BILLINGS, Mont. – The regular-season is over and the slate has been wiped clean. The Montana State University Billings men's basketball team will hope to utilize what they learned during the regular-season while now turning their focus to the 2012  Great Northwest Athletic Conference Basketball Championships hosted by Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Wash.
 
The Yellowjacket men ended their 2011-12 campaign under first-year head coach Jamie Stevens 15-11 overall and finished their league-slate with a 10-8 mark to finish fifth in the final GNAC standings to earn the fifth-seed in the conference tournament.
 
By earning the fifth seed in the tournament, the Yellowjackets will challenge the fourth-seeded Wolves of Western Oregon University on Wednesday, Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m.
 
Earlier this season, MSUB split its two games with WOU by dropping a 60-71 decision at Monmouth, Ore. on Dec. 31 and then claiming a 79-57 victory in Billings on Jan. 26.
 
The Yellowjacket men boast the second-highest scoring offense in the league, averaging 82.2 points per game heading into Wednesday's game. Part of that high-scoring offense can be attributed to the fact that MSUB leads the conference in three-pointers made per game at 9.5 as a team. The 'Jackets have drained a conference-best 248 total treys this season.
 
MSUB was led this season by the senior-tandem of Antoine Proctor and Jaxon Myaer who were both named to the GNAC all-conference team. Proctor, the Yellowjackets' leading scorer was a first team selection as well as the Newcomer-of-the-Year while Myaer, the team's leading three-point shooter, earned honorable mention plaudits for the second time in his career.
 
Proctor ended the regular-season averaging a league-second-best 19.4 points per game off 505 total points scored this season. The Washington, D.C. native is also second on the team with 4.9 rebounds per game and a .333 shooting percentage from three-point range while also shooting a team-third-best .426 from the field.
 
Proctor's team-leading 62 total steals also have him second in the conference in the category with 2.4 per outing.
 
Myaer, who averages a team-second-best 14.4 points per game, finished the regular-season leading the team with 115 assists while his .470 overall shooting percentage has him second on the squad. The Salt Lake City native's 4.4 assists per game has him fourth in the GNAC while his team-leading .435 three-point percentage leaves him ninth.
 
Robert Mayes is the Yellowjackets' leader on the boards as he averages a conference-eighth-best 7.2 rebounds per game. Mayes also averages 10.8 points per game and is second in shooting percentage with and has 32 blocked shots on the season.
 
The Wolves, who have won four of their last six games, have the third-best scoring defense as they have held their opponents this season to an average of 65.3 points per game while also holding their opposition to a league-second-lowest .415 shooting percentage.
 
WOU is led by Blair Wheadon's 16.0 points per game, but it is James Gehring and Kolton Nelson who boast the sixth- and seventh-highest shooting performances in the conference. Gehring, who averages 7.8 points per game and leads the team with 5.5 rebounds per outing, shoots .568 from the field while Nelson shoots .540.
 
While leading the team with points, Wheadon also has the most steals (60) and assists (85) on the team. He also leads the team from three-point range with a .437 shooting performance.
 
The winner of Wednesday's night-cap will move on to play top-seeded and nationally-ranked Western Washington University on Friday at 2:15 p.m. in the second semifinal game of the day.
 
First and semifinal rounds Wednesday through Friday will be able to be followed live through New Media TV Sports. A link to the games has been posted on MSUB's schedule. The championship games on Saturday will be carried by Root Sports.