North Dakota State Women Look To Rebound Against IPFW, Oakland

North Dakota State University (8-9, 6-3 Summit) is scheduled to host IPFW (3-17, 2-7 Summit) at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, in the Bison Sports Arena ... The Bison lost to 20th-ranked South Dakota State 64-48 in Brookings on Jan. 24 ... The Mastodons snapped an 11-game losing streak with a 55-51 win over Western Illinois on Jan. 26 ... NDSU is 5-2 at home this season including 4-0 in Summit League play ... IPFW is 1-9 on the road and 1-3 in league away games ... North Dakota State is scheduled to host Oakland University (16-4, 8-1 Summit) at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, in the Bison Sports Arena ... The Golden Grizzlies have rattled off eight straight wins since a loss to Marquette on Dec. 28 ... OU has compiled a 6-2 road record including 4-1 in Summit League play. NCAA's "Bring A Kid to the Game" This Saturday: The North Dakota State men's and women's basketball teams host IPFW Saturday at the Bison Sports Arena ... Youth tickets for both games are $2 with the purchase of an adult general admission ticket ... Tipoff for the women's game is at 2 p.m. and tipoff for the men's game is 7 p.m. ... Starting one hour before the game, inflatable games from Games Galore will be available and the second of four sets of Bison trading cards will be given away to the first 500 kids in attendance courtesy of Stop N Go. The Series: This will be the ninth meeting between North Dakota State and IPFW ... The Bison lead the series 7-1 including a 63-59 win over the Mastodons on Jan. 5 in Fort Wayne ... This will be the sixth meeting between North Dakota State and Oakland ... The Bison lead the series 3-2 ... The Golden Grizzlies defeated NDSU 61-47 in Rochester, Mich., on Jan. 3. Bison On Radio: WDAY 970 AM of Fargo is the flagship station of the Bison Radio Network ... Stations on the Bison Radio Network for the basketball season include WDAY-AM 970 (Fargo), KQLX-FM 106.1 (Lisbon/select games), ESPN AM 710 /KFYR-AM 550 (Bismarck/select games) and KPOK-AM 1340 (Bowman) ... Scott Miller, WDAY 970 AM sports director, will call the play-by-play, and Jeremy Jorgenson, NDSU director of athletic broadcasting, will provide the color analysis ... Miller hosts Bison Feedback featuring women's basketball coach Carolyn DeHoff and men's basketball coach Saul Phillips on Tuesdays throughout the season ... Game audio and Bison Feedback are free and available on www.GoBison.com. 96.3 KNDS FM of Fargo ... Dan "Pinto" Gunderson describes the action, while Stefan Ming is the color analyst ... Pregame begins 10 minutes before tip-off Saturday ... The game is also on www.kndsradio.com. Bison Coaches Corner: Bison Coaches Corner featuring women's basketball coach Carolyn DeHoff and men's basketball coach Saul Phillips can be seen weekly during The Summit League season exclusively on GoBison.com ... The show feature games footage and analysis from both Phillips and DeHoff ... The NDSU men's basketball show will be posted Tuesday afternoons (once on Thursday, Feb. 19 due to team travel), while the Bison women's basketball show will be uploaded Wednesday afternoons (twice on Thursday due to travel) ... Bison Coaches Corner is hosted by NDSU director of athletic broadcasting/sales Jeremy Jorgenson and directed by Andrew Young, a freshman broadcast journalism major from Napoleon, N.D. Bison Basketball Flex Ticket Package: With the North Dakota State men's and women's basketball teams gearing up for The Summit League stretch run, the athletics department is offering the Bison Basketball Flex Ticket Package ... The women's flex pack allows fans to choose four of the six remaining home games for $30 ... With the men's flex pack, fans can choose to attend four of the five remaining home games for $40 ... The Bison Sports Arena ticket office is open between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday ... For more information, contact the NDSU ticket office at 1-888-231-NDSU (6378) or visit www.GoBison.com. GoBison.Com Live Stats: Follow the games on the Internet at GoBison.com with live in-game statistics ... Click on the "Live Stats" link at the left side of the page ... Live video is available by subscription starting at $7.95 per month on GoBison.com or $19.95 per month for the league package on TheSummitLeague.org. Bison Fast Break: In the NCAA Division I statistics (thru games Jan. 25), North Dakota State junior guard Inger Hodgson is 30th in three-point shooting (.414, 36-87) ... Hodgson ranks 2nd in the Summit League in both three-point shooting (.531, 26-49) and three-pointers made (2.9 avg.) ... Collectively, the Bison are 30th in NCAA Division I in field goal percentage defense (.355, 336-947) and 40th in free throw shooting (.739, 227-307) ... It's "The Few, The Proud, The Bison", as the North Dakota State women's basketball roster dropped to seven healthy players during the second half against Western Illinois (1-10-09) ... Junior guard Nicole Vigil is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury suffered with 13:25 left in the second half against Western Illinois (1-10-09) ... NDSU has added 5-foot-8 freshman Tiffany Giese from Ortonville, Minn., and 6-foot-1 junior Kate Moser from Bismarck, N.D. to the roster ... Giese was a volunteer on the practice squad ... Moser played in five games for the Bison in 2005-06 ... Moser was the 2008 NDSU Homecoming Queen ... Sophomore forward Abby Plucker will be evaluated again in early February following a shoulder injury sustained at Denver (12-15-08) ... Plucker has missed the last eight games ... Junior Megan Shea is practicing again after sitting out for most of the year due to complications following knee surgery ... North Dakota State was picked sixth in The Summit League preseason poll released in October ... The Bison four-game losing streak from Dec. 13 to Jan. 3 was the longest since an eight-game skid during the 2005-06 season ... NDSU had a season-high 52 rebounds at IPFW (1-5-09) including a season best 18 offensive rebounds ... North Dakota State is 8-2 when leading at halftime, 7-2 holding opponents to 59 points-under, 6-3 when outrebounding opponents and 5-2 when committing fewer turnovers ... Whitney Trecker recorded a career best for the third time in four games, exploding for 17 points at UMKC (1-17-09) including nine in the game's final 6:35 ... Trecker has scored in double-figures in three of the last five games ... Six-foot-2 senior Jerri Penley recorded a career-high 17 rebounds against IPFW (1-5-09) ... Penley has recorded double-figure rebounds in four of the last nine games ... With 15 points and 14 rebounds, Penley recorded the first "double-double" of the season and third of her career at Denver (12-15-08) ... Penley started the season 14 of 14 from the free throw line before missing her first against Oral Roberts (12-8-08) ... Penley made 19 straight free throws dating back to the second half of the UMKC (2-18-08) game ... Inger Hodgson came up with a career-high nine rebounds in the loss at Wyoming (12-13-08) ... Hodgson, who has a pair of 20-plus point scoring games this year, matched a career-high with five three-point field goals made at Southern Utah (1-19-09) ... Sophomore Abby Plucker had back-to-back career-high 20-point games against Georgetown (11-28-08) and Valley City State (11-21-08) ... Plucker is one of three players to score 20 points this season with Inger Hodgson and Katie Birkel netting 22 and 21, respectively, against Oral Roberts (12-8-08) ... Plucker scored in double-figures in the first eight games before hurting her shoulder at Denver (12-15-08) ... Ashley Samuelson pulled down a career-high 10 rebounds at Denver (12-15-08) ... Samuelson, a 6-foot junior from Underwood, Minn., sat out 2006-07 due to NCAA transfer rules (transfer from Colorado State) and missed last year due to a knee injury in the preseason ... Carolyn DeHoff recorded her first victory as a collegiate head coach on Nov. 21 against Valley City State ... At 17-11 in 2008, North Dakota State surpassed the previous year's win total of 14 ... Three of NDSU's six league losses in 2008 were by five points or less ... The Bison led at halftime in 21 of 28 games in 2008, winning 15 of those games ... North Dakota State is 1-3 in overtime games the past two seasons and 14-12 overall in OT ... The Bison double OT win over Oral Roberts (3-1-08) tied the longest game in school history ... North Dakota State is 25-18 in opening games but have lost four in a row ... The Bison were 10-2 at home last season ... Lisa Bue, who was the 2008 Summit League Player of the Year, is playing professional basketball in Bosnia ... Bue's roommate is former NDSU post player Brandee Gibbs. Bison In The Summit League: North Dakota State is well represented in The Summit League statistics (league games only) released Jan. 27 ... Individually in the top 10, Inger Hodgson is 2nd in three-point shooting (.531, 26-49) and three-pointers made (2.9 avg.), 4th in field goal shooting (.505, 46-91), tied for 5th in steals (2.1 spg), 7th in scoring (14.6 ppg) and 8th in assists (3 apg); Katie Birkel is tied for 4th in assists (3.6 apg), 5th in free throw shooting (.840, 21-25) and tied for 10th in scoring (11.7 ppg); Jerri Penley is 3rd in blocked shots (2 bpg) and 6th in rebounding (8 rpg) , and Jill Zaruba is 3rd in free throw shooting (.885, 23-26) and tied for 9th in blocked shots (0.9 bpg) ... Team-wise (top three), the Bison are 1st in field goal percentage defense (.324, 164-506), three-point field goal shooting (..372, 45-121); 2nd in scoring defense (55.9 ppg), field goal shooting (.437, 197-451), three-point field goal percentage defense (.291, 44-151) and blocked shots (4.1 bpg), and 3rd in scoring margin (+7.6 ppg), rebound margin (+3 rpg).