The Warriors will take a break from all of the traveling this weekend with a pair of home games against Cal State East Bay and Cal State Monterey Bay.

This Week's Opponents

Friday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Cal State East Bay PIONEERS (5-9, 4-6 CCAA)
Series Notes: The Warriors have dominated the Pioneers with a 28-8 mark alltime. Cal State Stanislaus is also 6-0 during CCAA play since Cal State East Bay came into the conference in 2009.

Last Time We Met... was on Feb. 23, 2012, in Turlock. The Warriors held on to an 86-83 win in a tight game where no one led by more than eight points. Reggie Jones scored 23 points with 17 rebounds.

About the Pionners: Cal State East Bay has lost three straight, all at home … Gabe Kindred leads the team with 12 points per game … CSUEB leads the CCAA in free throws made (16.4) and attempted (24.8) per game … The Pioneers have the worst rebounding margin per game at -6.5.

Saturday, Jan. 26, 7:30 p.m.
Cal State Monterey Bay OTTERS (7-10, 3-7 CCAA)
Series Notes: Cal State Stanislaus has a four-game winning streak against Cal State Monterey Bay after four straight losses (2008 to 2010). The series is now tied at 8-8 (CSUS is 5-4 at home).

Last Time We Met... was on Feb. 24, 2012, in Turlock, in a shootout with the Warriors victorious, 96-85. Reggie Jones scored 33 and Sam Marcus had 16 points.

About the Otters: Cal State Monterey Bay lost both games last weekend at home … Alex Fertig averages 15 points per game, mostly from the three-point line with 20 this season. He's fourth in the CCAA in scoring … The Otters are second in the CCAA in team scoring with a 73.5 points per game average.

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Road Warriors No More, for Now
The opponents' home courts weren't too kind to the Road Warriors last weekend as they dropped both games. Those outcomes ended the Warriors' five-game winning streak away from Fitzpatrick Arena. After this short homestand, the Warriors hit the road for two more trips in back-to-back weekends.

Hope For Better Home Court Advantage
Cal State Stanislaus is looking for its first conference win on home court this Friday after they lost the first five CCAA games. The Warriors are just 1-5 inside Fitzpatrick Arena with the only win a Nov. 14 non-conference victory over UC Merced. The average margin of defeat in those five home losses is 17.8 points.

Other People Stepping Up
For the first time since mid-December, other players not named Mitchell or Walters led the Warriors in scoring this last weekend. Taylor Bell came off the bench for 12 points as the team high in Friday's loss at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Saturday night at Cal State L.A., the Warriors were led by Nick Hodge's 16-point total. Eight different Warriors have now led the team in scoring in a game at some point this season.

Hodge Warming Up
Nick Hodge is starting to heat up as an added threat on the team. In the last five games, he's averaged 14.2 points (with four double-digit games) and 6.6 rebounds per game while hitting 31 of 54 shots (57.4 percent). In the previous seven games, he averaged 8.1 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.

Held Down but Battled Back
The Warriors shot just 13.8 percent (4-for-29) in the first half last Friday after starting 1 for 11 en route to 11 points in the first half. However, Stanislaus battled back. The Warriors out-scored CSUDH 44-29 in the second half before losing by 10. They trailed by as many as 25 in the second half as by 18 as late as 5:00 left.

Walters Among the CCAA Leaders
Marcus Walters is among the conference leaders in six categories when counting just CCAA game stats. He's third in both 3-point field goal (50) and free throw (84) percentage. He ranks 10th in both field goals per game (4.7) and field goal percentage (51.1). His 1.8 3-pointers per game  is eighth best. With 2.8 offensive rebounds per game, Walters is tied for second.

Keys to Victories Not Met
Remember those key factors to victories (see below)? Well, most of those things didn't happened in last week's losses. The Warriors were out-rebounded (in fact, by 20 against L.A.), out-shot (46.7 to 29.5 percent at CSUDH), and scored less than 60 points in both games.

Key Factors, Statistically Speaking
The keys to the Warriors' success in six victories this season came down to rebounding (6-1 when out-rebounding opponents), shooting 40 percent or better (6-3), out-shoot opponents (6-1), hold late leads (5-0 when leading with 5:00 to play) and score 71 points or more (5-0).