RSC Women's Basketball Update Jan. 29: (RV) WVU Tech in the lead at 10-0 RSC
The River States Conference Women's Basketball Update for Jan. 29, 2020 tips off with WVU Tech on fire with an 11-game win streak and an RSC-best 10-0 conference record. The Golden Bears are 17-6 overall after going 2-0 this past weekend.
WVU Tech leads the RSC East Division by 1.5 games over University of Rio Grande (Ohio) (16-8), which is 9-2 RSC. Those two teams have the best RSC records as the race for the overall regular-season championship and automatic NAIA national bid hits the last weekend of January.
The RSC West Division is more bunched up with first-place Midway (Ky.) University leading a group of five teams that are seperated by just 2.5 games. The East Division has gotten the better of the West so far this season, but things could easily turn the other way with a full slate of East-West crossover matchups happening again this weekend on Thursday and Saturday.
There are five conference matchups on Thursday night and five more on Saturday as the teams travel across the divisions. Nine of the 10 games will have live coverage featuring video streaming and/or live stats. Follow along all weekend with live links and results at RiverStatesConference.com. It's an intriguing list of games this weekend with several of them being potential playoff matchups in the first round.
Before this weekend's games begin, let's take a look back at the action from last weekend and also Tuesday night:
- WVU Tech pushed its RSC record to 10-0 and ran its win streak to 11 in a row by winning a matchup of first-place teams over Midway. The Golden Bears outlasted the RSC West leaders, 99-86, in overtime last Thursday night. WVU Tech made it a 2-0 weekend with another home win over Alice Lloyd, 104-74, on Saturday.
- Rio Grande earned a big win of 80-74 over Midway on Saturday. That kept the RedStorm within 1.5 games of WVU Tech and extended its win streak to four in a row. The RedStorm had beaten Alice Lloyd two nights before, 107-94.
- There were a total of four games in Pittsburgh from Thursday to Sunday, and it was splits all the way around. Brescia (Ky.) went 1-1 on its trip there with a 62-59 loss at Carlow followed by a big win of 76-55 the next night at Point Park. IU Southeast opened its weekend with a 70-65 victory at Carlow, but Point Park rallied past the Grenadiers, 80-76, the next day.
- Many teams were off this past Tuesday, Jan. 28 before the weekend travel. But notching a conference win that night was IU East, 91-77, over IU Southeast to bump the Red Wolves' record to 5-4 RSC, good for third place in the RSC East.
- Also on Tuesday night was Midway topping Ohio Christian, 73-58, to stay atop the RSC West at 6-4 RSC.
- IU Kokomo had one game over the last week, which was Saturday's triumph over Ohio Christian, 89-76.
Here are this weekend's games:
Thursday, Jan. 30
Brescia at Ohio Christian
Point Park at Asbury
Midway at IU East
Carlow at Alice Lloyd
IU Kokomo at Rio Grande
Saturday, Feb. 1
Point Park at Alice Lloyd
Ohio Christian at IU Southeast
Carlow at Asbury
IU Kokomo at WVU Tech
IU East at Brescia