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Colorado College makes its first out-of-state road trip in more than a month this week when CC travels to northern Minnesota for a two-game Western Collegiate Hockey Association series against Bemidji State University.

Faceoff on the NHL sheet at the brand new Sanford Center (4,373 seating capacity) is 7:37 p.m. CT Friday and 7:07 p.m. CT Saturday. 

This marks the first meetings ever between the teams since the Beavers became official members of the WCHA prior to this season.        
 
The 18th-ranked Tigers, 17-14-1 overall, currently occupy sixth place in the league standings with an 11-11 record in league play. They split a pair of home-ice decisions against Minnesota State University last weekend, bouncing back for a 2-1 victory at the World Arena on Saturday after suffering a 5-1 loss in the series opener on Friday.

Bemidji State, 11-14-3 overall, owns a 7-12-3 conference record. The Beavers are in 11th place in the league standings, but trail Colorado College for the sixth and final WCHA home-ice playoff berth by only five points. BSU tied (2-2) and won (1-0) at last-place Michigan Tech last weekend. 

The Tigers are just two points behind fifth-place University of Wisconsin but only one ahead of seventh-place University of Minnesota.

Friday's series opener marks just the fifth all-time meeting between Colorado College and BSU in a rivalry that started on Dec. 2, 2000. CC owns a 3-1 advantage in the previous four encounters, all at the World Arena. The teams split a series midway during the 2006-07 season, when the Beavers claimed a 3-2 victory on Dec. 29 but fell by a 5-3 count the following night. The Tigers won single decisions in 2000-01 (2-1) and 2007-08 (5-4).