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Metro State will wrap up the regular season on the road with games at Colorado State-Pueblo and UC-Colorado Springs on Friday and Saturday.

Notes:
RECENT NOTES
•    Metro State is 9-4 over its past 13 games, allowing 59.0 points per game and a .399 field goal percentage with a +3.5 rebounding margin and +2.9 turnover margin in those games.
•    Metro State is 4-9 in games decided by 10 points or less, but has won three of its past four.
•    Kya DeGarmo (Albuquerque, N.M./Eldorado H.S.) was named RMAC defensive player of the week on Feb. 10 after averaging 3.0 steals in road wins at Colorado Mines and Colorado Christian.
•    DeGarmo is averaging 9.9 points, 3.9 assists and 3.3 rebounds, while shooting 19-of-40 (.475) from 3-point range over the past nine games.
•    DeGarmo scored a career-high 22 points and hit 5-of-6 3-pointers in an 81-68 win at Colorado Christian on Feb. 8.
•    Freshman Jenae Paine (Oregon City, Ore./Oregon City H.S.) broke out Dec. 20-21, averaging 12.5 points and hitting 5-of-9 (.556) 3-point field goals off the bench.
•    Paine helped MSU rally from a 14-point deficit with 12 minutes left on Dec. 21 at Chadron State in a 67-60 win.
•    Paine is averaging 7.8 points and shooting 44.8 percent over the past 14 games and made her first career start on Jan. 4 at Western New Mexico.
•    Paine scored a season-high 20 points off the bench in a 72-55 win over Colorado Christian on Jan. 10, hitting 4-of-4 from 3-point range.
•    Paine has missed the past three games and will be out for the remainder of the season with an injury.
•    Kaysha Fox (Tacoma, Wash./Woodrow Wilson H.S.) had four steals and four points in her first career start at CSC.
•    Fox has made 7-of-16 (.438) 3-point field goals over the past nine games
•    Elena Velasquez (Albuquerque, N.M./Sandia H.S.) scored a career-high 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting on Dec. 13 in a win over UC-Colorado Springs.
•    Velasquez is averaging 11.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists over the past two games.
•    Tai Jensen (Troy, Idaho/Troy H.S.) tallied career highs of 24 points and 11 rebounds in her first career start on Dec. 14 against CSU-Pueblo.
•    Amy Nelson (Richmond, Utah/Sky View H.S.) broke out of a shooting slump on Jan. 11 against Colorado Mines, shooting 8-of-10 and scoring 17 points.
•    Fawn Brady (Grand Junction, Colo./Grand Junction H.S.) and Deni Jacobs (Plains, Kan./Southwestern Heights H.S.) both had career nights on Jan. 17 at Adams State as Brady had game highs of 22 points and 11 rebounds (both career highs) and shot 8-of-12 and Jacobs had a career-high 17 points on 8-of-9 shooting.
•    Jacobs set a new career high with 22 points on 8-of-14 shooting in an 83-62 win over Chadron State on Jan. 31.
•    Jacobs is averaging 9.4 points and 5.5 rebounds over the past 11 games, shooting 50.0 percent from the floor and 18-of-19 (.947) at the line.
•    Brady is shooting 18-of-21 (.857) at the line of the past 11 games.
•    Metro State snapped a five-game road losing streak with a 67-60 win at Chadron State on Dec. 21, the longest road losing streak since 2003-04.
•    Cassie Lambrecht (Colorado Springs/Golden H.S.) was named RMAC offensive player of the week on Nov. 25 after the season's first two games.
•    Lambrecht averaged 18.0 points and shot 47.6 percent from the floor, 45.5 percent from 3-point range and 91.7 percent at the free throw line over the first two games this season.
•    Lambrecht is averaging 14.0 points and 4.8 rebounds, while shooting 40.9 percent over the past four games.

EXHIBITION GAMES
•    Metro State went 2-0 in exhibition games this season.
•    Amy Nelson (Richmond, Utah/Sky View H.S.) was the leading scorer for the Roadrunners, averaging 12.0 points and 5.5 rebounds.
•    Elena Velasquez (Albuquerque, N.M./Sandia H.S.) averaged 11.5 points off the bench.
•    Fawn Brady (Grand Junction, Colo./Grand Junction H.S.) averaged 9.0 points and 4.0 rebounds.
•    The Roadrunners forced an average of 22.0 turnovers.

DOMINATING THE CLASSROOM
• Metro State had a 3.40 team GPA during the fall semester in 2013.
•    In addition, seven of the team's 11 players were named to the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (3.5 GPA  or higher for the semester):
•    Amy Nelson (Richmond, Utah/Sky View H.S.) (4.0, business management major)
•    Kya DeGarmo (Albuquerque, N.M./Eldorado H.S.) (4.0, human nutrition)
•    Deni Jacobs (Plains, Kan./Southwestern Heights H.S.) (4.0, psychology)
•    Luisa Tago (Medford, Ore./South Medford H.S.) (3.91, medicine)
•    Fawn Brady (Grand Junction, Colo./Grand Junction H.S.) (3.78, mathematics)
•    Cassie Lambrecht (Colorado Springs/Golden H.S.) (3.78, therapeutic recreation)
•    Tai Jensen (Troy, Idaho/Troy H.S.) (3.56, Education)
•    Nelson (3.81 cumulative GPA), Lambrecht (3.74), Jensen (3.59) and Elena Velasquez (Albuquerque, N.M./Sandia H.S.) (3.33) were named to the RMAC all-academic team.