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Bison Women Travel to Oral Roberts, Centenary

North Dakota State (10-11, 6-5 Summit) hits the road for a pair of Summit League games ... NDSU is tied for fourth in the league standings ... The Bison won back-to-back games for the first time since Dec. 4 and Dec. 7 ... NDSU recorded its first league weekend sweep Feb. 27 and March 1, 2010 vs. UMKC (1-29-11) and Southern Utah (1-31-11) ... NDSU is 3-7 on the road this season including 3-2 in league play ... North Dakota State is scheduled to play league-leading Oral Roberts (15-7, 11-0 Summit) at 2:05 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, at the Mabee Center (10,575) in Tulsa, Okla. ... The Golden Eagles have won 10 games in a row ... ORU is 8-2 at home including 5-0 in league play ... North Dakota State is scheduled to play Centenary College (0-18, 0-11 Summit) at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7, in the Gold Dome (3,000) at Shreveport, La. ... The Ladies have lost 21 straight games ... Centenary is 0-7 at home this season including 0-4 in league play.

Live Video/Live Audio/Live Stats
Follow on the Internet at GoBison.com with live streaming audio (Bison Radio Network), live streaming video and live in-game statistics.

The Series
This will be the ninth meeting between North Dakota State and Oral Roberts ... The series is tied 4-4 ... The Golden Eagles defeated NDSU 84-74 on Jan. 10 ... Abby Plucker and Hannah Linz both scored 17 points ... The Bison and ORU have played two overtime games in the series, both coming during the 2007-08 season ... NDSU won 75-72 in double-overtime in Fargo on March 8, 2008 ... Oral Roberts won 73-68 in OT on Dec. 10, 2007 ... This will the ninth meeting between North Dakota State and Centenary ... The Bison lead the series 8-0 ... NDSU won the first meeting 94-55 in Fargo on Jan. 8 ... Plucker led the Bison with 27 points and 16 rebounds.

DeGagne Provides Inspirational Boost
Dani DeGagne provided more than an inspirational boost as North Dakota State defeated Southern Utah 74-54 on Jan. 31 ... DeGagne, a 5-foot-9 sophomore from Brandon, Manitoba, flirted with her first collegiate "double-double" scoring 10 points and matching a career-high with nine rebounds ... Dani's mother, Colleen, passed away Jan. 28 following her courageous battle against cancer ... The SUU game provided DeGagne with an emotional outlet and her teammates a tremendous boost ... "It's good to get away with our family and it's definitely what my mom would have wanted," said DeGagne, who returned to Canada following the game ... "She (My mom) loved to watch me play, she would have wanted me to keep on playing. It's good to be back with the team because I missed them."

Tickets
Tickets for North Dakota State home women's basketball games are available in advance at the Bison Sports Arena ticket office, online at GoBison.com/tickets, or toll free at (888) 231-NDSU.

Bison On Radio
790 AM of Fargo will have the game at Oral Roberts on Saturday and at Centenary College on Monday ... The pregame will start at 1:45 p.m. and tip-off at 2:05 p.m. on Saturday and pregame at 6:40 p.m. and tip-off at 7 p.m. Monday ... Scott Miller will handle the play-by-play ... There is a 20 minute-pregame and a 20-minute postgame ... Scott Miller hosts Bison Feedback on KFGO-AM 790 featuring women's basketball coach Carolyn DeHoff and men's basketball coach Saul Phillips on Tuesdays 7-8 p.m. throughout the season ... Game audio and Bison Feedback are free and available on GoBison.com.

Plucker Receives Summit League Player of the Week Honor
North Dakota State forward Abby Plucker was named Summit League Women's Basketball Player of the Week for her performance during the week of Jan. 25-31 ... Plucker, a 5-foot-11 junior from Parker, S.D., earns her second Player of the Week award in three weeks ...The junior notched two double-doubles last week with 19 points and a career-high 17 rebounds vs. UMKC (1-29-11) and followed that up with 23 points and 14 rebounds against Southern Utah (1-31-11) ... In her 74 minutes of action, Plucker committed zero turnovers ... For the week, the forward averaged 21 points, 15.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists, one steal and one block per contest. From the field, Plucker was 17-of-28 for 61 percent, shot 44 percent (4-of-9) from downtown and was 80 percent (4-of-5) from the free throw line.

Bison In The Summit League
North Dakota State was well represented in the Summit League statistics report released Feb. 1 (league games only) ... Individually in the top 10, Abby Plucker is 1st in rebounding (10.5 rpg) and three-point shooting (27-50, .540), 2nd in scoring (20.7 ppg) and three-pointers made (2.5 avg.), 3rd in field goal shooting (.565, 78-138) and free throw shooting (.865, 45-52), and 4th in minutes played (36.3 avg.); Katie Birkel is 3rd in minutes played (36.9 avg.), 4th in assist/turnover ratio (1.8) and 5th in assists (4.2 apg) ; Dani DeGagne is 10th in steals (1.9 spg), and Janae Burich is 3rd in blocked shots (2.4 bpg) ... Team-wise (top three), the Bison were

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