The Millikin women's basketball team opened action the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin with a 73-62 win over Augustana College on December 4 at the Griswold Center in Decatur, Illinois.

Millikin lead a back-and-fourth first quarter 19-17. The Big Blue took a 36-28 lead in the locker room at halftime. Millikin extended its lead to 17 points at 45-28 with seven minutes left to play in the third quarter and ended the quarter up by 10 at 53-43. That was a close as the Vikings would get as Millikin scored the first six points of the fourth quarter to go up 59-43. The Big Blue's largest lead of the game was 71-53 with 1:43 left to play.

Millikin shot 45 percent (29-64) from the field and went 6-20 (30 percent) from three point range. Millikin was 9-15 from the free throw line. Millikin forced Augustana into 26 turnovers leading to 31 Big Blue points. The turnovers gave Millikin additional scoring opportunities in the game with the Big Blue taking 19 more shots than the Vikings. Augustana shot 21-45 (47 percent) from the field and went 5-15 (33 percent) from three-point range. The Vikings were 15-18 from the free throw line. Augustana won the rebounding battle 33-27.

Elyce Knudsen led Millikin with 20 points six assists, five steals and four rebounds. Jordan Hildebrand had 17 points, five steals and four rebounds.

Bailey Coffman scored 13 points for the Big Blue. Miranda Fox had nine points, six assists and five steals.

Augustana's top scorer was Gabriela Loiz with 19 points followed by Linnea Johansen with 11.

Millikin is now 5-3, 1-0 while Augustana goes to 5-3, 0-1. The Big Blue hit the road for two straight conference games starting at Elmhurst on December 8 and then traveling to Carroll University on December 11.