Under the Radar Game of the Day: North Dakota at Weber State

North Dakota at Weber State, 9:00 PM Eastern, watchbigsky.com

The Dee Events Center in Ogden, Utah is the site of tonight’s first place showdown in the Big Sky as the hometown Weber State Wildcats welcome in the Fighting Hawks of North Dakota.  Entering play today, Weber State has a half game lead over North Dakota with the Wildcats sitting at 11-2  and the Hawks at 11-3 in conference play (both teams are 16-8 overall).  UND won the first matchup of these two teams, 83-77, back on January 19 in Grand Forks, ND.  North Dakota got 31 points from Geno Crandall in that win and 22 from Quinton Hooker.  The two of them have been leading the Fighting Hawks all season, and have a chance to not only move their team into first place tonight, but give them the tiebreaker edge over Weber with the season sweep of the Wildcats.

Weber State has only lost 2 games since December 10, the game at North Dakota and a game last week at Sacramento State.  Jeremy Senglin has been key for them during that stretch, including a very impressive 32 point effort last weekend at Portland State.  The Wildcats also hold the number one three-point shooting percentage in the entire nation, entering play tonight at 42.7%.  Their 49.5% overall field goal percentage is tops in the Big Sky and ninth in the entire nation.  If Senglin and his teammates can continue to rain it in from long range, they have a chance to open up a two game lead in the loss column tonight and move just a few wins away from locking up the top seed in the Big Sky tournament.