Experienced but very small, Montana and its terrific backcourt played through a key injury to own the Big Sky for the second straight year
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The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 7, 2017
Mike Hopkins gets his first signature win as a head coach, but a big takeaway is that his team is getting better. Plus a couple of upsets and a few near misses, a game gets canceled, and an Eagle is done for the season.
2016-17 Big Sky Post-Mortem
Returning all five starters, North Dakota leaped from fifth in the Big Sky to first, winning conference regular season and tourney championships that culminated with a first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament appearance.
The Morning Dish – Wednesday, November 30, 2016
With holiday tournaments past, college basketball hits a docile stretch, a relative lull in the schedule. One filled with guarantee games, light weeks while teams take final exams, made-for-TV games, and more guarantee games.
2015-16 Big Sky Post-Mortem
The Big Sky was once again competitive, though a couple of familiar faces led the way in 2015-16. Could that change next year, in addition to the conference having more non-conference success?
Scanning the Nation – January 7, 2015
Some college basketball thoughts from the first week of the new year:
The Morning Dish – Sunday, January 4, 2015
The unbeaten toppled over one-by-one on Saturday. About all you can say about this is: welcome to conference play.
The Morning Dish – Sunday, December 7, 2014
The independents are dead. Long live the independents. NJIT’s 72-70 win at Michigan will go down as the biggest upset of this season and one of the biggest in a long time. This one is going to remembered for a long, long time.
The Morning Dish – Thursday, December 4, 2014
This introduction was going to be about one of the most anticipated games of the year so far, as Duke and Wisconsin squared off in a battle between top 5 teams, Final Four contenders and legendary coaches. That changed after midnight here in the Central time zone after watching Wichita State face Utah in what was maybe the second-most anticipated game of at least the night, anyway.
2013-14 WAC Post-Mortem
The ever-changing WAC is hanging on, with a few positives in 2013-14 led by its top program and the surprise regular season champion.
