CONWAY — On their first winning streak in a month, the Sugar Bears will look to keep the momentum going as they go for the season sweep of Nicholls, hosting the Colonels at 1pm Saturday.

The game will be broadcast on ESPN3 available on WatchESPN and the ESPN app, and can be heard on The Bear 91.3 and online at ucasports.com. It will be Pink Out day in the Farris Center for breast cancer awareness, with survivors to be recognized and more. 

Since defeating Nicholls 69-48 in Thibodaux on Jan. 13 to make them 6-0 in conference play, the Sugar Bears (17-7, 10-3 Southland) had alternated wins and losses over their next six before Wednesday's 51-45 victory at McNeese gave them back-to-back wins.

With just five games remaining in the regular season and sitting two losses back of Lamar and Stephen F. Austin in the race for the Southland regular-season championship and a double bye in next month's Southland Conference Tournament – which the Sugar Bears clinched a spot in for the 8th straight season on Wednesday – the Sugar Bears will need to continue that streak against a Colonels (12-12, 7-6) that is tied with McNeese for 7th in the league standings and trying to hold on to a tournament spot.

In the first meeting between the teams, Antonija Bozic knocked down four 3-pointers in a 2:51 span early in the 3rd quarter to spark the Sugar Bears to a 44-23 second half to blow open a game that was tied at the half. Kamry Orr scored a career-high 32 in that game, the highest total for a Sugar Bear this season, and Taylor Baudoin had a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds.

The Sugar Bears limited Nicholls' Cassidy Barrios – the Southland's only three-time Player of the Week this season – to 11 points and 5 rebounds, well below her season averages of 16.1 and 9.4 which both rank 3rd in the league. In conference play, Barrios is averaging 17.4 points and 9.9 rebounds, and ranks 8th in the league in assists at 3.4, 2nd in steals at 2.8 and 3rd in blocked shots at 1.7.

Baudoin is coming off the most productive outing of her Sugar Bear career, having logged a career-high 30 points and season-high 12 rebounds (one off her career high) in the win at McNeese, getting 7 offensive rebounds to equal the Cowgirls' team total. It was the Sugar Bears' first 30-10 game since Courtney Duever had 36 points and 12 rebounds against Oral Roberts on Feb. 22, 2014 on her way to Southland Player of the Year honors.

In Wednesday's game, Baudoin – who played her freshman season at Jones County Junior College – surpassed the 1,000-point mark, becoming the 27th Sugar Bear overall and 8th in Division I to reach that milestone. She comes into Saturday's game just four points from passing Desiree' Rogers and Renita Dobbins to crack the program career Top 25, and is 13 shy of Nakeia Guiden and 38 of Micah Rice to move up the D-I list.

Following Saturday's game, the Sugar Bears will host SFA in the penultimate home game of the season on Wednesday. Trips to Abilene Christian and Sam Houston State follow before the regular season finale in the Farris Center on March 3 against Northwestern State.

NOTES
• In their last three meetings in the Farris Center, the Sugar Bears and Colonels have been separated by just a total of four points, with Nicholls holding a 194-190 advantage
• The Sugar Bears have won the last four meetings overall in the series, and the 21-point margin in this season's first meeting was the widest in the series since a 91-56 Sugar Bear victory in the Farris Center in 2011
• The Sugar Bears are 22-4 (.846) in February games since 2015
• Since 2015, the Sugar Bears are 37-4 (.902) in the Farris Center
• Over the last seven games, the Sugar Bears are just of 21 of 87 (24.1 percent) from 3-point range, including 1-for-20 (5 percent) at McNeese on Wednesday. Bozic has accounted for 14 of the 21, with the rest of the team combining to go 7 for 49 (14.3 percent)

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