Rams fall at New Mexico, 54-48, in final game of regular season

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The Colorado State women's basketball team fell to the New Mexico Lobos, 54-48, in the Rams' final game of the 2017-18 regular season on Tuesday night from Dreamstyle Arena - The Pit.

With the result, Colorado State (19-10, 11-7 MW) will be the No. 5 seed at the 2018 Mountain West Women's Basketball Championship and will face the No. 4-seeded Fresno State Bulldogs at 3:30 p.m. MT/2:30 p.m. PT on Tuesday, March 6 from the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev.

Senior guard Hannah Tvrdy led the Rams offensively with 19 points on 7-for-10 shooting along with four rebounds and three assists. Senior guard Stine Austgulen joined her in double-digit scoring, adding 11 points on 4-for-6 shooting and four rebounds. Each of Tvrdy and Austgulen played the entire 40 minutes on Tuesday. Junior forward Annie Brady corralled a game-high 16 rebounds (seven offensive) and blocked three shots in 24 minutes.

CSU's best offensive quarter by far was the first, as the Rams jumped out to an 18-14 lead behind 53.8 percent (7-for-13) shooting in the opening period. However, that offense stagnated over the next several minutes as the Rams and Lobos (21-9, 9-8 MW) combined to turn the ball over 11 times in the second quarter and eight times before the media timeout at the 4:40 mark. The only field goal made by the Rams over the first seven minutes was by Brady at the 5:41 mark, allowing the Lobos to take the lead at 21-20 with 2:49 to go in the first half.

Tvrdy scored on a layup just 17 seconds later to give the Rams the lead again, but the upper hand went back to the Lobos less than a minute later. New Mexico's Cherise Beynon cashed in on a pair of free throw attempts at the 1:47 mark in the second quarter, as the Lobos took the lead, 23-22, and never gave it back. From that point, UNM grew that lead to 41-34 after three quarters and then to as large as 54-42 with 5:14 remaining in regulation, but did not score for the remainder of the game. The Rams got threes from Austgulen and Tvrdy to cut that lead in half with 2:30 to go, but were unable to generate any additional offense and the score went final at 54-48.

IN THEIR WORDS
Colorado State head coach Ryun Williams
"We gave them seven extra possessions because of turnovers, so that (makes this) an even more outstanding defensive effort. I told the kids in the locker room keep doing what we're doing. All we can do is keep getting the shots that we're getting. Our execution is just fine. We're getting the looks we need to get and they'll start making them. The thing we did do was that we played with some confidence. We didn't panic or anything like that in this tough environment. We shot to make it. We drove aggressively. We've just got to convert some more baskets."

NOTES
- Tuesday's result snapped a streak of five consecutive wins against New Mexico.
- Annie Brady's 16 rebounds are her second-most in a single game this season. The junior forward had 17 against Morgan State on Dec. 21.
- Brady's seven offensive rebounds marked a new single-game season/career-high. Her previous best was six against Nevada on Saturday, Feb. 24.
- Brady's 16-rebound performance on Tuesday marked her sixth game in double-digit rebounds this season.
- Hannah Tvrdy recorded her 17th game this season with 10 or more points.
- Stine Austgulen generated double-figure points for the 11th time this season.

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