From October 2011 through December 2020, Concordia Women's Basketball was included in every possible NAIA top 25 ranking, a run of 97-straight poll appearances.
After a rough third quarter, the Bulldogs responded with a gritty fourth period that paved the way to an impressive road win over Midland. Concordia allowed just one point over the final five minutes.
Seventh-ranked Concordia exploded out of the gates with a 17-0 lead on the way to a 109-86 rout of visiting Mount Marty (4-7, 0-6 GPAC) on Saturday. The Bulldogs earned their fifth-straight win and completed a three-games-in-four-days stretch in which they won by an average margin of 30.7 points. Eighth-year head coach Drew Olson’s squad bumped its records to 11-2 overall and 6-1 in the GPAC.
In their final pre-Christmas outings, the Bulldogs will be back on the road to take on Midland (Tuesday) and Jamestown (Friday). Concordia seeks to get back to the win column after a loss at Morningside.
Star junior guard Bailey Morris carried over her second-half scoring splurge from Wednesday in powering a 95-55 blowout win over visiting York College on Thursday night. Morris exploded for 20-first half points to put the Panthers (4-6) away quickly inside Walz Arena. Seventh-ranked Concordia raised its record to 10-2 overall.
A slow start doomed the Bulldogs while up against 24th-ranked Morningside on Saturday (Dec. 12). Concordia fell by a score of 86-67 despite a breakout 20-point outing from Kayla Luebbe.
The Concordia University Women’s Basketball team will look to bounce back from last week’s loss at Briar Cliff with a trip to Sioux City to take on 24th-ranked Morningside on Saturday (Dec. 12).
A cold shooting afternoon and a big day for Briar Cliff at the foul line resulted in a 69-59 Concordia loss on Saturday (Dec. 5). The defeat snapped a six-game win streak.
The women's basketball game between Concordia and Mount Marty scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 9 has been postponed with a makeup date set for Dec. 30.
In the most stressful of victories during the current streak, the 11th-ranked Bulldogs closed the game on a 9-0 run to pull out a 73-66 win at Hastings. Taylor Cockerill poured in 18 points.
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.