CHADRON, Neb. -- February 20, 2020 -- The Chadron State basketball teams will begin wrapping up their seasons this weekend when they host Colorado State-Pueblo on Friday night and New Mexico Highlands on Saturday night. Their season finales will be the following Friday evening, when Metro State Denver visits.

All three double-headers will start at 5:30 in the Chicoine Center.

None of the three women's teams playing in Chadron this weekend will advance to the playoffs. Pueblo is 5-14 in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play, Chadron State is 3-16 and Highlands is 0-19.

The CSC women defeated Highlands 72-65 during their visit to Las Vegas in January on the strength of a 14-1 run to open the fourth quarter.  The Cowgirls were without their leading scorer, Jordyn Lewis, who was averaging 18 points. She recently returned to the lineup and scored 48 points in two games last weekend.

The next night in Pueblo, the hosts outscored the Eagles 31-18 in the final quarter to clinch a 78-67 decision. Sophomore JaNaiva Davis tallied 17 of her 30 points in the fourth.

Both of the men's quintets coming to town this weekend are hoping to be among the eight teams reaching the RMAC playoffs. Highlands is 10-9 and eighth in the standings.  Pueblo is 9-10 and tied with Regis for ninth.

Highlands edged the Eagles 109-101 in overtime a month ago. The score was knotted at 92 at the end of regulation. The Cowboys were already 32 of 46 at the free throw line, then went 13 of 17 at the line in overtime.  Chadron State was 23 of 28 on its free throws at the end of regulation, and was just two of four in OT.

The Cowboys can score.  Their 89.6-point average leads the RMAC, as do their 247 three-pointers made, and they have the conference's best turnover ratio, at plus-4.5 per game.

The Cowboys' top guns lead the league in scoring. Sammy Barnes-Thompkins is first at 24.8 points a game and Raquan Mitchell is second at 23.9.  Both are 6-3 seniors. Mitchell leads the RMAC with 74 treys, while his partner is second with 69 and tied for most steals with 49.

Barnes-Thompkins led Highlands with 33 points in the win over the Eagles, including 15 of 17 at the charity stripe, none of them in overtime.

Pueblo also has clout. David Simental, a 6-2 guard, is the team's top scorer at 16 points a game.  Senior Jason Anderson, a 6-8 senior, made 10 of 11 field goal shots while tallying 24 points to lead the ThunderWolves to their 85-71 triumph when CSC visited on Jan. 18.

The Wolves can be streaky.  They recently snapped Black Hills State's 13-game winning streak 68-67 in Spearfish, but were caged by South Dakota Mines in Rapid City the next night 73-44.