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THIS WEEK: After winning their first ever NSIC playoff game, the Minot State University women's basketball team will travel to Sioux Falls, S.D. for a quarterfinal matchup against Concordia University, St. Paul in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference/ Sanford Health Women's Basketball Tournament. The Beavers and Golden Bears will face off on Sunday March 2 at 6 p.m.

RECORDS: The Beavers are 19-8 overall and 14-8 in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference play this season, placing them the No. 2 seed in the NSIC North Division. The Golden Bears are 22-8 overall this season, with a record of 16-6 inside the NSIC, placing them as they No. 3 seed in the NSIC South Division.

COACHES CORNER: Minot State's is coached by Sheila Green Gerding. In her 19th season at the helm of the Beaver women's basketball program, Green Gerding has amassed an impressive 334-221 overall record. She has qualified Minot State for six NAIA National Tournaments over her career while also coaching 12 All-Americans both at the NAIA and NCAA Division II levels.   Green Gerding has coached the Beavers to five 20-plus win seasons and with two more wins in 2013-14, she will make it six. .   The Golden Bears are coached by Paul Fessler who is in his fourteenth season as head coach at Concordia. During his tenure he has led the program to a 300-127 record, including an impressive 187-75 record in Northern Sun play. Last year, he led the program to a fifth NSIC regular season championship and ninth NCAA Tournament appearance. The program also has three NSIC Tournament titles and a pair of runs to the Sweet Sixteen in his tenure.

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.

RANKINGS: For the sixth consecutive week, Minot State received votes in the USA TODAY NCAA Division II Coaches' Poll. On the Feb.18 edition of the poll, MISU received three points in the poll. Concordia University, St. Paul also received votes in the poll as the notched four points.

RECENT HISTORY: Minot State won their first ever NSIC/Sanford Health Tournament game as they defeated Upper Iowa 74-73 on Wednesday Feb. 26 at the Minot State Dome. The Beavers shot 60.0 percent from the floor as a team while also hitting 19-of-20 free throws to seal the win over the No. 7 seed Peacocks. Concordia University, St. Paul defeated University of Minnesota Duluth 81-72 in the first round of the tournament. Ameshia Kearney and Rachel Hansen each scored over 20 points in the win while Hansen was close to recording a triple-double with 10 rebounds and eight assists.

OVERALL SERIES: Minot State and the Golden Bears have faced each other just two times on the hardwood, both coming in the past two seasons following the Beavers admittance to NCAA Division II and the NSIC. Earlier this season, on Jan. 31, Concordia, St. Paul beat MISU 68-63 at the Gangelhoff Center in St. Paul, Minn.

NOTING THE GOLDEN BEARS: Over the last ten years, Concordia University, St. Paul has been one of the best women's basketball programs in the NSIC and all of NCAA Division II. CU has had just one losing season in that time span and eight seasons with 20 wins or more and 2013-14 was no exception as the Golden Bears are 22-8 overall. Anika Whiting leads Concordia University with 16.4 points per game and 6.5 rebounds per game. She is just one-of-four players to average double figures for the Golden Bears this season. CU is one of the best teams in the nation at taking care of the ball and finding open teammates as they rank fourth in all of NCAA Division II with a 1.34 assists/turnover ratio.

IT'S TOURNAMENT TIME: The Beavers earned the No. 2 seed in the NSIC North Division and defeated the No. 7 seed from the NSIC South Division, Upper Iowa University 74-73 on Wednesday night. The win marks their first ever postseason win since making the jump to NCAA Division II. Minot State is now just one of eight teams remaining in the NSIC/Sanford Health Women's Basketball Tournament that will be held from March 1-4 at the Sanford Health Pentagon in Sioux Falls, S.D.

ADDING TO HER LEGACY: After scoring a career-high 39 points and breaking the single-game scoring record and career scoring record on Feb. 15 against Southwest Minnesota State University, Carly Boag (Sr., F, Tamworth, Australia) has continued to add on to her scoring legacy. Boag broke her own record as she notched 46 points in Wednesday's win over Upper Iowa. Boag was nearly unstoppable from the field as she shot 18-of-23 while also going 10-of-11 from the charity stripe. Boag now has 1,793 career points in a Minot State uniform.

MISU Women's Basketball All-Time Leaders

1,793	Carly Boag	2010-Present
1,710	Kendra Meyer	2004-2008
1,620	Kayla Blom	1998-2002
1,372	MacKenzie Mack	2006-2010
1,249	Jamie Lamoureux	1999-2003

 
RECORD BREAKING YEAR:  Carly Boag (Sr., F, Tamworth, Australia) has put up some impressive numbers throughout her career and will go out as one of the best players in Minot State and NSIC history. Along with breaking the MISU scoring record, Boag broke the NSIC single-season scoring record with 460 points this season. The record was previously held by Jheri Booker (University of Minnesota Duluth, 2009-2010) with 431 points in conference games during a season. She is already the MISU career-rebounding leader and in the loss at Northern State, she recorded her 1,000th career rebounds. Boag is also just 40 rebounds away from breaking her own single-season rebounding record of 319 rebounds.

Carly Boag's career at a glance

Year	Season	Games	Points (PPG)	Rebounds (RPG)	Steals (SPG)	FG Pct.
Freshman	2010-2011	28	301 (10.8)	182 (6.5)	49 (1.8)	56.9%
Sophomore	2011-2012	26	404 (15.5)	221 (8.5)	56 (2.1)	55.0%
Junior	2012-2013	27	486 (18.0)	319 (11.8)	73 (2.7)	55.7%
Senior	2013-2014	27	602 (22.3)	296 (11.0)	84 (3.1)	59.7%
Career	2010-2014	108	1,793 (16.6)	1,016 (9.4)	262 (2.4)	56.8%

 
JONES GOES FOR CAREER-HIGH: In the 79-56 win over Minnesota State University Moorhead, Alisha Jones (Sr., G, Killeen, Texas) had arguably her best game in a Minot State uniform. Jones scored a career-high 22 points on 10-of-14 shooting. She also dished out five assists, grabbed three rebounds and hit two 3-point shots in the win. Jones has scored 286 points during her senior year, nearly twice as many as she scored during his junior season (149).

DOUBLE-DOUBLE…NO TROUBLE: Both Carly Boag (Sr., F, Tamworth, Australia) and Christina Boag (Jr., F, Tamworth, Australia) recorded double-doubles over the weekend. Friday against MSUM, Carly scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in the win. It was Carly's fourteenth double-double on the season. Christina recorded hers on Saturday against NSU as she had 11 points and 12 rebounds, including season-high six offensive rebounds. It was her fourth double-double of the season.

KLOSE CALLS IT: Morgan Klose (Jr., G, Fairview, N.D.) has made a 3-point field goal in 21-of-26 games during the 2013-14 season. In the five games she has failed to hit a 3-pointer, the Beavers have a record of just 1-4. Klose's ability to stretch the floor and the defense will be a key factor for MISU making a post-season run. So far this year, Klose has hit 43 3-point shots including a season-high  five 3-points against Minnesota Duluth on Dec. 15.

REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS: Sunday's matchup against the Golden Bears not only effects each teams future for the weekend, but the winner takes the fast track to making it to the NCAA Division II Central Region Tournament. In the region's second released standings, Minot State was ranked No. 9 while Concordia, St. Paul was ranked No. 8. The top eight teams will make it to the NCAA Division II Tournament and will be announced on March 9 at 9 p.m.

RK	School (Conf)	In Reg Rec	OV DII Rec	LW
1	Emporia State (MIAA)	20-2	22-2	1
2	Harding (GAC)	21-1	24-1	2
3	Central Missouri (MIAA)	18-3	20-3	3
4	Wayne State (NSIC)	23-3	24-3	4
5	Pittsburg State (MIAA)	19-4	20-6	6
6	Minnesota State (NSIC)	18-5	20-5	5
7	Northern State (NSIC)	19-5	19-5	7
8	Concordia-St. Paul (NSIC)	19-8	20-8	8
9	Minot State (NSIC)	15-8	15-8	NR
10	Fort Hays State (MIAA)	14-7	14-7	10

 
LAST TIME AGAINST CONCORDIA, ST. PAUL: In the Jan. 31 matchup between MISU and CSP, the Beavers got out to their slowest start of the season as they dug themselves in a 22-point halftime deficit, trailing 41-19. In that first half, Minot State shot just 20.6 percent from the field. However, MISU turned it around in the second half as they outscored the Golden Bears 44-27, but it just wasn't enough as they fell 68-63. Carly Boag (Sr., F, Tamworth, Australia) had 21 points and 16 rebounds to lead the Beavers while Anika Whiting had 28 points and six rebounds to lead Concordia, St. Paul.

BY THE NUMBERS:
2: The last two NSIC Player of the Year winners will be facing off against each other in Sunday's matchup. MISU's Carly Boag (Sr., F, Tamworth, Australia) was the recipient during the 2013-14 while CSP's Anika Whiting won the award during the 2012-13 season.

3: The Beavers made just three 3-point field goals in the 68-63 loss to Concordia, St. Paul on Jan. 31. In their past ten games, MISU has shot under 30.0 percent on 3-pointers six times.

30: In the win over University of Minnesota Duluth, the Golden Bears had four players play 30 minutes or more, including Ameisha Kearney who played all 40 minutes.