TICKETS: Tickets for Saturday's game are available in the DePauw athletic department office from 8:30 a.m. on Friday through 4 p.m. They will also be available at the door on Saturday. Cost is $4 for adults and $3 for students.

RADIO: WGRE (91.5 FM) will carry the game live to Putnam and surrounding counties in West Central Indiana. KFYZ (98.3 FM) will carry the game back to the Sherman, Texas, area. There will not be a live Internet broadcast of the game, but fans can access the WGRE feed of the game through Teamline. By dialing 1-800-846-4700 and entering the Tigers' access code of 4613, listeners will be connected to the broadcast for a charge.

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COACHES: Austin's Robin Potera is in her fifth season with the Kangaroos with a record of 85-46. She led her teams to back-to-back American Southwest Conference titles over the previous two seasons and to the East Division title this season. Over the last three years her teams have posted a 65-17 record and have advanced to the NCAA and NAIA rounds of 16 in 1998 and 1997, respectively.

Kris Huffman, in her sixth season with the Tigers, is the winningest coach in school history with a 107-46 record. Earlier this week she was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year after directing DePauw to a perfect 18-0 record in conference play. It was her third conference award in the last four years. Over the last three seasons the Tigers are 66-13 for an .835 winning percentage.

SERIES RECORD: Saturday's game is the first meeting between the two school in women's basketball.

TOURNAMENT HISTORY: This is the Kangaroos' second appearance in the NCAA Division III Championship and they've posted a 3-1 record after Wednesday's win. Last year, they defeated the SCAC's Southwestern University at home before winning at Randolph-Macon in the second round. They then fell to top-ranked Wisconsin-Oshkosh in the round of 16. The Tigers are making their third appearance in the last four years with a 1-2 record. In 1996 they lost to eventual national champion Oshkosh in the first round. Last season the Tigers knocked off Baldwin-Wallace in the second round before falling at St. Thomas (Minn.) in the round of 16.

REVIEWING AUSTIN'S FIRST-ROUND TRIUMPH: For the second time in as many years, the Kangaroos traveled to Randolph-Macon and knocked off the Yellow Jackets on their home floor. After Randolph-Macon led early, Austin outscored the hosts 39-7 to close the half with a 45-16 lead. The visitors scored the first 11 points of the second half to push the lead to 40. It eventually reached as many as 45 points. Junior center Rachel McNamara led the Kangaroos with 20 points, while Natasha Rodgers notched her 13th double-double of the season with 17 points and 10 boards. Marisa Hesse added 15 points and Catherine Weir 11. Austin shot 58 percent in the first half and held the Yellow Jackets to 23 percent shooting over the first 20 minutes.

THE TIGERS' LAST GAME: DePauw put the wraps on a perfect inaugural SCAC season on Saturday as they defeated Millsaps 85-40. Junior guard Jamie Selip led the Tigers with a career-high 17 points. Kelly Bailey added 14 and Lindsey Rush 13 in just 10 minutes. Susan Bender scored six, grabbed eight rebounds and dished out a season-high 10 assists. In that game the Tigers shot 68 percent in the first half.

TWO OF THE 10 FINALISTS ARE HERE: Two of the finalists for the Jostens Trophy that goes to the Division III Player of the Year are playing in this game. Austin's Marisa Hesse and DePauw's Kelly Morrison are among the 10 vying for the award that goes to the nation's top player based on basketball ability, academic prowess and community service.

TWO OF THE TOP SHOOTING TEAMS: This matchup features two of the better shooting teams in Division III as Austin enters with the fourth-best field goal percentage in Division III and DePauw with the ninth. From three-point range the Tigers are second and the Kangaroos third and from the charity stripe the Tigers lead the country.

TOURNEY TALK: DePauw senior guard Kelly Morrison leads Division III in free throw percentage and three-pointers per game and is second in free throw percentage ... Kangaroos' guard Allison McKinney is sixth in Division III with 6.5 assists per game ... Austin players have been named American Southwest Conference East Division Players of the Week eight times this year led by Natasha Rodgers' four ... Rodgers is the first player in Austin history to total 1,000 points and grab 1,000 rebounds ... Susan Bender is the only player in DePauw men's or women's history to total 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 300 assists and 200 steals ... Morrison was named the SCAC Player of the Year, while Bender was named to the first team. It marked Bender's fourth all-conference honor in as many years and Morrison's third ... Austin's Rachel McNamara has posted 11 double-doubles this year and Rodgers has eight ... Austin slipped to the number-five seed after losing in their conference tournament semifinals, but was ranked second for five of the six weeks that polls were released ... In Wednesday's first-round action, home teams were just 8-8.

UP NEXT: The winner of this game travels to the highest remaining seed in the West to take on the winner of this afternoon's St. Thomas (Minn.) at St. Benedict game.