Posted: Mar 09, 2021
Texas Lutheran heads to Colorado Springs for SCAC Tournament semifinal vs. Colorado College
Texas Lutheran
(5-4)
56
Colorado Col.
(7-2)
70
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Texas Lutheran (5-4) | 7 | 9 | 20 | 20 | 56 |
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Colorado Col. (7-2) | 24 | 15 | 13 | 18 | 70 |
SEGUIN, Texas -- Texas Lutheran Women's Basketball will play in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament semifinal round for the seventh time in eighth years when the team faces Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. this Saturday.
Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. MST / 2 p.m. CST on March 13 in Colorado College's Reid Arena.
TLU (5-3, 5-3 SCAC) is the No. 3 seed. Colorado College (6-2, 6-2 SCAC) is the No. 2 seed. The Bulldogs and Tigers did not face each other in the SCAC regular season.
The winner of Saturday's semifinal will face the winner of the Sunday semifinal between No. 1 seed Trinity and No. 5 seed Austin College, the defending conference champion. Trinity and Austin play at 4 p.m. Sunday in San Antonio.
The SCAC Tournament championship game will be played the weekend of March 19-21 at the home of the highest remaining seed.
Both TLU and Colorado College advanced to the SCAC semifinal round after their respective conference quarterfinal match-ups were called off. The SCAC released statements for both cancellations saying that the games were not played after adherence "to the league's COVID-19 safety precautions and protocols." TLU and Colorado College each advanced after league guidelines were followed.
With COVID-19 testing and safety precautions and protocols in place, the SCAC Tournament this year takes place across a variety of hosting locations so that one location does not host the bulk of the conference's women's and men's basketball teams.
TLU will play an SCAC Tournament game at Colorado College for the first time in school history. When the Tigers hosted the 2018 SCAC Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments, the Bulldogs did not qualify for the tournament.
The Bulldogs won the SCAC Tournament the very next year (2019) on their home floor (Memorial Gymnasium - Jim Shuler Court). The Bulldogs have won two SCAC Tournament Championships, in 2014 and in 2019.
TLU and Colorado College have never met in an SCAC Women's Basketball Tournament game.
The Bulldogs are coached by Mel Dixon, who is in his ninth season with the Bulldogs. Dixon, TLU's all-time leader in women's basketball victories, is 127-95 with the Bulldogs. Dixon guided the Bulldogs to NCAA Division III Tournament appearances in 2014 and 2019.
Colorado College is coached by Katherine Menendez, who is in her fifth year with the Tigers. In Menendez's first year, the Tigers were 2-23, but the team has improved each year, going 10-17, 12-14, 14-12, and now 6-2.