The Augustana women's basketball team (19-6, 13-5 NSIC) begins the final week of the regular season by entertaining No. 1 Minnesota State University, Mankato (24-1, 17-1 NSIC) on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Elmen Center. On Saturday, the Vikings conclude the regular season by traveling to Minnesota Duluth for a 3 p.m. battle. Augustana is currently tied with Winona State for second place in the NSIC standings. The top 4 teams host first-round NSIC Tournament games next week.
SENIOR NIGHT: Five Augustana seniors will play in their final regular season home game on Wednesday. The group includes
Chelsea DeVille,
Whitney Hofer,
Brooke Olsen,
Amy Puthoff and
Ashlie Traynor.
RADIO: All Viking women's basketball games can be heard on KAUR Radio (FM- 89.1). The game can also be heard on the internet at:
www.goaugie.com/stream.asx. Veteran broadcaster
Jeff Fylling will call all of the action. The broadcast begins with a pre-game show 10 minutes prior to tipoff.
WEBCAST INFORMATION: All of Augustana's conference games this season will be webcast on the internet as part of the NSIC's television agreement with Penn Atlantic TV. Fans wanting to follow the action can go to the following link:
http://www.northernsun.tv. This season there will be no charge to watch the games but fans will need to set up an account with Penn Atlantic.
LIVE STATS: The Augustana athletic department will provide live stats for all of the Vikings' home games this season. Fans wanting to follow the action can go to the following link:
http://www.augie.edu/athletics/wbasketball/xlive.htm
AUGUSTANA SPORTSCENE: Augustana Sportscene is in its fifth season on UTV cable channel 10 in Sioux Falls. The 30-minute weekly television show airs Saturdays at noon at Sundays at 5:30 p.m. Augustana Sportscene is hosted by Viking director of athletics
Bill Gross.
