The Frontier Conference announced its All-Academic teams for Men's and Women's Basketball earlier today and the Montana Tech Orediggers are very well-represented on both teams.
Even though most of Montana is braving what is hoped to be the last storm of the winter, Track and Field Season is off and running, at least on the collegiate level. Dornblaser Field in Missoula was the site of the Al Manuel Invitational and the Montana Tech Orediggers were represented quite nicely.
The NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) announced its 2022-23 Women’s Basketball All-America team earlier today. The Frontier Conference was well represented.
Playing without Frontier Conference MVP Caleb Bellach, the Montana Tech Orediggers found solid ground in overtime and were able to fend off Thomas More University of Kentucky 77-72 in the second round of the NAIA National Men's Basketball Tournament Wednesday night at Kelvin Sampson Court.
After a pair of knockdown drag out semi-finals, the #1 seed Orediggers of Montana Tech prepare for the #2 University of Providence in the Frontier Conference Championship.
The Frontier Conference Men’s Tournament gets underway this weekend in Great Falls with a pair of games on Sunday. Earlier this week, I bragged about how insanely accurate the Frontier Women’s coaches were in their pre-season picks, for both league standings and players on the year. You can re...
In the past 20 years, there has been a tie at the top of the conference standings in half of those seasons. The largest lead at the end of the season in that time has been 3 games. That could change this weekend.
If Tech beats Northern, Carroll beats Providence, and Western takes down Rocky, there would be a four-way tie for second place. Not even remotely out of the realm of possibilities.
In a game that would see a lead of no larger than eight points throughout 40 minutes of regulation, it was missed free-throw opportunities by Montana Tech that would force an overtime period against Carroll College. And it was a shooting clinic from the foul line and beyond that the Orediggers would put on in overtime to seal an 87-78 Frontier Conference victory and the regular season conference title.