FHSU Athletics
2026 NCAA Division II Championship
Women's Central Regional - Semifinals
#14 (3-seed) Fort Hays State (25-5)
vs. #22 (2-seed) Concordia-St. Paul (25-6)
Saturday, March 14, 2026 • 5 p.m.
Mankato, Minn. • Bresnan Arena
The 14th-ranked Fort Hays State women's basketball team has advanced to the 2026 NCAA Division II Central Region semifinals where the Tigers will take on No. 22 Concordia-St. Paul Saturday evening. Tipoff between the Tigers (25-5) and Golden Bears (25-6) is slated for 5 p.m. inside the Taylor Center on the campus of Minnesota State in Mankato, Minn.
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Quick Hits
- The Tigers have now qualified for the NCAA Tournament 11 times, including 10 appearances in the Central Regional in the last 12 years, three more than any other school over the last dozen years (PSU and UCM, 7 each).
- FHSU has reached the semifinals in seven-straight trips to the regional.
- The Tigers are 2-5 in the tournament against teams they played earlier in the season.
- FHSU is 6-1 all-time in games played in the state of Minnesota, including wins in five in a row. The lone loss you ask? At Concordia-St. Paul in 2014.
- Talexa Weeter broke the MIAA scoring record with 829 points this season. That total is 15th-most in a season in DII history. She ranks second across all NCAA divisions with an average of 27.6 points per game. Weeter is 51 points away from Annette Wiles' school-record 880 points in 1990-91.
- Weeter's 46 points on Friday tied FHSU's school record and are the most in the NCAA tournament in 10 years.
- Brooke Loewe leads all NCAA basketball, men and women spanning all divisions, with 306 assists this season, breaking a 27-year-old MIAA record. That total is third-most in DII history, three away from second and 20 shy of the record. She is the sixth DII player and just the 25th in the history of NCAA women's basketball to reach 300 assists in a season. Loewe is the only player in all NCAA basketball averaging in double figures in assists this year.
- Loewe's 16 assists are the most in an NCAA tournament game in 19 years (17, Katie LaViolette, Concordia-St. Paul vs. South Dakota, 3/9/07).