Storylines and history
• Augustana opens up Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference/Sanford Health Women's Basketball Tournament play this week.
• The Vikings, the South Division's No. 4 seed, will host the North Division's No. 5 seed Minnesota Duluth on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
• The game will be played at the Sioux Falls Arena.
• Augustana leads the all-time series 15-9.
• The Bulldogs have won the last two meetings, including a 73-68 win earlier this season back on Jan. 17.
• The Vikings have an 11-0 record at home in the all-time series against UMD.
• Minnesota Duluth has won three of the last five meetings between the two teams.
• Augustana currently sits 10th in the NCAA Central Region rankings, the top eight teams advance to the NCAA Tournament.

Tournament history
• This is the seventh year that the Vikings have been in the NSIC Tournament.
•  Augustana has an overall record of 7-5 in NSIC Tournament games since joining the league.
• The Vikings have won the conference tournament once, back in 2013 with an 81-73 victory over Minnesota State.
• Augustana year-by-year results in the NSIC Tournament:
    
2009: 1-1
2010: 1-1
2011: 0-1
2012: 1-1
2013: 3-0
2014: 1-1

Week in review
• The Vikings locked up the No. 4 seed in the South Division thanks to a big 2-0 road trip this past weekend.
• Augustana got things rolling on Friday in a 61-44 win at Upper Iowa.
• Shaunteva Ashley and Nicole Kerkhoff led the Vikings with 15 points each.
• The 44 points allowed were a new season low for Augustana.
• Sophie Kenney added 12 points.
• Ashley erupted for 30 points in the finale at Winona State on Saturday, an 83-65 win.
• It was the first time this season that the Warriors had lost at home.
• Logan O'Farrell showcased her defensive abilities, grabbing a season-high 12 rebounds to go along with 2 blocks and a steal.
• Sydney Rome continued her great play, scoring a season-high 18 points (all coming from behind the 3-point line).
• The six 3s by Rome tied her career high.
• The Vikings' press gave WSU all kinds of problems during the course of the game, resulting in 22 turnovers which lead to 34 points off turnovers for Augustana.

About Augustana
• The Vikings are 20-9 on the year.
• Augustana ranks first in the NSIC in points scored, averaging 78.9 points per game (ppg), which is also seventh in the NCAA.
• The Vikings are 11th in the NSIC in points allowed, giving up 69.8 ppg.
• Augustana's scoring margin of +9.0 ppg is third in the NSIC.
• The Vikings are shooting 40.5 percent from the field on the year.
• Augustana is shooting 31.1 percent from the 3-point line.
• The Vikings are fifth in the NSIC in team rebounding, pulling down 39.9 rebounds per game (rpg).
• Augustana is first in assists per game (apg) in the NSIC, handing out 15.7 per contest.
• The Vikings are first in the NSIC in steals per game (spg), averaging 11.4 per contest, 15th in all of Division II.
• Augustana averages 7.8 3s made per game, third in the NSIC and 16th in the NCAA.
• Ashley leads the NSIC in scoring at 20.7 ppg, which also ranks 11th in the country.
• Ashley also is sixth in the NSIC in free throw percentage, shooting 83.8 percent on the year from the charity stripe.
• Ashley also leads the NSIC in assists at 5.4 apg, 19th in the NCAA.
• L. O'Farrell is second in the NSIC in steals at 2.31 per game.
• Kenney's 1.92 spg average is seventh in the NSIC.
• Kerkhoff is 10th in the NSIC in rebounding with a 7.1 rpg average.

About Minnesota Duluth
• The Bulldogs are 12-14 on the season.
• UMD averages 66.1 ppg this year, 12th in the NSIC.
• Minnesota Duluth gives up 69.4 ppg, which ranks 10th in the NSIC.
• The Bulldogs shoot 35.8 percent from the field, 16th in the NSIC.
• UMD's foes are shooting 44.9 percent in games against them this season, 15th in the NSIC.
• Minnesota Duluth drains 30 percent of its 3s on the year, which is good for 12th in the NSIC.
• The Bulldogs pull down 15.0 offensive rpg, first in the NSIC.
• Taylor Meyer is the team's leading scorer, putting up 17.5 ppg this year, third most in the NSIC.
• Meyer leads the team in rebounding at 8.7 rpg, third in the NSIC.
• Jessica Newman is second on the team in scoring with a 13.5 ppg average, 15th in the NSIC.
• Newman is sixth in the NSIC in 3-point field-goal percentage at 33.1.

All I do is win, win, win
• Augustana picked up its 17th 20-win season in program history over the weekend.
• All 20-win seasons have come under Coach Krauth during his time at Augustana.
• Krauth's first 20-win season came during the 1990-91 season (23-6), his second season as head coach.
• That first 20-win season began a run of four straight years of 20-plus wins for Augustana ('91, '92, '93, '94).
• The Vikings won 23 or more games during that four-season span.
• The 28 wins in 2012-13 are the most in a season in Augustana's 42 seasons of women's basketball.