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Crown | Northwestern | UMAC

Earlier this season on the road
UMM-82 NWC-78
UMM-70 CC-47

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The Cougars kick off a four-game home stand to close out the season with two games on Jim Gremmels Court this weekend. On Feb. 10 they host Crown at 5:30 p.m., and an evening later they host Northwestern at 3:00, with the Cougars still in the running for a UMAC title.

Story line: The Cougars sit second in the league standings with an 8-2 UMAC mark. Northwestern in sixth as the Eagles are just 4-6, while Crown is eight with the Storm still looking for their first conference win at 0-10. The key for the Cougars will be holding serve at home as they try to keep pace in the race for the UMAC Championship

Sitting a game behind league leader Martin Luther, the Cougars need to keep winning and get some help if they are going to clinch a piece of their third straight UMAC title.

About the Cougars: Second in the UMAC with an 8-2 record, just a game behind first place Martin Luther (9-1) … Cougars are 13-8 overall … two-time defending UMAC champions, and defending UMAC Tournament Champions … swept through Northwestern and Crown in season's first meeting … swept each team in 2010-11 as well … winners of four straight and six of their last seven … led in scoring by two-time defending Player of the Week, Emily Mehr who has produced 57 points in her last two games and averages 16.9 per game on the season … a junior, Mehr currently has 958 points in her career, and could surpass 1,000 this weekend … Cougars pulled down 60 rebounds and went a season best 91% at the free throw line in a win over North Central on Tuesday … Mehr is third in the UMAC in scoring (16.9, while Jenni Noordmans is just outside the top-10 in 11th at 11.1 ppg … Noordmans also leads the UMAC in shooting percentage (50%), while Mehr is third (.487) … Mehr is fourth in free throw percentage (81%) … Kelsey Erickson is first in assist-turnover ratio (1.4) and second in assists (3.8) … Fragodt is fourth in rebounds/game (7.9) and fifth in blocks (28).

About the Storm: Eighth in the UMAC with an 0-10 record … 1-18 overall … lone win came on Dec. 5, 93-21 over Crossroads … currently on a 13-game losing streak … have lost 81 straight UMAC games … been held under 50 points 14 times on the season … home of the second leading scorer in the UMAC in Judy Mundt at 17.4 ppg … Mundt also ranks fourth in steals/game (2.4) and three-pointers made (39) … Mary Voss ranks fifth in rebounds (7.4) … Mundt's nine 20-point performances is the most in the UMAC.

About the Eagles: Sixth in the UMAC with a 4-6 overall record … 7-14 overall … third in the NCAA in free throw percentage (79.2%) and 25th in three-point percentage (35.0%) … UMAC regular season and tournament runner-up in 2010-11 … fell to the Cougars in all three-meetings last season, including the UMAC Championship game … Jessica Fife set a new program record with 21 rebounds in Saturday's win over Northland, breaking her previous school high of 20 rebounds from Jan. 14 … she also scored 20 points in the game, making Saturday the first time in history that any Eagle women's basketball player has scored 20 or more points and pulled down 20 or more rebounds in the same contest … Kristin Sczublewski, surpassed the 100-assist mark for the season over the weekend, the first Eagle to record 100 or more assists in a season since 2005-06 … winners just twice in their last seven games … top two scorers each rank in the UMAC top-10 in eighth place Mollie Sir (12.9) and ninth place Chanel Madson (12.5) … Kristin Sczublewski leads the UMAC in assists (105) … Jessica Fife is second in the UMAC in rebounds/game (10.5) and fifth in field goal percentage (45%) … two of UMAC's top three free throw shooters are Eagles' Sczublewski (84%) and Madson (82%).

UMAC Rankings

	Morris	Crown	Northwestern
Scoring Offense	70.6 / 1st	44.5 / 8th	56.9 / 6th
Scoring Defense	63.3 / 4th	76.3 / 8th	60.9 / 2nd
Scoring Margin	+7.0 / 2nd	-31.8 / 8th	-4.0 / 5th
Free Throw%	66.7 / 4th	63.0 / 8th	77.7 / 1st
Field Goal %	41.1 / 1st	31.5 / 8th	39.2 / 5th
Three-Point %	31.2 / 6th	26.1 / 8th	35.0 / 2nd
Rebounds	40.0 / 3rd	33.5 / 8th	34.1 / 6th
Rebounding Margin	+1.7 / 3rd	-9.8 / 7th	-3.1 / 6th
Turnover Margin	+2.05 / 2nd	-10.61 / 8th	-3.19 / 6th
Assist-Turnover Ratio	0.9 / 1st	0.3 / 8th	0.6 / 5th