COMING UP: The Evergreen State College (10-14 overall, 8-12 CCC) travels to La Grande, Ore., on Tuesday where it will face regular season champion Eastern Oregon (27-2, 20-0) in a Cascade Collegiate Conference women's basketball quarterfinal playoff contest starting at 7 p.m. inside Quinn Coliseum. The game is one of four conference tournament quarterfinal contests played on Tuesday night, and the winners of those games will advance to the semifinals on Friday night.

FOLLOW THE GEODUCKS: Evergreen basketball fans can follow the action in La Grande, Ore., via live stats (www.sidearmstats.com/eou/) and live video stream (https://portal.stretchinternet.com/eou/).

EVERGREEN IN THE PLAYOFFS: Evergreen enters the eight-team conference postseason tournament as the No. 8 seed after finishing in a three-way tie with Warner Pacific and Northwest for seventh place in the regular season standings. The tiebreaker put Warner Pacific at No. 7, Evergreen at No. 8 and eliminated Northwest from the playoffs. The Geoducks are making the program's ninth conference tournament appearance in 19 seasons, and the Geoducks are winless in those previous eight appearances. Evergreen last appeared in conference postseason play in 2015 when, as the No. 4 seed, it hosted a playoff game for the only time in program history. Oregon Tech, the No. 5 seed, won that game, 69-62, on the way to garnering the conference tournament title.

ABOUT THE GEODUCKS: Junior forward Cayla Jones leads the Geoducks with 13.8 points, 6.0 rebounds (144 total) and 3.0 assists per game, while frosh point guard Jahpera McEachin contributes 13.0 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. Junior guard Alexcis Higginbotham adds 12.5 points and 6.0 rebounds (143 total) per game, while junior forward Deidra Miller comes in at 8.8 points and 5.7 rebounds per contest. Evergreen averages 68.0 points and 37.9 rebounds per game while allowing 70.0 and 43.2 rebounds per contest, and is the seventh best free throw shooting teams in all of NAIA Division II women's basketball at 77.1 percent. The Geoducks have struggled of late with losses in eight of their last nine games, though five of those defeats came by seven points or less.

ABOUT EASTERN OREGON: The Mountaineers enter Tuesday's game with a 27-2 overall record, a 21-game winning streak, and a 10-0 record on their home court. Ranked No. 6 in the most recent NAIA Division II Top 25 (a new poll comes out on Tuesday), this year's Eastern Oregon squad became the third team to win a conference women's basketball title with an unbeaten record in the process of grabbing the program's 10th conference regular season title. The Mountaineers average 82.8 points and 41.0 rebounds per game while allowing opponents 57.7 points and 31.9 boards. They shoot 47.9 percent overall and an astounding 43.2 percent from beyond the three-point line, the second number being better than every other Cascade Conference team's overall field goal percentage. Eastern is equally deadly at the foul line, knocking down 80.7 percent of their free throws. Nationally, the Mountaineers rank first in three-point field goal percentage, second in free throw percentage and fifth in overall field goal percentage. In total, they rank fourth nationally in four categories and in the top 10 in a total of 13. Individually, five different EOU players average in double figures, led by junior guard Maya Ah You-Dias with 17.4 points per game. She also contributes 5.6 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game and is a strong candidate for conference player of the year. Other standouts include senior forward Stormee Van Belle with 14.1 points and 6.6 rebounds per game, senior guard Payton Parrish with 13.3 points and 6.3 boards per contest, junior guard Maren Herrud at 11.0 points and 50.0 percent shooting from three-point range, and senior forward Mariah Swanson at 10.0 points per game. To top it off, 5-11 senior guard Reece Bauer comes off the bench to lead the Mountaineers with an average of 4.8 assists.

PREVIOUS RESULTS: Eastern Oregon swept Evergreen this season, winning 94-68 in Olympia on Jan. 5 and 96-58 in La Grande on Feb. 3.

LAST WEEK: Evergreen assured itself of a spot in the conference tournament last Friday night with a 72-40 home court win over the Multnomah Lions. All 10 Geoducks scored in that game, led by Alexcis Higginbotham with 11 points. The following evening, visiting Warner Pacific slipped past the Geoducks, 72-63, which resulted in the Knights grabbing the tournament's seventh seed ahead of Evergreen. Jahpera McEachin scored 15 points and Higginbotham had a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds for the Geoducks.