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PREVIEW: Men’s Basketball Back at Home on Saturday

| By: Jesse Robinson
DULUTH, Minn. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica men's basketball team will play just its second home game of the season on Saturday when it hosts Concordia College-Moorhead at Reif Gymnasium. Tip-time is scheduled for 1 p.m.

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About the Saints
Record: 2-7, 0-0 UMAC

  • The Saints are coming off a 79-68 victory at Finlandia (Mich.) on Saturday, December 15th.
  • Both of CSS's victories this season have come against Finlandia.
  • The Saints trailed by as much as nine earlier in the second half against the Lions before rallying to score a season-high 47 points in the second half.
  • The 79 points scored were also a season-high and just the second time this season CSS scored 70 points.
  • CSS also shot a season-high 48 percent from the field and 41 percent from beyond the arc.
  • Brett Tester (Andover, Minn./Andover HS) is coming off a season-high 21 point performance vs. the Lions and is averaging 13.8 points per game.
  • Tester also averages a team-high six rebounds per game.
  • Jonah Dahlman (Braham, Minn./Braham HS) is averaging 10.7 points per game and has a team-high 30 assists, 23 steals and seven blocks.
  • Cole Mortel (Luck, Wis./Luck HS) leads the team with 11 made 3-point field goals, while Dahlman has made a team-best 56 percent of his 3-point attempts.


About the Cobbers
Record: 4-4, 2-2 MIAC

  • Concordia is coming off a 78-75 overtime victory over Carleton College on Tuesday, December 11th, in which, Ebo Nana-Kweson hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Cobbers the win.
  • The Cobbers defeated UMAC School Minnesota Morris in the season opener 78-76.
  • Concordia also played in the same Thanksgiving Tournament as the Saints in Superior and defeated the Yellowjackets in double overtime, but fell to UW-River Falls in overtime.
  • The Cobbers have also defeated Bethel this season, a team the Saints lost to earlier in the year.
  • Nana-Kweson is the only player on the team averaging in double-digits at 16.5 points per game.
  • Jason Huus is second on the team at 9.8 points per contest and leads the team with 5.5 rebounds per game.
  • Huus had 22 points in the win against Carleton.
  • The Cobbers down turn it over too much as they are ranked 13th in the nation with only 11.4 turnovers per game.


Series History: (CSS is 1-6 vs. Concordia)

  • The Cobbers have won the last three games in the series in each of the last three seasons.
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