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SALT LAKE CITY – The No. 19 Westminster College men's basketball team will Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) in a Frontier Conference Tournament semi-final game on Friday at 7 p.m. MST in the Behnken Field House. The second-seeded Griffins earned a bye into the semis while fifth-seeded Lewis-Clark State advanced with an 84-80 win at No. 4-seed Montana Western last Friday.

TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets for the Frontier Conference semi-finals will be available at the door on the night of the game. The cost, set by the conference, is $7 for adults and $5 for students/seniors. There will be no pass list and any season passes are not valid for tournament games, per conference rules.

FOLLOW THE ACTION
The game will be broadcast live on Griffins TV on the web and also be available on Comcast 6 in northern Utah. Mike Lageschulte handles the play-by-play with Lance Barton as an analyst. Live stats will also be available for Friday's contest. Links for all of the live features are available by clicking here.

GRIFFIN NOTES
Westminster completed the regular season at 18-11 overall and 11-5 in the Frontier Conference. They finished in a tie for second with Montana State-Northern, but won the tiebreaker by virtue of sweeping the two regular season meetings. The Griffins finished 9-3 at home during the year and won their last five home games of the season.

For the year, Westminster is scoring 74.17 points per game while shooting 47.3 percent from the field to rank 18th in the NAIA. The team connects on 34.4 percent of its attempts from beyond the arc and 66 percent at the foul line. They are dishing out 12.34 assists per outing and place seventh in the NAIA with a 4.45 turnover margin.

The Griffins rank 17th in the NAIA by holding the opposition to 68.83 points per game and 49th by limiting opponents to 44.2 percent shooting. Westminster forces 16.5 turnovers per game by averaging 9.03 steals per game – 16th in the nation. They also lead the conference by blocking 2.69 shots per game.

Seniors Tallon Robertson and Blake Skidmore are the top two scorers on the team as they combine to average 33.93 points per game. Robertson is scoring 18.21 points per night and he is eighth in the NAIA by shooting 57.9 percent. Skidmore scores 15.72 points per game and is shooting 41.5 percent from three – 39th in the country. Colton Moon leads the team with 93 assists and is 20th in the nation with 58 steals. Moon also places 19th nationally by grabbing 2.07 steals per game.

LOOKING AT THE FRONTIER TOURNAMENT
The quarterfinal round of games last Friday saw both road teams come away with upset victories. Along with LC State winning at Montana Western, sixth-seeded Great Falls (Mont.) won at third-seeded Montana State-Northern, 64-54. Great Falls will play at top-seeded Rocky Mountain (Mont.) in Friday's other semi-final game. The conference title game is on Monday at the home of the highest remaining seed after Friday's action.

GRIFFINS IN THE POSTSEASON
This marks the Griffins 15th-straight appearance in the Frontier Conference Tournament. They have a record of 18-12 in the event while winning the championship in both 2009 and 2010. Westminster has hosted a home game in all six season of the current format with an 8-1 mark in those contests. Last season, Westminster was upset at home in the quarterfinals by Rocky Mountain.

Westminster has played LC State in five previous conference tournaments. The Warriors hold a 3-2 edge in those meetings with four of those coming on a neutral court. The teams played a quarterfinal game in the Behnken Field House during the 2011 tournament with the Griffins advancing with an 82-70 win.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Westminster's average of 34.3 points per game in the paint accounts for 41.5 percent of the team's total scoring average. They have totaled at least 30 points in the paint during 18 games during the year and eight times reached 40 points in the painted area. The Griffins are also getting 17.6 points from opponent turnovers during games which are 21.3 percent of the season average.

RUN THROUGH ROBERTSON
Senior Tallon Robertson has been the focal point of the Griffin offense this season. The forward is averaging 18.21 points per game this season to rank fourth in the Frontier Conference and 35th in the NAIA. He has recorded 13 games with at least 20 points this season. Robertson closed the regular season with a career-best 36 points in the win at Montana Tech. That is tied for the sixth-most points ever scored in a game by a Griffin and he established a new school-record by making 16 field goals.

Robertson leads the Frontier and ranks eighth in the NAIA by shooting 57.9 percent and his 7.31 rebounds per game are 44th nationally. He has pulled down double-digit rebounds on eight occasions with seven double-doubles. Robertson leads the Frontier at 1.31 blocks per game – 30th in the NAIA – and he is 27th nationally with 38 total blocks. That total ranks third for a single season in school history and he is second all-time with 58 career blocks.

SKIDMORE A STARTER
Blake Skidmore is second on the team and 10th in the conference by scoring 15.72 points per game. He has scored in double figures 23 times and reached the 20-point mark in eight contests. Skidmore is averaging 17.4 points per game during league play. For the season, Skidmore is 39th in the nation by making 41.5 percent from beyond the arc with his 61 made threes placing tied for 14th in school history for a single season.

NAIA TOURNAMENT SELECTION SHOW
The NAIA is excited to announce that the 32-team pairings in the The Division I Men's and Women's Basketball National Championships will be officially announced with a live and free video-stream selection show on March 12, with the women's segment at 6 p.m. MST and the men's at 7 p.m.  There will be commentary and analysis during the show. The video will appear on NAIA.org roughly five minutes prior to the start of the show.

LOOKING AHEAD
Should the Griffins advance they would play in the championship game on Monday at 7 p.m. MST. If Rocky Mountain defeats Great Falls then the game would be played in Billings, Mont. If UGF pulls another upset, then Westminster would host the game in the Behnken Field House.