Tournament spot on the line this weekend
The University of Montana soccer team will play its final Big Sky Conference matches this weekend against Northern Arizona and Northern Colorado. The Grizzlies will host the Lumberjacks Friday at 3 p.m. at South Campus Stadium, then travel to Greeley, Colo., to face the Bears Sunday at noon at UNC's Jackson Stadium.
What's at stake: For all eight teams in the Big Sky Conference, their postseason hopes. All eight teams have a pair of matches this weekend, and with every team sitting between three and 10 points, no one has clinched a spot in the four-team tournament and no team has been eliminated.
With seven points and residing in the middle of the standings, Montana could win the regular-season championship this weekend and host the Big Sky tournament the first weekend of November, or the Grizzlies could come out of Sunday's match with the same seven points and find themselves in last place (though no one who has watched the team play the last month of the season expects Montana to be holding steady with seven points come Sunday afternoon).
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OGDEN, Utah -- A year ago this week, Northern Colorado men's basketball coach B.J. Hill was busy having T-shirts made at a local screen-print shop that displayed only a big "6th" on the front and nothing on the back.
That was the lowest spot (sixth) Hill could find Northern Colorado listed last season among the plethora of college basketball preseason publications, and, in Hill's mind, that number and those plain, white T's were the perfect motivator for a team full of seniors who had worked hard to transform the Bears into a top-notch program but were still getting little love from the prognosticators.
But this October, just seven months removed from the Bears' historic and memorable march to last year's NCAA Tournament, Hill's going to have to find another way to light a fire within his program.
The Big Sky Conference released its annual preseason media and coaches polls Wednesday afternoon, and Northern Colorado, which finished 21-11 and 13-3 in league games last season, was picked to come in third in the media survey, with one first-place vote, and fourth in the coaches poll.
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