BILLINGS, Mont. – The 12th-ranked Rocky Mountain College women's basketball team will take its final road trip of the regular season this weekend. Rocky in in Great Falls to play Providence on Friday at 5:30 p.m. before taking on MSU-Northern in Havre on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Liv video and stats will be available for both games of the weekend road trip. Links for the live features are available at GoBattlinBears.com/live.
The Battlin' Bears enter the road trip at 20-4 overall this season. They hit the 20-win mark for the first time in the 15 years of available records and the current .833 winning percentage is tied for eighth best in the NAIA this season.
Rocky is 10-4 in Frontier Conference action to sit in second place. They are one game behind Carroll for the lead with four games to play. The Battlin' Bears hold a one-half game advantage over the third-place team, Montana Western. Rocky needs a win or Lewis-Clark State loss to secure a home game in the quarterfinals of the Frontier Conference Tournament on February 28.
With the move up three spots to No. 12 in the NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll released on Tuesday, Rocky set a new school record for highest ranking for the third time this season. They received 138 points in the poll to move up in the rankings for the fourth consecutive poll.
Rocky is currently scoring 68.67 points per game and they are second in the Frontier by shooting 43.5 percent from the field. They are also second in the conference by making 6.88 threes per game and shooting 34.4 percent from deep. The team records 14.29 assists per game and they have a 1.09 assist-to-turnover ratio.
The Battlin' Bears rank second in the NAIA in scoring defense by limiting opponents to 49.83 points per game. They are sixth nationally by allowing 24.6 percent shooting from 3-point territory and eighth by holding the opposition to 34.0 percent overall.
The team averages 10.29 steals per game – 29th in the NAIA – and they are 26th in the country by blocking 3.25 shots per game.
Mikayla Jones leads the team in scoring at 12.0 points per game. She has scored in double figures 16 times and she scored a career-high 30 points in the win over Montana Tech last Saturday. Jones leads the Frontier at 2.58 steals per game – 17th nationally – and her 62 total steals place her 15th in the NAIA.
Brooke Jones has scored in double figures 16 times and is second on the team in scoring at 11.2 points per game. She shoots 52.6 percent from the field and she has 148 rebounds. Her 5.00 defensive rebounds per game average is good for 49th in the country.
Hailee Farstveet is up to 9.2 points per game after scoring in double figures in the past 10 games. She leads the team with 87 assists and ranks 41st in the NAIA at 3.63 assists per game. Farstveet has scored 792 points in her Rocky career and she has 1,118 career points in the NAIA when you add the 326 she scored for Dickinson State as a freshman.
Kiana Corpus is at eighth in the NAIA this week with her 2.44 assist-to-turnover ratio.
Alexi Smith is 32nd in the same category at 1.80.
