Lady Griz

Watch out for March Basketball scams.

On Monday, Montana Grizzly head basketball coach Wayne Tinkle was honored by the Big Sky Conference with his second straight "Coach of the Year" award.The Grizzlies enjoyed a rousing sendoff Tuesday morning on the way to San Jose for a Thursday game against Syracuse.

Update:Sunday, March 17 4:30 p.m. At a packed house in the Press Box Restaurant, players, coaches and maroon-clad fans eagerly awaited Greg Gumbel on the CBS-TV NCAA Selection Sunday show just who the Grizzlies would play in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament. The word came as Gumbel announced the second round in the East Regional to be held in San Jose, California. Number four see

Starting Wednesday and continuing through Saturday night, hundreds and perhaps thousands of fans, families and officials will descend on Missoula for the combined men's and women's Big Sky Conference basketball tournaments.

Saturday, March 9, 2013...a date that will live in the minds of Missoula sports fans for a long, long time, as three teams brought home titles; The Hellgate boys, The Sentinel girls, and the University of Montana Grizzlies.

This Saturday the Montana Grizzlies and the Lady Griz take on their arch-rivals the Montana State Bobcats inside Dahlberg Arena.

The Montana women's basketball team will open the 2013 portion of its 2012-13 schedule with a road trip to Eastern Washington.

The University of Montana spent Thanksgiving in Las Vegas

The Montana Grizzlies won an overtime thriller over San Diego Saturday night in Missoula, 67 to 66, while the Lady Griz beat UNLV in Las Vegas on Saturday, also in OT, 69 to 65.

The Montana Lady Griz evened its record at 1-1 with a dominating 75-45 win over MSU Northern Tuesday night inside the Dahlberg Arena.