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Championship Game Preview
Jon Kasper - Big Sky Conference
3/11/2009 12:56:57 PM
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No. 6 Montana State (14-16)
vs. No. 2 Portland State (22-9)
 
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Dee Events Center (12,000), Ogden, Utah
8:30 p.m. MDT
 
TV: ESPN2. Talent: Terry Gannon and Stephen Bardo.
 
Coaches: Montana State's Brad Huse is 40-50 in his third season with the Bobcats. Huse is 2-2 in Big Sky Tournament games, and this is his first championship game appearance. Huse compiled a 184-60 record in eight seasons at NAIA Jamestown College in North Dakota. Huse was an assistant at Montana in 2005 and 2006 when the Grizzlies won the Big Sky Championship…Portland State's Ken Bone is 75-48 in his fourth season with the Vikings. Bone is 4-2 in the Big Sky tournament. He guided PSU to the 2008 championship. Bone compiled a 258-118 record in13 seasons at non-division I schools, including 12 years at Seattle Pacific. Bone is 5-2 vs. Huse.
 
What's next: The winner earns the Big Sky's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The 65-team field will be announced on Sunday at 4 p.m. on CBS.
 
Season Series: The teams split the season series with each winning on their home court. Montana State beat Portland 85-82 on Feb. 1 in Bozeman. Will Bynum scored 24 points, and Divaldo Mbunga had 12 points and eight rebounds for the Bobcats, who shot .561 percent from the field. Dominic Waters came off the bench to score a team-high 19 points for Portland State. Julius Thomas added 17 points off the bench….Portland State won the second game 64-58 on Feb. 25 in Portland. Jeremiah Dominguez scored 17 points and hit five 3-pointers for PSU. Bynum was the only Bobcat in double figures with 16 points.
 
Previous Championship Meetings: This will be the second meeting between the two in the championship. Portland State beat Montana State 96-71 in a 2007 first-round game in Portland to advance to the semifinals in Ogden. Montana State's Branden Johnson and Erik Rush, and Portland State's Kyle Coston and Julius Thomas are the only four players who played the 2007 meeting who will play tonight.
 
Big Sky Championship History: Portland State is 5-6 all-time in the tournament, winning the championship over Northern Arizona in 2008. PSU is in the tournament for the fifth straight season. Montana State is also in the tournament for the fifth straight season. MSU is 15-21 in the tournament with two titles (1986 and 1996) and tow second-place finishes (1988 and 1998).
 
Notes: Montana State is looking to become the first No. 6 seed to win the tournament since 1986, when the Bobcats upset Montana…Idaho State won the tournament as a seventh seed in 1987. Boise State in 1994 and Montana in 2002 are No. 5 seeds who've won the tournament…Portland State is looking to become the first team since Montana in 2005 and 2006 to win back-to-back championships…PSU's Kyle Coston scored 14 points in last year's championship game, and Andre Murray added 13. Dominguez had nine points and four steals…MSU's Divaldo Mbunga has eight blocks in two tournament games this year. He needs four to tie the tournament record of 12 set in 1994 by Boise State's Jon Coker…Portland State has an RPI of 117 as of Wednesday morning. Montana State’s RPI is 212.
Scoreboard
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Eastern Washington
3
Mercer
0
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana
3
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
0
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
1
Cincinnati
3
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Sacramento State
2
Illinois State
3
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Weber State
1
Idaho
3
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Arizona
0
Central Arkansas
3
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Arizona
3
Murry State
1
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana State
3
Radford
1
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Robert Morris
2
Montana State
3
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Texas Pan American
0
Idaho State
3
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Idaho State
3
Oral Roberts
2
8.27.2010 | Women's Soccer
Montana
0
Iowa State
1
8.27.2010 | Women's Soccer
Portland State
3
Louisiana-Monroe
2
8.27.2010 | Women's Soccer
BYU
5
Weber State
1
8.27.2010 | Women's Soccer
Northern Colorado
2
Idaho
3
8.27.2010 | Women's Soccer
CSU Bakersfield
1
Eastern Washington
1
8.27.2010 | Women's Soccer
San Jose State
1
Sacramento State
2
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana
0
Austin Peay
3
8.27.2010 | Women's Soccer
Idaho State
4
College of Idaho
1
8.27.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Seattle University
1
Portland State
3
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Portland State
3
Mercer University
0
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Eastern Washington
3
Seattle University
2
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana
3
Arkansas - Little Rock
0
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Mississippi State
3
Montana
0
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Idaho State
3
Lamar
1
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana State
3
Morgan State
0
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Dusquesne
3
Montana State
0
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Arizona
2
Southern Utah
3
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Wyoming
3
Northern Arizona
0
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Washington State
3
Weber State
1
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Weber State
0
UC Irvine
3
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Sacramento State
3
Portland
2
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Oregon State
2
Sacramento State
3
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
San Diego State
3
Northern Colorado
1
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
3
Cal State Northridge
2
8.28.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Univ. of Washington
0
Eastern Washington
3
8.29.2010 | Women's Soccer
Portland State
3
Albany
0
8.29.2010 | Women's Soccer
Montana
2
Gonzaga
3
8.29.2010 | Women's Soccer
Idaho State
0
Utah State
0
8.29.2010 | Women's Soccer
Colorado
2
Northern Colorado
0
8.29.2010 | Women's Soccer
CSU Fullerton
4
Eastern Washington
0
8.29.2010 | Women's Soccer
Pacific
1
Sacramento State
0
8.31.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Portland State
2
Oregon State
3
8.31.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
3
Air Force
0
8.31.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Utah State
3
Weber State
0
9.1.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Sacramento State
0
Santa Clara University
3
9.2.2010 | Football
Nevada
49
Eastern Washington
24
9.2.2010 | Football
Northern Arizona
48
Western New Mexico
0
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Missouri
4:30 p.m.
Eastern Washington
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Cal State Fullerton
8 p.m.
Montana
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Sacramento State
7:30 p.m.
UTSA
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
2 p.m.
UMKC
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
7 p.m.
South Dakota
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
UNR
7 p.m.
Weber State
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Arizona
7 p.m.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana State
4 p.m.
Western Carolina
9.3.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Idaho State
4:30 p.m.
Cal Poly
9.3.2010 | Women's Soccer
Northern Colorado
2:00 PM
Fairlaigh Dickinson
9.3.2010 | Women's Soccer
Weber State
3:00 PM
St. Mary's College
9.3.2010 | Women's Soccer
Nevada
3:00 PM
Montana
9.3.2010 | Women's Soccer
Eastern Washington
4:30 PM
Seattle
9.3.2010 | Women's Soccer
Idaho State
5:00 PM
Idaho
9.3.2010 | Women's Soccer
Arizona
7:00 PM
Northern Arizona
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Pepperdine
10 a.m.
Eastern Washington
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Eastern Washington
5 p.m.
Rice
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Brigham Young
10 a.m.
Idaho State
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Idaho State
5 p.m.
Nebraska
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana State
10 a.m.
SIU-Edwardsville
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Indiana State
7 p.m.
Montana State
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Arizona
12 p.m.
Rider
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Arizona
7 p.m.
Univ. of MD - Eastern Shore
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Weber State
11 a.m.
Notre Dame
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Weber State
6 p.m.
Belmont University
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
9 a.m.
Fairfield
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
8 p.m.
Georgia
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Sacramento State
12:30 p.m.
ELON
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Sacramento State
7:30 p.m.
Cal State Northridge
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana
12 p.m.
Colorado
9.4.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana
6 p.m.
Georgia State
9.4.2010 | Football
Idaho State
3:35
UM-Western
9.4.2010 | Football
Montana State
1:05
Fort Lewis
9.4.2010 | Football
Stanford
3:35
Sacramento State
9.4.2010 | Football
Montana
1:05
Western State
9.4.2010 | Football
Boston College
1:05
Weber State
9.4.2010 | Football
Northern Colorado
1:35
Adams State
9.4.2010 | Football
Arizona State
7:05
Portland State
9.5.2010 | Women's Soccer
Long Beach State
1:00 PM
Sacramento State
9.5.2010 | Women's Soccer
Northern Colorado
9:00 AM
The Citadel
9.5.2010 | Women's Soccer
Montana
11:00 AM
South Dakota State
9.5.2010 | Women's Soccer
Eastern Washington
11:00 AM
UC Irvine
9.5.2010 | Women's Soccer
Weber State
12:00 PM
Washington State
9.5.2010 | Women's Soccer
New Mexico State
1:00 PM
Northern Arizona
9.5.2010 | Women's Soccer
Idaho State
2:00 PM
Boise State
9.7.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Portland State
TBA
Oregon
9.7.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Sacramento State
7 p.m.
San Jose State
9.7.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
7 p.m.
Denver
9.8.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Weber State
7 p.m.
Boise State
9.9.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Washington State
7 p.m.
Eastern Washington
9.9.2010 | Women's Soccer
Weber State
3:00 PM
Utah
9.9.2010 | Women's Soccer
Idaho State
5:00 PM
Seattle
9.10.2010 | Women's Soccer
CSU Fullerton
1:00 PM
Northern Arizona
9.10.2010 | Women's Soccer
Sacramento State
2:30 PM
Nevada
9.10.2010 | Women's Soccer
Northern Colorado
3:00 PM
Sourthern Utah
9.10.2010 | Women's Soccer
Montana
6:00 PM
Wyoming
9.10.2010 | Women's Soccer
Oregon State
7:00 PM
Portland State
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Eastern Washington
1 p.m.
Cal Poly
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Univ. of Idaho
7 p.m.
Eastern Washington
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Montana
7 p.m.
Utah State
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Colorado
1 p.m.
Texas-Arlington
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Santa Clara
11 a.m.
Portland State
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
San Jose State
7 p.m.
Portland State
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
New Mexico University
12 p.m.
Sacramento State
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Sacramento State
4:15 p.m.
UC Santa Barbra
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Weber State
3 p.m.
Wofford
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Northern Arizona
5 p.m.
Arizona
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Washington State
7 p.m.
Montana State
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Idaho State
10 a.m.
South Dakota
9.10.2010 | Women's Volleyball
Drake
7:30 p.m.
Idaho State
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