LA JOLLA, Calif.— UC San Diego women's basketball will travel to the Pacific Northwest for a pair of games against No. 22 Washington and Portland State over the holiday weekend.
 
The Tritons (3-3) will take on the Huskies (6-0) on Friday at 7 p.m. and face the Vikings (1-4) on Sunday at 2 p.m. Friday's game will be streamed on B1G+ and Sunday will be broadcast on ESPN+. Live statistics will be available for both games via UCSDTritons.com.
 
DETAILS
Game 7
UC San Diego (3-3) at Washington (6-0)
Friday, Nov. 28 | 7 p.m.
Alaska Airlines Arena (9,268) | Seattle, Wash.
All-time series: First meeting
Watch on B1G+ | Live Stats
 
Game 8
UC San Diego at Portland State (1-4)
Sunday, Nov. 30 | 2 p.m.
Viking Pavilion (3,400) | Portland, Ore.
All-time series: First meeting
Watch on ESPN+ | Live Stats
 

ABOUT THE TRITONS	ABOUT WASHINGTON	ABOUT PORTLAND ST.
Roster | Schedule | Stats	Roster | Schedule | Stats	Roster | Schedule | Stats
Overall: 3-3	Overall: 6-0	Overall: 1-4
24-25 Big West: 13-7	24-25 Big Ten: 9-9	24-25 Big Sky: 1-17
Home: 3-1	Home: 5-0	Home: 1-0
Away: 0-2	Away: 1-0	Away: 0-4
Neutral: 0-0	Neutral: 0-0	Neutral: 0-0
vs. Ranked Opponents: 0-0	vs. Ranked Opponents: 0-0	vs. Ranked Opponents: 0-0
Streak: W2	Streak: W6	Streak: L3

 
LAST TIME OUT
After an impressive 22-4 first quarter, the Tritons led from start to finish in a 55-43 victory over Air Force on Saturday. UC San Diego followed up with an 87-39 victory over Occidental on Monday, with all twelve Tritons scoring the contest. Sabrina Ma recorded her first 20-point game of the season, while Erin Condron tallied her second career double-double with a career-high 11 rebounds.
 
UC San Diego 55, Air Force 43
Points: Condron (12); Rose (11); Feiman (10); Smith (9)
Rebounds: Rose (7); Condron, Ma, Maxie, Smith (5)
Assists: Rose (5); Condron, Feiman (3)
Steals: Rose (3); Ma (2)
Blocks: Condron (3)
 
UC San Diego 87, Occidental 39
Points: Ma (22); Condron (17); Smith (11)
Rebounds: Condron (11); Ma (7); Fairwell, Polocheck (5)
Assists: Smith (8); Maxie (4)
Steals: Rose (5), Ma, Maxie, Price (1)
Blocks: Price (2); Jones, Mahan, Maxie (1)
 
UP NEXT
UC San Diego will return to La Jolla for the first game of the Big West schedule, taking on Long Beach State on Dec. 6 at 1 p.m. for Bold Week. The game will be broadcast regionally on Spectrum SportsNet and live statistics will be available via UCSDTritons.com.
 
TRITON TAKEAWAYS
The Tritons currently rank second in the Big West in turnover margin (7.50), 34th nationally in the same category and second in the conference in steals (63 total, 10.5 per game). UC San Diego is forcing 21.50 turnovers per game, good enough for second in the Big West and 68th nationally. Makayla Rose ranks third in the Big West with 3.0 steals per game and Dymonique Maxie ranks fifth with 2.3. 
 
DEPENDABLE DEFENSE 
UC San Diego currently ranks second in the Big West in scoring defense, allowing 59.3 points per game. The Tritons are holding opponents to a 26.2 three-point percentage which ranks second in the conference and 36.3 percent from the field to rank fourth.
 
MA JOINS 1,000 POINT CLUB
Senior Sabrina Ma recorded her 1,000th career point on Nov. 22 against Air Force, reaching the milestone on a three-pointer late in the fourth quarter. Ma recorded 435 of her points with the Tritons after spending the first two seasons at San Jose State.
 
EXPERIENCED ROSTER
UC San Diego returns seven Tritons from the 2024-25 squad that recorded the program's first 20-win season of the Division I era. Starters Gracie Gallegos and Sabrina Ma return, as well as 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 talented newcomers to the squad during the offseason, signing two transfer scholar-athletes and four 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.), forward Tatum Jones (Aurora, Colo.) and guard/forward Niya Price (Lancaster, Calif.) round out the freshman class for the Tritons.
 
CONDRON NAMED TO PRESEASON COACHES' TEAM
Junior forward Erin Condron was named to the Big West Women's Basketball Preseason Coaches' Team, selected by the conference's 11 head coaches. Condron had a breakout sophomore season for the Tritons in 2024-25, averaging 8.1 points and 4.7 rebounds in 18.6 minutes per game. Condron appeared in 22 games after missing the first 14 games due to injury, recording 10 double-figure scoring efforts and one double-double.
 
TRITONS PICKED FOURTH IN PRESEASON POLL
The defending Big West champions were picked to finished fourth in the Big West Preseason Coaches' Poll, earning 77 points and two first-place votes. Hawai'i was picked to finish first with 91 points and four of the 11 first-place votes, followed closely by UC Irvine with 90 points and four first-place votes as well. UC Davis received one first-place vote and 83 points for third, while UC San Diego received the remaining two first-place votes to rank fourth.
 
UC Santa Barbara was picked to finish fifth with 61 points, followed by Long Beach State (57 points), UC Riverside (51), Cal Poly (34), CSUN (27), Cal State Fullerton (20), Cal State Bakersfield (14).
 
HISTORY MADE
The Tritons women's basketball team had a historical 2024-25 campaign, winning the Big West Championship as the No. 4 seed and recording the first 20-win season of the program's Division I era. UC San Diego made history as the first program to send both its men's and women's basketball teams to the NCAA Tournament in their first season of Division I eligibility.
 
WINNING IN THE CLASSROOM
The Tritons excelled in the classroom in 2024-25, with six scholar-athletes being named to the Big West Winter All-Academic Team, including current Tritons Erin Condron, Gracie Gallegos, Junaé Mahan and Rosa Smith. Additionally, 15 Tritons were named to the Big West Commissioner's Honor Roll with 10 earning Highest Honors (3.51-4.00 GPA) including 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 formal invitation to join the West Coast Conference (WCC) beginning July 1, 2027. UC San Diego will compete in 14 of the West Coast Conference's 16 sponsored sports, including men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, men's and women's cross country, men's water polo, baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's golf and women's rowing. The university remains committed to finding a conference affiliation for its sports that will not compete in the West Coast Conference.
 
Beginning in 2027-28, the WCC membership will consist of: 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 become the first public institution in the West Coast Conference since 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 K. Khosla announced the hiring of college sports veteran Andy Fee as the Tritons' new Director of Athletics. Fee will become just 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 five years as Director of Athletics at Long Beach State from 2017 to 2022. During this time, Long Beach State's athletic programs found great success as the school advanced to the postseason in 18 of its 19 sports programs in his five-year tenure. The Beach won a pair of national championships in men's volleyball and claimed The Big West Commissioner's Cup three times. 
 
No stranger to conference transition, Fee will help guide the Tritons into the West Coast Conference in 2027-28. He also helped guide Washington into the Big Ten and Seattle U into the WCC in July.
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program began a new era in 2020 as a member of The Big West in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 84 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 38 have earned prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions.