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PREVIEW: Men’s Basketball Heads to Eau Claire Wednesday Night

| By: Jesse Robinson
DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica men's basketball team will play its fifth straight game away from home on Wednesday and will face its fourth Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) opponent in UW-Eau Claire.

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About the Saints
Record: 0-4, 0-0 UMAC

  • The Saints, who lost six straight to begin last season, has trailed by double-figures at halftime in three of their first four games.
  • Senior captains Brett Tester (Andover, Minn./Andover HS) and Jonah Dahlman (Braham, Minn./Braham HS) have led the team in scoring in all four games thus far.
  • Dahlman, who is averaging 11.3 points per game, has led the team in three games in assists, twice in steals and once in blocked shots.
  • Tester is currently leading the team at 13 points per game. Tester is eighth on the program's all-time scoring list, 42 points of away of seventh.
  • CSS is shooting only 19 percent from beyond the arc for the season and are getting out-rebounded by an average of 16 boards per game.

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About the Blugolds
Record: 3-2, 0-0 WIAC

  • The Blugolds will have their home opener on Wednesday.
  • Eau Claire is coming off a 71-58 victory over Loras College (Iowa) on Monday night in which it closed the game on a 19-4 run.
  • The Blugolds are under the direction of new head coach Matt Siverling, who was once an assistant for Eau Claire and most recently was the head coach at UW-Superior.
  • Siverling is the third head coach in the last three years for the Blugolds.
  • Jordan Petersen leads the team, averaging 15.8 points per game.
  • Nick Craggs is right on his tail at 15 points per game.
  • Craggs also leads the team in rebounds at 5.4 per game.
  • The Blugolds have picked to finish sixth in the WIAC this season, according to the preseason poll.

Series History: (CSS is 0-14 all-time vs. UW-Eau Claire)
  • The Blugolds have won the last 13 meetings by at least 10 points.
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