With a top-four finish in the Canada West RPI all but locked up, the University of Regina's women's basketball team closes out the conference schedule this weekend with home games against Thompson Rivers on Friday and Saturday at the Centre for Kinesiology, Health & Sport.

The Cougars are coming off a weekend split with Winnipeg. They won 83-67 on Friday night thanks in large part to rookie guard Kyanna Giles going a perfect 5-for-5 from three-point land and finishing with 22 points and nine rebounds, but suffered a close 62-58 defeat on Saturday to lose for just the third time this season.

With playoff seeding being determined by conference RPI, potential postseason matchups remain up in the air despite only one weekend remaining on the Canada West slate. What's known is that the Cougars are likely to finish as the No. 2 seed if they're able to win twice against Thompson Rivers this weekend, with an outside chance at the No. 1 seed if a few upsets happen around the conference including a Saskatchewan loss at UNBC. Winnipeg and Alberta look to be close to locked in to the other two top-four seeds, the reward for which is a bye through next weekend's play-in series and a home series in the Canada West quarterfinals.

This weekend marks the final Canada West games for fifth-year guard Katie Polischuk. She enters Friday's game with 226 three-pointers in her career, tied for second place in Canada West history with current Winnipeg player Megan Noonan. Polischuk is also eighth in U of R history with 1106 career points, needing 14 to pass Annette Pfeifer for seventh place and 60 to surpass Bree Burgess for sixth. And with 53 made three-pointers this year, she's only six short of tying her own school single-season record of 59 that she set two seasons ago.

Polischuk, Kyanna Giles, Avery Pearce, Sara Hubenig, and Christina McCusker made up the starting five for the U of R in both games against Winnipeg last weekend, with Kyia Giles, Michaela Kleisinger, and Ainsley MacIntyre all playing significant roles off the bench. Polischuk leads the Cougars with an average of 15.9 points per game, while Kyanna Giles averaged 13.3 points and a team-leading 7.2 rebounds per game while also topping the Cougars with 38 steals this season.

Thompson Rivers comes into the weekend with a 2-16 Canada West record. Emma Piggin is the team's leading scorer at 11.3 points per game, while Michelle Bos is TRU's most efficient perimeter shooter with a .348 three-point percentage and Chelsea Hoey pulls down just under eight rebounds per game for the WolfPack.

NOTES: The Cougars can clinch a bye through the play-in round and a home date in the Canada West quarterfinals with a win this weekend ... that best-of-three quarterfinal series would be played at the CKHS beginning on Thursday, Feb. 23 ... the Cougars have won 10 of the 11 meetings between the two teams and have a 10-game winning streak over TRU.