RENO, Nev. – After a week on the road, the Nevada women's basketball team returns home to Lawlor Events Center for a two-game Mountain West series against Wyoming this weekend.

The first of the two games will be held this Friday, Jan. 22 at 5 p.m. and the second game will take place this Sunday, Jan. 24 at 12:30 p.m. Nevada enters the weekend looking to snap a two-game slide after suffering a pair of losses at Fresno State last week. Wyoming has won two in a row after sweeping Air Force last week.

Entering the weekend, Nevada boasts the top free throw shooting team in the Mountain West and one of the top teams in the nation in that category. The Wolf Pack is shooting 75.3 percent from the line this season, tops in the conference and in the top 50 nationally. Nevada is led in that area by senior LaPraisjah Johnson, who has connected on 87.9 percent of her free throws this season, missing just four from the foul line.
 
ON THE AIR
Josh Suchon will have the call in Northern Nevada on CBS Sports Radio 94.1 FM and 1450 AM with a 20 minute pregame show prior to tipoff for both games. Fans can also tune in to listen to Suchon's broadcast online at TuneIn.com or via the TuneIn app.
 
Both games will also be live streamed on the Mountain West Network. Sunday's game can also be seen locally on Nevada Sports Net (Ch. 21).

QUICK HITS
• With seven wins, Levens will reach 100 victories in her Division I career
• Nevada is 1st in the MW, and in the top 50 nationally, in free throw percentage
• Da'Ja Hamilton is in the top 10 in the MW in scoring and assists
• Nia Alexander is 13 points shy of hitting 700 in her career
• Nevada is searching for its first win over Wyoming since 2018

SERIES HISTORY
Nevada and Wyoming have been playing one another over the span of nearly 40 years and 25 games. The Cowgirls hold the edge in the all-time series having won 18 of those previous 25 contests. It's been Wyoming's series in recent memory too as the Cowgirls are 5-1 since Nevada head coach Amanda Levens took over the program in 2017-18. That one win for the Wolf Pack though was a big one. In March of 2018 during the Mountain West tournament, in Levens' first season at the helm, the seventh-seeded Wolf Pack upset the No. 3 seeded Cowgirls in the semifinals and punched a ticket to its first ever appearance in the MW championship game.

LAST TIME OUT (L, 75-61 at Fresno State)
• Pack was 11-of-14 from the free throw line
• Da'Ja Hamilton led the team in scoring with 14 points
• Megan Ormiston and LaPraisjah Johnson added 13 points
• Nevada shot over 40 percent for just the fourth time this season
• Pack shot 62.5 percent in the third quarter
• Kenna Holt grabbed a season-high seven rebounds

HAMILTON MAKING A NAME FOR HERSELF
Da'Ja Hamilton, who has started in all but one game this season, has established herself as one of the top guards in the Mountain West. Hamilton currently leads the team in scoring averaging 14.5 points per game and also leads with 37 assists. She's currently 10th in the conference in scoring and her assists output has her ranked in the top 15 in the league. In the win over Fresno Pacific she produced the first 20-point game of her career, finishing with a career-high 24 points. She has scored in double figures in nine of the Pack's 11 games, including a stretch of four consecutive heading into this weekend against Wyoming. Hamilton has been the Pack's top 3-point shooting threat, having made 17 shots from beyond the arc and boasts an assist to turnover ratio of 1.4.

STRONG PLAY FROM P
Eleven games into the start of the 2020-21 season, LaPraisjah Johnson is making the most of her senior season. The Texas native is averaging 9.5 points per game, compared to just 1.9 points per game in seven total appearances last season. In the second game against New Mexico, Johnson scored a team and career-high 17 points and was a perfect 8-for-8 from the free throw line. She also tied her career-high of seven rebounds in that game and was 4-of-7 from the field. Johnson scored a total of 13 points all of last season and eclipsed 100 points in her Wolf Pack career last week during the series at Fresno State.

MILESTONE WATCH
Nevada has a few players who are approaching milestones, some of whom could hit those numbers over the span of the next two games.

• Leta Otuafi - 35 points shy of 100
• Bethany Carstens - 34 points shy of 400
• Da'Ja Hamilton - 6 points shy of 500
• Nia Alexander - 13 points for 700

HOLT SHINES AGAINST SAN DIEGO STATE
Freshman Kenna Holt provided an offensive and defensive spark coming off the bench to help the Wolf Pack to a 66-59 win over San Diego State on Jan. 9. The win snapped a four-game losing streak for the Pack and was Nevada's first Mountain West win of the season.
 
The Reno native saw nearly 30 minutes on the floor coming off the bench and scored a season-high eight points. She connected on 2-of-4 from the 3-point line, including the go-ahead triple with 4:12 left in the fourth quarter that gave the lead back to Nevada for good and halted any SDSU momentum. Holt also added two rebounds, two assists and did not turn the ball over in the victory.

ALEXANDER, HAMILTON APPROACHING MILESTONES
As we head into this weekend's matchup against Wyoming, senior Nia Alexander and junior Da'Ja Hamilton are inching closer to personal milestones. Alexander, who began her career at the University of San Francisco and played two seasons for the Dons, is just 13 points away from reaching 700 in her collegiate career. The Washington native scored 383 points in her two seasons at USF and has scored 304 to date at Nevada. Her most productive season so far came during the 2018-19 season with the Dons where she produced 224 points and shot over 45 percent from the field.

Hamilton, in her junior season, needs just six points to reach the 500-point mark in her collegiate career. She is in the middle of her most offensively productive season as she leads the team and ranks 10th in the Mountain West averaging 14.5 points per game through 11 games this season. Coming into the 2020-21 season, her highest scoring average for a season was 6.2 points per game, which came from the 2019-20 campaign.

UP NEXT: ROAD SWING
As it stands right now, with San Jose State canceling the remainder of its women's basketball series, Nevada will play three Mountain West series on the road following this weekend's home games against Wyoming. The Wolf Pack will first travel to Las Vegas next week to face in-state rival UNLV Jan. 30 and Feb. 1 and then to Boise, Idaho to square off against Boise State Feb. 5 and 7. The Pack was supposed to host SJSU Feb. 13 and 15, but now has that week open, and will hit the road once more to play at Colorado State Feb. 19 and 21.