A former superstar athlete from Billings is leading his college team into the "Sweet 16" of the men's NCAA basketball tournament, and now they're only 2 wins away from the Final Four.
Wait a minute, I said to him. Do you mean to tell me that the NCAA gave the men the best equipment they could find, and they basically told the women's teams to go play with Barbies?
According to the press release, "only essential staff and limited family" will be allowed to attend the upcoming Division I Men's and Women's basketball tournament.
Montana made the bracket. The University of Montana Grizzlies made it into the NCAA March Madness tournament, according to the brackets posted by NCAA March Madness on Facebook Sunday.
The University of Montana Athletic department came out on top where it really counts, in the classroom, with 72 Academic All-Big Sky Conference selections in the spring semester.
After 31 years, there will be a new 'Voice of the Griz' behind the microphone when the Montana Grizzlies take the field in the fall in Washington Grizzly Stadium.
A group of Grizzly football boosters met with University of Montana President Royce Engstrom on Tuesday, who told them he would not petition the NCAA to reconsider its sanctions against the football program.