch on ESPN+ | Live Stats
 

 
LAST TIME OUT
The Tritons continued their finest begin to the Big West slate, defeating Cal State Fullerton in extra time, 81-69, outscoring the Titans 15-3 within the extra time interval. Sabrina Ma and Makayla Rose have been the primary duo for UC San Diego to document 20-point performances in the identical recreation within the Division I period. 
 
UC San Diego return dwelling to defeat UC Riverside, 70-54, scoring 50 of its factors within the paint. Erin Condron was named UCU Athlete of the Week after main UC San Diego in factors and rebounds, whereas recorded a profession excessive 22 factors and her fourth double-double in opposition to the Highlanders. Dymonique Maxie additionally recorded a season-best 17 factors within the contest.
 
UC San Diego 81, Cal State Fullerton 69
Points: Rose (22); Ma (21); Condron, Smith (11); Maxie (10)
Rebounds: Rose (8); Maxie (5); Condron, Smith (4)
Assists: Maxie (10); Rose (7)
Steals: Ma (7); Maxie, Rose (5)
Blocks: Ma (3); Condron (2)
 
UC San Diego 70, UC Riverside 54
Points: Condron (22); Maxie (17); Ma (8)
Rebounds: Condron (12); Rose (7); Smith (6)
Assists: Smith (4); Condron (3)
Steals: Ma (3); three with one
Blocks: Condron (2); Rose (1)
 
UP NEXT
UC San Diego will play host to UC Davis on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 6 p.m., with a King Triton bobblehead giveaway. The Tritons will hit the highway for the second recreation of the week, taking over UC Irvine on Saturday, Jan. 24 at 2 p.m. The video games will likely be broadcast on ESPN+ and stay statistics will likely be obtainable through UCSDTritons.com.
 
THIRD WEEKLY HONOR FOR CONDRON (JAN. 12)
Erin Condron averaged 16.5 factors and eight.0 rebounds to steer UC San Diego to a different 2-0 week in Big West play. The junior ahead set a brand new profession excessive with 22 factors in Saturday’s victory over UC Riverside, including 12 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the season. She shot 57.7 % from the sphere (15-for-26), additionally averaging 2.0 blocks and a pair of.0 assists in 36.2 minutes per recreation. Condron at the moment leads the Big West with a 56.5 discipline objective proportion, which ranks twenty eighth nationally.
 
QUICK STARTS
UC San Diego has received 9 of its final 11 video games, whereas outscoring opponents 207-121 within the opening quarter. The Tritons constructed their largest first-quarter benefit in opposition to Air Force with an 18-point lead (22-4) and scored their most factors within the opening interval in opposition to Portland State with a 30-14 benefit. UC San Diego additionally constructed first-quarter leads in opposition to Occidental (25-12), No. 22 Washington (21-12), Long Beach State (23-7), California Baptist (18-8), Cal Poly (14-7) and Cal State Fullerton (19-13) throughout that stretch.
 
TRITON TAKEAWAYS
The Tritons at the moment rank second within the Big West in turnover margin (6.53), twenty third nationally in the identical class and second within the convention in steals (10.9 per recreation). UC San Diego is forcing 20.67 turnovers per recreation, ok for second within the Big West and forty fifth nationally. Makayla Rose ranks third within the Big West with 2.60 steals per recreation (second with 39 whole steals) and Dymonique Maxie ranks fifth with 2.40, respectively rating 54th and eightieth nationally. The Tritons are additionally caring for the ball on the opposite finish, rating second within the Big West (62nd nationally) with the fewest turnovers per recreation (14.1).
 
DEPENDABLE DEFENSE 
UC San Diego at the moment ranks third within the Big West in scoring protection, permitting 59.5 factors per recreation. The Tritons are holding opponents to a 26.2 three-point proportion which ranks second within the Big West and 36.6 % from the sphere to rank third. UC San Diego additionally ranks third within the convention in blocks per recreation (3.3).
 
ELECTRIC ERIN
Triton ahead/heart Erin Condron has had a sensational begin to her junior marketing campaign, averaging 14.5 factors, 7.9 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.1 steals and 1.3 blocks over 15 begins. Condron has scored in double-figures 13 instances, tallied 4 double-doubles and set profession highs in factors (22) in opposition to UC Riverside (Jan. 10) and rebounds (15) at No. 22 Washington (Nov. 28). 
 
She at the moment leads the Big West and ranks twenty seventh nationally in discipline objective proportion (56.5), ranks fifth within the convention in rebounds (119 whole, 7.9 per recreation). Condron additionally ranks fourth within the convention whole discipline objectives (96), fifth in blocks (19 whole, 1.27 per recreation) and tenth in scoring (14.5 per recreation).
 
RED HOT ROSA
Redshirt junior Rosa Smith has discovered her rhythm, scoring in double figures in eight of the final 10 video games for the Tritons. During that stretch, Smith is second on the group with 14.5 factors per recreation and averaging 4.2 assists and three.6 rebounds in 32.6 minutes per recreation. 
 
Smith ranks fourth within the Big West in discipline objective proportion (49.2), fourth in three-point proportion (40.6), fifth in help/turnover ratio (1.24), sixth in assists (3.3 per recreation), ninth in three-pointers (2.0 per recreation) and sixteenth in scoring (12.5 per recreation).
 
DYMO DEALING DIMES
Point guard Dymonique Maxie at the moment leads the Big West with 4.3 assists per recreation, facilitating the Tritons’ offense. The junior ranks second within the convention with 64 whole assists and third in help/turnover ratio (1.49). Maxie set the Tritons’ Division I single recreation document with 11 assists at Portland State (Nov. 30), ending simply three shy of this system’s all-time document. UC San Diego at the moment ranks first within the Big West in assists (14.8 per recreation) and help/turnover ratio (1.05).
 
SHARP SHOOTING SABRINA
Senior guard Sabrina Ma leads the Big West in threes per recreation (2.73), which ranks thirty eighth nationally. She additionally leads the convention in three-point baskets with 41 made threes this season, rating 56th within the NCAA, and ranks second within the convention in three-point makes an attempt (114). Ma at the moment ranks seventh within the convention in three-point proportion, taking pictures 36.0 % from past the arc. She has scored in double-figures 10 instances this season with three 20-point performances and ranks fifteenth within the Big West with 12.8 factors per recreation. 
 
RECORDS REACHED IN 2025-26
The Tritons have already set a number of program data within the early a part of the 2025-26 season, together with Dymonique Maxie setting this system’s Division I single recreation document with 11 assists at Portland State (Nov. 30). UC San Diego additionally set this system’s factors document in opposition to a Division I opponent, scoring 94 factors in opposition to the Vikings (Nov. 30).
 
SMITH EARNS SECOND UCU WEEKLY HONOR (JAN. 5)
Redshirt junior Rosa Smith had one other stellar week, averaging 17.5 factors, 6.0 assists, 4.5 rebounds and a pair of.0 steals in 36.2 minutes per recreation. Smith led the group in factors (35) and assists (12), whereas taking pictures 8-of-16 (.500) from three-point vary to assist the Tritons to a 2-0 week in Big West play. Smith recorded her second 20-point efficiency of the season, ending with 21 factors and a season-best eight assists in Thursday’s 75-54 victory over Cal Poly. She completed in double figures once more on Saturday, tallying 14 factors and 4 assists in a 65-54 victory at Hawai’i.
 
CONDRON EARNS SECOND UCU WEEKLY NOD (DEC. 22)
Junior Erin Condron averaged practically a double-double with 15.5 factors and 9.5 rebounds to steer UC San Diego within the remaining week of non-conference play. Condron shot 53.8 % from the sphere, including 5 assists, three steals and two blocks in two video games for the Tritons. In Monday’s 67-59 victory at California Baptist, Condron tallied a team-best 15 factors and 13 rebounds for her third double-double of the season. On Saturday in opposition to NAU, she led the Tritons as soon as once more with 16 factors, six rebounds and two blocks. 
 
SMITH NAMED UCU ATHLETE OF THE WEEK (DEC. 8)
UC San Diego guard Rosa Smith recorded her Triton profession excessive with 27 factors in UC San Diego’s Big West-opening win over Long Beach State. The redshirt junior completed 11-for-18 from the sphere (61 %) with 4 3-pointers in 32 minutes. Smith additionally tallied 5 assists, 4 rebounds and two steals within the contest. It marked her fourth consecutive double-figure scoring effort and fifth this season. 
 
CONDRON EARNS UCU ATHLETE OF THE WEEK (DEC. 1)
Junior Erin Condron averaged a double-double in an excellent week, with 16.3 factors and 11.7 rebounds over three video games. The Tritons’ ahead recorded profession highs in rebounds (15) and steals (3) in opposition to No. 22 Washington and tallied a profession excessive in discipline objectives made (8) in opposition to Occidental. Condron shot 57 % from the sphere (21-for-37), totaling 49 factors, 35 rebounds (9 offensive), three blocks, three steals and two assists.
 
MA JOINS 1,000 POINT CLUB
Senior Sabrina Ma recorded her 1,000th profession level on Nov. 22 in opposition to Air Force, reaching the milestone on a three-pointer late within the fourth quarter. Ma recorded 522 of her factors with the Tritons after spending the primary two seasons at San Jose State and at the moment has 1,110 profession factors.
 
EXPERIENCED ROSTER
UC San Diego returns seven Tritons from the 2024-25 squad that recorded this system’s first 20-win season of the Division I period. Starters Gracie Gallegos and Sabrina Ma return, in addition to All-Big West preseason honoree Erin Condron. Last season Ma was named Big West Newcomer of the Year and All-Big West Honorable Mention alongside Gallegos, who earned a spot on the Big West Championship All-Tournament Team. 
 
FRESH FACES
The Tritons added six gifted newcomers to the squad throughout the offseason, signing two switch scholar-athletes and 4 incoming true freshmen for the 2025-26 season. UC San Diego added 2024-25 Big West Defensive Player of the Year, Makayla Rose (UC Riverside) for her senior season and junior guard Dymonique Maxie (Nevada). Guard Michaela Fairwell (Irmo, S.C.), guard Lev Feiman (Woodland Hills, Calif.), ahead Tatum Jones (Aurora, Colo.) and guard/ahead Niya Price (Lancaster, Calif.) spherical out the freshman class for the Tritons.
 
CONDRON NAMED TO PRESEASON COACHES’ TEAM
Junior ahead Erin Condron was named to the Big West Women’s Basketball Preseason Coaches’ Team, chosen by the convention’s 11 head coaches. Condron had a breakout sophomore season for the Tritons in 2024-25, averaging 8.1 factors and 4.7 rebounds in 18.6 minutes per recreation. Condron appeared in 22 video games after lacking the primary 14 video games as a result of harm, recording 10 double-figure scoring efforts and one double-double.
 
TRITONS PICKED FOURTH IN PRESEASON POLL
The defending Big West champions have been picked to completed fourth within the Big West Preseason Coaches’ Poll, incomes 77 factors and two first-place votes. Hawai’i was picked to complete first with 91 factors and 4 of the 11 first-place votes, adopted carefully by UC Irvine with 90 factors and 4 first-place votes as effectively. UC Davis acquired one first-place vote and 83 factors for third, whereas UC San Diego acquired the remaining two first-place votes to rank fourth.
 
UC Santa Barbara was picked to complete fifth with 61 factors, adopted by Long Beach State (57 factors), UC Riverside (51), Cal Poly (34), CSUN (27), Cal State Fullerton (20), Cal State Bakersfield (14).
 
HISTORY MADE
The Tritons ladies’s basketball group had a historic 2024-25 marketing campaign, successful the Big West Championship because the No. 4 seed and recording the primary 20-win season of this system’s Division I period. UC San Diego made historical past as the primary program to ship each its males’s and ladies’s basketball groups to the NCAA Tournament of their first season of Division I eligibility.
 
WINNING IN THE CLASSROOM
The Tritons excelled within the classroom in 2024-25, with six scholar-athletes being named to the Big West Winter All-Academic Team, together with present Tritons Erin Condron, Gracie Gallegos, Junaé Mahan and Rosa Smith. Additionally, 15 Tritons have been named to the Big West Commissioner’s Honor Roll with 10 incomes Highest Honors (3.51-4.00 GPA) together with Gracie Gallegos, Sabrina Ma, Nicki Polocheck, Rosa Smith and Damilola Sule.
 
UC SAN DIEGO HEADED TO THE WCC
On Sept. 3, 2025, UC San Diego accepted a proper invitation to affix the West Coast Conference (WCC) starting July 1, 2027. UC San Diego will compete in 14 of the West Coast Conference’s 16 sponsored sports activities, together with males’s and ladies’s basketball, males’s and ladies’s soccer, ladies’s volleyball, males’s and ladies’s cross nation, males’s water polo, baseball, softball, males’s and ladies’s tennis, males’s golf and ladies’s rowing. The college stays dedicated to discovering a convention affiliation for its sports activities that won’t compete within the West Coast Conference.
 
Beginning in 2027-28, the WCC membership will encompass: University of California San Diego, Loyola Marymount University, University of the Pacific, Pepperdine University, University of Portland, Saint Mary’s College, University of San Diego, University of San Francisco, Santa Clara University, and Seattle University. UC San Diego will grow to be the primary public establishment within the West Coast Conference because the departure of the University of Nevada-Reno in 1979.
 
ANDY FEE NAMED ATHLETIC DIRECTOR AT UC SAN DIEGO 
On Sept. 10, 2025, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Okay. Khosla introduced the hiring of school sports activities veteran Andy Fee because the Tritons’ new Director of Athletics. Fee will grow to be simply the fourth Director of Athletics at UC San Diego since 1966. Fee joins the Tritons after spending the 2024-25 season as Deputy AD at Seattle University. Prior to Seattle U, Fee spent two years at Washington as Deputy AD and Chief of Staff. 
 
Before relocating to Seattle, Fee spent 5 years as Director of Athletics at Long Beach State from 2017 to 2022. During this time, Long Beach State’s athletic applications discovered nice success as the varsity superior to the postseason in 18 of its 19 sports activities applications in his five-year tenure. The Beach received a pair of nationwide championships in males’s volleyball and claimed The Big West Commissioner’s Cup thrice. 
 
No stranger to convention transition, Fee will assist information the Tritons into the West Coast Conference in 2027-28. He additionally helped information Washington into the Big Ten and Seattle U into the WCC in July.
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After twenty years as one of the vital profitable applications in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program started a brand new period in 2020 as a member of The Big West in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 group and practically 150 particular person nationwide championships throughout its time in Divisions II and III and helped information 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A complete of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, whereas 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the tutorial beliefs of one of many world’s preeminent establishments, graduating at a median price of 91 %, one of many highest charges amongst establishments in any respect divisions.