Bulldog men’s basketball coach Steve Keller announced the signing of junior college transfer Marquis Johnson to a letter of intent.

Bulldog basketball coach Steven Keller announced the signing of three prep standouts from Montana. Signing letters of intent are Brian Bullock of Boulder, Mont.; Kris Castro of Huntley, Mont.; and Rylan Shaw of Billings, Mont.

Montana Western men’s basketball coach Steve Keller announced the signing of three new Montana recruits.

Austin Mailey, a member of the 2009 Twin Bridges High School state championship team, signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Montana Western.

The Montana Western Bulldogs make their eighth appearance at the NAIA national basketball tournament when they face Union University of Tennessee in a first-round game. Tipoff is 8:45 p.m.

The Bulldog men’s and women’s basketball teams captured Frontier Conference wins over Montana Tech on the Orediggers’ home court on Saturday.

The Montana Western women picked up their first conference basketball win Friday night when they downed the University of Great Falls Argos 70-60 in Great Falls, Mont.

The University of Montana Western men’s and women’s basketball teams open their home Frontier Conference season hosting the Lewis-Clark State Warriors and the Westminster College Griffins on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 15 and 16 in the Straugh Gymnasium.

Two winters ago, Montana Western senior and Bulldog basketball guard Terry Hauser had a watershed moment while working for his father’s Three Forks, Mont. drilling and pump business. It was a particularly cold day, and he and his brother had just finished fixing a frozen hydrant.

“I remember looking at my brother on the way home and saying, ‘Man, I can’t do this the rest of my life. I’m going back to school,’” Hauser recalls.

The Bulldog men split their first conference road trip while the Bulldog women dropped two.