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Jack Rendulich

PREVIEW: Women’s Basketball to Face D-II Bemidji State on Tuesday

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DULUTH, Minn. – After eight days since its last game, the St. Scholastica women's basketball team returns to the court Tuesday night when its plays at Division II's Bemidji State.

Game Time:

Tuesday @ 7 p.m.

GameDay Media:
Live Stats

Last Action:
The Saints last played at the Quality Inn & Suites Turkey Shootout, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Stout, over Thanksgiving weekend. The Saints lost to a pair of Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) schools at the tournament, UW-Stout and UW-Oshkosh.

St. Scholastica Saints (1-4)
The Saints played one NSIC team already this season, but it was an exhibition against Minnesota-Duluth … The Saints fell in that contest 89-41 … #Bri Allen# leads the team averaging 12.5 points per game, but may be unavailable for Tuesday's game because of an injury … Freshman #Savanna Treichel# is second on the team in scoring with seven points per game … Treichel is also 7-for-14 on 3-point attempts … The Saints have performed adequately defensively, averaging 10.2 steals per game and holding opponents to just 28-percent shooting from beyond the arc.

Bemidji State Beavers (2-3)
The Beavers enter Tuesday night's contest having lost their past two games to open the conference season … The CSS game will be the final non-conference contest on the Beavers' schedule this season … Freshman guard Melissa Borstner leads Bemidji in scoring with 11.2 points per game … Right on her heels is freshman forward Ellie Wessling at 11 points per game … Wessling also leads the team with 6.4 rebounds per game … The Beavers have been great from the free throw line this season, converting 78-percent of their attempts … Bemidji State is 17-0 at home against the Saints all-time.

Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. Bemidji State: 2-23)
The Beavers defeated the Saints 86-52 in the Turkey Shootout during the 2007-08 season.

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