ONEONTA, N.Y. – On the heels of a history-making week for the Plattsburgh State women's basketball team, the defending SUNYAC champions will embark on a voyage to Oneonta State to begin their first-ever bid for back-to-back conference crowns.

A 2-1 week which featured triumphs over SUNY Potsdam and The College at Brockport allowed the Cardinals to lock up the fifth seed for the 2014-15 SUNYAC Women's Basketball Championship Tournament. Now, the Cardinals will head to Oneonta State for a 7 p.m., matchup with the fourth-seeded Red Dragons on Tuesday night.

At stake for the squads is a spot in the tournament semifinals against number-one seed and host institution SUNY Geneseo on Friday night at 7:30 p.m.

Ticket prices have been set by the SUNYAC and will be $6 for adults and $3 for children ages 5-12. All children ages four and under will receive free admission to the game as will all students of SUNYAC institutions as long as they have a valid student ID card.

Fans who are unable to make the journey to Oneonta can follow all the action via live stats and a live video stream – both of which have been provided by the Oneonta State sports information department. The links to both services are included below.
 
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NO. 5 SEED PLATTSBURGH STATE (12-13, 9-9 SUNYAC)
2014-15 Statistics – 2014-15 Roster – 2014-15 Schedule

- Two individuals associated with the Cardinals' squad enjoyed their time in the spotlight last week as senior point guard Brittany Marshall broke a 26-year-old program record and became the school's all-time leader in assists in a 64-47 win at SUNY Potsdam.

- On the coaching side of things, bench boss Cheryl Cole scored her 200^th career triumph when her Cardinals bested The College at Brockport 67-52 in their penultimate home tilt of the season. Cole is already the program's all-time leader in career wins and will be making her 14^th appearance in the SUNYAC Championship Tournament.

- In their regular season finale, the Cardinals gave SUNYAC regular season champion SUNY Geneseo all it could handle, but dropped a 55-52 decision to the Knights on Saturday afternoon. The star of the game for the home team was unquestionably Misha Green, who fired in a career-best 19 points in 6-for-8 shooting from beyond the three-point arc.

- Junior forward Devona Paul gives the Cardinals a potent scorer and an imposing defensive presence down low. In the midst of a breakout campaign, the 6'0 player out of Blauvelt, N.Y., is near the top of a multitude of statistical categories in the 10-team conference. In the SUNYAC ranks, Paul is fifth in scoring (14.5 ppg), seventh in rebounding (8.0 rpg), second in blocked shots (2.2 per game), second in field goal percentage (46.8-percent) and second in free throw percentage (78.5-percent).

- The unquestioned leader of the Cardinals, Marshall facilitates any and all offensive decisions agreed upon by the Cardinals. A final-year player out of Malone, N.Y., Marshall leads the SUNYAC and is currently 24^th among all NCAA Division III women's basketball players with 5.1 assists per game. A top-ten scorer in the SUNYAC, Marshall puts in points at a clip of 13.6 per game which is the eighth-highest scoring average in the league.

- No player in the SUNYAC has a better steals per game average than Plattsburgh State junior Stephanie Linder who averages 2.2 thefts per outing. 

- In their last five meetings with Oneonta State, the Cardinals own a record of 4-1. Their only loss occurred on February 6, when the Red Dragons posted a 58-50 win in Dewar Arena. The last time these two teams met in the postseason, the fifth-seeded Cardinals upset the fourth-seeded Red Dragons 66-52 behind double-doubles from Kathleen Payne (26 points, 10 rebounds) and Catherine Cassidy (12 points, 10 rebounds) on February 19, 2013.

- This is the fifth straight year Plattsburgh State will be making an appearance in the SUNYAC Championship Tournament. The Cardinals have made it to the semifinal round for the past two seasons and won their first tournament crown in program history in 2013-14.

NO. 4 SEED ONEONTA STATE (15-10, 10-8 SUNYAC)
2014-15 Statistics – 2014-15 Roster – 2014-15 Schedule

- Oneonta State is coming off what were arguably its two best performances of the year. In the final week of the regular season, the Red Dragons clobbered both Fredonia State and Buffalo State to secure the fourth seed for the SUNYAC Championship Tournament. During those games, Oneonta State averaged points 74.5 points per game and limited their opponents to a scoring average of just 40 per night.

- The SUNYAC's leader in blocked shots (2.2 per game), Sarah Longto was an especially strong force at the rim in the Red Dragons' two lopsided victories last week. The senior finished just two points shy of a triple-double against Buffalo State on Saturday afternoon, finishing with eight points, 13 rebounds and 11 blocked shots. Over those two games, Longto averaged seven points, 9.5 rebounds and seven rejections.

- A dangerous long-range bomber and one of the top scorers in the SUNYAC, Caysea Cohen leads Oneonta State with 14.3 points per game. That figure is the seventh-best in the SUNYAC and her three-point shooting percentage of 38.4 is tops in the SUNYAC and 49th-best in all of NCAA Division III women's basketball.

- Slow and steady is the pace the Red Dragons set on the offensive end of the floor, totaling just 60.6 points per game (eight in the SUNYAC). Oneonta State's defense, though, is strong enough to keep them in almost any tilt as it limits the opposition to 55.1 markers per outing - the third-lowest opponent scoring average in the SUNYAC. 

- No team in the SUNYAC shoots the long ball with a more accurate touch than the Red Dragons. Oneonta State sits atop the 10-team league in that category by hitting 32.9-percent of their attempts from that distance. That's also the 64th-best three-point field goal percentage when looking at all NCAA Division III women's basketball teams.

- Oneonta State has been a perennial fixture in the SUNYAC Championship Tournament, having appeared in the last 21 of them. The last time the Red Dragons failed to make it to the postseason was in 1992.