SCOUTING NEW MEXICO STATE
•    New Mexico State is led by Brooke Atkinson in her third season.
•    Atkinson's squad returns one starter -- Gia Pack. 
•    Pack, a 2018-19 First Team All-WAC selection, was selected as the WAC Preseason Player of the Year. 
•    The Aggies fell in their season opener on Nov. 7 to UC Riverside, 60-58.
•    Redshirt sophomore Aaliyah Prince led the New Mexico State with 24 points against the Highlanders, while Pack grabbed a team-high eight rebounds. 

DOUBLE THE FUN
•    Ezeudu recorded her third straight double-double for the Pioneers in their season opener. 
•    After posting back-to-back double-doubles in their two exhibition games, the freshman scored a team-high 20 points to go along with a game-high 13 rebounds.
•    The Reynoldsburg, Ohio native is averaging 18 points, 12.7 rebounds, and 21.7 minutes per game over the last three games.

2018-19 RECAP
•    Denver finished the season with an 18-14 overall record and 10-6 in Summit League play to finish the regular season in fourth place.
•    After finishing with a winning record last season, the Pioneers posted back-to-back winning marks for the first time since 2010-11 and 2011-12.
•    This is the first time the program has reached 18 wins since the 2011-12 season. It is the first winning record in the Summit League since 2013-14 when Denver joined the conference.
•    The Pioneers advanced to the second round of the WNIT after claiming a first round, 83-75, win at New Mexico. They fell to Idaho, 88-66, in the second round to close out the season.
•    The Crimson and Gold reached postseason play for the third time in school history and first time since 2009-10.

PIONEERS PRESEASON HONORS
•    The Crimson and Gold were picked to finish third in the Summit League Preseason Poll.
•    Seniors Lauren Loven and Madison Nelson were tabbed Preseason All-Summit League First Team.
•    Loven was named to the Anne Meyers Drysdale Award watch list as one of the top-20 shooting guards in women's NCAA Division I college basketball.

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
•    Denver finished with a scoring average of 80.2 points per game, the third highest in school history and 10th best in Summit League history.
•    Last year's squad shot the second best mark in program history and sixth best in Summit League history behind the arc with a 38.6 percent.
•    Turgeon's squad set new program records for points (2,568) and three-pointers made (297). The points mark is 11th, while the three-pointers are sixth best in the Summit League record book.
•    The Pioneers blocked 161 shots to record the ninth highest total in Summit League history.

ROSTER AT A GLANCE
•    The 2019-20 Pioneer roster includes seven returners and five newcomers that is headed by seniors Loven and Nelson, and junior Claire Gritt -- all returning starters.
•    Nelson led Denver last season in scoring (16.5), rebounds (8.9), steals (55), and blocks (34).
•    Loven led the way with for three-pointers made (111) and free throw percentage (97.0).
•    Meghan Boyd, Sophia Zulich, Sam Deem, Ezeudu come in as freshman. Alexius Foster joins Denver as a junior transfer from Dawson Community College.
•    This will be the first season on staff for assistant coaches Crystal Reed and Ellen Holton who both joined the program this past summer.

LEADING THE LEAGUE
•    Last season, the Crimson and Gold led the Summit League in rebounding (1,287), three-point field goal percent (.386), and scoring (80.2).
•    Loven led the league with a 44.4 field goal percent last season -- tied for fourth best in a season in school history and 15th best in conference history.
•    Nelson led the conference with 286 rebounds, the fifth highest mark in school history and tied for the 20th best in Summit League history.

TOP OF THE PACK
•    The 2018-19 Pioneers finished in the top-20 in the nation in four statistical categories -- scoring offense (11th; 80.2), three-point field goals per game (12th; 9.3), three-point field goal percent (3rd; 38.6), blocks per game (20th; 5.0), three-point field goals made (17th; 297), and blocks (19th; 161).
•    Individually, Loven was top-20 in the country in three-point field goal percent (8th; 44.4), three-point field goals per game (6th; 3.47), and three-point field goals made (7th; 111).

LOVEN THE RECORDS
•    Loven now sits in first in program history for career 3-point field goals made (249) and 3-point field goal percent (40.2), while she is fourth in career three-point attempts (619) and 25th in career scoring (1,006).
•    The Scottsdale, Arizona native fired 250 3-pointers and made 111 last season, both new highest marks in school history and Summit League history.
•    The senior guard's 249 made career 3-point field goals are tied for eighth best in league history and her career three-point field goal percent of 40.2 is 13th best in the Summit League record book.

NELSON SHOOTING INTO THE RECORDS
•    The senior forward sits 10th best in school history for career free throws made (229) and career blocked shots (64), while her career free throw attempts (330) are ninth best.
•    Nelson made 136 free throws on 181 attempts, both second best marks in the program record book.
•    Her 527 points is the third highest mark in a season for a Pioneer.

LEADING THE CHARGE
•    Nelson and redshirt junior Briana Johnson were voted the 2019-20 team captains.

UP NEXT
The Pioneers face Wyoming on Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. (MT) in Hamilton Gymnasium.