#22 Mines at Colorado Mesa, Friday, 7:30 p.m. [Live Video] [Live Stats]
#22 Mines at Western State, Saturday, 7 p.m. [Live Video] [Live Stats]
 

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THIS WEEKEND
#22 Mines heads over the Divide to visit Colorado Mesa and Western State in the only meeting of the season against both teams. Both opponents are trying to get back into playoff positions with Colorado Mesa 7-8 overall and 3-6 in RMAC play to sit ninth; Western is 5-10 overall and 3-6 in-league. The Orediggers are 12-2 overall, 6-2 in RMAC play and are a half-game back of Westminster for second place.

LAST WEEKEND
Westminster's late run gave them a 78-73 win over #12 Colorado School of Mines last Saturday. Luke Schroepfer scored his 1,000th career point as part of a 14-point effort, but the Griffins (11-2, 7-2 RMAC) avenged the previous week's one-point loss to the Orediggers (12-2, 6-2 RMAC) thanks to a 7-3 run to close the game led by Dayon Goodman's 34-point game. Mason Baker led the Orediggers with 18 off the bench, while Ben Sonnefeld had 11 points to go with five assists and Michael Glen scored 10 with five boards. The result split the season series between the two after Mines escaped Salt Lake City with a 65-64 win on Dec. 30.

IN THE POLLS
Mines dropped 10 spots to #22 in this week's NABC coaches' poll and fell to #25 in the D2SIDA media poll this week. The Orediggers have appeared in the top 25 every week this season.

LAST YEAR VS. MESA AND WESTERN
Mines cruised 89-67 at home last year against Colorado Mesa, shooting 78.3 percent in the first half to get up big early led by Luke Schroepfer's 20 points. The next night, they then blew out Western State 103-64 as Schroepfer and Gokul Natesan each drained 21 points and Mines shot 71 percent in the second half.

SCHROEPFER HITS 1,000
Luke Schroepfer became the latest Oredigger to reach 1,000 career points, doing it on his final three-pointer against Westminster last weekend. Schroepfer is Mines' active scoring leader with 1,001 points. Schroepfer has scored 594 of his career points off threes; he is fifth among active NCAA Division II players in career three-point field goal percentage at .479.

FROM THE OUTSIDE
Mines is the nation's top three-point shooting team at .447, having shot 115-for-257 from beyond the arc this season. Mines' trio of Luke Schroepfer, Mason Baker, and Ben Sonnefeld have each attempted 40+ threes while shooting .439 or better; Baker is an incredible .612 (30-for-49), Schroepfer .467 (35-for-75), and Sonnefeld .439 (18-of-41).

ON THE AIR
Last week the RMAC announced that five Colorado School of Mines basketball games were selected to air on Comcast Entertainment Television in February. Mines' home doubleheaders against Regis on Feb. 2 and Fort Lewis on Feb. 16 will have both the women's and men's games televised, while Mines' men's game at MSU Denver on Feb. 24 will also air on CET. As a result, all five game times have changed; the two home doubleheaders will now be 5 p.m./7 p.m. tip-offs changed from 6 p.m./8 p.m., while the men's game at MSU Denver is pushed back to a 7:30 p.m. start time from 7 p.m.