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Northern Colorado (20-9, 13-5) at Montana (18-11, 14-4) – 9:00 PM EST (WatchBigSky.com)
Tonight’s UTR Game of the Day takes us to Missoula, Montana for a pivotal matchup between two Big Sky Contenders – the Northern Colorado Bears sit a game out of first place as they hit the road to take on co-leader Montana. The bad news for Northern Colorado? They are coming off of a loss at home against co-leader Eastern Washington and have now been swept by the Eagles in the NoCoEWU Cup. However, UNC has already beaten Montana in their first meeting 74-66 on the strength of 22 points from Bodie Hume. After tonight, the Bears finish their season at Montana State; EWU will finish their season with home games against Idaho State and Weber State.
Montana comes into today’s game having won seven of their last eight games; one of those games was a 92-82 victory against EWU that gave the Grizzlies a season sweep of the Eagles. A win tonight and either one more loss or a Montana victory in their season finale against Southern Utah would give the Grizzlies a share of the Big Sky title and subsequent #1 seed in the conference tournament. In their last outing, Sayeed Pridgett had 24 points to lead the Grizzlies to a 79-71 victory at Sacramento State.