CONWAY — After wins over SIUE and Weber State in the first two rounds of the Women's Basketball Invitational, Central Arkansas finds itself one win away from playing for a championship.

The Sugar Bears need to clear just one more hurdle to compete the WBI title, and that hurdle comes in the form of the Nevada Wolfpack at 5:00pm Saturday in the Farris Center as Central Arkansas continues on in its Postseason Run presented by First Security Bank.

It will be the first-ever meeting between the Sugar Bears (24-9) and Wolfpack (19-16), who advanced to the WBI semis by defeating UC Irvine 70-60 in Reno, then going to Fresno State and leaving with an 86-74 win.

The Wolfpack, who finished 7th in the Mountain West Conference with a 7-11 league record, have won 7 of their last 8 games with the only loss coming in the MWC tournament championship – a 62-60 loss to top-seeded Boise State. En route to the championship game, the Wolfpack defeated 10th-seeded San Diego State, 2nd-seeded UNLV and 3rd-seeded Wyoming.  Of their 16 losses, half have been by six points or less.

The Wolfpack come to Conway with a 3-9 road record, and are 7-11 overall away from home this season. They are led by 6-foot-2 senior All-MWC forward Teige Zeller who averages 14.1 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, and 5-8 senior guard T Moe, who averages 12 points and 3.3 assists per game for the season and has averaged 21.7 points over Nevada's last six games – hitting 54.2 percent from 3-point range during that stretch.

The Sugar Bears, winners of 9 of their last 11, are looking to reach the 25-win mark for the third straight season, having won 28 and 26 in the two previous seasons, bringing their 3-year total to 78-18, an .813 winning percentage. It would be the first time in program history, regardless of division, for the Sugar Bears to reach 25 wins in three consecutive years – narrowly missing from 1982-85 with 26, 24 and 25 wins; and again in 2002-05, winning 28, 21 and 28 – both times under Ron Marvel.

Senior forward Taylor Baudoin enters Saturday's game with 1,181 points and 618 rebounds in just three seasons in a Central Arkansas uniform, needing 19 points to become the 19th Sugar Bear overall and 5th in program Division I history to reach 1,200 points and 7 rebounds to crack the program career Top 15 and 3rd in the program's D-I era. She is looking to become just the 3rd Sugar Bear in the program's D-I era to surpass both 1200 points and 600 rebounds, joining former Southland Conference Players of the Year Megan Herbert (2329 points, 1446 rebounds) and Courtney Duever (1348 points, 877 rebounds), who both spent four years at Central Arkansas.

Sophomore guard Taylor Sells comes in riding the best three-game offensive stretch of her career, having averaged 13 points going back to the semifinals of the Southland Conference tournament after averaging just 4.5 points per game for the season leading up to that point. In those three games, she has shot 17-of-25 (68 percent) from the field, and in her last outing came close to a triple-double with 10 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists.

With a victory, the Sugar Bears would host the WBI championship next Thursday at 7:00pm against the winner of Yale and South Alabama.

Saturday's game can be heard on The Bear 91.3 and streaming online, and seen on the Southland Digital Network and Southland Conference apps available for iPhone, Android, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku.

Ticket prices are:

$15 Purple Circle Reserved Chairbacks

$10 General Admission Adult

$8 General Admission Youth & Senior

$5 General Admission Faculty and Staff  w/ID.

UCA Students w/ID: FREE