Cezat honored by Detroit Athletic Club: Is she the best Charger ever?

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Is Katie Cezat the best women's athlete to ever put on a Charger uniform?

The last two years say maybe, her entire career says no (sorry, there's a reason she had just ONE block her first two seasons), but what took place Tuesday evening might just hint to a "yes".

The question is entirely open for debate, but what's not is the fact Cezat was officially named the Female Michigan College Athlete of the Year by the Detroit Athletic Club.

Cezat was chosen by a committee of DAC members and she was interviewed on stage by Detroit-area sports television personality Steve Garagiola to open the awards presentation part of the evening.

Cezat is the first athlete, male or female, from the GLIAC conference to earn the award.

She put up almost unfathomable averages of 29.3 points and 16.8 rebounds per game this season, leading her team to a 29-3 record and national ranking as high as No. 3, while garnering National Player of the Year honors.

Although several key Charger players were stricken with the flu at the most inopportune time earlier this season, as Hillsdale lost its first-round NCAA tournament game on a devastating buzzer-beater, this season will certainly stick out in the mind of Charger head coach Claudett Charney for years to come, based on her comments in an article by the Jackson Citizen Patriot's Mike Pryson.

"This might be a once-in-a-lifetime player for me as a coach," Charney said. "It's been just a wonderful year."She's just a great person and a great student. I just can't say enough about her."

Despite the lofty status Cezat has attained, it appears her basketball career may be coming to a quick halt. In a March 3 feature article published by the Detroit Free Press Cezat said she had aspirations of making a run at the WNBA, saying no level of competition was too good for her to possibly be in the mix for a roster spot, but it seems as if reality and a college degree have given her new perspective.

Cezat has already lined up a job with an accounting firm in Southfield, and she seems to be ready to put basketball in a proverbial scrapbook — either that, or basketball is just moving on without her.

"I'm ready to start working. I want to go into the business world. I've been playing basketball since I was in kindergarten," she said in the Cit-Pat article.

Charney said Cezat has had "an offer from a European team" to continue her career and several "feelers" from WNBA teams, but all that says to me it that while Cezat was a phenomenal D-II talent, with a work ethic and wonderful grasp of the fundamentals to boot, she isn't as transcendent as people want to make her out to be.

The GLIAC didn't showcase a whole lot of height this season and there's a good reason very few D-II athletes make it as professionals in any sport — because there are thousands upon thousand of athletes working just as hard, who may be blessed with just a little more natural talent.

If Cezat was maybe 6-2 or 6-3 (which is how she played at times to be honest) her phone may be blowing up, but she's not exceptionally quick for her size and she has a tendency to force things when they aren't going her way at times, although she remained level-headed for the most part in 2009.

What I wonder though, is if Cezat was getting so much praise and having so much success when the Free Press of all people came to visit, that she just continued to pen her own fairy-tale in her mind because it was all setting up so perfectly. It was almost as if the world was her oyster and the WNBA was the next landing pad, because that's where hard work and gaudy numbers would be taking her.

In my honest opinion, I agree with Charney that she is a once-in-a-generation kind of player at the GLIAC level and she made me shake my head in disbelief probably a dozen times this season. But I think Tuesday's award was the perfect final seal to a wonderful, record-setting setting season and if her legacy is only that she will be remembered as one of the best things to ever happen to a small, off-the-map county in Southeastern Michigan, that's not such a bad thing.

On one final note, here's a list of some of the records and accolades she's brought in the past six months.

Numbers:

• Set single-season school records for points (908), rebounds (521), blocked shots (100), field goals made (333), free throws made (237), field goals attempted (600), free throws attempted (290), scoring average (29.3), and rebounding average (16.8).

• Holds single-game school records for points (42), rebounds (28), blockeds (13), field goals (15), free throws (18), free throws attempted (23).

• Blocked more shots this season (100) than the old school record for career blocks (94).

• Only player in the nation with more than 100 blocks and 100 assists this season.

• Set Division II record for most double-doubles in a season (28). Second in Division II history with 18 consecutive double-doubles.

• Tied for fourth-most points in a season in Division II history (908); second-most rebounds in a season in Division II history (521).

• Most blocked shots in a game in Division II this decade (13 at Ferris State, Dec. 13, 2008).

Honors:

• Named GLIAC South Division Player of the Week 11 times.

• 2008-09 GLIAC Player of the Year and Tournament MVP

• 2008-09 Daktronics Regional Player of the Year

• 2008-09 WBCA Division II National Player of the Year

• 2008-09 Daktronics Player of the Year

• 2008-09 DII Bulletin Women's Basketball Player of the Year

• Named the female Michigan College Athlete of the Year by the Detroit Athletic

The entire DAC awards ceremony will be broadcast on WDIV, channel 4 in Detroit, at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 23. Comcast will then re-broadcast the event through its On Demand service throughout Michigan during the months of June and July.

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3-pointer with 3.7 seconds to play ends Lady Chargers season in first round of NCAA Tournament

March Madness is humbling — just ask the Lady Chargers.

Three crucial missed free throws and a dramatic 3-pointer by Indianapolis guard Jessica Canary with 3.7 seconds remaining gave the 7-seed Greyounds a thrilling 73-72 win over the 2-seed Chargers, the second straight first-round exit from the NCAA Tournament for the Chargers.

The Chargers led 62-52 more than halfway through the second half, but Greyhounds’ sophomore forward Samantha Meissel went toe-for-toe with Charger superstar Katie Cezat and her senior teammate hit the dagger to end the Chargers’ season at 27-4.

Cezat finished her career with another vintage performance, 36 points and 16 rebounds, after scoring just nine points in the first half.

Meissel scored 32 points and hit 4-of-5 from 3-point range.

The Chargers crutch proved to be free throws, as they went just 19-of-30 from the charity stripe.

Brooke Knight scored 10 points for Hillsdale in her final game.

For a full game recap pick up a copy of Saturday’s Hillsdale Daily News.

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Tourney time: The tale before tip-off for Lady Chargers

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Charger women's title chase begins in Kentucky

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By RJ Walters / Daily News Sports Editor

As published in the Hillsdale Daily News on March 9, 2009

The 2008-09 Hillsdale College women’s basketball team has accomplished an amazing amount of mind-blowing achievements this season, but this Char-gers team will ultimately be remembered by what happens starting now.

The Chargers are officially “dancing”, making their third NCAA Tournament appearance in school history and second in a row — this time as a 2-seed.

It was announced Sunday evening that the Chargers will soon be headed to Highland Heights, Ky., home of the Midwest Region’s top-seed, and defending national champion, Northern Kentucky.

On Friday the Chargers will start their drive toward a national title with a game against the region’s 7-seed, the University of Indianapolis.

The Greyhounds went 20-10 this season as a member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference, but won just six of their final 13 games in the rough-and-tumble conference that features Northern Kentucky, as well as the Midwest Region’s 3-seed and 6-seed, Quincy (Ill.) and Drury.

Oddly enough the Chargers and Greyhounds already have a little history, having played each other early on this season.

Hillsdale downed Indianapolis 77-63 in Indianapolis in November. Charger senior Katie Cezat tallied 29 points and 14 boards in that contest and Hillsdale shot better than 55 percent from the field as a team.

Indianapolis is led by sophomore forward Samantha Meissel who averaged 18.5 points and 4.5 rebounds this season. Junior guard Jessica Canary scored 14.0 points a game for the Greyhounds, while making two 3-pointers a game.

If the Chargers can get by them, the road to a regional championship becomes considerably tougher.

They will play the winner of the 3-6 match-up between Quincy (Ill.) (25-4) and Drury (18-9).

Quincy is the team who put an end to Hillsdale’s season in the first-round of the NCAA Tournament last via an 82-73 win.

On the other side of the bracket, the top-seeded Norse face GLIAC power Grand Valley State and GLIAC foes Michigan Tech and Northwood will butt heads in the 4-5 showdown.

The Norse have made it to the national tournament 18 times in their storied history and Grand Valley State won a national championship in 2006.

For the Chargers to be fully recognized as one of the nation’s best they will undoubtedly have to beat some of the country’s elite programs.

But their conference opponents know them well and have plenty of experience preparing to go up against Claudette Charney’s squad.

The Chargers took down Michigan Tech Saturday to win the GLIAC Tournament championship, but they split with the Huskies in the regular season.

The GVSU Lakers also stole one from the Chargers earlier this year, while it twice took overtime for Hillsdale to get by Northwood.

Look in the HDN later this week for more game details and what to watch for when the D-II tourney begins.

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Charger women escape with classic GLIAC tourney win, but many questions still remain

By RJ Walters / Daily News Sports Editor

An exclusive Walters 'n Words blog post

So apparently the Chargers women's basketball team is still susceptible to letdowns, but they also apparently have enough players to make just enough plays to save their own behinds.

I don't think beating 7-seed Lake Superior State at home in the first round of the GLIAC Tournament had to be a miraculous come-from-behind win , where the Chargers scored 15 of the final 16 points to pull out a 62-60 thriller, but it was and surprisingly it was freshman Chelsea Harrison taking over in the final minutes, not All Miss Universe, Katie Cezat. Harrison had 14 clutch points, including a 3-for-6 effort from beyond the arc and she was not afraid to dribble and drive with the game on the line, a la little frosh Tyler Gerber on the men's side. Between Harrison and Brooke Knight things worked out — just barely. But what I didn't like was seeing Cezat a bit frazzled, to the point she threw up several airballs and how things almost combusted at one point. Senior Katie Eckinger got taken to task a few times on the defensive end and was so frustrated at one point about someone apparently missing their help-side defense assignment that she screamed at Cezat and chucked an inbound pass to her senior teammate with the velocity of a fastball. Needless to say, fans didn't see a whole lot of Eckinger down the stretch.

It was interesting and entertaining and made predicting the next few weeks in Chargerland even harder than before.

Here's a game recap from the Hillsdale College Web site, via S.I.D. Brad Monastiere.

The last home women's basketball game of the 2008-09 will go down in history as one of the most dramatic in Hillsdale College history.

The Chargers, ranked sixth in the nation, scored 15 of the game's last 16 points to win a miraculous game, 62-60, over Lake Superior State University Tuesday night. Hillsdale is now 25-3 on the season and advances to Friday night's GLIAC Tournament semifinal game against Grand Valley State at Michigan Tech at 7 p.m.

With 4:01 left in the second half, the Lakers led 59-47 and seemed to be in position to pull off the upset. But the huge home crowd, and inspired defensive play by the Chargers, got the momentum swinging in the home team's favor, setting up a finish that none of the more than 1,000 people in attendance will soon forget.

Hillsdale did not allow LSSU a field goal in the game's final four minutes, and forced turnovers on three straight Laker possessions as the Chargers mounted their comeback.

The comeback started innocently enough for Hillsdale, with Claire Aubrey, Brooke Knight and Chelsea Harrison going a combined 5-for-6 from the free throw line to cut the score to 59-52. Harrison then stole the subsequent inbounds pass and converted a layup, driving the crowd into a bigger frenzy, and making it a five-point game with 2:41 remaining.

Senior forward Katie Cezat shook loose from the tough LSSU defense to put in a layup making the score 59-56 with 2:12 left. Nine seconds later, Harrison picked up another steal and made another layup three seconds later, turning it into a one-point game.

With the home crowd stirred like rarely ever seen on the Chargers' home court, the Laker guards struggled to bring the ball up the court against Hillsdale's pressure defense. Led by Aubrey and Harrison, Hillsdale's defense extended the Lakers and made them work extra hard to get the ball into the front-court during this sequence.

After three consecutive offensive rebounds by the Chargers, Knight banked in a shot to give Hillsdale its first lead of the night, 60-59, with 42 seconds left.

Cezat, the nation's leading rebounder, grabbed perhaps her most important board of the season with 15 seconds left, forcing LSSU to foul her. She converted the two free throws to put Hillsdale up by three with 12 seconds left.

Lake Superior State's Jaclyn Armstrong dribbled around looking for a shot, and was fouled by Cezat, with :00.1 seconds left. She made the first free throw, but the intentional miss on the second shot could not lift the Lakers.

LSSU led by as many as 11 points in the first half, but a 7-0 Charger run cut the lead down before halftime.

Cezat finished the game with 17 points, 18 rebounds, four assists and two blocked shots. Harrison was clutch at both ends of the court all night, and had 14 points with three 3-point field goals made. Aubrey was 5-for-9 shooting from the floor and had 11 points. Aubrey helped keep the team afloat through a tough first half with her outside shooting.

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Reason for worry in Chargerland?

By RJ Walters / Daily News Sports Editor

An exclusive Walters 'n Words blog post

Ok, so maybe worry isn't right word. It could be disappointment or surprise or — scratch that — worry is a fine worf.

The Hillsdale Charger women lost just their third game of the season Thursday night, but the way they lost, when they lost and what kind of team they lost to is somewhat alarming. If the Charger women were just another team that I thought would flame out in D-II postseason play anyways then I wouldn't think twice about a one-point loss on a deep 3-pointer with six seconds left to a GLIAC foe. But I expect, as do most fans I think, that this is the type of team that is the exception not the norm at HC.

But now I'm worried. For starters, Hillsdale jumped out to a 15-0 lead against a team with a 7-11 GLIAC mark coming into the contest and couldn't close them out. At tourney time the better team doesn't always win because of unpredictable waves of momentum, but the Chargers let a team that isn't much more that a collection of hot-and-cold guards have the last say Thursday.

The Chargers held the Wildcats to 9-of-31 shooting from the field in the first half, but Northern shot a scorching 56.3 percent and drained 5-of-11 from downtown in the second half. Defense and rebounding are the trademarks of Charney's ladies and last night the Chargers failed at both over the course of the final 20 minutes. Against a Wildcat team that has no consistent post presence on offense and no single player who averages even six rebounds a game the letdown is unacceptable.

The Charger guards fight through screens and play help defense as well as any team I've seen this year, so it's fine to attribute some of NMU's hot-shooting to their players, but not all of it. Janay Miller and Brooke Knight rarely lose track of their assignments, and it's hard for me to understand how they can keep Grand Valley's guards at bay all game long, but not Northern's.

Also, at first glance an 18-for-24 performance from the charity stripe from the Charger is more than sufficient, but upon further review it is a misleading stat.

Per Diem, Cezat was really the one at the line, as she took 20 of those, sinking 16. Whenever the rest of the team combines for four free throws it symbolizes a lack of aggression or the sheer inability to penetrate the defense. Earlier this season the Charger guards were deferring to Ceazt too much a times, but they've solved that in a big way over the last 4-6 weeks. Maybe it was the sub-zero temps in Marquette that froze the Chargers up or maybe last night was just a reminder of what happens when they get out-rebounded and the only player in attack mode is Cezat.

It's easy to get caught up in all of the successes and achievements of this landmark Charger's squad, but the players don't want to just go to the national tournament, they want to show the nation what this incredible team from little old Hillsdale, and a school of just 1,200 playing in a league of giants, is one of the best, if not the best.

I want to look back on Thursday's shocking loss as a great lesson, but giving the timing it might be looked back on differently.

The Chargers had FINALLY gained the ever so evasive top spot in the Midwest Regional Rankings as of Wednesday, setting them up to host the first few rounds of D-II tournament play. Michigan Tech had faltered, and Hillsdale leapfrogged Northern Kentucky just in time to go beat the Wildcats and punch Tech in the face on Saturday, before finishing things off next week.

To lose a game to a sub-.500 GLIAC squad with so much on the line is disappointing after working so hard to position themselves to pack Jesse Phillips Arena in less than a month is bitter.

Thursday simply shook my dreamy vision of what the Chargers were and what they could be. All I'm asking is for them to quickly remind me of what has made us fall so hard for them in the first place.

Some relationships are just dependent on results and success and this is one of them.

Here is the entire game recap from Hillsdale College Sports Information:

An NBA-range 3-point field goal by Northern Michigan’s Kelsey Deacon with six seconds remaining game the host Wildcats a 69-68 upset of the No. 5-ranked Hillsdale College women’s basketball team Thursday night in Marquette.

The Chargers are now 21-3 overall and 16-3 in the GLIAC, and will travel to Michigan Tech University for a Saturday afternoon showdown of conference division leaders.

Deacon’s shot came after an oft-used, but rarely executed strategy pulled off by the Wildcats. NMU’s Steffani Stoeger purposely missed the second of two free throws, after her first make made the score 68-66. Northern Michigan’s Angie Leckson grabbed the offensive rebound and passed the ball out to Deacon, who drained a basket from well beyond the 3-point arc. The Chargers were unable to get a shot off on the final possession of the game.

Northern Michigan shot 56 percent from the floor in the second half, compared to 39 percent for the Chargers. Hillsdale led the game 33-23 at halftime.

The Chargers opened the game red-hot in the ice-cold arena in the Upper Peninsula. Hillsdale held a 15-0 lead through the game’s first 10 minutes. NMU didn’t make a basket in the game’s first 10 minutes, and didn’t make a two-point basket until six minutes remained in the first half.

But 3-point baskets proved to be the major difference in the game. The Wildcats outscored the Chargers 27-6 in shots from behind the arc, making 9-of-21 in the contest.

Hillsdale led through most of the game, with the Wildcats taking their first lead with 7:14 left in the second half. NMU took 10 more shots from the field than Hillsdale, thanks in part to a 13-8 edge in offensive rebounds, none bigger than the one coming in the game’s final seven seconds.

Charger senior Katie Cezat had another monster game for the Chargers, finishing with 32 points and 21 rebounds. She was 16-for-20 from the free throw line, the second-highest totals of her career in both makes and attempts. She now has 21 double-doubles this season, 11 30-point games and eight 20-rebound games.

Thanks to her 32 points, Cezat broke her own single-season scoring record, set last season. She now has 681 points during the 2008-09 season.

Senior Katie Eckinger and junior Janay Miller each scored 11 points for the Chargers. Hillsdale’s three losses this season have come by a combined total of five points. Deacon scored 23 points for the Wildcats.

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Charger women's hoops stats that make my mouth water

By RJ Walters / Daily News Sports Editor

An exclusive Walters 'n Words blog post

I'm not hard to please and I'm willing to listen to almost any argument about anything, but I like hard evidence rather than clever, but clearly biased opinions.

A 21-2 record overall and 16-2 mark in GLIAC play to go along with a No. 5 national ranking should be enough to convince me that the 2008-09 edition of the Hillsdale Chargers women's hoops team may be the most impressive college athletic team I've had a chance to witness in person on a regular occasion, sorry to all of the 3-6 Northern Michigan football teams I covered, but upon further investigation I've determined that the sheer number of eye-popping statistics that make me want to pull out my calculator and have it tell me the GLIAC Web site might be lying is so incredible that I can do nothing less than give you those stats and let you oogle over them, just as I am. I must add that they are not all equally impressive, but the sumation of them tells a story about how this Charger team is accomplishing things even they could not have predicted.

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By far the most impressive individual number of them all from my perspective. That is the number of rebounds senior Katie Cezat needs in the final four conference games to break the single season rebounding mark in league play. She is averaging 18.1 rebounds per game in GLIAC games, and even if she gets zero total rebounds in the season's last four games, she would finish with a rebounding average of 14.7 in GLIAC games. The current record is 14.4.

3

The number of victories need the rest of the way for the Charegers to set a new school-record for wins in a season. Considering Hillsdale has four regular season games, the GLIAC tourney and D-II tournament at its disposal, a new standard could be set so high that no team comes close to it for quite some time. Both the 2002-03 and 2007-08 squads won 23 games.

6

Precisely where guard Brooke Knight ranks nationally in assists per game, with 6.4 dimes per contest. This number is thanks in part because of Cezat, but also should be something Cezat attributes her own success to. Without a playmaking guard a big will only take up space at times.

10

10, as in the top 10. The Chargers have not only lived in the Top 10 of the D-II Top 25 poll also season, they also rank among the 10 best teams in the nation in four major statistical categories as of today. Hillsdale ranks in the top 10 in the nation as a team in assists per game, assist-to-turnover ratio, 3-point field goal percentage and field goal percentage.

25

If you're tired of reading or hearing about Cezat then you might as well click the "red X" in the upper left-hand corner right now. The number of points Cezat needs to break her own single-season record for points. So if she averages 6.3 the rest of the way she's good. But if she averages 6.3 my guess is she is stricken with mono and has two bad ankles and no one wants to see that.

28

Cezat's 28 rebounds in an overtime win over Northwood Saturday tied a GLIAC record set back in 1978, she added 28 points in that game and she is averaging 28.2 points per game, second in the entire nation. She has set the bar so high for herself that another 20-20 outing is just that — another.

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GLIAC at a glance: Women's basketball

By RJ Walters / Daily News Sports Editor

As published in the Hillsdale Daily News on Feb. 12, 2009

A brief look at

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GLIAC basketball on the men's side with three weeks remaining in the regular season.

Hillsdale women: (19-2, 14-2)
The Charger women remain ranked in the top 10 nationally and if with a loss by Michigan Tech last week they have a great chance of being the No. 1 seed in the GLIAC tournament and they could possibly host a D-II regional. Hillsdale has won nine straight games, with Katie Cezat and strong guard play leading the way.

The rest of the GLIAC:

Ashland (13-8, 9-7)
• Beat Northern Michigan and No. 8 Michigan Tech last week
• Betsy Morrison tallied 33 points and 14 rebounds in the two contests
• Lindsey Gaut scored a career-high 22 points against the Huskies

Ferris State (7-13,  5-11)
• Lost to No. 7 Hillsdale and beat Findlay last week
• The Bulldogs are now within one game of Findlay for the final spot in the GLIAC Postseason Tournament with six games to play
• Senior forward/center Jenna Guay totaled 28 points, 12 rebounds, four assists and two steals in the two contests

Findlay (11-10, 6-10)
• Lost to Grand Valley State and Ferris State last week
• Junior guard Audra Mihalic averaged 19.0 points per game last week
• Junior forward Megan Sellers averaged 11.0 rebounds per game last week

Grand Valley State (16-5, 12-4)
• Beat Findlay and lost to No. 7 Hillsdale Last week
• Freshman guard Emma Veach paced GVSU with 17.5 points and 5.5 rebounds per game last week
• The Lakers are 9-1 at home and 7-5 on the road this season

Lake Superior State (14-10, 7-9)
• Lost to Northwood and beat Wayne State last week
•Senior Jaclyn Armstrong made the game-winning basket with three seconds remaining in regulation against Wayne State
• Armstrong was named to the “ESPN The Magazine” Academic All-District First Team in District IV

Michigan Tech (18-3, 15-1)
• Beat Tiffin and lost to Ashland last week
• The 80-77 overtime loss to Ashland put an end to the Huskies quest for conference perfection, as they are now 15-1 in GLIAC play
• Junior Katie Wysocky pulled down 21 rebounds in two games last week to move within two of 700 for her career. The 6-0 forward's total of 698 is just two shy of third-most all-time at MTU

Northern Michigan (12-9, 7-9)
• Lost to Ashland and beat Tiffin last week
• The Wildcats came back from a 10-point second-half deficit to beat the Dragons
• Wildcat senior guard Kelsey Deacon scored 36 points combined in the two contests last week

Northwood (17-4, 12-4)
• Beat Lake Superior State and Saginaw Valley State last week
• Northwood’s current five-game winning streak is the program’s longest since 1991-92
• The Timberwolves are one win short of tying the school record of 18 victories as a Division II school
• Junior forward Jodi Ostergren had a career-high 31 points against SVSU

Saginaw Valley State (2-19, 1-15)
• Lost to Wayne State and Northwood last week
• Against Wayne State, freshman guard Marah Kyle scored 21 points including going 4-for-7 from behind the three-point arc.

Tiffin (5-16, 4-12)
• Lost to Michigan Tech and Northern Michigan last week
• Mandy Jaeb continued her strong freshman season, leading the team in scoring last week with 16 points and 4.5 rebounds per game

Wayne State (6-15, 4-12)
• Beat Saginaw Valley State and lost to Lake Superior State last week
• The Warriors snapped a five-game losing streak with their win over SVSU
• Senior Chastidy Miller, who ranks seventh in all-time scoring at WSU with 1,122 points, will play in her 100th collegiate game on Thursday

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