NU at Eastern Oregon

Friday | Feb. 14 | 7:30 PM

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NU at College of Idaho

Saturday | Feb. 15 | 7:30 PM

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KIRKLAND – Northwest makes its final regular season trip beyond the Washington border this weekend, playing 7:30 p.m. games at Eastern Oregon Friday and College of Idaho Saturday.
 
Live stats are available at https://eousports.com/sidearmstats/mbball/summary for the EOU game Friday and at http://sidearmstats.com/cofidaho/mbball/xlive.htm for the CI game Saturday. The live stream of all of the NU basketball games this weekend are available at nueagles.live.
 
Northwest (16-8, 11-4) got a measure of revenge with a 90-73 win over Warner Pacific Saturday after the Knights had humbled the Eagles in Portland three weeks earlier. Ford picked up his 1,000^th point for his NU career in the game and led the team with 24 points and 11 rebounds on his way to Player of the Week honors. Tanner Davis added 22 points, and Ryan Ricks had 20. That win put the Eagles into the postseason. 
 
Northwest is 5-3 in Cascade Collegiate Conference road games this season and wins by an average of 11 points. Ford averages 17.3 points and 11.3 rebounds on the road, and all five projected starters average in double figures.  
 
Ford picked up his NAIA-leading 20^th double-double on Saturday. He finished last season with 23.  Eastern Oregon's Jarek Schetzle is third in NAIA II with 14 double-doubles.
 
The Eagles are the No. 9 shooting team in the nation at 50.1 percent, with two players--Ford (56.2) and Christian Hakilimali (55.2)--in the national top 33. Ford leads the Eagles with 17.2 points per game, followed by Hakilimali at 14.4, Ricks at 13.4, Dejwan Walker at 11.3, and Tanner Davis at 10.7.
 
Hakilimali ranked No. 7 nationally with 129 assists and 5.375 assists per game. The Eagles average 17.25 assists per game, which is 11^th in the NAIA.
 
Ford averages 12.04 rebounds per game. He is second nationally with 289 rebounds and in rebounds per game. He also is third with 9.04 defensive rebounds and 18^th with 3.0 offensive rebounds per game.
 
The Eagles beat Eastern Oregon last month in Kirkland, 72-68. Ford had 18 points and 14 rebounds, and NU got double-figure scoring from all five starters. Schetzle scored 21 points and had 13 rebounds to lead the Mountaineers, and Landon Jones also posted a double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds. 
 
Eastern Oregon is 13-12 overall this season, including 6-9 in the Cascade Collegiate Conference and 8-5 at home. The Mountaineers won their weekend set at Walla Walla to end a two-game slide. Schetzle leads the NAIA with a 68.5 shooting percentage and averages 9.8 rebounds per game. Max McCullough leads EOU with 20.5 points per game. Schetzle averages 18.7 points per game.
 
The lone home loss this season for NU came at the hands of College of Idaho, 58-56. Hakilimali led NU with 17 points, while Ford had 14 rebounds. Talon Pinckney had 15 points to lead the Yotes. CI has won the last eight games in the series.
 
College of Idaho has won 17 in a row and sits atop the Cascade Collegiate Conference standings at 16-0 heading into the weekend. Pinckney has been a pickpocket in the league, averaging 2.27 steals per game, which is 12^th nationally. The Yotes are the No. 4 scoring defense in the NAIA at 67.3 points per game. Nate Bruneel leads the team with 13.9 points per game.