Monday, March 3
Missoula, MT
7:05 pm
Montana State University
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at MONTANA
Senior Paul Egwuonwu and the Bobcats face Montana on Monday
Photo by: Ruth Shellenberg
Bobcat Basketball Teams Heads to Missoula Monday
3/2/2014 5:19:00 PM | Men's Basketball
MSU opens crucial three-game stretch against Grizzlies
After a marathon of a conference season, Montana State finds itself in a sprint to the finish. And the starting line is in Missoula.
MSU Game Notes vs. Montana
The Bobcats open a stretch of three games in six days Monday against surging Montana, which all of a sudden is back in the discussion for a Big Sky co-championship. The Grizzlies were thrust into that position when Northern Arizona toppled Weber State in Ogden on Saturday.
But the status of the top of the league standings is of only tangential concern for the Bobcats, who enter the season's final week fighting for entry into the Big Sky's seven-team tournament. Montana State's nine wins places the Bobcats in a pack of four teams with that number of wins (joined by Sacramento State, Eastern Washington and Portland State), with Idaho State just one game off that pace.
Montana is one of three league teams with 10 victories – Northern Colorado and Northern Arizona are the others. That puts Monday's only Big Sky contest at the intersection of teams fighting to host the league tournament and teams fighting to stay, or get, into it.
The Bobcats look to buck recent history on Monday. Montana has won three straight games and seven of its last nine games to barge into the championship chase (Weber State has clinched a share of the title, but not the right to host the league tourney), but has also beaten the Bobcats seven straight times.
Montana State has won four of its last six games to maintain a foothold in the fight to get into the Big Sky tournament, but MSU's final three games of the regular season are at Montana, Northern Arizona (10-8) and Sacramento State (9-9).
That finish to the season sets up a wild fight of five teams with either eight or nine conference wins fighting for the final two spots in the league tournament.
MSU Game Notes vs. Montana
The Bobcats open a stretch of three games in six days Monday against surging Montana, which all of a sudden is back in the discussion for a Big Sky co-championship. The Grizzlies were thrust into that position when Northern Arizona toppled Weber State in Ogden on Saturday.
But the status of the top of the league standings is of only tangential concern for the Bobcats, who enter the season's final week fighting for entry into the Big Sky's seven-team tournament. Montana State's nine wins places the Bobcats in a pack of four teams with that number of wins (joined by Sacramento State, Eastern Washington and Portland State), with Idaho State just one game off that pace.
Montana is one of three league teams with 10 victories – Northern Colorado and Northern Arizona are the others. That puts Monday's only Big Sky contest at the intersection of teams fighting to host the league tournament and teams fighting to stay, or get, into it.
The Bobcats look to buck recent history on Monday. Montana has won three straight games and seven of its last nine games to barge into the championship chase (Weber State has clinched a share of the title, but not the right to host the league tourney), but has also beaten the Bobcats seven straight times.
Montana State has won four of its last six games to maintain a foothold in the fight to get into the Big Sky tournament, but MSU's final three games of the regular season are at Montana, Northern Arizona (10-8) and Sacramento State (9-9).
That finish to the season sets up a wild fight of five teams with either eight or nine conference wins fighting for the final two spots in the league tournament.
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