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THIS WEEK'S GAMES
The Saints open Frontier Conference play with games against MSU-Northern Friday and Providence Saturday. Carroll opens conference play with a 6-0 record. MSU-Northern is 6-2 overall with losses against Oregon Tech and Southern Oregon on the slates. Providence is 6-3 with losses to Thompson Rivers (B.C.), Southwestern Christian (Okla.) and Our Lady of the Lake (Texas).
Carroll topped MSU-Northern four times last season, including a 72-57 victory in the Frontier tournament. Carroll topped Providence (then the University of Great Falls) three times and outscored the Argos 241-146.
ABOUT CARROLL
Ryan Imhoff leads the Saints in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks. He has stepped into the absence of graduated senior All-American
Zach Taylor with gusto and averages 18.5 points per game.
Matt Wyman is second on the team with 16.2 points per game, and four other players are averaging double figures.
Carroll is the top team in the NAIA for field goal percentage (59.7 percent), second for free throw percentage (78.6 percent) and in the top ten in blocks per game, assists per game scoring defense, assists/turnover ratio, defensive rebounds, total blocks and steals per game.
The Saints have outscored opponents 547-382.
ABOUT MSU-NORTHERN
Northern lost leading scorer David Straughter from last year's squad, but return Frontier Defensive Player of the Year Ryan Reeves who leads the Lights with 17.6 points per game so far this season. Four other players average double figures. Northern is averaging 13.8 threepointers made per game, tops in NAIA DI.
ABOUT PROVIDENCE
Senior transfer Steven Daho-Clark has been a boon for the Argos. He has scored double figures in every game for the Argos with his gamehigh of 21 coming against Salish Kootenai last weekend. He also has four games with double-digit rebounds and is averaging 9.2 RPG. Jared Schultz is the only other Argo averaging double figures with 11.6 PPG.
DIVISION I OPPONENTS
The Saints played two exhibition games against NCAA Division I Opponents this season, falling to Purdue 98-71 and Montana 86-75. Both games were close at the half.
Ryan Imhoff averaged 23 points in the two games, with 21 points at Purdue and 25 points at Montana.
IMHOFF STAT STUFFING
Ryan Imhoff has 1,390 career points and 555 career rebounds. The third-team All-American led the Saints in points and rebounds last year, and he leads Carroll in scoring (18.5 PPG), rebounds (5.2 RPG), assists (5.2), steal (3.0) and blocks (1.2).
LIGHTS OUT WYMAN
Matt Wyman is the leader in the NAIA in field goal percentage at .766 with a significant margin over second place MSU-Northern's Ryan Reeves at .709.
THEY CALL THEM FREE FOR A REASON
The Saints are second in the NAIA for free throw percentage (.786). Carroll closed out the season on top of the category each of the last two seasons and was second in 2014-15.
FEELING IT FROM THE FIELD
Carroll is the top team in NAIA DI for field goal percentage (.597). The Saints closed out the season in the top spot last year (.534) and the year before (.507).
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
The Saints won their first conference championship in over a decade last season, winning the regular-season and topping Lewis-Clark State 93-75 in the tournament championship game in Helena.
CUNNINGHAM'S REBUILD
The Saints won just two games the season before Cunningham was hired away from his high school alma mater, Adrean, in Northwest Indiana. Since that time, the Saints have improved every season, with back to back NAIA Quarterfinal appearances in the last two seasons.
