#9 seed Concordia University Chicago Cougars (7-15 overall)
at #8 seed Lakeland University Muskies (12-12 overall)
Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022Â Â 2 p.m.
Woltzen Gymnasium
NACC Tournament First Round
Lakeland/CUC Game Notes  PDF
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Lakeland University and Concordia University Chicago meet for the third time this month and the second time this week when the Muskies host the Cougars in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Tournament First Round Saturday afternoon.
Broadcast Information:
Live video & live statistics:Â
http://www.lakelandmuskies.com/muskieslive. Andy Damp is again calling the play-by-play for all Lakeland home basketball games this year.
Series history:Â 25th meeting, Lakeland leads 14-10
Nearly all of the history between the Muskies and Cougars dates back to the two joining the NACC in 2006, with the only meeting before that coming Nov. 17, 2001, with Lakeland rolling to a 90-46 win at home. The two teams have already met twice this month, splitting a pair of meetings 12 days apart with both teams winning on the road. This is the second meeting ever between the teams in the NACC Tournament. The first came Feb. 21, 2018 in the first round, when fourth-seeded Lakeland defeated No. 5 seed Concordia 77-62 here at the Moose & Dona Woltzen Gymnasium.
Miranda Jacobson scored 18 points and Rachel Stankevich added 16 points, 10 rebounds and six assists as the Muskies outscored CUC 42-28 in the second half.
Lakeland All-Time NACC Tournament: The Muskies have a 6-10 record all-time in the NACCÂ tourney. Last year they lost in the first round of the the North Division playoffs, with a modified tournament format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lakeland's last win in the tourney came against Concordia Chicago in 2018, and before that the two years when they won games in the tournament-2010 and 2017-they went on to win the tourney.
Same week, same place: Lakeland and Concordia met earlier in the week on Tuesday at the Woltzen Gym, when the Cougars spoiled the Muskies' Senior Night with a 54-44 win. Lakeland played from behind almost the entire game and had its worst shooting performance of the season, making 22.2% of its shots one game after its best shooting effort of the year in a road win at Benedictine. The Muskies were below 20% for most of the game until a warmer stretch in the final minutes and also made 5 of 26 from three-point range. Mikalah Ellis scored 13 points, Jaylene Wade scored 12 and Alisyn MacGregor added eight points and nine rebounds for CUC, which led by as much as 19 in the fourth quarter.
Alexa Yost was the lone player to score in double figures for Lakeland with 11 points. The win allowed Concordia Chicago to leapfrog MSOE and move up a line to the No. 9 seed in the tourney, after the teams came into Tuesday tied in the standings with the Raiders holding the tiebreaker.
The first meeting: The Muskies performed much better on the road in River Forest, Ill., when the teams met Feb. 3, cruising to a 61-46 win. The Muskies held Concordia to just 13 points in the first half in building a 27-13 halftime lead, and the double-digit lead held the rest of the way save for a Cougars run in the third quarter to briefly cut the margin to seven. Yost scored 13 points,
Kerstin Sauerbrei added 11 points and
Kacey Gardner finished with eight points, ten rebounds and five assists. Concordia Chicago was the team with frosty shooting in that game, making just 5 of 33 shots in the first half (15.2%) and 27.0% for the whole contest.
Kacey nears 300: Lakeland's
Kacey Gardner has been moving up the school's career assists leaders late in the season, and she enters Saturday with 295 career assists, fifth-best in school history and three behind tying Lynn Holguin (1986-90) for fourth. Gardner needs five assists to reach 300 for her career, and she is 45 assists from the school record held by current Muskies assistant coach
Kayla Clark, who finished with 340 assists from 2013-17.
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