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• Travis Bader led the fourth-seeded Golden Grizzlies (16-16) with 18 points, but was just 3 of 12 from 3-point range.
• Ryan Bass scored 16 points, Dante Williams scored 14 and Drew Valentine added 10 points for Oakland.
• IPFW out-rebounded Oakland 44-26.
• The Mastodons won 77-71 in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Feb. 20; that game ended Oakland's seven-game winning streak. IPFW also won 74-72 on March 2 in Rochester, Mich.
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• ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) -- The Augusta women's basketball team has captured the first conference title in school history.
• The Vikings claimed the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference crown with an 81-73 victory over Minnesota State-Mankato Saturday in championship game of the league tournament.
• The Argus Leader reports (http://argusne.ws/13MzgGy ) that longtime head coach Dave Krauth wore a wide smile as he cut down the final strand of the net during the celebration in Rochester, Minn.
• Vikings senior Alex Feeney, from Bismarck, N.D., says the team wanted to win the title for Krauth, who owns nearly 500 wins, nine straight 20-win seasons and now 13 NCAA tournament appearances.
• Augustana will take a 24-6 record into tournament play.
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• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Rapid City Mayor Sam Kooiker picked his 39th birthday to start his next campaign.
• Kooiker announced his bid for re-election Saturday with a small rally near Halley Park. He and family members held up campaign signs and waved to passing motorists.
• Kooiker was first elected to city council in 2002. He ran for mayor in 2007, but lost in a runoff to Alan Hanks. Kooiker defeated Hanks in 2011.
• Kooiker says his goals for the next two years are improving infrastructure, economic development and streamlining city government.
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