Vikings Set for Third Game of California Road Trip at San Jose State Sunday

TIPOFF
After a tough loss against UC San Diego, the Portland State women's basketball team is finishing their California road trip with a match-up against San Jose State. They'll take on the Spartans Sunday, Nov. 15, at 1 p.m. PT.

GAME #5: PORTLAND STATE (0-4) at SAN JOSE STATE (0-2)
GAME DETAILS: Sun., Nov. 15, 1 p.m. PT, San Jose, Calif. (Provident Credit Union Event Center)
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SCOUTING SAN JOSE STATE:

Like Portland State, the San Jose State University Spartans have yet to win a game this season. They lost their season opener at Nebraska 81-54 (Nov. 2) and then fell to Oklahoma 98-54 (Nov. 10). Their game against the Vikings will be their home opener.
Last season, the Spartans had a 4-28 overall record and a 2-18 conference record, finishing last in the Mountain West Conference.
They were picked to finish last in the 2026-27 Mountain West Women's Basketball Preseason Poll.
Through their first two games, freshman Erika Mace leads the team with 24 points. Twenty of those came in the season opener against Nebraska (Nov. 2).
Junior Sydnie Rodriguez is second in points with 21. She comes to the team from Seattle U, where she finished the season with 140 points and an average of 6.1 per game last year.
San Jose State's top three scorers from 2025-26 did not return to the team this season. The highest scoring returning player is Gabriela Pato, who tied for fourth in points on the team last season with 148. This season, she's scored six points and has a .250 field goal percentage.
Like Portland State, the Spartans have an almost entirely new roster this season. They only have four returners: redshirt junior Rylei Waugh, senior Amelie Sitterud, sophomore Carla Fuster and Pato.
San Jose State is led by head coach Jonas Chatterton, who is in his second season as head coach. He has an overall record of 4-30 as head coach; prior to his time at San Jose State, he served as associate head coach and assistant coach for a variety of schools, including Oregon State from 2014-24, accumulating a record of 501-237.

ALL TIME SERIES:

Portland State has a 6-1 record against San Jose State, and are 3-0 on the road.
Their last game against the Spartans resulted in a 75-64 win (Nov. 28, 2025), in which junior Kyleigh Brown scored 22 points.

QUICK HITTERS:

Junior Teagan Colvin currently leads the team in points (62), rebounds (35), and assists (13). She has scored in double figures in the Vikings' first four games this season, setting a new career high in points the first three games in a row. She ranks in the top 10 of the Big Sky for rebounds (35, T-2nd), rebounds per game (8.8, 5th), points per game (15.5, 8th), minutes played per game (36.35, 2nd), and free throw percentage (.870, 4th).
Brown is second in points with 54 and is averaging 13.5 points per game. She ranks in the top 10 of the Big Sky for points (54, T-4th) and minutes per game (34.04, T-4th).
The Vikings have shown great improvement in ball control this season. Last season, they ranked last in the Big Sky with a minus-3.77 turnover margin. But through four games this season, the Vikings are plus-0.50 in turnovers, ranking them sixth in the Big Sky. They rank fourth in the conference while giving up only 13.3 turnovers per game.
One of the Vikings' best offensive weapons has been their free throw shooting. They rank third in the conference with a .781 free throw percentage. Junior guard Kyleigh Brown is 8-for-8 from the line this season. Teagan Colvin, meanwhile, ranks fourth in the Big Sky in free throw percentage at .870 (20-for-23).
The Vikings enter their second year under head coach Karlie Burris, as well as associate head coach Kerri Nakamoto and assistant coach Hailey King.
Assistant coach Jodi Page joins the Vikings from Sacramento State, where she helped lead the Hornets to a semifinal appearance at the 2026 Big Sky tournament.
After Burris only had one recruit out of 14 players on last year's roster, she will have more ownership of this year's roster having brought in 10 newcomers. She's also coached the Vikings' five returners for a year.
Last season, the Vikings had an overall record of 6-25, 2-16 in Big Sky conference play.
Kyleigh Brown led the team in points (517), points per game (16.7), three-pointers (37), minutes played (1035), field goals (181) and free throws (118) last season.
The Vikings won their exhibition game 111-48 on Oct. 27 against Warner Pacific. If that game had counted, it would have been the highest scoring game in 32 years, dating back to when the Vikings scored 112 points against Alaska Fairbanks on Jan. 20, 1994. Additionally, if the game had counted, it would have been the first game with six different Vikings in double figures since Nov. 5, 2019, against Multnomah.
The Vikings lost their home opener this season, 59-43, against Pepperdine.
The 2026-27 Vikings are the youngest team in the Big Sky. They welcome seven true freshmen: Nihoa Dunn, Emma Zuniga, Aspen McClees, Maaya Lucas, Alex Padilla, Maile Starns, and Liv Collins. Two redshirt freshmen hope to see action this season: Kailee Field and Ryme Jaekel.
Three players join the Vikings from the transfer portal for the 2026-27 season: junior Teagan Colvin (UNLV), sophomore Jordyn Smith (Cal Poly Humboldt), and sophomore Sara Barhoum (Oregon).
Besides Field and Jaekel, the Vikings only have three returning faces: Brown, senior Laynee Torres-Kahapea, and senior Kirstine Munk.

COACHING STAFF:

Head coach Karlie Burris returns to the helm for the second year. She has a 6-30 record with the Vikings.
Burris came to the Vikings after being part of a highly successful four-year stretch at UNLV from 2021-25. Serving as an assistant coach under Lindy La Rocque, Burris helped lead the Lady Rebels to four straight Mountain West Conference regular-season titles, as well as three Mountain West Conference tournament titles in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Kerri Nakamoto, associate head coach and Burris' "top draft choice," also enters her second season at Portland State. Nakamoto came to the Vikings after four years as an assistant with Santa Clara University (2021-25). She helped lead the Broncos to a 25-win season and a postseason berth in the WBIT where they made the second round in 2023-24.
Hailey King, assistant coach, followed head coach Karlie Burris from UNLV to Portland State and will serve her second year as an assistant coach for the Vikings during the 2026-27 season.
Jodi King, assistant coach, joins the Vikings for the 2026-27 season. Burris and Page overlapped while both assistant coaches at Cal State Fullerton during the 2019-20 season.