ST. PAUL, MINN. – The St. Catherine University basketball team has a busy week ahead. The Wildcats will play two Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) home games in four days, starting with Wednesday evening's contest against St. Olaf College.
With a win over St. Olaf, St. Kate's has an opportunity to continue its move up the MIAC standings and make a second-straight push for playoffs. Tip off is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the Butler Center Gym, and live stats and video will be available for fans who cannot attend the game in person. Score updates can also be found on St. Kate's official Twitter page (@stkateswildcats).
Here are the five things to know before Wednesday evening:
18 – Sophomore forward Danica Cambrice (Minneapolis, Minn. / St. Croix Lutheran) averaged 18 points in her return to MIAC competition last week. After missing most of January, the sophomore made quite an impact in her first two games back, scoring a team-leading 19 points in a 69-67 OT win over Saint Mary's and adding 17 in Saturday's loss to St. Thomas.
19 – Cambrice wasn't the only sophomore to have scoring success last week. Fellow sophomore forward Jackie Radford (St. Paul, Minn. / Cretin-Derham Hall) scored a career-high 19 points in Saturday's 87-61 loss to the Tommies. Radford shot 42.8 percent from the floor, 50 percent from three-point range and went 5-6 from the free throw line to mark her best offensive performance of the season.
2 – The Wildcats tallied two double-digit wins over the Oles last season. In fact, St. Kate's outscored St. Olaf 158-90 in two meeting last year, the team's largest margin of victory over a single MIAC team in 2016-17. The Wildcats upended the Oles 69-51 in their first meeting last season before dominating in an 83-39 victory in Northfield.
7 – St. Olaf enters Wednesday night trying to snap a seven-game losing streak to conference opponents. In those seven losses, the Oles have scored 55 points or less in all three games, including a season low 33 points against Saint Benedict on Saturday.
1st – Saturday's loss to St. Thomas marked the first time all-season that St. Kate's has lost to a MIAC time when scoring more than 60 points in a game. It was also just the third time this season the Wildcats lost a game in general when scoring over 60 points in a contest.
