The seventh-ranked Concordia women’s basketball team unveiled a new-look starting lineup complete with three freshmen and two juniors in Saturday’s NAIA Division II Women’s Basketball Game of the Week. With the Bulldog backcourt tandem of Kristen Conahan and Bailey Morris on the mend, No. 2 Northwestern (17-0, 9-0 GPAC) rolled up an 86-68 victory at the Bultman Center in Orange City, Iowa.
The top-ranked Bulldogs were greeted by a hyper-charged atmosphere inside Lynn Farrell Arena on Wednesday (Jan. 8) when they fell at the hands of No. 4 Hastings, 66-59. Grace Barry had 17 points to lead Concordia.
Riley Sibbel totaled a combined 41 points as the top-ranked Bulldogs defeated both No. 12 Northwestern and No. 6 Dordt last week. Sibbel's 26 points versus Dordt represented a new career high for the GPAC Player of the Week.
Concordia and Hastings will meet as top-five ranked squads for the first time since 2003 in a big-time battle on Wednesday. Both teams are 9-0 in conference play. The Bulldogs will then return home to host Jamestown on Saturday.
Senior Riley Sibbel came through with a career high 26 points and the top-ranked Concordia women's basketball team stifled No. 6 Dordt in a 69-55 win inside Walz Arena on Saturday (Jan. 4).
The top-ranked Bulldogs began a critical three-game stretch of top 12 opponents by toppling No. 12 Northwestern, 97-81, on Thursday (Jan. 2). Grace Barry (18) and Philly Lammers (17) led Concordia in scoring.
It's back to GPAC action for the top-ranked Bulldogs, who remain undefeated in conference play (7-0). Concordia has two matchups with ranked opponents this week: Northwestern and Dordt.
Millard West High School products Taylor Farrell (team high 18 points) and Philly Lammers (12 points, 12 rebounds) starred while leading top-ranked Concordia to a bounce back win on Saturday (Dec. 21).
The program's 23-game win streak went by the wayside at No. 2 Southeastern on Friday (Dec. 20). Top-ranked Concordia had beaten the Fire three times since the start of the 2018-19 season.
A triple-double in the win at No. 7 Morningside helped lead to Grace Barry earning the GPAC Player of the Week award, as announced on Dec. 17. Barry ranks in the top 10 nationally in steals and assists per game.
After losing several key pieces from the 2014-15 team that made a run to the national title game, the Bulldogs have reloaded with a balanced approach in 2015-16.
It was only a matter of time before Sarah Harrison Krueger found her way into the Concordia Athletics Hall of Fame.
Since 1992, 14 Concordia women’s basketball teams have appeared at the national tournament with four advancing all the way to the national semifinals. But in 2015, the Bulldogs reached new heights by motoring to the national title game for the first time in program history.
It’s a Tuesday evening in the middle of July and two brothers have reunited over a familiar round, orange and leather-coated object that has been prevalent in their lives since birth. Jarrod Olson, now 41, drives and whirls a pass back out top to Drew Olson, 35, who rises and fires a three. They narrowly miss out on the Olson-to-Olson scoring connection.