@UNC_BearsMBB enters critical stretch of the schedule Monday at Montana

Monday, February 25

Missoula, Mont.

7 PM

University of Northern Colorado

Montana

2/25/2019 7:30:00 AM | Men's Basketball

Montana Game Notes

By: Ryan Ronan

Northern Colorado enters one of the most critical stretches of its season with a Monday night game at Montana. The Bears will take the court for the first time since Feb. 16 at Eastern Washington and the result of that game makes this stretch even more important.

BEAR BITES

Just in case you missed the last 10 days of Bears basketball, Jordan Davis became the new all-time scoring leader in program history.
He passed Mike Higgins 2,112 points set back in 1985-89 when UNC was a Division II school.
Davis leads the conference at 23.5 points per game.

Montana came into Greeley for the first matchup this season reeling having already lost a pair of conference games. Since, no such issues they have reeled off 10-straight wins including sweeping Weber State and avenging the loss to Eastern Washington, barely.

GRIZ INSIGHT

Ahmaad Rorie leads a balanced Montana attack at 15 points per game.
Three-time conference player of the week Sayeed Pridgett checks in at 14 points per.
In that first game, UM had one of its best shooting nights of the season just over 56 percent. On the season, UNC allows teams to shot 46 percent.

Despite the head-to-head record, UNC and Montana are very closely matched teams.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP

Davis and Pridgett have both been named Big Sky Player of the Week three times and have both won the award in consecutive weeks.
Montana is second in the Big Sky in scoring defense and UNC third.
Montana is fourth in the conference in scoring, UNC is fifth.
The two teams are both top three in the conference in scoring margin, FG percentage, 3-point FG percentage, rebounding defense and margin.

UNC plays the two teams directly ahead of them and behind them in the standings this week in a series of games that will have a huge impact on seeding for the conference tournament.

BIG SKY BREAKDOWN

Thanks to the winning streak, Montana is two games clear of UNC in first place.
Currently, the Bears have a two-game lead on Weber State.
EWU and Montana State are both sitting at 9-7 as we enter the week.
Weber State doesn't play again until Thursday when they come to Greeley.

After a pair of games in the Pacific Time Zone Northern Colorado is back in the MT with a game that will tip at 7 p.m. If you can't make the trip to Missoula stop by Cables Pub and Grill to watch the Bears at the official watch party headquarters.