Montana State University
Northwest Indian College
Montana State Hosts Northwest Indian College in Home Opener on Wednesday
11/4/2025 10:10:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Bobcats welcome the Eagles to Worthington Arena for the fourth-straight season
GAME 2
MONTANA STATE (0-1) vs NORTHWEST INDIAN (1-5)
Date: Wed., Nov. 5
Time: 7 p.m.
Venue: Worthington Arena
Location: Bozeman, Mont.
TV: ESPN+
Radio: Bobcat Radio Network
MSU Records: Home 0-0, Road 0-1, Neutral 0-0
NWIC Records: Home 1-2, Road 0-3, Neutral 0-0
Series: MSU leads, 4-0
Last Meeting: W, 93-35 (11/11/24)
STORYLINES
COMING HOME: Montana State returns to Worthington Arena for the first time this season to face Northwest Indian College at 7 p.m. The Bobcats are seeking their first win of the season following a nail-biting 84-78 loss to Colorado on Monday in Boulder.
MILESTONES FOR MCMAHON: Redshirt senior Patrick McMahon opened his season with a highlight-reel performance against Colorado on Nov. 3, pouring in a career-high 24 points on 10-of-13 shooting to lead the Bobcats in Boulder. McMahon enters Wednesday's contest with 499 career points, needing just one more to reach the 500-point milestone.
HOLDEN NEARS 700 POINTS: Junior Cavin Holden needs 12 points to reach 700 in his collegiate career. The Longview, Wash., native tallied 674 points in two years at Central Washington and added 14 in his Bobcat debut against Colorado on Monday night for a career total of 688.
A FAMILIAR FIRST OPPONENT: Montana State faces Northwest Indian College in its home opener for the third-straight season. The Cats defeated the Eagles, 93-35, to open the 2024-25 campaign as five Bobcats scored in double figures. The Bobcats are 4-0 in the all-time series dating back to 2012, and MSU and NWIC have faced off in each of the past three seasons.
A NEW STARTING FIVE: Three Bobcats made their first career starts in the season opener at Colorado on Nov. 3. Senior Jed Miller received the first starting nod of his 72-game Bobcat career while Christian King and Chris Hodges also started for the first time in their MSU debuts. Central Washington transfer Cavin Holden and Bobcat returner Patrick McMahon rounded out the Cats' new-look starting five.
HOME COURT ADVANTAGE: The Bobcats were nearly unstoppable in the friendly confines of Worthington Arena during the 2024-25 season, posting an 11-3 record while winning seven of their final eight contests at home.
FRESH FACES: Montana State debuts a new-look lineup in 2025-26 with 10 newcomers joining five returning Bobcats on the 15-man roster. Redshirt senior Patrick McMahon and senior Jed Miller lead a crop of returners that also features redshirt junior Jeremiah Davis, who missed most of last season with an injury, redshirt sophomore Calum Rutherfurd, and redshirt freshman Grayson Gaddis. MSU's seven-member transfer class includes Davian Brown (Biola), Cavin Holden (Central Washington), Christian King (Washington), Seth Amunrud (Dawson CC), Chris Hodges (Wisconsin), Waka Mbatch (Florida State) and Jaden Steppe (Colorado State). Freshmen Howie Keene, CJ Purdie, and James Steward round out the 2025-26 Bobcat roster.
A LOOK AT THE EAGLES: Northwest Indian last competed in Missoula, Mont., on Monday night, falling to Montana by 65 points, 106-41. JD McGee led the Eagles in four categories with 11 points, three rebounds, one assist, and one steal. Keenan Kahoekapu and Tyasin Burns added seven points each as the Eagles fell to 1-5 on the season.
LOOKING BACK ON LAST SEASON: The Cats concluded the 2024-25 season with a 15-18 record, including a 9-9 mark in conference play. Montana State finished fifth in the Big Sky regular season standings and defeated No. 4 Idaho State in dominant fashion, 80-60, in the Big Sky Tournament quarterfinals before falling to top-seeded Northern Colorado in the semis, 72-45. The defeat ended the Bobcats' run of three-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament from 2022-24, which marked the longest tournament streak by a Big Sky team since Weber State appeared in three-straight NCAA Tournaments from 1978-80.
PRESEASON PROJECTIONS: MSU earned a share of fifth place in the Big Sky Preseason Coaches' Poll and was picked sixth in the media poll ahead of the 2025-26 season.
LOGIE CONTINUES HIS WINNING WAYS: Montana State head coach Matt Logie is no stranger to winning, owning a 308-95 (.764) career head coaching record across all NCAA divisions. Logie's 308 victories rank second among active Division I head coaches 45 years old or younger behind first-year Iowa head coach Ben McCollum with 426.
THE MATT LOGIE FILE: Third-year MSU head coach Matt Logie has taken his teams to the NCAA Tournament in 12 of his 14 seasons as a head coach, and is believed to be just the second men's coach in history to lead teams to the Big Dance at the Division I, Division II, and Division III levels (Tobin Anderson). Logie ranks 22nd in NCAA men's basketball history in career winning percentage (.766) and is 11th among active head coaches. Logie came to Montana State after four seasons at Point Loma (Division II), where his teams rolled up an 82-23 record with three conference championships, and eight seasons at Whitworth (Division III), where his teams went 194-35.
CAT TRACKS
+ Montana State owns a 4-0 record against Northwest Indian College and is set to face the Eagles for the fourth-straight year. Wednesday's game marks the third-straight time the Cats will open their home slate against NWIC, collecting a 93-35 win in last year's opener and a 103-63 victory in 2023.
+ The Bobcats scored their largest points total in a game in program history against the Eagles on Dec. 17, 2022, pouring in an impressive 144 points while holding NWIC to 59. Montana State made 53 of its 79 shots in the contest, marking the second-most field goals made and fourth-most shots attempted in a game in school history.
+ Montana State has won six-straight home openers dating back to the 2019-20 season, two of which came against Northwest Indian College. The Bobcats' last home-opening loss came against Utah State, 101-71, to open the 2018-19 campaign.
+ Montana State faces two teams coming off of NCAA Tournament appearances in 2024-25, including at-large selection Utah State (Nov. 29) and defending Big Sky Champion Montana (Jan. 17 & Feb. 14). Both teams fell to Big Ten opponents in the Round of 64 as the No. 10 Aggies were ousted by No. 7 UCLA, 72-47, and No. 14 Montana fell to current Bobcat Chris Hodges and the No. 3 Badgers, 85-66.
+ Three current Bobcats have played in at least one NCAA Tournament game, and two others were members of teams that reached the tournament while they were on the roster. Patrick McMahon scored seven points in eight minutes against Texas Tech during the 2022 Round of 64, Chris Hodges appeared in NCAA Tournament games for Wisconsin in three-straight years from 2023-25, and Jed Miller recorded an assist in MSU's First Four game against Grambling State in 2024. Jaden Steppe played in seven games a member of Colorado State's Mountain West Championship team in 2024-2025, and Calum Rutherfurd redshirted during Montana State's most recent Big Sky Championship year in 2023-24.
+ Redshirt senior Patrick McMahon enjoyed a breakout year last season, tallying 18 double-figure scoring performances in 2024-25. He posted four 20-point performances off the bench in conference play, including a then-career-high 23 points in the regular-season finale vs Idaho on March 3, 2025. The lone starter returning from last year's team, McMahon averaged 9.9 points and 3.4 rebounds in 23.3 minutes per game last season and owns an impressive .531 career field goal percentage in 73 games and counting as a Bobcat.
+ Jed Miller entered his fourth year in Bozeman with 71 games under his belt, one short of Patrick McMahon's 72 for the most among active players in a Bobcat uniform. Miller led MSU in steals last season with 43 while also dishing 74 assists in 33 games.
+ Junior guard Cavin Holden was a prolific scorer at the Division II level for Central Washington, averaging 15.1 points per game on 47.6% shooting during the 2024-25 season, including a 43.8% mark from deep. Holden tallied 674 points in just two seasons at CWU and earned Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) Player of the Year honors during his sophomore season.
+ Davian Brown joins the Bobcats for his final year of collegiate eligibility in 2025-26, following in the footsteps of his older brother Darius, who played on MSU's Big Sky Championship and NCAA Tournament team in 2022-23. Darius played in 33 of 34 games and averaged 9.1 points on 46.5% shooting, 4.4 rebounds, and 4.9 assists per game en route to Big Sky Defensive Player of the Year honors and a Third-Team All-Conference Selection. Davian averaged 15.6 points per game last season at Division II Biola and enters the 2025-26 season with a total of 1,915 points scored across his five-year collegiate career at Biola (D-II), Lewis-Clark State (NAIA), and The Master's University (NAIA).
+ Chris Hodges provides 40 games of Big Ten experience for the Bobcats as a graduate transfer from Wisconsin. He was the Badgers' 2024 recipient of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award during his third year in Madison.
+ Washington transfer Christian King adds another 20 games of Power Four experience from his time in the Big Ten, tallying 50 points and 31 rebounds during his redshirt freshman season in 2024-25. His father, Rich King, was drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics with the 14th pick in the 1991 NBA Draft.
+ Jeremiah Davis rejoins the Bobcats' rotation after missing the final 20 games of the 2024-25 season due to injury. During his eight-game stint with the Cats last season, Davis scored in double figures twice (vs. Northwest Indian, Nov. 11; at USC, Dec. 15).
+ Bozeman native Seth Amunrud returns home for his junior season after two years at Dawson Community College, where he was an NJCAA Second-Team All-American this past season after averaging 21.1 points per game and shooting 55.2% from the field, 46.8% from three, and 88.7% from the line.
+ Montana State was picked for a share of fifth in the Big Sky Preseason Coaches' Poll and sixth in the Big Sky Preseason Media Poll.
+ Logie's 308-95 career mark in 14 seasons is good for a .764 winning percentage, 11th-best among active coaches at four-year schools and the 11th-highest winning percentage in the history of all NCAA men's college basketball coaches. Logie's teams have qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 12 of his 14 years as a head coach at three different institutions, and his teams have won at least 21 games in every season save two he has coached in his career.
