Round Three with the Bearcats

Women's Basketball 2/26/2022 5:05:00 PM

Round Three with the Bearcats

Kearney, Neb. – The Nebraska-Kearney women's basketball team will take on the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats Friday afternoon in the 2022 MIAA Tournament in Kansas City.

The 10-team event gets underway Wednesday with the 8/9 and 7/10-seeded games. The winners of those contests advance to Thursday where they'll face the top two seeds, Missouri Southern State and Fort Hays State.

The third-seeded Lopers (22-6) are defending tourney champs. They have won five straight over the sixth-seeded 'Cats (17-11) including sweeping this year's series. The wins came by scores of 68-51 in Kearney (Feb. 23) and 67-60 in Maryville (Jan. 15). UNK-NW play the second game on Friday which should start around 2:15 p.m.

The winner reaches Saturday's 2:15 p.m. semifinal against either Hays, seventh-seeded Central Oklahoma or 10th-seeded Emporia State. The championship game is set for Sunday at 1 p.m. with the winner receiving an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament (March 11-14).

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