TUCSON, Ariz. – The Arizona women's hoops team (2-4) is back in McKale Center on Sunday afternoon for a matchup with San Diego State (4-2) at 2 p.m. MST.
 
Sunday, Dec. 3 at 2 p.m. MST
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QUICK NOTES

• Arizona is looking to get off the schneid on Sunday after four-straight losses, with the last coming to Long Beach State on Tuesday night. The Wildcats and the Aztecs are facing off against each other for the 18th time in history and the first since 2009.
   
• Jalea Bennett is on a roll in the last two weeks as she has averaged 17.8 points per game on 47% shooting in her last four contests to go along with 5.3 rebounds. On the season, Bennett averages 14.7 points, which would be a huge career high for the senior. She scored a career-high 24 points on Tuesday against Long Beach State.
   
• Marlee Kyles has been a scoring fiend off the bench this year as she scores 13.2 points per game in 25.2 minutes per game. The freshman has games of 17, 18 and 19 points this season with her career-high coming against San Diego State on Tuesday.
   
• Sam Thomas and Kyles are the first pair freshmen to have both scored at least 19 points in one game in the first six games of the season since 2001 when Dee-Dee Wheeler and Robin Roberson did it.

Last Five vs. San Diego State
11/21/09: at SDSU 57, UA 38
11/23/98: at UA 76, SDSU 69
12/19/96: UA 66. At SDSU 52
12/11/93: UA 63, at SDSU 58
2/14/85: SDSU 63, at UA 56
 
Scouting the Aztecs
San Diego State is coming off a narrow win over San Diego on Wednesday to give them a 4-2 record in the month of November. McKynzie Fort leads the Aztecs in scoring at 16 points per game while adding in just over five rebounds and just under four assists per game. Lexy Thorderson is deadly from the outside as she scores 12 points per game and shoots 50% form beyond the arc. Arizona and San Diego State have faced one time in the 21st century and that was back in 2009. Arizona head coach Adia Barnes faced the Aztecs twice as a player and won both matchups.
 
We See Ya JaLea
JaLea Bennett is one of the two seniors on the team (Kat Wright) and will be looked upon as a leader for the young group of Wildcats this year. Along with Destiny Graham, they are the two remaining student-athletes that played for former head coach Niya Butts. Bennett has turned up the scoring in the past week and a half as she averages 17.8 points per game in her last four contests. She scored a career-high 24 points against Long Beach State (11/28) and is now 11th in the Pac-12 in scoring at 14.7 points per game.
 
Thomas Does It All
Freshman forward Sam Thomas has been Arizona's version of Draymond Green through the first three games of her collegiate career as she has averaged 9.7 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.3 blocks and 2.2 steals per game while being off the floor for just 15 minutes this season. She is sixth in the Pac-12 and first among all freshmen in rebounding, sixth in the Pac-12 and first among freshmen in steals, and second in the Pac-12 and first among freshmen in blocks. Thomas had a monster game against TCU (11/24) as she scored 20 points on 7-10 shooting with seven rebounds and two blocks and recorded 11 rebounds against Long Beach State (11/28). She is the first freshman since Taryn Griffey to score 20 points in a game and is the first freshman to have two double-figure rebounding games in the first six games of the season since Erica Barnes in 2010.
 
Marlee Gets Buckets
Freshman Marlee Kyles is Arizona's second leading scorer through the first five games of the season by averaging 13.2 points per game off the bench while playing 25.2 minutes per game, which is the sixth-fewest on the team. She scored 17 in the season opener against Iona (11/10), had 18 against Loyola Marymount (11/22) and had a career-high 9 against Long Beach State (11/28). Kyles' 79 points through six games is the most to start a career since Shawntinice Polk had 113 in her first six career games back in 2002. She is first amongst all freshmen in scoring in the Pac-12.
 
It's Her Destiny
Destiny Graham has stepped up her game so far in 2017. She is third on the team in scoring with 10.3 points per game to go along with 5.7 rebounds per game, which is second on the team. Graham scored a career-high 17 points against CSUN (11/25) and tied her career-high with 11 rebounds against TCU (11/24). The junior has done a good job of getting to the line and making her free throws as she is 22-25 (88%) from the charity stripe, which is first in the Pac-12. Coming into the 2017 season, Graham had scored in double-figures just three times and has already scored in double-figures three times this season.
 
Buenos Dias, Lucia
It's hard to believe, but Lucia Alonso is already the third-longest tenured Wildcat on the 2017-18 roster as a sophomore. The Leon, Spain native scored 5.3 points, dished out 2.4 assists and shot 43% (25-58) from downtown (top mark on the team) during her freshman campaign. Her 29.6 minutes per game were also second on the team as she started 27 of Arizona's 30 games, which is the fifth-most any UA freshman as started. Alosno is an astounding 9-15 (60%) from downtown, which is first in the Pac-12 and is fifth in steals (2.7). Against Utah State (11/17), she tied her career highs with 15 points, four made three-pointers and four steals and followed that up with 13 points and three made threes. Against Long Beach State, she hit double-figures for the third time this season with 11 points and dished out a season-high five assists. Alonso also leads the conference with 38.0 minutes per game and has been on the bench for just 12 minutes this year.
 
Your Newest WildKAT
After visiting campus this past April, Kat Wright decided to finish out her college career at the University of Arizona. A transfer from Florida Atlantic University, Wright comes in with 145 career made three-pointers, which would be sixth all-time in Arizona history. Wright was forced to sit out the 2016-17 season due to injury, but during her junior year in 2015-16, Wright lit it up as she made 87 trey balls on 40% shooting while scoring 11.7 points per game. To put that into perspective, only one Wildcat has made more than 82 three-pointers in one season, and that was Lisa Griffith wo made 92 in the 1996-97 season. The highlight of her career came on Jan. 30, 2016 when she drained 11 three-pointers against Charlotte, which is the second-most made three-pointers in NCAA history in a single game. Wright has made at least one three-pointer in each game this season and ranks eighth in made triples in the Pac-12.
 
They're Called Free Throws for a Reason
Arizona has done a good job of converting their free throws this season as they are shooting at an 78% clip, which is first in the Pac-12. Last season, the Wildcats shot 70% from the charity stripe. Destiny Graham and Kat Wright are both shooting above 88% from the free throw and are both ranked in the top five in the Pac-12. 
 
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