CHADRON, Neb. – After concluding their road schedule last week, Chadron State women's basketball will wrap up the 2024-25 season with two home games this week. 

The Eagles (5-19, 4-14 RMAC) will host Fort Lewis (6-20, 3-15 RMAC) on Thursday night at 5 p.m. before the season finale against Adams State (17-10, 12-6 RMAC) on Saturday at 1 p.m. Saturday's game will also be Senior Day for both the men's and women's programs.

It will be the first matchup of the season for Chadron State and Fort Lewis, while Adams State previously beat the Eagles 82-59 in Alamosa on January 16 of this year.

Both games will be streamed by CSC Live on the RMAC Network. A radio broadcast will be available live on Double Q Country 97.5 FM or doubleqcountry.com, with Dave Collins on the call. Fans can also follow the game via live stats.

Looking Back
Chadron State lost to second-place Western Colorado 77-55 before dropping a back-and-forth game to Westminster by a 69-66 score, with both games taking place on the road.

RECAPS: Western Colorado | Westminster

Chadron State fell behind early in the first half against Western Colorado, making it too steep of a hill to climb for the Eagles despite CSC outscoring the Mountaineers in both the third and fourth quarters. Against Westminster, the Griffins ended the game on a 9-1 run to win after CSC rallied from being down nine at the end of the first quarter.

Senior Day
Saturday's game against Adams State will include a Senior Day ceremony. The Eagles will honor three players this year – Kadyn Comer, Ashayla Powers and Olivia Waufle. 

A pass-first guard, Comer has appeared in 71 games with 19 starts over four seasons for Chadron State and led the Eagles in assists in both 2022-23 (58) and 2023-24 (59). A native of Hill City, South Dakota, Comer scored a season-high 10 points in a win over Westminster this January. 

Ashayla Powers will end her career as Chadron State women's basketball's all-time leading rebounder and is currently fifth on the program's all-time scoring list. The Longmont, Colorado native was an All-RMAC First Team selection in 2022-23 and a Second Team pick in 2023-24, while this season she is the team's leading scorer (11.1 points per game) and rebounder (5.4 rebounds per game).

Olivia Waufle has appeared in 112 games for the Eagles over five seasons in a Chadron State uniform, making 45 total starts and two this season. Waufle has been named to the RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll twice and ranked third on the team with 24.3 minutes per game in 2023-24 with a career-high of 19 points. 

Record Chase
Earlier this season, Ashayla Powers cracked the top five of all-time leading scorers in Chadron State women's basketball history, and the chase is on to see if Powers can move further up the list. 

Currently, Powers has 1,435 career points, 266 of which have come this season after the senior scored 89 in 2020-21, 347 in 2021-22, 463 while winning First Team All-RMAC honors in 2022-23 and 270 last season. 

Powers needs 57 points over the season's final two games to climb into the program's top three. Alumni Gwen Reed (1974-78) is fourth with 1,492 while Mary Perrien (1985-89) is just ahead in third with 1,493. 

The top two scorers in CSC women's basketball history are likely out of reach – Lorna Dahlgren (1991-95) ranks second with 1,527 career points while Tricia Lukawski (1989-93) is the program's all-time scoring leader with 1,869 points. 

Powers already cemented her name among the Chadron State women's basketball greats this season when she became the program's all-time career rebounding leader with 615 rebounds. 

Powers achieved the milestone during the January 11 game against Regis, with her seventh and final rebound of the night lifting the senior past Eagle alumni Shauna Smith (1990-94) and Lorna Dahlgren (1991-95), who were tied at 614. Coincidentally, Powers broke the record in her 100^th career college game. 

Three-Ball
Chadron State's top percentage shooter from beyond the arc this season is redshirt junior Liberty Line, which is fitting as Line wears No. 3 on her jersey. 

Line has made 13 of 35 three-point attempts for a .371 clip from deep and has increased her volume in recent weeks. Line has shot four or more three pointers in each of CSC's last three games, nailing two against Colorado School of Mines and a season-high three last time out against Westminster. 

Chadron State's top volume three-point shooter is junior Kylie Krise, who leads the team in both attempts (106) and makes (36) and is shooting .340 overall from distance. 

Stat Snapshots
Chadron State ranks 10^th in the RMAC in scoring offense, averaging 64.3 points per game. The Eagles allow 74.4 points per game. 

The Eagles rank third in the RMAC and 21^st in Division II with a 77.5 percent free throw percentage as a team. Leading the way individually are Kyra Tanabe (.852), Bati Assefa (.852), Jordyn Stokes (.824), Kylie Krise (.788) and Megan Counts (.769). Chadron State is second in the conference with 14.33 made free throws per game. 

The Eagles rank second in the conference in bench points, getting 23.5 points per game from non-starters. They are a strong rebounding team, ranking sixth in the RMAC in rebounds per game (37.71) and rebound margin (+0.2), as they are one of only six RMAC teams with a positive rebounding differential. 

Putting Up Points
Chadron State has had multiple historic scoring performances as a team this season.

On February 6, Chadron State scored 98 points in an overtime loss to Colorado Christian. The 98 points are the highest single-game total for CSC since the Eagles scored 102 in a double-overtime game against New Mexico Highlands in the 2013-14 season.

On November 25 of this season, Chadron State also had a 92-point game in regulation in a win over York University. In games that remained in regulation, the York game was CSC's first overall 90-point game since beating Regis 91-54 in 2009-10 and the most points in regulation for CSC since the Eagles beat Johnson & Wales 98-70 all the way back in 2008-09.

In the Polls
The only RMAC school in the national polls is Colorado Mesa, which is ranked No. 25 in the WBCA Coaches Poll and No. 23 in the D2CSC Media Poll. The Mavericks need one win over their final two games to clinch the outright RMAC Championship. 

In addition to CMU, the Eagles have faced multiple teams that are either ranked over receiving votes in both polls, including Montana State Billings (No. 21 in WBCA, No. 25 in D2CSC), and Southwest Minnesota State (No. 19/21). 

The NCAA's first regional rankings, an alphabetical listing of 10 teams currently under consideration for eight spots in the South Central region of the NCAA Tournament, has four RMAC teams listed: Black Hills State, Colorado Mesa, CSU Pueblo and UCCS.

In a vote of the league's head coaches, Chadron State women's basketball earned a 13^th-place projection in the RMAC Preseason Coaches Poll, one spot higher than the Eagles finished in an injury-riddled year last season.
Five different schools received first-place votes in the poll, fitting for a conference that had a four-way tie for the regular season title last season. Colorado Mesa, the only RMAC school to reach the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season, led the poll, followed by UCCS, CSU Pueblo, Adams State, Colorado School of Mines and Regis.

MSU Denver and Colorado Christian snared the final RMAC Tournament positions in the preseason poll, followed by Black Hills State, Western Colorado, South Dakota Mines and Fort Lewis. After the Eagles in 13^th, the poll is rounded out by New Mexico Highlands and Westminster. 

Scouting the Skyhawks
Fort Lewis is currently last in the RMAC standings with a 3-15 record but will be looking to pull even with the 4-14 Eagles with a victory. The Skyhawks are 6-20 overall and have lost six straight entering the weekend. 

Last week, Fort Lewis went 0-2 at home against CSU Pueblo (66-61) and Colorado Christian (71-56). FLC's RMAC wins are against MSU Denver twice and Westminster once, with two of those wins coming away from home. 

Fort Lewis features a high-profile shooter in Katie Lamb, who leads the RMAC with a .363 three-point percentage having made 53 of 146 attempts. Lamb is fifth in the league with 2.0 made threes per contest while averaging 9.5 points per game. Three Skyhawks – (Darla Hernandez (11.2), Deniece Ryan (10.5) and Livia Knapp (10.2) average double figures.

Head coach Lauren Zuniga is in her first season at FLC, coming to Durango from Northwest College (NJCAA) while also serving as an assistant at Angelo State. 

Scouting the Grizzlies
Adams State is 17-10 overall with a 12-6 RMAC record. The Grizzlies are playing for RMAC Tournament seeding and in particular the right to host a potential quarterfinal with a top-four finish, as ASU is currently tied for third in the league standings, a game ahead of two teams tied for fifth. Last week, the Grizzlies defeated UCCS 71-65 and CSU Pueblo 84-54, both at home. Earlier this season, ASU beat Chadron State 82-59 in Alamosa. 

The Grizzlies feature a back-to-back RMAC Player of the Week in Kiiyani Anitielu, who is on a run of nine consecutive double-digit games. Anitielu scored 52 points on February 15 against Westminster, setting a new RMAC single-game scoring record, then averaged 22.5 points per game over last week's two wins. 

Beyond Anitielu, Adams State has two other double-figure scorers in Taejhuan Hill (13.6 ppg) and Angelline Nageak (11.3). Hill's 9.9 rebounds per game ranks fifth in the league.

Grizzlies head coach Mario Caetano is in his third season in that role and fifth season total at Adams State. Caetano led ASU to a program-record 25 wins in 2023-24. 

Coach's Corner
Head Coach Travis Brewster is back for his second season leading the Chadron State women's basketball program. 

A veteran head coach, Brewster was previously a head coach at the University of North Dakota for eight seasons, going 128-120 with the Fighting Hawks and winning two Big Sky Coach of the Year awards in 2014 and 2017. In his time at UND, Brewster won two Big Sky co-regular season championships and one Big Sky tournament championship with one NCAA Tournament appearance in 2014 and one WNIT appearance in 2017.  

He was also a head coach for two seasons with Saint Xavier (NAIA), where he put together a 45-16 record. He was the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) Coach of the Year in 2022, a year he also led Saint Xavier to a conference championship and NAIA national tournament berth. 

As a student-athlete, Brewster competed at Iowa Lakes Community College and Charleston Southern University before playing professionally in Switzerland and Ireland.