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THIS WEEK: Minot State University plays its final two games at the Minot State Dome for the 2012-13 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference regular season Friday and Saturday. The Beavers take on Bemidji State Friday at 6 p.m. and clash with Minnesota Crookston Saturday beginning at 4 p.m.

RECORDS: MISU is 11-11 overall, 7-11 in the NSIC. BSU is 9-13 overall and 5-13 in conference play, while UMC enters the weekend at 7-15 overall and 4-14 in NSIC play.

COACHES CORNER: Sheila Green Gerding is in her 18th season as the Minot State head coach and sports a lofty 313-209 record. Mike Curfman is the head coach at Bemidji State and is 80-133 in eight seasons. He is 145-234 in 13 seasons as a head coach. Crookston's Mike Roysland is in his seventh season and is 54-129 both overall and at the school.

FOLLOW THE BEAVERS: The game is broadcast locally on KCJB 910-AM with Scott Kittell calling the play-by-play. Live audio can be accessed online at kcjb.com. MSU provides live video and live stats as well as links to the live audio at msubeavers.com. Minot State Athletics also is active on Facebook, Twitter and You Tube with all feeds accessible at msubeavers.com/stayconnected. Minot State's broadcasting department will air Friday's game live on KMSU Channel 19 in Minot.

RANKINGS: Minot State, BSU and UMC were not ranked in the latest USA Today Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll.

RECENT HISTORY: The Beavers swept two games on the road to improve their road record to 3-6 on the season. Minot State topped fellow first-year NSIC team University of Sioux Falls 75-70 and downed Southwest Minnesota State 64-60 on Saturday. Bemidji State lost twice to team receiving votes nationally to run its losing streak to three games, falling 69-59 at Minnesota State and 76-57 at Concordia-St. Paul. The Golden Eagles shared the same fate at CU and MSU, losing 69-44 to the Golden Bears and 85-78 at MSU. The losses snapped a modest two-game winning streak for UMC.

OVERALL SERIES: Minot State lost to both teams in December to go 0-1 against both as a member of NCAA Division II.

NOTING THE BSU BEAVERS: Bemidji State has three players averaging in double figures as Morgan Lee leads the team with a 13.8 points-per-game average. She is joined by Lanae Rash (12.3) and Kate Warmack (11.1) in double figures… Warmack is the team's leading shot blocker, swatting 30 this season, which his almost as many as both Minot State (41) and Minnesota Crookston (38) have as a team. She is also nearly averaging a double-double, pulling down 7.0 rebounds as well. BSU has struggled hitting 3-pointers this season as they are making just 27 percent, shooting 100-370 this season… The Beavers have turned the ball over 404 times on the season… BSU starts four juniors and a senior as Shannon Thompson is the lone senior on the starting lineup… The Beavers have lost three straight and 10 of 14 since beating Minot State Dec. 15 in Bemidji.

NOTING THE GOLDEN EAGLES: Minnesota Crookston's Brittani Wiese and Ashley Martell have combined to hit 66 3-pointers on the season and average a combined 21.5 points per game…  Ebony Livingston has struggled from the floor shooting the basketball, hitting just 25.4 percent from the field and 21 percent on 3-pointers, but has only missed five free throws all year (19-24)… UMC has just one win away from Crookston in league play and only two total, going 2-9 this season… The Golden Eagles have solid offensive balance, with six players averaging over five points per game and three hitting for nine or better as Katrina Moenkedick (9.2 ppg.) joins Martell and Wiese…. UMC has just one player who has fouled out this season as Wiese has one total on the year. The Golden Eagles have committed just 330 fouls in 22 games.

MOLINA WATCH: Senior guard Sacarra Molina (Hinsdale, Mont.) continued to push toward 1,000 career points as she finished with 32 total points in two wins this past weekend. She now sits at 957 career points with four regular season games and at least one Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference postseason tournament game. Molina is looking to become the 12th Beaver in school history to reach 1,000 points and second this season as junior forward Carly Boag (Tamworth, Australia) topped 1,000 career points in January.

ANOTHER PUSH FOR 1,000: Minot State's women's basketball team is fourth overall in home attendance in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, averaging just under 1,000 fans for the season. The Beavers moved ahead of rival University of Mary two weeks ago to sit in fourth with a 966 per-game average. The Beavers have drawn 12,564 fans, which is fourth overall and just one of six NSIC teams to reach at least 10,000 on the season. The conference average is 887 on the year, as 160,506 fans have attended NSIC women's basketball games. Northern State leads the conference with a 2,403 average in 2012-13.

GETTING KLOSE-ER TO BIG NUMBERS: Sophomore Morgan Klose (G, Fairview, N.D.) continued solid play as of late with a pair of 11-point outings on the road Friday and Saturday. Klose has upped her season average to 7.1 point per game, fourth on the squad and has hit for double figures in four straight games. The four straight games have come off her toughest stretch as she failed to score in three straight, earning just 35 minutes of play in three games. Since then, she has averaged 23.5 minutes, had has hit 10 of her 27 3-pointers and had her career high output in a 23-point effort against Minnesota State.

GETTING EVEN: Minot State has multiple chances at evening things up this weekend. First, the Beavers have a chance to even the NCAA Division II series with both teams at 1-1 after falling in December to both. The Beavers are an eyelash away from evening its points on the season, as MISU is minus-(0.8) on the season, giving up 18 more points than it's scored. The Beavers also have a chance to even the rebounding totals as they come into the weekend with a minus-(0.1) rebounding margin, just two short of its opponents. Minot State evened its record on the season last week with a pair of wins on the road and would guarantee at least a .500 record overall with two wins this weekend and just four remaining on the season.

REBOUNDING WITH THE BEST: Carly Boag has put on a rebounding clinic during her junior campaign as she leads the team and the Northern Sun with a 11.3 average. That mark puts her ninth in the country in total rebounds through 22 games. Her 249 rebounds this season is currently the third best season in school history, trailing only Nicky Burleson's school record of 262 set in 1992-93 and Brittni Walker's 256 in 2007-08. Boag is also set to break a school record with the 11.3 average as Michelle Henderson's school record in 1991-92 is 10.7. Finally, Boag has steadily moved up the charts to No. 4 all time in career rebounds with 652, trailing Cindy Tutin (812), Henderson (806) and Kim Chrest (764).