The San José State women’s basketball team dropped its final regular-season game to Colorado State University 67-44 on Tuesday at the Provident Credit Union Event Center.
The Spartans finished the regular season 4-27 overall and 2-18 in Mountain West Conference play.
SJSU and Colorado State last met on Jan.17 when the Spartans fell 75-60.
Prior to the game, seniors Katarina Anderson, McKenna Simons and Amira Brown were honored for Senior Day.
Katarina Anderson and Simons started the game, while Brown was out due to injury.
Sophomore forward Maya Anderson scored the first points of the game, giving the Spartans their only lead.
Maya Anderson led all scorers with 16 points and added 15 rebounds, scoring a double-double.
SJSU trailed 39-19 at halftime.
Maya Anderson said the team focused on continuing to put points on the board.
“The mindset is to try and chip away,” Maya Anderson said. “Obviously, when you’re down by 20 at half, you can’t make that disappear all at once. So throughout the game we were just trying to say, ‘chip away,’ just make the lead shorter and shorter.”
Turnovers ended up being a factor in the loss, as the Spartans had 16 turnovers while the Rams had just 10.
The Rams converted turnovers into 16 points.
Colorado opened the second half on a 10-0 run to extend their lead by a score differential of 30, 49-19.
SJSU head coach Jonas Chatterton attributed Colorado State’s win to its offensive attack strategy.
“I give Colorado State a ton of credit,” Chatterton said. “I thought they really attacked us and got downhill coming straight at us. We had a hard time guarding them off the dribble, and then once they got there, especially in the first half, all those 3s came from in-out shots, and they knocked them down.”
Colorado State sophomore guard Brooke Carlson was a key factor in the Rams’ offense, tying with freshman guard for the Rams McKenna Murphy for the team’s lead with 14 points a piece.
Chatterton said he is most proud of his team’s effort this season, which included multiple walk-on players. “I’m proud of our ability to show up every day, day in and day out,” Chatterton said. “And you know it’s hard when you show up and it doesn’t work out the way you want it to show up again the next day. I think they’ve done a good job of that.”
Katarina Anderson, who scored six, said her objective heading into the Mountain West Tournament this weekend is to be a frontrunner for her team to follow.
“My mindset is obviously to win and try my best, but to also lead my team because I am the point guard, to try to lead them and make the right leads,” Katarina Anderson said.
The Spartans will compete this weekend in the 2026 Mountain West Women’s Basketball Championship at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
