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Desperate for points with only one victory in its last eight outings, Colorado College heads out on the road this week for its final competition of the 2012 calendar year.

The Tigers, 8-8-2 overall and 5-4-1 in league play, travel out of state for the first time since early November for a two-game WCHA series at St. Cloud State University. They've gone just 1-5-2 after playing top-seven nationally ranked opponents the last four weekends.

Faceoff at the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn., where CC owns a four-game undefeated streak (3-0-1) dating back to the 2009-10 season, is 7:37 p.m. (CT) Friday and 7:07 p.m. Saturday.

The 17th-ranked Huskies, 9-7-0 overall, are 7-5 and tied for third in the WCHA standings, three points ahead of Colorado College, which has played two fewer conference games and hopes to build off the momentum of last Saturday's come-from-behind tie (4-4) with the University of Minnesota.

SCSU trails league-leading University of Denver by just two points and the second-place Gophers by only one.

Friday's contest marks the 84th all-time meeting between the teams. The Tigers own a 45-32-6 advantage in the previous 83 after splitting a pair of decisions with SCSU at the World Arena last January. CC, which skated to a 3-0, 5-2 sweep in its most recent visit to St. Cloud in December 2010, is 20-12-4 (.611) in 36 previous appearances there altogether after losing just once in its last seven (4-1-2) since the '06-07 campaign.

The Tigers, unranked this week for the first time since mid-October, do not play at home again until the University of Minnesota Duluth visits in mid-January for the only other series at the World Arena between now and late February. Before hosting DU to open another  "Interstate-25 Rivalry" weekend on Feb. 9, they are away for nine of their next 11 games including trips to Omaha, Grand Forks and Anchorage early in 2013.

TIGER BITES: While both games this week are being televised locally in the St. Cloud area, Altitude Sports & Entertainment will pick up Saturday's feed and air the series finale live throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. Altitude is available to Comcast subscribers on channels 54 in Colorado Springs, 63 in Pueblo and 25 in Metro Denver, as well as  nationally on DirecTV (631) and Dish Network (410). For cable coverage in your area, check your local listings or go to www.altitude.tv/zipcodesearch ... Senior center Rylan Schwartz is tied for the WCHA overall scoring lead with 24 points (10g,14a) after adding five (2g,3a) to his total in last week's series against the University of Minnesota. He's also moved into a tie for 44th place on CC's all-time chart with 130 (49g,81a) for his career...Senior right wing and team captain William Rapuzzi takes a nine-game point-scoring streak into this week's action.