The Grand View women hosted AIB Wednensday night in MCC action in Des Moines, The Vikings struggled from the field, especially the three-point line, but were able to find an answer for each AIB run throughout the game. The Vikings finished the game on to,, 69-63 and improved to 20-5 overall and 12-1 in the MCC. 

The 10^thranked Vikings (19-5, 11-1) were looking to set the tempo as they traveled to Clarke University on Saturday afternoon. Despite a slow start by the Vikings, Grand View battled through eight tie game situations and 16 lead changes to take down the Crusaders 84-81.

The Crusaders came into the contest 2-9 in the MCC but did not back down to the Vikings, who came in at 10-1 in the league.

GV pounded the ball inside to get 18 points from inside the paint in the first half. The Viking bench added 12 first half points, but GV couldn't find the bottom of the net enough to take the lead as they were down by one, 43-44 going into the break.    

The Vikings now an eight-game winning streak after prevailing over the Iowa Wesleyan Tigers, 66-61 on Thursday night in Des Moines. No. 10 Grand View is now 18-5 overall and beating the Tigers moved them to 10-1 in the MCC. Iowa Wesleyan dropped to 11-9 overall and 7-4 in the conference.

After five tie game situations and two lead changes in the first half, the Vikings decided to make some adjustments.

"Even though we were up seven at halftime, we were not satisfied with our defensive effort at times in the first half," said Coach Garey Smith.

"We were pleased with the number of rebounds our girls were able to grab but that did not keep the points off the board for the Tigers. Steve does a great job of getting his girls to play hard and we knew they weren't going to back down in the second half, so we needed to sharpen up," added Smith. 

The Vikings moved up two spots in this week's edition of the NAIA Division II Women's Basketball Coaches' Top 25 Poll, the national office announced Monday.

Grand View went 2-0 in conference play last week.  Moving up two spots puts the Vikings at No. 10. Mount Mercy is the only other team from the MCC in the Top 25, as they dropped to No. 15 this week.

The Vikings faced Mount Mercy in a battle to the buzzer Monday night in Cedar Rapids. GV finished on top of the Mustangs 65-61 to continue their seven game win streak.  The women stay atop the MCC standings at 9-1 and two games in front of second place Mount Mercy and Iowa Wesleyan (7-3).

The Vikings shot 43% from the three- point in the first half to keep them in the game. GV trailed 36-31 at the break, but started the second half the Vikings went on a 10-2 run to put them ahead of the Mustangs by four.

The Viking women put another MCC win in the books to put them in the lead after the first half of league play. Grand View's 71-51 win over Waldorf on Saturday moved them to 16-5 overall and 8-1 in the MCC.

The Vikings full court pressure pushed them out to a 19-0 start to begin the game. Getting deep into their bench, the Vikings were able to continue that lead and were up by as many as 29. Grand View took pride in their defense and held Waldorf to just 17 points in the first half. GV led 44-17 at the break.

Ten Vikings contributed to those 44 first half points. For the second game in a row, Head Coach Garey Smith was able to get successful minutes out of the whole bench and 12 players were able to score.

"When we are able to get into our bench and give some of our younger kids experience, it says a lot for our upperclassmen and more experienced players," said Coach Smith.