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The No. 4 ranked University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's basketball team will host UW-Oshkosh in a semifinal of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championship (Presented by Culver's) this Thursday at 7 p.m. at Kachel Gymnasium.
 
The Warhawks (23-2 overall) are the tournament's top seed after winning the WIAC regular season championship for the 10th time in program history with a 13-1 league record.
 
The Titans (16-10) are the No. 4 seed in the tournament. They punched their ticket to the semifinal with a 68-60 victory over UW-Stout in Tuesday's first-round game.
 
The winner of Thursday's game will advance to Saturday's final, which will take place at the home of the highest remaining seed.
 
Tickets for Thursday's game are available online at tickets.uww.edu and at the door approximately 90 minutes prior to tip-off. Cost of admission is $9 for adults and $5 for youth, seniors and students.

Thursday's game can be watched live on UWW-TV on channel 100.1 on campus, Spectrum channel 989 for subscribers in the Whitewater area and online. It can also be heard live on KOOL 106.5 FM WKCH in the Whitewater area and online at 940wfaw.com. Fans can track live statistics here.
 
UW-Oshkosh and UW-Whitewater split a pair of games this season. The Warhawks took the most recent meeting in a 75-71 win on Feb. 19 at Kachel Gymnasium. Johanna Taylor (Wauwatosa, Wis./East) registered a game-high 18 points to go with two blocks, and Aleah Grundahl (DeForest, Wis./DeForest) tallied 17 points, seven rebounds and two steals. UW-W shot 48.2 percent for the game and 51.9 percent in the second half.
 
UW-Whitewater's path to the postseason includes a 14-game winning streak, which tied for the second-largest in program history, and the team's current seven-game run. The team defeated regionally-ranked opponents UW-La Crosse (x2), Illinois Wesleyan and St. Thomas along the way, and took national No. 3 DePauw (Ind.) to overtime before falling by one back in November.
 
The Warhawks enter the WIAC Tournament ranked No. 1 in the WIAC in scoring offense (68.8 points per game), scoring defense (52.2 ppg), scoring margin (+16.6 per game), field goal percentage defense (32.6), blocked shots (136 / 5.4 per game), steals (249 / 9.96 per game), turnover margin (+3.64 per game) and defensive rebounds (707 / 28.28 per game).
 
Senior guard Becky Raeder (Sheboygan Falls, Wis./Sheboygan Falls) leads the team and ranks among league leaders in scoring (13.6 ppg), assists (66 / 2.64 per game), 3-point field goal percentage (37.5), 3-pointers made (42 / 1.68 per game) and minutes played (34.16 per game). She is also one of the nation's top free-throw shooters at a conference-leading 86.8 percent.
 
Other starters in the backcourt include junior Rebekah Schumacher (Whitewater, Wis./Whitewater) and sophomore Veronica Kieres (Chicago, Ill./Resurrection). Schumacher averages 5.9 points and 3.2 rebounds per contest, while Kieres averages 7.6 points and 4.5 rebounds per outing and ranks among the top 10 in the league in steals (34).
 
UW-Whitewater's starting frontcourt includes Taylor and Grundahl. Taylor leads the team with 6.8 rebounds per game and averages 8.6 points per outing, and ranks No. 1 in the conference in both field goal percentage (57.0) and blocked shots (59 / 2.36 per game). Grundahl ranks second on the team in both scoring (9.9 ppg) and rebounding (5.0 rpg), and shoots 49.2 percent from the floor.
 
Key reserves include sophomore Courtney Oomens (Lake Geneva, Wis./Badger) and freshman Abby Belschner (Grafton, Wis./Cedarburg) up front and senior Megan Corcoran (Madison, Wis./LaFollette), junior Adriana Green (Racine, Wis./Horlick) and sophomore Yssa Sto. Domingo (Streamwood, Ill./St. Edward) at guard.
 
Oomens averages 5.6 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest, while Belschner averages 4.5 points and 3.6 rebounds per game and shoots 52.3 percent from the floor.
 
Sto. Domingo (4.1 ppg, 2.8 rpg) leads the team and ranks fourth in the league in steals (43 / 1.72 per game), and Corcoran posts 2.7 points and 1.5 rebounds per affair. Green has appeared in 11 games this season since returning from injury.
 
The Warhawks are making their fourth consecutive appearance in the WIAC Championship semifinal as a No. 1 or No. 2 seed. UW-Whitewater claimed back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018, and finished as tournament runner-up last season.
 
UW-Oshkosh ranks fourth in the conference in both scoring offense (67.8 ppg) and scoring defense (58.5 ppg). The team is shooting league bests of 42.6 percent from the floor and 33.8 percent from 3-point range.
 
Leah Porath leads the WIAC in scoring, averaging 17.5 points per contest. Nikki Arneson is second at 11.7 points per game, and Olivia Campbell leads the conference in assists (104 / 4.00 per game) and ranks third in steals (47 / 1.81 per game).