DULUTH, Minn. (
csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica men's basketball team will welcome conference rival the University of Northwestern (Minn.) to the Reif Gymnasium on Saturday for the regular season finale.
Where:
Reif Gymnasium – Duluth, Minn.
When:
Saturday at 3 p.m.
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St. Scholastica Saints
Stats
Record: 13-11, 10-5 UMAC
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference: Standings | Stats
What You Need to Know about the Saints:
-The Saints have won at least 10 Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) games for the fifth straight season, but for the first time since 2012-13 will finish outside the top three in the league.
-CSS will be the No. 4 seed for next week's UMAC Tournament.
-The Saints feature just one senior in
Collin Anderson (Eagan, Minn./Eagan HS), who they will honor on Saturday.
-Anderson currently ranks sixth in program history with 1,405 points. He needs 64 points to move into the program's top five.
-He ranks second in program history with 263 three-point field goals.
-Anderson has put up those numbers as a career sixth-man with just 11 starts over the last four seasons.
-By the way, Anderson leads the team in scoring this season at 15.2 points per game.
-The Saints continue to have five players averaging in double-figures in scoring; CSS has not finished a season with five players averaging in double-figures in scoring since the 1996-97 season.
-Over the last month, sophomore
Jack Silgen (Crosby, Minn./Crosby-Ironton HS (St. Thomas)) has seen his season average increase from 9.9 points per game on January 22 to currently 11.9 points per game.
-Silgen has been held to less than 10 points just one time over the last 10 games.
-The same goes for sophomore
Quinn Fischer (Esko, Minn./Esko HS) who was averaging 9.1 points per game on January 25 and is now at 11.3 points per game.
-Silgen and Fischer each average over seven rebounds per game, which ranks in the top six of the UMAC.
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Nick Carlson (Canyon, Minn./South Ridge HS) is a third sophomore averaging in double figures as the team's second-leading scorer at 14.7 points per game.
What You Need to Know about Northwestern:
Record: 18-6, 14-1 UMAC
-The Eagles are coming off a six-point road win at the University of Wisconsin-Superior on Wednesday night in a battle of first place teams.
-In doing so, Northwestern clinched the No. 1 seed for next week's UMAC Tournament.
-The Eagles can clinch the UMAC regular season title outright with a win on Saturday.
-UNW has won 12 straight games since losing by eight points at home to Lawrence University (Wis.) in mid-December.
-Noah Alm is the team's leading scorer, averaging 18.1 points per game.
-Tanner Youngberg leads the conference and is the only player in the UMAC averaging a double-double at 15.8 points and 10.8 rebounds per game.
-Northwestern is the best rebounding team in the conference with +5.0 margin per game.
-Michael Moore ranks second in the conference, averaging 4.8 assists per game.
-Also like a typical Northwestern team, it doesn't turn the ball over with a conference-low 10.5 turnovers per game and a conference-best 1.82 turnover margin and 1.52 assist-to-turnover ratio.
-The Eagles rank in the top 15 in NCAA Division III in both of those categories.
Series Record: UNW leads 58-29
(Last Meeting: 77-54 UNW – 12/14/2019)
Series History: The Eagles defeated the Saints earlier this season down in St. Paul … CSS will be looking for its first home win over Northwestern since the 2016-17 season.
Looking Ahead: The Saints will host a UMAC Tournament First Round game Monday night at The Reif where they will take on fifth-seeded Crown College at 7 p.m.
