SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – It's tournament time for the Augustana men's basketball team as the Vikings host Wayne State Wednesday night at 6 p.m. inside the Elmen Center. Augustana is the No. 7 seed in the NSIC Tournament while playing its best basketball of the season.
 
As an NSIC Tournament contest, tickets must be purchased to attend the game. The NSIC has set ticket prices at $10 for adults and $2 for student. Tickets can be purchased in advance at GoAugie.com/Tickets or at the doors of the Elmen Center beginning at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
 
Complete action can be followed on GoAugie.com/Live and the GoAugie app, presented by The Original Pancake House. The app can be downloaded in the App Store or Google Play. 
 
About the Wildcats
Wayne State enters as the No. 10 seed in the NSIC Tournament with its 9-13 conference record. For the season, WSC is 16-13 and winners of three-straight. After a 72-61 loss to MSU Moorhead on Feb. 16, the Wildcats have bounced back with wins over Minnesota Crookston (74-59), UMary (96-55) and Northern State (75-60).
 
Trey Deveaux leads Wayne State with his 15.3 points per outing. Joining him in double figures are Alec Millender (13.2) and David Harmon (10.8) while Cody McCullough is the top rebounder at 6.7 per outing. Within NSIC action. Deveaux recorded 15.1 points per game while shooting at a 44.5 percent clip.
 
About the Vikings
Augustana completed its NSIC slate holding a 13-9 record after starting league action 1-4. Over the final 14 NSIC games, Augustana went 11-3 as part of its 18-10 overall record.
 
Isaac Fink is coming off his second NSIC Player of the Week honor while averaging 36 points over the victories against Northern State and UMary. In addition, he averaged 10 rebounds per game, giving him nine career double-doubles.
 
For the season, Fink leads Augustana with 20.9 points per outing with a team-best 7.1 rebounds per game. Jadan Graves pours in 14.7 points while he leads AU with 99 assists on the year. Arhman Lewis is giving him a run for the team lead in assists as the freshman has recorded 97 assists , an average of 3.46 assists per game.
 
One Last Thing
Caden Kirkman has come on strong in the latter part of the season of his freshman campaign. When looking at last weekend, Kirkman averaged 18.5 points and 5.0 rebounds while missing just two shots on a 16-of-18 week. Adding in the past four games, Kirkman averages 18.3 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 82.1 percent from the field. When looking at a bit larger of a sample size, Kirkman has shot 65.6 percent from the field over the last 11 games of the regular season while average 12.8 points per outing.
 
Within the stretch, the native of Wilton, Iowa, was named the NSIC Player of the Week for the first time of his young career.