North Dakota State (8-5 Summit, 13-10) is scheduled to hit the road this weekend, heading to Cedar City, Utah, and Kansas City, Mo. ... The Bison are scheduled to play Southern Utah (4-8 Summit, 6-17) at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the Centrum Arena (5,300) ... The Thunderbirds have won three of their last five meetings ... NDSU is scheduled to play UMKC (2-10 Summit, 9-14) at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18, in Swinney Recreation Center (1,500) ... The Kangaroos have lost four in a row and six of their last seven games ... North Dakota State has won six of its last seven games since being swept on the road by Western Illinois and IUPUI on Jan. 12-14 ... The Bison are currently in fourth place in the league standings ... NDSU’s current four-game winning streak is the longest since last February.

THINK PINK: North Dakota State was one of over 900 women’s basketball teams participating in the 2008 WBCA’s "Think Pink" week, Feb. 8-17 ... Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame head coach Amy Ruley, a breast cancer survivor, hosted activities Feb. 9, when NDSU played IUPUI ... Ruley donated $500 dollars ($100 for the five three-point field goals NDSU made) to the American Cancer Society against IUPUI ... The NDSU Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame coach was matched by State Farm agent Jill Henning ... Fans also had the opportunity to make a pledge.

BISON ON RADIO: WDAY 970 AM of Fargo is the flagship station of the Bison Radio Network ... Stations on the network include WDAY-AM 970 (Fargo), KLXX-AM 1270 (Bismarck), KQLX-FM 106.1 (Lisbon), KGFX-FM 92.7 (Pierre, SD), KJJZ AM 1450 (Rugby) and KPOK-AM 1340 (Bowman) ... WDAY 970 AM sports director Scott Miller will call the play-by-play ... Pregame starts 15 minutes prior to tip-off ... Games are available on www.GoBison.com.

BISON FEEDBACK: North Dakota State women’s basketball coach Amy Ruley and men’s basketball coach Saul Phillips will field questions during the season on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Bison Feedback hosted by WDAY 970-Radio Sports Director Scott Miller ... Feedback is available on www.GoBison.com.

LIVE STATS: Live in-game statistics will be available on the Internet at www.GoBison.com this weekend ... Click on the "Live Stats" link at the left side of the page for the schedule of events.

SUMMIT TV: Live streaming video of all North Dakota State HOME basketball and Summit League road games will be available on the Internet ... Summit TV is the live and on-demand video service available by subscription at www.TheSummitLeague.org.

THE SERIES: This will be the second meeting between Southern Utah and North Dakota State ... The Bison won the first meeting 63-50 on Jan. 21 in Fargo ... Brenda Slyt dropped in 16 points, Lisa Bue added six rebounds for NDSU ... This will be the second meeting between UMKC and North Dakota State ... The Bison lead the series 1-0 with the 80-62 win over UMKC on Jan. 19 in Fargo ... Jerri Penley recorded her first collegiate "double-double" with 23 points and 12 rebounds for NDSU.

ABOUT SOUTHERN UTAH: The youthful Thunderbirds have three freshmen and one sophomore in the starting lineup ... Anne Westwood, a 6-1 junior, tops Southern Utah in scoring (11.2 ppg) and rebounding (8.7 rpg) ... SUU plays better at home, where the Thunderbirds are 6-5 overall and 4-1 in league play including the last three in a row over Oral Roberts, Centenary and UMKC.

ABOUT UMKC: The Kangaroos have a pair of players scoring in double figures in Chazny Morris (17.1 ppg) and Alysa Klein (14.5 ppg) ... Klein is hitting 51.4 percent (144-280) from the field, while Morris had made 79.8 percent (71-89) of her free throws ... Klein also tops UMKC in rebounding (7 rpg) and has 55 blocked shots ... The Kangaroos are 7-3 at home this season.

RUNNING WITH BUE: With 15:44 left in the first half against IPFW on Jan. 7, North Dakota State senior Lisa Bue became the 27th NDSU women’s basketball player to score 1,000 points in a career and the first since the 2005 season when Leah Klabo (1,072, 2002-05) achieved the milestone ... Bue moved past Dana Patsie (1,143, 1984-88) on the Bison all-time charts and is No. 22 with 1,145 points in 101 career games including 74 starts ... She has scored in double figures in 62 games including 21 of 23 this season ... Including the pair of "double-doubles" (double-figure in points and/or rebounds, assists) on Feb. 11, Bue has five this season and seven "daily-doubles" in her career ... Her 22-point night against Western Illinois (2-11-08) was the fifth 20-plus effort of the season and 10th of her career ... Her 14 rebounds against Oakland (1-5-08) were a career-high.

BISON FASTBREAK: Three of NDSU’s five conference losses are by five points or less ... The Bison shot a season best 54.4 percent from the field against IPFW (1-7-08) including 65.2 percent in the second half ... North Dakota State has hit 50 percent from the field in three games this season including 52.6 percent against UMKC (1-19-08) ... NDSU has led at halftime in 18 of 23 games this season, winning 12 of those games ... North Dakota State is 0-3 in overtime games the past two seasons and 13-12 overall in OT ... The last overtime win came against Bentley (2003-04) ... The Bison are 10-3 when holding opponents to 69 points and under ... Former Division II Player of the Year and All-American Kasey Morlock‘s photo is on the front of the 2007-08 NCAA Women’s Basketball Record Book ... Morlock (1993-97) is the program’s all-time leading scorer with 2,233 points and a driving force on three NCAA Division II national championship teams.

BUE RECORDS "HAT TRICK" WITH SUMMIT POW HONORS: North Dakota State forward Lisa Bue was named The Summit League Player of the Week for the third time this season on Feb. 12 ... Bue led NDSU to wins over IUPUI and Western Illinois on Feb. 9-11 ... She became the first Bison women’s basketball player to earn Summit League honors on Jan. 1 following a career-high 29-point effort against Montana State (12-30-07) ... Bue liked it so much, the 5-foot-10 senior from Austin, Minn., shared the Summit League award on Jan. 8 after back-to-back "double-doubles" in the 80-67 loss to Oakland (16 points, 14 rebounds) on Jan. 5, and the 87-47 win over IPFW (22 points, 10 rebounds) on Jan. 7 ... Bue is currently 3rd in the Summit League in scoring (15.7 ppg), tied for 4th in rebounding (8 rpg), 7th in free throw shooting (.769, 30-39) and 8th in steals (1.92 spg) in conference games.

BUE NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT® THIRD TEAM: North Dakota State forward Lisa Bue was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District® 7 University Division women’s basketball team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) ... Bue, a 5-foot-10 senior from Austin, Minn. (Austin H.S.), maintains a 3.50 grade point average majoring in elementary education ... To be eligible for CoSIDA Academic All-America® honors, student-athletes must have a 3.20 or better cumulative GPA on a 4-point scale, have sophomore athletic standing, and be a starter or key reserve for their team.

PENLEY REELS IN SUMMIT LEAGUE HONOR: North Dakota State center Jerri Penley was named Summit League’s Player of the Week (Feb. 5) ... She earned the league honor for the first time ... Penley, a 6-foot-2 junior from Willis, Mich. (Ypsilanti Calvary Christian Academy) led the Bison to two key league road wins over IPFW (67-65) and Oakland (58-54) On Feb. 1-4 ... She scored the eventual game-winning baskets with less than a minute remaining in both games ... Her 13 rebounds against the Golden Grizzlies were a career-high, and she collected her second career "double-double" (16 points) in the same game ... Against Oakland, Penley tied a NDSU single-game record with seven blocked shots.

BLOCKING OUT WITH PENLEY: North Dakota State 6-foot-2 junior Jerri Penley had seven blocked shots in the 58-54 win over Oakland (2-4-08) and tied the NDSU single-game record set five times previously by four different athletes (Leah Klabo, 2004; Brandee Gibbs, 2004; Lacey Johnson, 2003; Lisa Stamp, 1987 and 1985) ... Penley has 69 blocks this season (3rd best single-season mark in Bison history), 131 in her career and is No. 7 on the NDSU all-time charts ... Penley (3 bpg) would be 8th in the NCAA statistics and No. 2 in the conference ... The Bison recorded a season-high 11 blocked shots against Valley City State (12-15-07) ... NDSU has recorded 10 or more blocks in four games ... North Dakota State leads the Summit League and would be tied for 6th with UConn in the NCAA in blocked shots (6.00 bpg) ... Penley recorded her first collegiate "double-double" with a career-high 23 points and 12 rebounds in the 80-62 win over UMKC (1-19-08) ... Her second "double-double" came during the 58-54 win over Oakland (2-4-08) with 16 points and a career-high 13 rebounds.

GIRODAT ON TARGET: Senior Amanda Girodat dropped in a career-high 21 points against Valley City State (12-15-07) ... She hit her first five three-point attempts and challenged the single-game three-point field goal percentage record set previously by Katie Lorenz vs. Cincinnati (1-12-05) ... Girodat handed out a career-high 12 assists in the loss to Wright State (11-25-07), her second career double-figure assist game ... Her third came at Centenary (12-8-07) with 10 assists and 11 points ... Girodat (6.10 apg) was No. 1 in The Summit League and would tied for 13th in the NCAA’s statistic report Feb. 8.

MORAN’S BACK AT FULL STRENGTH: Senior Emily Moran came back with a vegance from a leg injury that sidelined her for two games at the turn of the new year ... Moran came off the bench to score 20 points including a 4 of 5 showing from the three-point line against Oakland (1-5-08) ... Moran scored 15 of her team-high 20 points in the opening half as the Bison led 37-34 at the intermission ... Moran hit the eventual game-winning three-pointer with 57 seconds left as NDSU defeated host Milwaukee 67-64 on Dec. 20 ... With her 28-point explosion against Minnesota, 22-point effort vs. Wright State and 20-point performance against Oakland, Moran has five 20-plus point efforts in her brief NDSU career (45 games).

BUE GOES DOUBLE-TIME, BRINGS HOME HOLIDAY BEACH CLASSIC ALL-TOURNEY HONORS: Senior Lisa Bue recorded her second straight "daily-double" and the fourth of her career with 11 points and 10 rebounds at Idaho (12-1-07) ... She had 16 points and 10 rebounds against Wright State (11-25-07) on her way to all-tourney honors at the Cal Poly Holiday Beach Classic.

NDSU SIGNS TWO DURING EARLY SIGNING: Lincoln Southeast (Neb.) High School’s 5-foot-8 guard Katie Birkel and Clarendon (Texas) Junior College’s 5-8 sophomore guard Nicole Vigil (pronounced vee-hill) have signed to play basketball and continue their education at North Dakota State ... Birkel was leading the Lincoln area girls in scoring (16.7 ppg), steals (4.3 spg), was second in three-point field goals made (20, 35.1 percent), and fifth in field goal shooting (46.1 percent) and assists (2.9 apg) ... Lincoln Southeast was 16-1 and ranked No. 1 in the state through games played Jan. 26 ... Vigil, who will have two years of eligibility remaining, leads NJCAA Division I in assists (7.95 apg) and assist/turnover ratio ... Vigil is also in the top 20 in three-point field goals made (1.5 avg.) and shooting (34.1 percent, and steals (1.75 spg).

CAPTAINS: Seniors Lisa Bue, Amanda Girodat and Emily Moran were selected North Dakota State women’s basketball captains for the 2007-08 season by vote of their teammates.

BISON PICKED FOURTH IN SUMMIT: For the second consecutive season, Oral Roberts has been selected as the preseason favorite to capture the 2007-08 women’s basketball championship, according to polling of league coaches, sports information directors and selected media members. North Dakota State was fourth and picked up the remaining two first-place votes and 266 points ... Senior Lisa Bue was named to the preseason all-league first team.

THE RULEY FILE: Amy Ruley is in her 29th year as head coach of the Bison ... Ruley has compiled a record of 667-197, good for a .772 winning percentage ... Ruley was named as the head coach on the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball 25th Anniversary team ... NDSU’s fourth straight NCAA title in 1996 was selected as one of the "25 Defining Moments in NCAA History" ... She was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in June, 2004, and the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in November, 2004 ... Ruley was recognized as one of the South Shore Sports Legends in Northwest Indiana this fall ... Ruley was a contributing writer for the book, "She Can Coach -- Tools for Success from 20 top Women Coaches" ... The NDSU coach authored an article dealing with "Networking" ... Coaches from all levels and representing 13 different sports are featured in the book edited by Dr. Cecile Reynaud ... Ruley recorded the 650th win in her career when NDSU defeated New Jersey Tech on Feb. 10 ... At that time, she became the 11th active Division I women’s basketball coach to reach the milestone ... Ruley was inducted into the North Dakota Sports Hall of Fame in June, 2000, and was listed No. 8 on the "50 Greatest Sports Figures in North Dakota" as selected by the staff of Sports Illustrated in January 2000 ... Ruley received the inaugural C. Vivian Stringer Women’s Coaching Award by the United States Sports Academy in 2002, and also received the Fargo Optimist Club’s 2002 Friend of the Youth Award for her work with the youth in the Fargo-Moorhead community ... The 1993 WBCA Division II Coach of the Year, she directed the Bison to 25 straight winning seasons (1980-05), twenty 20-win seasons and 18 NCAA playoff berths ... NDSU has made nine NCAA Final Four appearances including five national titles in 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 ... The Bison also won or shared 10 NCC titles.

THE RECLASSIFICATION: North Dakota State is in its final year of a five-year NCAA reclassification from Division II to Division I ... The Bison will not be eligible for NCAA playoffs until the 2008-09 season in any sport except wrestling and women’s volleyball, which became tournament eligible in 2006-07 ... NDSU’s football program competes at the FCS level and is a charter member of the Great West Football Conference (formed in 2004) ... NDSU joined The Summit League in 2007-08.