Ladies’s Hoops Hits the Street for Video games at Seattle Pacific and Montana State Billings

FAIRBANKS – The Alaska Nanooks girls’s basketball crew is again on the street for its remaining street journey of the season, dealing with Seattle Pacific on Thursday, Feb. 19, and Montana State Billings on Saturday, Feb. 21.

Thursday, Feb. 19
at Seattle Pacific | 6:30 p.m. AKST | Watch Here | Live Stats
Brougham Pavilion | Seattle, Wash.

Saturday, Feb. 21
at Montana State Billings | 3:15 p.m. AKST | Watch Here | Live Stats
Alterowitz Gymnasium | Billings, Mont.

Last Time Out
The Nanooks dropped each their contests final week, falling to Simon Fraser 92-54 on Thursday and to Western Washington 60-28 on Saturday. Tamai Mancuso led the Nanooks in scoring in each video games, placing up 27 factors vs. Simon Fraser and 7 vs. Western Washington.

The Nanooks opened their recreation vs. the Red Leafs by grabbing a 10-6 lead, with Mancuso flattening a pair of threes and including a put-back layup to assist the ‘Nooks construct their benefit. However, Simon Fraser ended the quarter on a 9-0 run, and Alaska discovered itself down 15-10 after the opening 10 minutes. They have been outscored 31-12 within the second quarter and couldn’t get again into the competition.

The Nanooks scored simply six factors within the opening quarter vs. the Vikings, with Emily Freeman accounting for all of the scoring with a pair of threes, they usually trailed 16-6 on the finish of the primary. The offensive struggles continued into the second, with the Nanooks posting simply 5 factors, they usually entered the locker room down 31-11. The Nanooks posted 17 extra factors within the remaining two quarters and fell by 32.

#NookayNotes

• Tamai Mancuso is Alaska’s main scorer this season, posting 14.4 factors per recreation to place her seventh within the GNAC. She is flattening 2.1 threes per recreation at a 30.1% clip, rating fourth and sixth within the convention, respectively.
• Pearle Green is connecting on 1.6 photographs from past the arc, which places her eleventh within the GNAC.
• Genevieve Velasquez leads the squad with 4.6 rebounds per recreation and has tallied a team-high 28 steals this season.
• Emily Freeman has dished out 46 assists up to now, which is essentially the most by a Nanook.
• Amelia Brady has blocked a team-best 13 photographs in 2025-26.
• The Nanooks are averaging 21.1 bench factors per recreation, which ranks second within the GNAC and 89th in Division II.

Meet the Opponents
Seattle Pacific Falcons (6-17, 3-11 GNAC)
Head Coach: Karen Byers (2nd Season)

• The Falcons have dropped 5 straight getting into the week, together with falling to Northwest Nazarene 93-57 final Thursday and to No. 15 Central Washington 69-53 on Saturday.
• They are led by junior guard Layne Kearns, who’s averaging a team-high 12.9 factors per recreation this season. Junior ahead Grace Leasure is the GNAC’s prime shot blocker, averaging 2.2 rejections per recreation to place her 14th in Division II.
• As a crew, the Falcons are one of many prime shot-blocking groups within the nation, rating 14th in DII with 4.7 blocks per recreation.

Montana State Billings Yellowjackets (14-13, 6-8 GNAC)
Head Coach: Kevin Woodin (twenty second season)

• The Yellowjackets dropped each their video games final week, falling to No. 15 Central Washington 73-65 in extra time on Thursday and to Northwest Nazarene 71-44 on Saturday.
• They are led by freshman ahead Cassie Chesnut, who’s scoring a team-high 12.4 factors per recreation. She ranks fifth within the GNAC in rebounds per recreation at 8.5 and is obstructing the fourth-most photographs per recreation within the convention with 1.3.
• The Yellowjackets are grabbing a GNAC-best 14.2 offensive rebounds per recreation, which ranks forty fourth in DII.

GNAC Standings

1. Central Washington (22-3, 13-2 GNAC)
2. Western Washington (20-6, 12-3 GNAC)
3. Saint Martin’s (15-8, 11-3 GNAC)
4. Northwest Nazarene (16-7, 11-4 GNAC)
5. Alaska Anchorage (14-9, 6-8 GNAC)
6. Montana State Billings (14-13, 6-8 GNAC)
7. Western Oregon (11-11, 6-8 GNAC)
8. Simon Fraser (9-17, 4-11 GNAC)
9. Seattle Pacific (6-17, 3-11 GNAC)
10. Alaska (0-22, 0-14 GNAC)

What’s Next
The ‘Nooks return dwelling for his or her remaining two video games of the 2025-26 season, taking up Saint Martin’s on Thursday, Feb. 26, and Western Oregon on Saturday, Feb. 28.

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