FAYETTE, Iowa - The Winona State University women's basketball team will hit the road for their last NSIC game of 2022 and likely their last NSIC contest ever against Upper Iowa University.
Winona State is 8-5 on the year and will be looking to snap a two-game skid, having dropped contests at Wayne State (77-68) and Augustana (73-57) prior to the holiday break. On Saturday, WSU will face a UIU team that is 4-8 overall and winless in NSIC play.
GAME & FAN INFORMATION
- Live stats & stream for the game are available at the links above and on the WSU Women's Basketball schedule page.
- Saturday's contest will take place in Dorman Memorial Gymnasium
WINONA STATE STORYLINES
- Winona State is 8-4 this season and 2-5 in the NSIC
- WSU is looking to return to form from the start of the year, as the Warriors opened 2022-23 with a seven-game winning streak.
- WSU averages 64.8 points per game and allows 60.1points/game.
- Alex Dornfeld leads the Warriors with 12.6 points/game and 9.2 rebounds/game, just under double-double territory.
- Lauren Fech leads WSU in minutes (32.9/game) and is tops on the team in total assists with 32.
- Caitlin Riley leads WSU with 34 three pointers made this season and knocking down 47.9% of her triples.
- Dornfeld owns four of the top 25 rebounding single-game performances in the NSIC, pulling in 13 twice and 12 on two different occasions.
- WSU has a 29-1 mark versus Upper Iowa in their last 30 matchups.
- Head coach Ana Wurtz is in her first season as head coach at Winona State.
Upper Iowa STORYLINES
- The Peacocks have lost their two most recent NSIC matchups, falling on the road at Augustana and Wayne State.
- Upper Iowa will leave the NSIC for the GLVC, beginning next year.
- Upper Iowa fell to Augustana, 79-56.
- UIU took Wayne State to OT before falling, 77-70.
- Lydia Haack leads UIU with 16.8 points per game.
- Helen Staley is the top Peacock rebounder at 6.1 boards per contest.
- Katie Tornstrom has hit 25-of-64 3-pointers for UIU this year.
- Justin Maas is in his first year as head coach at Upper Iowa.
WARRIOR NOTABLES
- The Warriors were selected 11th overall and 5th in the NSIC South by coaches around the league.
- Head coach Ana Wurtz and assistant coach Hannah McGlone are the only all-female coaching staff in the NSIC that also competed at their alma mater as student-athletes.
- The Warriors' 7-0 start was the best opening stretch of games since the 2015-16 season, where WSU started 13-0.
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About Winona State University Athletics:
The Winona State University Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, as an integral part of the educational mission of the institution, is committed to offering opportunities to experience academic and athletic excellence for our student-athletes through two simple words:
Graduate Champions.
Fourteen Warrior programs compete at the NCAA Division II level within the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC). Winona State University competes as an affiliate member of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) in the sport of women's gymnastics.
