2011-12 NORTHERN COLORADO WOMEN'S BASKETBALL NEWS
April 23, 2012
Ryan Johnson readies for USBA trip to China
University of Northern Colorado women’s basketball assistant coach Ryan Johnson has been selected to be an assistant coach of a United States all-star squad with the United States Basketball Academy that will play nine games in 14 days in China, April 25 through May 9.
April 17, 2012
Nineteen Bears named to Big Sky Winter All-Academic Teams
The Big Sky Conference recently announced the members of the 2011-12 Winter All-Academic teams for women’s basketball, men’s basketball and men’s and women’s indoor track and field.
April 12, 2012
White adds one more standout to superior recruiting class
Northern Colorado Women’s Basketball head coach Jaime White Thursday announced the signing of Jamie Derrieux to a National Letter of Intent. Derrieux joins the fall signing class of Kyleigh Hiser, Rebecca Howell and Bay’lee Purdy.
March 14, 2012
Gameday Preview: WNIT Round One
For the first-time in the history of Northern Colorado, the Bears will be playing in the Postseason WNIT. They face Colorado at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
March 14, 2012
Bears can't steal way to win at Colorado
Despite a Northern Colorado Division I single season school record 23 steals, the Bears were unable to come away with a victory at Colorado in the First Round of the WNIT. The team forced Colorado into 27 turnovers, tying for the highest miscues by an opponent since the season opener at Bradley.
March 13, 2012
Women's Basketball to face Buffs in 2012 WNIT
The Bears and the Buffaloes will play for the first time in five years at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Coors Event Center.
March 10, 2012
POSTGAME QUOTES: 2012 Big Sky Women's Basketball Championship - final
March 10, 2012
Bears come up just short in bid for first NCAA Tournament
Northern Colorado led late against Idaho State on Saturday, but the Bengals used some home-crowd momentum in a 49-46 Big Sky title win.
March 9, 2012
Women's Basketball advances to Saturday's Big Sky final!
The Bears used a strong start to the second half and 16 second-half points by Lauren Oosdyke to advance to at the Big Sky Championship.
March 9, 2012
POSTGAME QUOTES: 2012 Big Sky Women's Basketball Championship - semifinal
March 9, 2012
Big Sky Championship Preview
Northern Colorado Women's Basketball will play Saturday in its first Big Sky Conference Championship game. A win and it's on the NCAA.
March 8, 2012
Gameday Preview: Big Sky Championship Semifinal
For the second-straight year, Northern Colorado is the two-seed at the Big Sky Championship. The Bears receive a bye on Thursday and will take on the highest remaining seed on Friday, which could be Eastern Washington, Montana or Montana State. The Bears are 2-0 this season against both the Eagles and the Lady Griz and 0-2 against the Bobcats.
March 6, 2012
Strange pick leads Bears' four All-Big Sky selections
Northern Colorado Women's Basketball got some much-deserved respect Monday afternoon with a defensive honor and three all-league selections.
March 3, 2012
Women's Basketball clinches No. 2 seed on Senior Day
The Bears defeated Portland State 65-50 Sunday to clinch the No. 2 seed and a first-round bye in the 2012 Big Sky Championship.
March 2, 2012
Gameday preview: Portland State
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team will play its final game of the regular season Saturday as it hosts Portland State.
February 27, 2012
Women's Basketball takes care of business in Flagstaff
Bears sophomore D’shara Strange missed just one field goal in the second half Monday lead the Bears past Northern Arizona 75-63.
February 25, 2012
Brown's career-high 26 keeps Women's Basketball in the hunt
Kaisha Brown etched her name in Big Sky history Saturday and helped Northern Colorado move closer to a bye in the 2012 Big Sky Championship.
February 16, 2012
Women's Basketball again clips Eagles, stays in hunt for bye
Sophomore D’shara Strange scored 18 points and grabbed 11 rebounds Thursday to lead the Bears past Eastern Washington for the second time this season.
February 14, 2012
Game Day Preview: Eastern Washington
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team returns home to host arguably the hottest team in the Big Sky in Eastern Washington. The Eagles have won six straight and their last loss was at the hands of the Bears.
February 11, 2012
Overtime win clinches Big Sky Playoff spot for women
Kaisha Brown and Lauren Oosdyke hit back-to-back three-pointers to start the game and the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team never trailed at Montana and the game was tied just once, but that happened to be at the end of regulation, 52-52.
February 9, 2012
Big Sky sits down with Strange
The Big Sky Conference sat down with Northern Colorado sophomore guard D'shara Strange for a Q&A with the Bears standout.
February 9, 2012
Oosdyke scores 1000th point but team falls
Lauren Oosdyke scoring her 1,000th career point and getting her second double-double of the season wasn’t enough to lift the Northern Colorado women’s basketball at Montana State on Thursday evening.
February 8, 2012
Game Day Preview: at Montana State, Montana
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team starts a tough road swing, playing four of its next five games away from Butler-Hancock. The stretch starts Thursday at Montana State before moving to Montana on Saturday afternoon.
February 4, 2012
Strong bench play lifts women's basketball past Weber State
Everybody on the Northern Colorado women’s basketball roster was able to play at least four minutes on Saturday afternoon as the Bears cruised to a 70-57 win over Weber State.
February 2, 2012
Never say die: Bears have huge turnaround at Sacramento State
It was a 26-point turnaround for the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team in Sacramento on Thursday evening. The Bears trailed 29-11 with 8:34 to play in the first half, but turned the game around for a 64-56 victory.
February 1, 2012
Game Day Preview: Sacramento State & Weber State
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team plays at Sacramento State on Thursday before returning home to face Weber State for the first time this season on Saturday afternoon. Earlier this season the Bears won a 10-point decision over the Hornets.
January 26, 2012
Game Day Preview: Idaho State
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team will face Idaho State for the second time this year on Thursday. The Bengals won the first meeting 57-52 and are a perfect 6-0 in Big Sky Conference play. The Bears haven’t lost back-to-back games at home since Jan. 16 & Feb. 11, 2010.
January 26, 2012
Early turnovers hurt Bears against Bengals
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team fought back from a 20-point deficit, but couldn’t ever quite get even or keep the momentum in a 64-50 loss to league-leading Idaho State on Thursday night.
January 21, 2012
Women's bid falls just short
Despite a season-best 27 points by junior forward Lauren Oosdyke, the Northern Colorado women’s basketball was unable to hold onto a 13-point half-time lead and dropped a 52-51 game to Montana State on Saturday afternoon.
January 19, 2012
Brown shoots way to record and win over Montana
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team gave Head Coach Jaime White a great birthday present: the first-ever victory over Montana in Greeley. The 59-42 victory was just the second in school history over the Lady Griz (10-8, 3-2 Big Sky) and the Bears (12-7) move into a three-way tie for second-place in the Big Sky Conference standings at 4-2.
January 18, 2012
Game Day Preview: Montana & Montana State
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team comes back to Butler-Hancock for three straight home games to close out the month of January. Thursday the Bears host Montana at 7, while Saturday they take on Montana State at 2.
January 14, 2012
Lockridge's career-high paces Bears past Eagles
Sophomore forward Kim Lockridge put on a shooting clinic on Saturday afternoon at Eastern Washington as the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team won its third-straight over the Eagles, this time with a wire-to-wire 56-53 victory.
January 12, 2012
Vikings eek out win over Bears in Portland
For much of the game it seemed like the last team to hold the ball would end the victor and that was exactly the case in the Peter W. Stott Center.
January 11, 2012
2012 Hall of Fame Induction Class Announced
One of the greatest honors a person can receive is being inducted into any Hall of Fame, and six outstanding individuals and seven teams from Northern Colorado Athletics history recently received notification of that honor.
January 7, 2012
Defense holds for Bears win
The best three-point shooting night of the season for Northern Colorado lifted the women’s basketball team past the visiting Sacramento State Hornets on Saturday.
January 5, 2012
Game Day Preview: Sacramento State
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team looks to even its record in January when it hosts Sacramento State on Saturday at 2:05. The Bears swept the Hornets a year ago, but the Hornets are currently in first in the Big Sky standings with a 2-0 conference record.
January 2, 2012
Bengals get better of Bears in Pocatello
There’s something about Reed Gym that bothers the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team. The Bears dropped their sixth consecutive game at Idaho State with the last four years all being single digit spreads. On Monday evening, the Bears fell 57-52 to move to 9-6 overall and 1-1 in Big Sky Conference action.
January 1, 2012
Game Day Preview: at Idaho State
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team takes to the road for the first game of 2012. The Bears will play at Idaho State after starting conference play with a six-point victory over Northern Arizona. Game time is set for 7:05 pm at Reed Gym.
December 31, 2011
Strange leads women to first Big Sky win
Defense of the 2011 Big Sky Conference co-regular season title began on the right foot for the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team as they defeated Northern Arizona 77-71 on New Year’s Eve.
December 29, 2011
Everyone gets in on the action in final non-conference win
All 13 players on the Northern Colorado women’s basketball roster scored at least two points and 12 had at least one rebound as the Bears won their final non-conference game of the season, 72-35 over Black Hills State.
December 28, 2011
Game Day Preview: Black Hills State & Northern Arizona
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team concludes the 2011 calendar year by hosting its final non-conference game against Black Hills State and beginning Big Sky play against Northern Arizona in a doubleheader with the men’s team on Saturday.
December 19, 2011
Brown earns a pair of player of the week honors
Senior forward Kaisha Brown was named the Player of the Week on Monday by both the Big Sky Conference and College Sports Madness.
December 19, 2011
Game Day Preview: UC Irvine
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team returns home after a grueling nine-day road trip that saw the Bears play in South Dakota, Texas and New Mexico. Monday is the next-to-last non-conference game as they welcome UC Irvine to town. The team then gets a 10-day break for the holidays before wrapping up non-conference play by hosting Black Hills State on the 29th.
December 19, 2011
Women's basketball leads wire-to-wire in win over UC Irvine
There have been two statistics that when the Bears hit one it usually means a win and the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team hit both in a 71-56 victory at Butler-Hancock on Monday evening.
December 15, 2011
Bring out the brooms, women sweep Mountain West
The Bears are now 3-0 this year against the league after winning at New Mexico 61-54 on Thursday night, giving them a clean sweep against the MW after earlier wins over Air Force and Colorado State.
December 13, 2011
Game Day Preview: at UTEP/UNM
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team continues its three-game road swing with games at UTEP on Tuesday and New Mexico on Thursday. The three-game stretch is tied for the longest of the year.
December 13, 2011
Bears bitten by injury bug in El Paso
Injuries to junior forward Lauren Oosdyke, sophomore guard Molly Duehn and freshman forward Amber Van Deudekom left the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team short-handed against UTEP on Tuesday evening and the Miners took advantage, winning 74-51 to stay undefeated and move to 12-0 on the year.
December 10, 2011
Game Day Preview: at South Dakota
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team begins a three-game road trip on Saturday at South Dakota, before the Bears head to UTEP and New Mexico the middle of next week.
December 10, 2011
South Dakota blocks Bears chance at victory
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team was never able to find its rhythm at the DakotaDome, falling 73-48 at South Dakota on Saturday evening. With the loss, the Bears fall to 5-4 on the season, while the Coyotes improve to 6-2.
December 2, 2011
White loses a shoe in rivalry win
The Colorado State women’s basketball team led the entire first half of the game and they led or the score was tied a majority of the second half, but the Northern Colorado team scored the final six for a 66-60 victory.
November 30, 2011
Game Day Preview: Denver & Colorado State
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team concludes its stretch of five straight games in the state of Colorado by hosting in-state rivals Denver and Colorado State on Wed., and Fri., respectively. Both games are scheduled for 7:05 pm tipoffs.
November 30, 2011
Denver makes free throws down the stretch to hold on for win
Denver scored 21 points off Northern Colorado turnovers and that proved the difference in the women’s basketball game as they won 66-57 in Butler-Hancock. The Bears had 17 turnovers on the night, the second-lowest total of the year, but the Pioneers made the most of the miscues.
November 29, 2011
Oosdyke tabbed Big Sky Player of the Week
Northern Colorado’s Lauren Oosdyke has been named the Big Sky Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for the games played the week of Nov. 21 through Nov. 27. This is Oosdyke’s second career POW honors.
November 27, 2011
Women use big run to win fourth straight
A 14-point run to begin the second-half lifted the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team past the visiting UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, 44-39 on Sunday afternoon.
November 25, 2011
Game Day Preview: Air Force & UCSB
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team continues its stretch of five straight games in the state of Colorado with a match-up at Air Force on Friday and the second home game of the year on Sunday against UC Santa Barbara. Both are afternoon contests, starting at 3 pm on Friday and 2 pm on Sunday.
November 25, 2011
Women's basketball flies past Falcons
The Northern Colorado women’s basketball team seems to be finding its groove as they won its third-consecutive game with a 71-51 victory at Air Force on Friday afternoon to move to 3-2 on the young season.
November 22, 2011
Game Four Preview: Nebraska-Kearney
Tuesday marks the 2011-12 season home opener for Northern Colorado women’s basketball. The Bears are 22-15 all-time in the first game at home and are hoping to rebound from last year’s overtime loss to South Dakota (62-57). In the Jaime White era, the Bears are 3-2 in home openers and the last two have been overtime contests.
November 22, 2011
Two score twenty to lift Bears over Lopers
It was a tale of two halves for the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team in its season home-opener. Luckily, the second half was the better one as the team pulled away from Division II Nebraska-Kearney and won 69-52 after being tied at 25 at the break.
November 18, 2011
Total team effort gives Bears first win of year
It was a total team effort for the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team in its first win of the season as they defeated San Francisco 85-81. All five starters scored in double figures as the Bears rallied back from an 11-point deficit in the first half.
November 16, 2011
Shooting woes hurt women's basketball
Things started off good for the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team, but turned sour quickly at Santa Clara and the Broncos took advantage for a 71-37 win.
November 15, 2011
White signs three
Women's basketball coach Jaime White signed Kyleigh Hiser, Becca Howell and Bay'lee Purdy to National Letters of Intent and all three will enroll in the fall semester, 2012.
November 15, 2011
Northern Colorado welcomes future Bears in early period
Women's Basketball and coach Jaime White add three to defending-conference championship program.
November 12, 2011
Strange's triple-double not enough for Bears win
Despite sophomore guard D’shara Strange recording just the second triple-double in school history, the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team was unable to get a win in its season opener, falling 59-49 at Bradley.
November 11, 2011
Game Day Preview: at Bradley
The 2011-12 Northern Colorado women’s basketball season tips-off on Saturday at Bradley University at 1 pm (Mountain). This is the 38th season of women’s basketball and NC is 19-18 all-time in season openers and 2-3 in the first game of the year since joining the Big Sky Conference in 2006-07.
November 4, 2011
Women's basketball jumps into 2011-12 season
All 10 players for the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team who played in the team’s exhibition game against Regis scored at least five points, had at least one rebound and one assist in the team’s 95-50 victory on Friday night.
October 20, 2011
Women's basketball picked second, third
The defending Big Sky Conference regular season co-champions return one first-team all-conference selection, the 2011 conference freshman of the year and the co-coach of the year. Those things add up to a second-place pre-season prediction for the Northern Colorado women’s basketball team by the media and a third-place prediction by the league’s coaches.
October 12, 2011
Oosdyke and Mallon honored by collegesportsmadness
Collegesportsmadness.com, a website dedicated solely to collegiate sports, has released its Big Sky women’s basketball preseason all-conference teams and Northern Colorado had two players honored.
October 10, 2011
The march to the Madness begins Friday night!
Northern Colorado's men's and women's basketball programs are set to host at 6 p.m. Friday "Bear Madness," a fun-packed evening marking the official beginning of the 2011-12 college basketball season.
August 11, 2011
White announces basketball's 2011-12 schedule
Northern Colorado head women’s basketball coach Jaime White announced the release of the 2011-12 schedule today. The non-conference schedule is highlighted by a stretch where the Bears play three out of four games inside the friendly confines of Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion.
