SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Augustana men's basketball team continues in the NSIC Tournament Saturday as the Vikings face Minnesota Duluth at 1:30 p.m. in the Sanford Pentagon. The quarterfinal round is the second contest of the day's first session.
 
Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com or at the Pentagon Box Office. Midco Sports and Midco Sports Plus is the exclusive home to viewing the tournament away from the Sanford Pentagon. A subscription is required for Midco Sports Plus while Midco Sports is available on various cable subscriptions.
 
About the Bulldogs
Ranked No. 11 nationally, Minnesota Duluth is 23-5 and the No. 2 seed in the NSIC Tournament. Winners of 11-straight games, the Bulldogs own the league's longest winning streak and is the nation's third-longest.
 
In Thursday's NSIC postseason awards, Charlie Katona was named the NSIC Defensive Player of the Year and was joined on the All-NSIC First Team by Drew Blair. Blair, a four-time All-NSIC honoree, leads UMD with 22.1 points per outing and has sunk 72 3-point field goals. Katona drops in 12.9 points per game.
 
Austin Andrews, a former first team selection and NSIC North Player of the Year, is just outside of double-digit scoring with 9.8 points per contest. He sinks 60 percent of his field-goal attempts as part of a Minnesota Duluth squad that returned its entire starting five from last year's Elite 8 team.
 
About the Vikings
Holding a 19-10 record, Augustana carries a five-game win streak into the quarterfinal contest after a 75-62 win over Wayne State in the First Round of the NSIC Tournament. That contest saw Isaac Fink score 20 or more points for the fifth-straight game and ninth time out of 10 games. With a total of four Vikings in double figures, Jadan Graves added 14 points, Arhman Lewis 12 and Akoi Akoi 10.
 
On Thursday, AU saw Fink and Graves earn All-NSIC honors after the duo leads a 1-2 punch at 20.8 points and 14.7 points per game, respectively. Fink leads Augustana with his 7.1 rebounds per game while Graves is the league's top 3-point shooter in percentage, makes and 3-point field goals per game.
 
Caden Kirkman has come on strong in the latter part of his freshman campaign and now averages 9.9 points per contest. Lewis, a fellow freshman, leads the NSIC in assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.83-to-1.
 
One Last Thing
The last time the two teams matched up, the contest also featured the NSIC's longest winning streak. In that game, Augustana had reeled off six-straight wins including a 10-point victory over then No. 16 Minot State. The Bulldogs' 11-straight victories include two ranked victories, Minnesota State and Minot State. Can history repeat itself with the league's longest active streak snapped?