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Bay City, Mich. -- The Michigan Technological University women's basketball team will travel to San Antonio, Texas, to participate in the 2009 NCAA Division II Women's Elite Eight. The Huskies will face Minnesota State-Mankato in the Quarterfinals Tuesday, March 24, at Noon.

NCAA Division II Women's Basketball
Elite Eight
San Antonio, Texas

Tuesday, March 24  

Session 1

Quarterfinal Game 1

Minnesota State-Mankato vs. Michigan Tech    Noon

Quarterfinal Game 2

Clayton State (Ga.) vs. Alaska-Anchorage        2:00 pm

Session 2  

Quarterfinal Game 3

Franklin Pierce (N.H.) vs. California (Pa.)          6:00 pm

Quarterfinal Game 4

West Texas A&M vs. Delta State (Miss.)           8:30 pm

Wednesday, March 25  

Session 3

Semifinal Game 1                                              6:00 pm
Semifinal Game 2                                              8:30 pm

Friday, March 27

Session 4

Finals                                                                7:00 pm 

-- GLIAC Women's Basketball Weekly Notes -- 

Grand Valley State - The Lakers fell at #1 Northern Kentucky, 66-57, in the opening round of the Midwest Regional Tournament, after trailing just 31-27 at halftime. The loss ends GVSU's season at 20-10, the fourth time in the last five years that the Lakers have won at least 20 games. Grand Valley State also advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the past seven years...senior Kim Wyngaard (Kimberly, Wis.) finished her terrific career as a Laker with a 90-33 record and was a member of the 2005-06 Division II National Championship team. She totaled 13 points, nine rebounds, and four steals in her final game. Wyngaard shot 49.3 percent from the field for her career and scored 860 points while pulling down 490 rebounds. Her 90.8 free throw percentage this year is the top single-season mark in program history. Wyngaard also led the Lakers in field goal percentage (49.8) and three-point percentage (38.7) this season...freshman point guard Jasmine Padin (Wyoming, Mich./Wyoming Park) scored a team-high 18 points, while making four three-pointers in the loss to NKU. This year, Padin set new school records for three-pointers made (73) and attempted (208) in a season. She also dished out a team-high 124 assists, tied for 10th-best all-time in Laker single-season history...the Lakers set new single-season records for free throw percentage (77.8) and made three-pointers (218). The free throw percentage easily outdistances the 2006-07 team, which shot 73.3 and the 218 three-pointers passed the 2005-06 squad, which made 200 triples...GVSU's future looks bright, as the Lakers return 13 of 14 players from this year's team, including four of five starters. Grand Valley State used the same starting lineup for 29 of 30 games this season. 

Hillsdale - The Hillsdale College women's basketball team saw its best season in school history come to an end Friday with a stunning 73-72 loss to the University of Indianapolis in the first round of the Midwest Regional Tournament...The 27 wins are the most wins in a season in the history of the program, and the team's four losses are the fewest in a season...The Chargers' four losses this season came by a total of six points...This marked the second straight year Hillsdale qualified for the NCAA Tournament, and fourth overall...Senior forward Katie Cezat ended her career with a 36-point, 16-rebound game, setting two more school records (most points in an NCAA Tournament game, most rebounds in an NCAA Tournament game)...Cezat finished this season with the fourth-most points in a single season in NCAA Division II history (908), and her 29.3 points per game scoring average also ranks in the top 10 in Division II history for one season...She finished with more than 100 blocked shots and 100 assists in a season, the first player in school history to achieve triple digits in both categories...Her 521 rebounds are the second-most in a season in Division II history...She also finished with a Division II record 28 double-doubles this season, and her 18 consecutive double-doubles represent the second-longest single-season streak in NCAA Division II history...Junior Brooke Knight set a school record with 196 assists this season...Hillsdale was 3-2 against the two Midwest Regional finalists this season, Indianapolis and Michigan Tech.

Michigan Tech - The Michigan Tech women's basketball team is headed for San Antonio. The No. 22-ranked Huskies won the 2009 NCAA Midwest Regional Championship with a 69-52 score over Indianapolis at the Bank of Kentucky Center tonight. Tech led by as many as 25 points and stayed on top down the stretch to claim the program's second regional title and the first since 1993...Sarah Stream paced the team in scoring tonight with 20 points to go with six assists. Danae Danen added 11 points, five rebounds and three blocks. Zimmerman posted eight more points and was also an all-tournament team selection...Shooting was the key for Tech as it went 50 percent from the field including 53 percent (9-of-17) from behind the arc. The Huskies also won the battle of the boards with a 36-24 rebounding edge...Indianapolis was held to 35 percent from the floor including 26 percent in the opening half...Michigan Tech, which has improved its record to 27-6, will now face Minnesota State Mankato in the national quarterfinal game March 24 at 12 noon. The Mavericks won the Central Region title with a 72-61 victory over Fort Lewis...All 2009 Women's Basketball Elite 8 games will be played at St. Mary's University's Bill Greehey Arena in San Antonio, Texas...Tech improved its all-time record in NCAA Tournament games to 14-13 with the win...The Huskies will break the school record for games played with the national quarterfinal game. The 1992-93 team, which finished third in the nation, played 33 games to a 30-3 record...Joining Wysocky, Stream and Zimmerman on the all-tournament team were Indianapolis' Samantha Meissel and Jessica Canary...Tech's three wins in the NCAA Tournament came by 18 points (71-53 over Northwood), 23 points (76-53 over Northern Kentucky) and 17 points (69-52 over Indianapolis). 

Northwood - The Northwood University women's basketball team saw the best season in program history come to an end with a 70-51 loss to Michigan Tech Friday night (March 13) in the opening round of the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament...NU ends the year with a school-record 21-8 record...shooting proved to be the key statistic all night, as Northwood shot 30.5 percent overall (18-59)...the Timberwolves shot just 2-20 from beyond the arc...senior Sarah Glowacki (Freeland, Mich.) led the way for Northwood in her final career game, finishing with 19 points. Karlie LeRoy (Saginaw, Mich./Nouvel) added 17 points, while senior Megan Starnes (Mt. Pleasant, Mich.) had 12 points and eight rebounds in her final game...Starnes finishes her career ranked seventh in school history in points (1,246) and fourth in rebounding (701)...Northwood loses just Glowacki and Starnes for the 2009-10 season.