End of Season Notes

WRAP IT UP
Utah State women's basketball ended the 2017-18 season going 7-23 overall and posting a 5-13 Mountain West record. The Aggies finished in a three-way tie for eighth place in the conference standings, ending the season in a first-round loss at the Mountain West Championships.

THE 1,000 POINT CLUB
Junior guard Rachel Brewster is the newest member of the 1,000 point club at Utah State. With her nine points in the regular-season finale at UNLV, Brewster became the 10th player in program history to reach the 1,000-point milestone. She currently ranks 10th on the career scoring list with 1,016 points.

A NEW BEST
Junior center Deja Mason is the new all-time blocks leader at Utah State with 142 in her three seasons. Mason set the record with three blocks in the loss at Nevada, passing Nicole Johnson, who held the record of 133 since 2010. This year, Mason recorded 52 blocks, matching her total from the 2016-17 season.

DISHING OUT DIMES
Sophomore guard Eliza West continued to lead the Aggies in the assist column with 127 on the season. She tallied a career-high 10 in the win against San José State, becoming the first USU player to record double-digit assists since 2012. West currently ranks seventh all-time at Utah State with 73 career assists.

OFF THE GLASS
Sophomore guard/forward Shannon Dufficy secured her spot on the career rebounds list in the regular-season finale at UNLV. Dufficy currently ranks 10th with 499 rebounds. Additionally, Dufficy has played in enough games to rank on the rebounding average record list, where she is tied for fourth, averaging 8.5 boards per game.

RANKING FROM LONG-RANGE
Junior guard Rachel Brewster and sophomore guard Olivia West both rank on the top-10 record list for 3-point field goals made and attempted. Brewster has made 94 3-pointers in her career, the third-most of any USU player. West has hit 71 shots from behind the arc, ranking 10th. Brewster has attempted 325 3-point field goals to rank fourth, while West ranks eighth in the same category with 209 attempted shots.

SHOOTING STRONG
Sophomore guard/forward Hailey Bassett led the team and ranked fifth in the Mountain West in field goal percentage this season. Bassett shot 50.2 percent (114-of-227) from the floor, which ties for ninth on the Utah State single-season record list.

HELP HER OUT
In the Feb. 27 win against San José State, Utah State posted a season-high 24 assists. The 24 are the most by the Aggie team since Dec. 19, 2014, when the team tied the program record of 28 assists in a game at Sacramento State. Sophomore guard Eliza West led that category with a career-best 10, becoming the first USU player to record 10 or more since the 2011-12 season.

LIGHTING UP THE SCOREBOARD
The Aggies' 86 points in the Feb. 27 win over San José State are the most by the team against a Division I team this season. Additionally, the total is the most scored against a Mountain West opponent since March 1, 2014, when USU put up 96 points in another game against the Spartans.

BACK-TO-BACK
As the regular season wound down, Utah State posted two wins in a row for the first time during the year. The Aggies defeated Air Force (57-55) on Feb. 24 and San José State (86-78) Feb. 27, both at home.

WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGING
Aggie fans will see two familiar faces with new last names next season. Sophomore guard/forward Hailey Bassett and redshirt sophomore guard Lindsey Jensen both recently got engaged. Bassett will marry Wade Meacham on May 25, while Jensen will marry Dalton Baker on June 16. Meacham and Baker both play on the Utah State football team.

RELYING ON THE STARTERS
Utah State's starting five made the most significant impact on the floor this season. The Aggie starters played 68.2 percent (4,124) of the minutes while scoring 72.2 percent (1,279) of the points and tallying 65.0 percent (664) of the team's rebounds.

AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN WEST
Utah State has a 90-153 all-time record against current members of the Mountain West. In their fifth year as a member of the conference, the Aggies have gone 32-47 in Mountain West play, while posting a 2-4 record in Mountain West Championships games. Utah State has winning records against Air Force (9-4), Nevada (17-12) and San José State (17-10).

YOU SAY GOODBYE
Utah State will look to return its entire team next season, as there were no seniors on the 2017-18 roster.

I SAY HELLO
The Aggies will add at least two players to the roster for the 2018-19 season. Emma Dudley and Steph Gorman have signed letters of intent, while the coaching staff may add one more player in the off-season. Dudley is a 6-foot-1 forward from Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., where she plays at Santa Fe Christian High School. Gorman is a 5-foot-10 guard, who adds to the Australian pipeline at Utah State as she joins the Aggies from Wodonga, Victoria, Australia and attends Wodong Senior Secondary College.

MOUNTAIN WEST REPRESENTS
Seven Mountain West teams played in a postseason tournament. As winners of the Mountain West Championships, Boise State represented the league in the NCAA Tournament, falling to Louisville in the first round. New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado State and UNLV each played in the WNIT, while Nevada and Fresno State played in the Women's Basketball Invitational.