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up 14 with 3:30 to play against an undefeated team...things are looking good.

Cats up by 2 at half, go on to win by 24 (87-63).

5 players in double figures led by Navarre with 22 and Howard with 21 pts 9 boards.

Great conference win over a previously undefeated team...NAU is in town tomorrow night.


Also, I think the women got beat by Gonzaga earlier in the evening.

Great win for the Cats!!!

Official Basketball Box Score -- Game Totals -- Final Statistics
Northern Colorado vs Montana State
12/4/09 8:05 p.m. at Bozeman, Mont. - Worthington Arena
Northern Colorado 63 • 7-1, 0-1 BSC
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds
## Player FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF TP A TO Blk Stl Min
41 PROCTOR, Mike f 3-6 0-0 0-0 2 6 8 4 6 0 3 0 0 25
44 MONTGOMERY, Taylor f 2-2 0-0 0-2 1 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 8
02 FIGURES, Will g 6-16 4-12 8-8 0 2 2 1 24 3 1 0 1 37
20 BONNER, Yahosh g 0-3 0-2 2-2 0 0 0 5 2 2 2 0 0 28
32 BEITZEL, Devon g 3-6 1-4 0-0 0 5 5 3 7 2 0 0 0 23
10 KABA, Chris 1-4 0-1 0-1 1 4 5 4 2 1 2 0 1 22
11 LLOYD, Elliott 2-4 2-3 0-0 1 1 2 3 6 0 2 0 0 19
21 BRERETON, Hauns 2-6 0-1 1-2 2 1 3 0 5 0 0 0 0 10
31 ARNOLD, David 1-1 1-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 5
33 KINGMAN, Neal 1-7 0-5 2-3 1 2 3 2 4 0 3 0 0 17
34 OSBORNE, Connor 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 6
Team 1 4 5
Totals 21-55 8-29 13-18 9 25 34 24 63 8 15 1 2 200
FG % 1st Half: 12-26 46.2%
3FG % 1st Half: 3-11 27.3%
FT % 1st Half: 6-9 66.7%
2nd half: 9-29 31.0%
2nd half: 5-18 27.8%
2nd half: 7-9 77.8%
Game: 21-55 38.2%
Game: 8-29 27.6%
Game: 13-18 72.2%
Deadball
Rebounds
2
Montana State 87 • 3-3, 1-0 BSC
Total 3-Ptr Rebounds
## Player FG-FGA FG-FGA FT-FTA Off Def Tot PF TP A TO Blk Stl Min
15 HOWARD, Bobby f 8-12 3-7 2-4 1 8 9 1 21 1 1 0 0 34
23 RUSH, Erik f 3-7 1-1 7-8 1 4 5 3 14 4 2 0 0 34
42 JOHNSON, Branden c 3-9 1-6 4-4 1 4 5 4 11 3 0 0 1 26
03 NAVARRE, Marquis g 6-11 4-5 6-8 0 3 3 3 22 1 3 0 2 35
20 BYNUM, Will g 4-9 0-2 2-2 1 5 6 0 10 5 1 0 2 31
01 BROWN, Austin 2-5 1-2 4-6 2 1 3 0 9 0 0 3 0 16
04 HENDERSON, Cameron 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 4 0 1 0 0 1 11
05 LOUFF, Bryan 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 4
33 PIEPOLI, Danny 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0+
34 ANDERSON, Cody 0-2 0-2 0-0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 9
Team 1 1 2
Totals 26-56 10-25 25-32 9 29 38 19 87 15 9 3 6 200
FG % 1st Half: 12-28 42.9%
3FG % 1st Half: 4-13 30.8%
FT % 1st Half: 7-11 63.6%
2nd half: 14-28 50.0%
2nd half: 6-12 50.0%
2nd half: 18-21 85.7%
Game: 26-56 46.4%
Game: 10-25 40.0%
Game: 25-32 78.1%
Deadball
Rebounds
2
Officials: Ruben Ramos, Jim Giron, Ty Elkin
Technical fouls: Northern Colorado-None. Montana State-None.
Attendance: 3165
Score by periods 1st 2nd Total
Northern Colorado 33 30 63
Montana State 35 52 87

The second half has to be one of the best halves I've seen in a long time. The Cats came out on all cylinders, and the best scorers were Marquis Navarre and Bobby Howard. Erik Rush had a really nice game, and things just went well for once. It was a fun game, and a great way to start the way-too-early start of conference season.

The women's team put up a fight, but lost to Gonzaga 87-72. This may be one of the few times that a team will be more athletic than MSU. It was a good effort, but Gonzaga is mighty good.

A really really nice win for the men to start out the conference. Navarre especially had a nice game with 22 points and almost totally cancelling out UNC's best player-guard Will Figures who got 24. UNC's big man left the game early with an ankle injury-he sat on the bench with an ice pack-that really mitigated our size disadvantage. Both teams are really quite similar-very scrappy on defense.

All our main guys played well-but they also played a lot of minutes. With the quick turn around to the next game the bench guys will need to step up tomorrow night.

On a personal note-as a fan-I love the Friday-Saturday schedule. But I can see what a load it is for the teams. UNC and NAU will meet somewhere in the night going opposite directions on I-90. That's not going to be easy on them.

The women were right in the game with Gonzaga until a hideous stretch in the second half put them out of it. They must have had 30 turnovers. My philosophy in that situation-get across half court and launch it-a bad shot is better than no shot at all!

Still-a fun night. Kudos to the few student who were standing and making some noise-hopefully they'll attract some followers as the season goes on.

Nice win! That is the way to take care of business at home. Let's get the sweep tonight!

Excellent conference start for the Cats! UNC is gonna be there at the end; they are building a quality program down there. But after going 0-2 against the Bears last season, I am sure the Cats had a chip on their shoulder last night. Keep it up boys - a good NAU team comes in next; would be awesome to start 2-0 in the conference!!!