Posts Tagged ‘Lady Griz basketball’
Montana Advances to Championship Game of Lady Griz Classic
BY JOEL CARLSON -With a 68-44 victory over Utah Valley, Montana and Austin Peay will meet in the championship game Saturday of the 34th Lady Griz Classic.... more
Montana Hosts 34th Lady Griz Classic This Week at Dahlberg Arena
BY JOEL CARLSON - The Lady Griz will host the 34th edition of the Lady Griz Classic this weekend, with four games Friday and Saturday featuring Saint Louis, Austin Peay and Utah Valley.... more
Lady Griz Outlasts Seattle 70-64 in Overtime
BY JOEL CARLSON -The Montana women’s basketball team made it a two-game road sweep with a 70-64 overtime victory at Seattle Wednesday afternoon. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Dec 15
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- No, Bob Stitt may not have any previous connection to the University of Montana, but Stitt does have something in common with Don Read and Joe Glenn...... more
Lady Griz Win 69-55 at Portland
BY JOEL CARLSON -Kellie Rubel scored a season-high 24 points, Carly Selvig blocked a career-high eight shots, and the Lady Griz won 69-55 over Portland Sunday afternoon.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Dec 8
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Mick Delaney’s run as Grizzly head football coach ended Saturday in Cheney with a loss to Eastern Washington. Like his 5 immediate predecessors Delaney's last game at UM was in the po... more
Lady Griz Hold Down Fighting Saints in 30-Point Win
BY JOEL CARLSON -The Wyoming Cowgirls held off Montana’s late comeback attempt to post a 60-54 victory over the Lady Griz Thursday night at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula.... more
Lady Griz Basketball: Wyoming Wins at Montana 60-54
BY JOEL CARLSON -The Wyoming Cowgirls held off Montana’s late comeback attempt to post a 60-54 victory over the Lady Griz Thursday night at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Dec 1
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- This Saturday for the fifth time in their FCS play-off history the Grizzly football team has a rematch in the post-season with a team they faced in the regular season. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Nov 24
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- For the 18th time in the last 22 seasons the Montana Grizzlies are hosting a FCS play-off game. The Griz are 12-6 in their play-off openers at home.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Nov 17
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- While the Grizzlies have posted double-digit wins over MSU in their last four visits to Bozeman the Cats haven’t won in Missoula by double-digits since 1984.... more
Lady Griz Basketball Opens Regular Season Monday Night
By JOEL CARLSON - The Montana women’s basketball team will open its regular-season schedule Monday night when the Lady Griz host Montana-Western at Dahlberg Arena. Tip off is at 7 p.m.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Nov 10
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Saturday will be the debut of Travis Decuire’s Montana Grizzly basketball team. Decuire would like to duplicate the coaching debut of his long-time mentor Blaine Taylor. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Nov 3
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- It has been a decade since the Montana Grizzly soccer team won the regular title and earned the host spot in the Conference tournament. Montana hosted 6 of the first 8 conference tourna... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Oct 27
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- The Grizzlies open play in November coming off a loss. The Griz lost their final October game in 2013 and then proceeded to handled 4 straight opponents in November. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Oct 20
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- In going to Cal-poly this weekend the Montana Grizzlies face a Mustangs team that has one of the most explosive rushing attacks in the country. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Oct 13
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Saturday, October 18, marks the 28th anniversary of the opening of Washington Grizzly Stadium before a crowd of some 8,000 as the Griz beat Idaho State 38-31.... more
Nine Things to Kick Off Your Lady Griz Season
By JOEL CARLSON - The Montana women’s basketball team, under 37th-year head coach Robin Selvig, will open its season Wednesday morning with its first practice of the 2014-15 season.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Oct 6
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- The Griz win at UND on Saturday marked the 567th win in Griz history, and half of all Griz football wins have come since a September 1984 win over Don Read and his Portland State Viking... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Sept 8
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Few dates have been as lucky for the Grizzly football team as September 13th. The Grizzlies have won their last six September 13th games.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Sept 1
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Saturday the Montana Grizzly football team goes for its 14 win in the last 16 home openers when they faced the Central Washington Wildcats. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of August 25
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- As the Hellgate Knights open their football against Helena Capitol it was fifty years ago next week that the school played its first ever football game a 13-2 loss to Great Falls Cathol... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of August 19
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN-After an impressive showing in a home exhibition match with Carroll College, the Montana Grizzly soccer team embarks on an 8-city, 8-match road swing. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of August 11
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN-HOO-RAY!!! For the Zootown Senior Softball Team who played for the Senior Softball World series title. Let's put the team's achievement in perspective: ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of August 4
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN-Saturday’s dramatic state title win for the Missoula Mavericks gave the program its 8th title since 1984.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of July 28
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN-Grizzly football fans are hoping for a winning streak for the Griz after Paul McCartney’s concert just like the program had when the Rolling Stones appeared at Washington Grizzly stadi... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of July 21
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN-This fall the Montana Grizzly football team will face a lot of first-year head coaches. Four of the Grizzly’s first 6 games will be against teams with new head coaches.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of July 14
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Griz fans will be conflicted on which game to attend on Feb 29th--when Larry Krystiowiak’s Utah UTES take on Wayne Tinkle's OSU Beavers. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of June 16
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Sometimes a coaching change leads to immediate improvement, but for the Grizzlies it’s been a mixed blessing with the last 3 Griz football coaches having fewer wins in their first sea... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of June 2
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Travis Decuire got off to a fast start at Montana as a player. In his first start as the Griz point guard in November of 1991 Decuire helped lead the Griz to a 77-38 rout of PAC-12 powe... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of May 26
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Wayne Tinkle becomes the eighth University of Montana coach in the last 40 years to leave UM to take another Division 1 or NBA job. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of May 19
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Montana lost a legal Pioneer and a great sports mom last week with the passing of Judge Diane Barz at the age of 70.... more
Hill and Cole Share Lady Griz MVP Award
By JOEL CARLSON - Senior guard Torry Hill and junior guard Kellie Cole shared Montana’s Mary Louise Pope Zimmerman Most Valuable Player award at the team’s postseason banquet recently.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of May 12
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Jordan Tripp, a third generation Grizzly, played his entire amateur football career in Zootown following in the steps of his grandfather Gene and dad, Bryan Tripp.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of May 5
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- This week for the first time ever the University of Montana Men's tennis team will compete in the NCAA tournament. The Griz will head to Norman Oklahoma to face the No. 2 ranked Sooners... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of April 28
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- If MSU Bobcat basketball fans are looking for a quick turnaround under new coach Brian Fish they may want to look back at Bobcat history. Over the last 40 only one first year head coach... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of April 21
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- It is considered by many as the quintessential quote from a football coach, "Winning Isn’t Everything It’s the only Thing” and is credited to legendary coach, Vince Lombardi. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of April 14
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Twenty Years ago this week one of Missoula’s more unique sporting traditions came to an end amid some controversy and hard feelings. ... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of April 7
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- In 1980 among the summer movies along with “Caddyshack” and “Airplane” was a movie called “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh” starring pro basketball star Julius Erving.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of March 31
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN- Over the past 5 years the Montana Grizzlies and Lady Griz have combined for 5 trips to the NCAA tournaments and 206 wins--by far the best among Big Sky Conference schools.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of March 24
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN -For only the third time in the last 31 years the Montana State Men's basketball program is looking for a new head coach. For 35 of the last 40 seasons the MSU men’s coach had been a B... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of March 17
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN -The Sentinel Spartans girl’s basketball team became only the third AA girls team to record a “threepeat”, Joining Great Falls High in the early 1980’s and Billings West a decade... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of March 10
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN -For the first time since 2003 both the Montana Grizzly and Lady Griz basketball teams are playing in the Conference tournament quarterfinals.... more
Lady Griz Draw Bobcats in Big Sky Tournament
Montana finished alone in third place in the final Big Sky Conference standings and will face No. 6 Montana State in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky tournament next week at Grand Forks, N.D.... more
Lady Griz Host Final Home Games This Week
By JOEL CARLSON - The Montana women’s basketball team will wrap up its regular-season schedule this week with home games against Sacramento State (Thurs. night) and NAU (Sat. night). ... more
Lady Griz Use Big Second Half to Top Bobcats
By JOEL CARLSON - The Lady Griz scored 44 second-half points on its way to a 72-65 victory over Montana State Monday night at Worthington Arena in Bozeman.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of March 3
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN -In his 28 years as the head coach at Anaconda High John Cheek didn’t ever win a state basketball title, but he felt that he may have been a player short for what he needed for a title... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Feb 24
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN -This coming week will see the final home appearances for the Griz basketball seniors. Kareem Jamar has been special for the Griz in so many ways.... more
UM Sports Trivia | Week of Feb 17
By CHRIS WALTERSKIRCHEN -The Montana Lady Griz will be out for two healthy helpings of revenge, as Northern Colorado and the University of North Dakota come to Missoula.... more
Deming to be Remembered at Saturday’s Lady Griz Game
Julie Deming will be remembered Saturday when second-place Montana hosts first-place North Dakota at 2 p.m. at Dahlberg Arena. Deming was killed in a car accident last spring in Vancouver, Wash.... more