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PREVIEW: Men’s Basketball Flying to the Great Northwest for a Pair of Games

| By: Jesse Robinson
DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica men's basketball will take its longest road trip of the season when it heads to Tacoma, Washington to face Pacific Lutheran University on Monday and the University of Puget Sound on Tuesday.

Game Schedule: (Game Day Media)
Monday at Pacific Lutheran – 7:30 p.m. (PT) (PLU Live Audio | Live Stats)
Tuesday at Puget Sound – 7 p.m. (PT) (Live Video | Live Stats)

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About the Saints
Record: 1-5, 0-0 UMAC

  • The Saints picked up their first win of the season on Saturday with a 61-55 victory over Finlandia University (Mich.) in the home opener.
  • CSS scored a season-high 40 points in the first half of the Finlandia game.
  • Brett Tester (Andover, Minn./Andover HS) continues to lead the Saints in coding at 12.7 per game and is the team's leading rebounder at 6.5 per game.
  • Tester is 18 points shy from climbing up to seventh on the program's career scoring list.
  • Jonah Dahlman (Braham, Minn./Braham HS) has scored in double-figures in four of the first six games of the season and is second on the team averaging 11.5 points per game.
  • Dahlman has led CSS in scoring in three of the first six games.
  • Freshman Scottie Rucks (St. Cloud, Minn./St. Cloud Cathedral HS) has come on in the last two games, scoring 15 and 12 points respectively.


About the Lutes
Record: 1-5, 0-0 NWC

  • The Lutes have lost two straight coming into Monday night's contest with their lone win coming against Evergreen State Thanksgiving Weekend.
  • Just before Christmas, Pacific Lutheran will make its way to the Midwest to face both Augsburg College and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.
  • Cameron Schilling and Andrew Earnest lead the team in scoring, averaging 13.3 and 13.2 points respectively.
  • Schilling also averages a team-high 6.5 rebounds per game.
  • The Lutes have accumulated 15 more offensive rebounds than their opponents, but are getting out-rebounded by average of two boards per game.

Series History
  • This will be the first-ever meeting between the two programs.

About the Loggers
Record: 1-3, 0-0 NWC

  • The Loggers will enter Tuesday's contest on a three-game losing streak. The lone win of the season came in the season opener against New Hope Christian.
  • Riggs Yarbro leads the team in scoring, averaging 11 points per game.
  • Derek Jobe is right behind him averaging 10 points per game.
  • UPS is getting out-rebounded by an average of eight boards per game.
  • The Loggers are shooting just 26 percent from beyond the arc and 63 percent from the free throw line.


Series History

  • This will be the first-ever meeting between the two programs.
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