Women's Basketball | 02.21.2022
LEWISTON, Idaho – Head Coach
Brian Orr and the No. 21 Warrior women have already secured the Cascade Conference regular-season title and a bid to the national tournament, but the attention is now on the Cascade Conference Championship tournament, presented by U.S. Bank.
LC State will take on eighth-seeded College of Idaho for the seventh time in two seasons. The Warriors have taken every matchup between the two since joining the CCC, including a sweep of the Yotes in the 2021 postseason playoff. LC took the contests this season by scores of 66-53 and 75-48.
Tickets are on sale now for the CCC quarterfinal matchup at lcwarriors.com/tickets, and a stream package is also available at lcwarriors.com/watch. Season passes are not valid for the postseason.
THE No. 21 WARRIORS (25-3, 19-3) – No. 1 seed
The Warrior women enter the tournament as the regular-season champions, having dropped just one game played on a basketball court this season. Originally picked to finish third in the CCC, the fresh-faced LC State team put together a spectacular regular season despite not returning any starters from last year.
Callie Stevens has headlined the Warriors all season and enters the tournament as the CCC's leading scorer. At 19.0 points per game, Stevens is averaging three points more than the second-best scorer in the conference. She is the top 3-point shooter in the CCC, with 3.0 made per game and 79 total, and a .411 percentage from behind the 3-point line.
Maddie Holm, the other half of the stellar sophomore duo, leads the conference in rebounding with 10.5 per game. She is averaging a double-double with 12.3 points per game, and is a solid 3-point shooter with a .392 3-point percentage. She leads the team in steals with 45 on the season.
Another key piece to LC's puzzle this season has been junior
Sara Muehlhausen. The 6-3 post player has blocked a conference-best 58 shots this season, placing her fifth all-time for LC in a single season. Her eight blocks at Evergreen State is a single-game record.
Hannah Broyles has been a consistent scorer for the Warriors all year with 9.5 points per game. Broyles, Muehlhausen and Stevens are the only three Warriors to have started all 26 games.
The Warriors enter the week as the conference leaders in scoring (74.5), scoring margin (+16.2), field goal percentage defense (.336), 3-point field goal percentage defense (.272), blocked shots per game (4.2), assist/turnover ratio (1.3) and 3-pointers made (8.0).
THE YOTES (16-14, 10-12) – No. 8 seed
College of Idaho clinched the final spot in the CCC postseason tournament finishing just one game behind Northwest and Warner Pacific. The Yotes were the only other Cascade Conference team in action during the 2020-21 season and fell to the Warriors in the conference playoff.
Sienna Riggle is the Yotes' leading scorer and is averaging 13.3 points per game heading into the tournament. She is shooting .486 from the field. Lexi Mitchel leads the team in rebounding (9.7) and is second in scoring (9.5).
C of I leads the CCC in rebounding with 43.6 per game, just 0.1 more per game than LC State and Oregon Tech. They are in the Cascade's top five in scoring defense (60.6), field goal percentage defense (.379), 3-point percentage (.293), 3-point field goal percentage defense (.274) and rebounding margin (+8.6).
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