Box Score
Coach Sather's Post-Game Comments

ST. PAUL, Minn. - No lead, it turns out, was safe.  Not Concordia-St. Paul's five-point halftime lead, nor its eight-point second half lead.  Neither was Northern State's five-point cushion late in the second half.  Not until time ran out in the overtime period did the Wolves come away with a 79-73 road win in a hard-fought, well-played Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference men's basketball contest.

The win, NSU's third road win of the season, move the Wolves to 12-4 overall and 7-2 in league play.  CU slips to 2-11 overall and 0-9 in league play, having lost its sixth league game by six points or fewer.

NSU was led by senior forward Dustin Tetzlaff, who scored 13 of his 23 total points in the first half.  No other NSU player had more than three points in the opening stanza.

CU, which led from the 13:40 mark of the first half, headed into the break leading by five at 33-28 and stretched its lead to eight early in the second half.  The Wolves quickly cut that lead to a one-possession game on a Tetzlaff bucket followed by a Michael Emge three-pointer that made it 38-35 with 15:57 to go.

Emge also drilled the trey that gave NSU a 50-49 lead with 9:02 left.  The Wolves held that lead for the next seven minutes, stretching it to five after senior Geoffrey Firmin completed a conventional three-point play with 2:56 on the clock that put the Wolves up 65-60.

Those would be the final points that NSU would score in the half, as they watched the Golden Bears rally to tie the score on an Isaiah Thomas trey with 2:06 left.  CU also went cold for the remainder of regulation.  Both teams went a combined 0-4 in the final two minutes of play to send the game to extra time.

NSU scored the first six points of the extra stanza while holding CU without a point until Cole Olstad hit a pair of free throws with 1:27 left to play.  Olstad scored all eight points for the Golden Bears in overtime, but the Wolves converted on five of six free throw attempts in the game's final 20 seconds to preserve the win.

The two teams matched up in nearly every statistical category, including committing just ten turnovers apiece.  NSU was able to tun those into 13 points, while CU just eight.  NSU also held a slight edge in free throws, going 19-for-23 from the line, and three-pointers (8).

In addition to his season-high 23 points, Tetzlaff also snared 12 rebounds to notch his second double-double of the season.  Fellow senior Collin Pryor added 14 points and nine rebounds.  Ten of those 14 points came in the second half.  The Wolves also got 12 points from Emge on four key three-pointers.

CU was led by Olstad's game-high 26 points.  Terez VanPelt added 14 and Shae Mandli, 10 points and seven boards.

The Wolves will have little time to recoup, as they face MSU Moorhead on Tuesday night in another key NSIC road game.  Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. in MSUM's Alex Nemzek Fieldhouse.