
BEARS GO 30-0!!!!
That's right folks with a (97-83) victory over the NAU Lumberjacks in the Big Sky Championship, the Northern Colorado Bears have finished the season 30-0 since losing their first game of the season to the UNC Tar Heels to finish the season at 31-1.
Despite losing Senior Cam Atkinson for 2 weeks with a strained achilles, the Bears continued their winning way's in time for Atkinson to return for the final 2 games of the regular season and the Big Sky tournament. With 4 games under his belt since his return, Atkinson averaging 16.5 PPG, 5.9 RPG, 1.2 SPG and 1.6 BPG this season is looking forward to lead his team into the NCAA tournament with one goal on his mind. A Elite 8 showing or better..
With Atkinson out of the lineup SO Nate Forte joined the starting lineup and stepped up as he is now #2 on the team in scoring (14.4 PPG) well adding 4.8 RPG, 1.1 SPG, and 1.4 BPG, well fellow SR Bigman Aron Thompson also added double digits finishing the season with a 12.9 PPG and 5.6 RPG average.
UNC's bigmen were not the only ones doing the scoring though, the backcout duo of JR's T. Sylia (8.6 PPG, 4.4 APG) and W.M. Brady (10.1 PPG) both hit over 40% from 3pt, well JR SF K. Conway finished the season with a 7.7 PPG, 5.3 RPG, 4.5 APG, 1.0 SPG average.
Another player who really stepped up this season with both Forte and Atkinson missing time was 7'0 JR Jose Esterkamp. The backup center finished with 8.1 PPG game off the bench.
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