Their winning streak ended fairly early in the season, but if you wrote off the defending women's champion because they lost their top senior and the D3hoops.com Rookie of the Year, you may have been premature.

In fact, the Bruins are doing alright for themselves, to the tune of 16-2, 9-0 in the Northwest Conference, with one of the losses to a Division II school. Part of that success is due to the newest member of the George Fox starting lineup: freshman Hannah Munger. And more of it is because the rotation goes 11 players deep.

&&f-boxr&&Evans Clinchy gets the lowdown on Scott Rueck's defending champs, as well as the Puget Sound team still trying to dethrone them, in this week's Around the Nation.

George Fox was a surprise team in last year's women's bracket. One of last year's surprise men's tournament teams, DeSales, stumbled out of the gate before rattling off seven consecutive games. D3sports.com's Gordon Mann caught up with the Bulldogs and men's coach Scott Coval for an interview. That and more in this week's Around the Nation.