CCC CHAMPIONSHIPS PRESENTED BY U.S. BANK
WEDNESDAY – QUARTERFINALS
6:30 p.m. – (8) Northwest at (1) College of Idaho
7:30 p.m. – (7) Eastern Oregon at (2) Lewis-Clark State
7:30 p.m. – (6) Bushnell at (3) Oregon Tech
7:30 p.m. – (5) Corban at (4) Southern Oregon
SEMIFINALS – SATURDAY
7:30 p.m. – Lowest Remaining Seed at Highest Remaining Seed
7:30 p.m. – Other Quarterfinal Winners (at higher seed)
MARCH 5 – CHAMPIONSHIP
7:30 p.m. – Lowest Remaining Seed at Highest Remaining Seed

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THE MATCHUP: Side-by-side in most statistical categories and knotted in the standings, No. 4 seed Southern Oregon (16-12 overall) and No. 5 seed Corban (17-10) are set to meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the quarterfinal round of the Cascade Conference Championships presented by U.S. Bank inside Lithia Motors Pavilion. The teams split the regular-season series, both prevailing on their home courts – SOU 68-65 on Jan. 19 and Corban 80-61 on Feb. 17 – and finished with 14-8 CCC records. It'll be the fourth time in eight years that the teams have matched up in the quarterfinals, and the Raiders claimed the first three games by a combined total of seven points. They're 53-48 in the all-time series.

IF THEY ADVANCE: The winner will move on to Saturday's semifinal round, and unless there is a major upset elsewhere in the tourney, the destination will be No. 3-ranked and CCC regular-season champion College of Idaho. The highest remaining seed will face the lowest remaining seed, and none of the top-three seeds lost in the regular season to their quarterfinal opponents. The championship game will take place next Tuesday. All tipoffs are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. local time.

POSTSEASON PICTURE: Because of their overall loss totals, both the Raiders and Warriors would likely need to win the CCC Tournament to extend their seasons into the 64-team NAIA Championships. College of Idaho already earned the CCC's first automatic bid; the second will belong to the tournament champ, unless C of I wins it, in which case it slides to No. 2 seed Lewis-Clark State (Idaho). The NAIA Championships selection show is March 7 at 4 p.m., and the first and second rounds will take place at 16 campus sites across the country March 15-16.

HOLLINS' BIG WEEKEND: Brett Hollins scored a career-high 19 points, shot 4-of-5 from 3, and added seven rebounds and three assists in Saturday's loss to LC State. A night earlier against Walla Walla, he went for seven points, 11 boards, six assists in two steals. The senior has been one of SOU's most productive players since returning in January from an injury that kept him out for two months, shooting 54 percent from the field over his last 14 games. In conference play, he was the CCC's only player to finish among the top-seven in both steals (1.4) and blocks (0.9) per game.

MAGIC NUMBER: LC State's 52-percent performance Saturday continued a pattern that has appeared on the Raiders' bad nights. This season, they've allowed 12 opponents to shoot 49 percent or better and lost 11 of those games. In Corban's loss to SOU, the Warriors shot 44 percent; in their win, they were at 56.

LONG-DISTANCE LUCK: The Raiders are in the midst of their best 3-point shooting stretch of the season: Over their last four games, they've shot 42 percent downtown (63-of-151) and hit at least 13 triples four times. They made their first seven Saturday before their first miss. Elijah Jackson finished as the third-most accurate 3-point shooter in CCC play (21-of-43, 48.8%) and Casson Rouse leads the team with two makes per game. Rouse was also SOU's leading scorer in conference play at 13.2 per game, 15th on the CCC leaderboard.

SOU TOURNAMENT HISTORY: It's been 19 years since the Raiders last won the CCC Tournament, though they've advanced to the final four times in the last 10 seasons (only College of Idaho has made more championship appearances in that span). They've won seven of their last eight quarterfinal games, including all five of those at home and last year's 77-75 win over LC State. They were eliminated last year at Eastern Oregon in the semis but went on to receive an at-large NAIA Championships bid.

ABOUT CORBAN: The Warriors went 1-7 against the CCC's top-four seeds and 13-1 against everyone else. Since getting swept at SOU and Oregon Tech, they've also won four of their last five road games and scored an impressive 70-65 victory last week at EOU. Grants Pass product Taylor Anderson, a senior point guard, ably runs the show with 13.5 points and 4.0 assists per game, and Jay Wilson (16.1 points, 7.3 rebounds, 62% FG) is one of the most skilled forwards in the league. The duo combined for 45 points on 16-of-26 shooting in the last meeting with SOU. Defensively, they own the CCC's second-best opponents' field-goal percentage (43), but they've benefited from some 3-point luck: Despite getting up over 23 attempts per game, opponents shot a lowly 31 percent against them in conference play.