The Fresno State women’s basketball team is coming off a tumultuous 2016-17 season that saw the Bulldogs finish seventh in the Mountain West, while also coming within one game of calling itself conference tournament champions.
“I don’t think we can drop close games. We need to win close games,” head coach Jaime White said. “To be in the tournament with fresh legs, you have to place in the top five.”
The Bulldogs dropped one game each to Boise State, Utah State and Colorado State by five points or less last season.
Placing in the top five in the conference would mean the Bulldogs could subtract one game from their path to a conference championship.