Nov. 6, 2014
RENO, Nev. - The University of Nevada women's basketball team welcomes the Academy of Art to Lawlor Events Center Friday night, Nov. 7 for a free exhibition contest. Tip-off is slated for 6:30 p.m.
Friday night's match up against the Urban Knights will be the final game tune-up for the Wolf Pack before beginning the 2014-15 regular season next Friday, Nov. 14 at 6:30 p.m. at home against UC Santa Barbara.
Nevada enters Friday night's game having been picked to finish fifth in the Mountain West this season. The Academy of Art was voted to repeat as conference champions in its respective league, the Division II PacWest.
Leading the Wolf Pack once again is head coach Jane Albright, who enters her seventh season at Nevada and her 31st year as a NCAA head coach. Last year, Albright and her coaching staff led the Pack to a third place finish in the Mountain West after going 18-13 overall and 12-6 in conference play.
Nevada returns 11 student-athletes from last year's squad and adds five newcomers to the program. Highlighting the list of returners are three starters from 2013-14 in seniors
Mimi Mungedi and
Emily Burns and junior
T Moe.
Mungedi, the MW Co-Defensive Player of the Year, set a Nevada single-season blocking record last year and is 34 blocks shy of establishing the career mark. Burns, another blocking threat, enters her senior year in the top-10 all-time in blocks and finished last season ranked in the top-15 in the league in rebounding. As a sophomore, Moe averaged double-digits with 10.9 points per game and finished the year as one of the MW's top free throw shooters.
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