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Saint Mary's Cardinals   3-14 MIAC / 3-17 Overall		St. Catherine Wildcats   8-9 MIAC / 11-9 Overall

Last Action: The Cardinals couldn't shut down Carleton's one-two punch of Ally Weaver and Hannah Oken-Berg, as the two combined for 33 points in leading the Knights to a 67-46 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory Wednesday in Northfield, Minn. … St. Catherine, meanwhile, struggled offensively in the second half, as St. Thomas used a 14-2 run to open the half and never looked back in handing the Wildcats a 65-47 conference setback in St. Paul, Minn.

Last Meeting: St. Catherine erased a five-point halftime deficit by scoring 21 of the first 27 points of the second half and overcame a season- and career-best 20-point effort by SMU's Cherie Kulig (Independence, Wis.), to beat the Cardinals 74-58 in a conference game at the SMU Gym on Jan. 10.

A Year Ago: St. Catherine collected a pair of conference wins over the Cardinals a year ago. St. Catherine's Molly Peterson pulled down a rebound off her own missed shot and scored the game's first basket 30 seconds in — and the Wildcats never looked back, leading from start to finish en route to a 79-62 conference win over the Cardinals on Jan. 9, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. In the teams' rematch at the SMU Gym on Feb. 13, Jess Weisbrod scored a game-high 16 points, but it was not enough, as St. Catherine held off the Cardinals down the stretch en route to a 74-66 decision.

Cardinal Notes: Jess Miller (Carver, Minn.) scored a team-high 20 points vs. Carleton Wednesday. It was the second time this season the SMU sophomore has netted 20 or more points, and was just three points shy of her career-best 23-point effort vs. Bethel on Jan. 24. …  Jesa Hall (Glenwood City, Wis.) scored a team- and career-best 21 points in SMU's 69-66 loss at Augsburg on Jan. 19. Hall's previous career high was 15 points, a total she has now equaled four times this season. … The Cardinals enter today's game ranked No. 3 in the MIAC in 3-point field goals made (106) and 3-point field goal percentage (34 percent, 106-for-304). … Hall is second in the conference in 3-pointers made (37), while Michelle Carne (Escanaba, Mich.) is third and Emily DeWitt (Lino Lakes, Minn.) is fifth in the conference in 3-point field goal percentage (44 percent, 17-for-38 and 42 percent, 22-for-52, respetively). … Miller and Kulig enter today's game vs. the Wildcats averaging in double figures, with Miller boasting a team-best 11.4 ppg average, while Kulig is close behind at 10.5 ppg. … The Cardinals' defense clamped down on UST last Monday. After surrendering 102 points vs. the Tommies in their first meeting, SMU held UST to just 54 Monday — the second-fewest points allowed by the Cardinals this season. … SMU's 73-69 win over Bethel on Jan. 24 was the Cardinals' first overtime game since a 66-60 OT loss to St. Olaf on Jan. 31, 2007. The last time SMU had won an overtime game was a 75-73 OT win over — ironically — Bethel on Jan. 2, 2006. …  All there of the Cardinals' wins this season have come at home, where SMU is 3-6. …  SMU's 73 points vs. Bethel on Jan. 24 were a season high, and the most scored by the Cardinals since netting 73 in a 73-59 win over Augsburg on Jan. 13, 2007.
 
Wildcat Notes: Wednesday's loss to St. Thomas was the Wildcats' fourth straight, and put them two games behind Hamline and Bethel for the fifth and sixth MIAC playoff spots with five games to play. … St. Catherine has not won, or lost, less than two games in a row. CSC has put together winning streaks of five (to open the season) and three (twice), while their nine losses have come during losing streaks of three, two and four straight. … CSC finished with a pair of double-figure scorers vs. the Tommies, as Laura Kalbfell netted a team-best 15 points, while Megan Zillmer chipped in 11. It was the third straight game — 10th time this season Kalbfell has led the team in scoring. …  Kalbfell enters today's game as the Wildcats' leading scorer, boasting a 17.6 ppg scoring average. She also leads the conference in field goals (108), points (304) and scoring average (17.9 ppg). … Brooke Hakanson (11.9 ppg) and Molly Peterson (10.1 ppg) are also averaging in double figures for the Wildcats. … CSC's 47 points vs. St. Thomas Wednesday were a season low, and just the eighth time in 20 games the Wildcats have not scored at least 70 points.