Snow kept both the attendance and scoring down, but after a 40-minute delay at game's start, No. 9 Augustana held off a furious comeback to hand UW-Oshkosh its first loss, 59-54. The Vikings, now 8-1 on the season, held UW-Oshkosh to 25 points below its season average.
Ripon led by as much as 11 against No. 3 UW-Stevens-Point but could not pull off the upset at home, as the Pointers came back to win, 71-67. Ross Rortvedt had 17 points off the bench for UW-Stevens Point in the victory. Ripon has dropped five straight, but four of the losses are by six points or fewer. No. 5 Mary Hardin-Baylor was a winner, albeit in an ugly game, over Texas-Tyler, 58-46. The two teams were a combined 45-for-87 from the foul line. No. 23 Wooster got a boost from Brandon Johnson, whose buzzer-beater gave the Scots an 89-88 win over NAIA No. 3 Walsh.
&&b-boxr&&Salem State upset No. 8 Southern Maine, 74-58 in women's action. UW-Whitewater's sixth-ranked women's team survived a scare, winning at Luther, 78-72 in overtime. That made it an even better day for the Warhawks, whose football team won the Stagg Bowl over Mount Union. Kelsey Hendrickson and Lindsey Buechner combined for nine of UW-Whitewater's 13 overtime points.
In unranked men's action, Ohio Northern won a double-overtime foulfest against John Carroll 102-97 in a game that featured 117 free throw attempts. Host John Carroll had seven players foul out. Bridgewater erased a four-point deficit in the final 30 seconds of regulation to win its fifth straight, 84-83, in overtime over Eastern Mennonite.