Alex Franco

Sports Editor

The 2012 – 2013 basketball season has not gone the way the Lady Cougars would have hoped with losing seven of the last 10 games of the basketball season during the winter break dropping to 9-16 after entering the break at 6-7.

CSUSM has not been able to generate any offense during the stretch of losses, being held under 60 points each of the times. The Cougars season went south after a loss in the Arizona Christian University Basketball Classic earlier this season and have only won one game against Simpson College 76-73 at home on Jan. 3.

The bright spots in what is a relatively young basketball squad for head coach Sheri Junnum is the play of junior forwards, Sherika Miller and Danielle Cooper who have lead the way for the Cougars offense this season. Cooper averages a double-double a game with 10.7 points per game and 10.6 rebounds per game while shooting .466 from the field. Miller compliments Cooper well averaging 10.9 points a game and shooting .392 from the field.

The Cougars will look to finish the season strong heading into the A.I.I conference tournament where they excelled last season and won the conference title and will look to do the same this season. With five more games left in the season, CSUSM hosts one of its final two home games on Jan. 23, against Point Loma Nazarene at 7:30 p.m.