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St. Joseph – Missouri Western is set to host Lincoln on Saturday and will go for their third straight win. The Griffons will go for a season sweep of the Blue Tigers starting at 3 p.m.

The Series
Saturday will be the 34th meeting all-time between the Blue Tigers and the Griffons, with MWSU owning a 29-4 lead in the series. Missouri Western won the last meeting, 85-62, in Jefferson City earlier this year.

The Coaches
Rob Edmisson is now 61-42 at MWSU in his fourth year and has an overall coaching record of 450-150 in his career. Prior to Missouri Western, Edmisson spent seven seasons at Oklahoma City and won a national championship in 2011-12.

In her fourth season as the head coach of the Blue Tigers, Nicole Collier has Lincoln in the hunt for its fourth postseason berth in the past five years. A three-year assistant with LU before taking over as the head coach, she has helped lead Lincoln to double-digit victories four times since 2009-10.  Collier played at Missouri Western for two season.

Missouri Western

• The Griffons are now 20-2 overall and 14-2 in conference action
• Missouri Western remain atop of the MIAA standings
• The Griffons have clinched a spot in the MIAA tournament along with Fort Hays State, Pittsburg State and Emporia State
• MWSU is now 11-1 at home this season
• The Griffons won 93-50 over Lindenwood on Thursday night, they had not played a game decided by less than nine points since its 13-point win at Washburn on January 16
• Missouri Western sits first in 10 different categories in the MIAA
• The Griffons average 84.5 points per game (5^th in the NCAA)
• MWSU has a scoring margin of +20.4 (1^st in the MIAA)
• Missouri Western forces teams into an average of 21.2 turnovers per game, the turnover margin is +6.5 for the Griffons
• The Griffons average 11.4 steals per game (2^nd in the MIAA)
• Sarafina Handy and Miliakere Koyamainavure both average in double figures, scoring 14.5 and 11.3 points per game respectively
• Guards Chelsey Dewey and Handy are the only Griffons to start all 22 games this season
• LaQuinta Jefferson averages 22.8 points per game and shoots 56 percent from the field
• Dwanisha Tate, Sefulu Faavae, and Melia Richardson all average 15 minutes per game off the bench

Lincoln

• The Blue Tigers are 8-14 overall and 4-12 in the MIAA standings
• LU currently sits 11^th in the MIAA standings
• Lincoln University has a 2-8 record on the road this season
• Lincoln has lost four of their last five games, their last win came against Northeastern St. last Saturday
• Offensively, the Blue Tigers average 61.6 points per game and allow 73.9 points per game
• The Blue Tigers shot 44.3 percent from the field and convert on 75.3 percent of their free throws (4^th in the MIAA)
• LU averages 11.7 assist per game and 4.6 steals per game
• Zuri Hill leads Lincoln in both points and rebounds, scoring 13.4 points and grabbing 7.7 rebounds per game
• Hunter Yoakum is the other Blue Tiger to average double-figures at 11.7 per game
• Dorian Briggs has a team-high 26 steals this season
• Briggs, Hill and Lizzie Nessling have started every game this season