The Northern State women’s basketball program enters postseason play today with a head full of steam.
The Wolves won their last four games of the season and went 8-3 in their last 11 games to earn the No. 3 seed in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference North Division and, with it, a first-round home game.
Northern will host Upper Iowa, the No. 6 seed in the NSIC South. The game is set for noon.
“We’ve strung some (wins) together,” said Northern coach Paula Krueger. “We’ve been playing pretty well. We went on that Winona-Upper Iowa trip and didn’t play well, kind of took it on the chin.”
Those two losses to Winona State and today’s opponent, Upper Iowa, came back on Jan. 27 and 28, respectively. Northern has gone 5-1 since.
“We came back and we have done some pretty good things,” Krueger said.
Northern is led by the trio of Kailee Oliverson, Laurie Rogers and Rianna Fillipi, all of whom are averaging in double figures this season.
But it
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