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Griz look to stop streak at North Dakota – University of Montana Athletics
Saturday, Dec. 6 / 6:00 p.m. (MT) / Watch / Live Stats
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The Montana men’s basketball team will look to stop a four-game slide on Saturday when they head to Grand Forks, N.D. to take on the University of North Dakota Fighting Hawks. It’s the final game of the Big Sky-Summit Challenge.
The Grizzlies fell in the opener of the annual conference challenge series at home on Wednesday night to North Dakota State. It’s the first time since 2020 that Montana has lost four consecutive games under head coach Travis DeCuire.
The new-look team brought back just two players that averaged more than 10.0 minutes per game last season and they are still finding the right winning formula. They have shown plenty of reason to get excited about the season with a win at UNLV and a near-win in SEC country against a 7-2 Texas A&M team.
But the recent stretch has proven that Montana still has a ways to go if they want to reach the same heights that the 2024-25 achieved.
As the Grizzlies enter the home stretch of the non-conference season, they will look to start a new streak this Saturday. They follow up the North Dakota game with two straight contests against non-D-I opponents, giving them the opportunity for momentum heading into Big Sky play.
They face a North Dakota team that has lost two straight games by a combined 69 points. The Fighting Hawks are 3-7 on the season with a 1-2 record on their home floor.
Saturday’s game will tip off at 6:00 p.m. MT and will be streamed on Midco Sports Plus.
SHAKING THE STREAK
Montana is looking to snap a four-game losing streak on Saturday. This is just the second time under Coach DeCuire that Montana has lost four straight games. DeCuire has never lost five consecutive games.
The Grizzlies haven’t lost five straight games since the 2007-08 season.
BIG SKY-SUMMIT CHALLENGE
The Grizzlies are 3-2 all-time in the Big Sky-Summit Challenge. Montana is 1-1 in road games in the challenge with a win two years ago at North Dakota State.
After the first day of competition, the Big Sky leads the challenge 12-10. The Big Sky won six games on the men’s side and four games on the women’s side. The Lady Griz were the only Big Sky women’s team to win on Wednesday, while three men’s teams won road contest.
SCOUTING NORTH DAKOTA (3-7)
- The Fighting Hawks are on a two-game losing streak, falling on Wednesday in the first game of the Big Sky-Summit Challenge at Idaho. They lost 90-58 to the Vandals and fell 92-55 in the prior game at Hawaii.
- Last season, North Dakota finished 12-21 overall and 5-11 in Summit League play. They upset South Dakota State in the Summit League Tournament to advance to the semifinals, where they fell against St. Thomas.
- North Dakota is 1-2 at home this season. This is the first home game since Nov. 11, a 128-58 win over Mayville State. They have home losses to UC Riverside and CSUN.
- As a team, UND averages 0.94 years of D-I experience, which ranks 297th in the NCAA, according to KenPom.com.
- Head coach Paul Sather is in his 7th season at North Dakota. He holds a 76-122 record with the Fighting Hawks. In his 21 year head coaching career, he has an overall record of 358-273 (.567).
- UND averages 73.0 points per game while allowing 79.1. The -6.1 scoring margin ranks 307th in the NCAA.
- They excel in forcing turnovers, ranking 25th in the country by forcing 16.4 turnovers per game. UND also only commit 11.5 turnovers per game. They have a 4.9 turnover margin, which ranks 23rd in the NCAA.
- Greyson Uelmen leads the Fighting Hawks with 13.6 points per game. He is the only player on the UND roster to average double figures and ranks 11th in the Summit League in scoring.
- Eli King has been fantastic defensively this year, ranking 7th in the entire NCAA with 26 total steals. King averages 2.6 per game. Garrett Anderson is 2nd in the Summit league with 18 total steals.
- Zach Kraft has made 23 three-pointers this year, which ranks 3rd in the Summit and 88th nationally.
SERIES HISTORY VS. THE FIGHTING HAWKS
Montana leads the all-time series against North Dakota 19-7. The Grizzlies are 5-6 in Grand Forks. They lost the last meeting at North Dakota in 2021 but had won the previous three inside the Betty.
Coach DeCuire is 9-1 against North Dakota in his career and went 8-0 against them while they were a member of the Big Sky Conference.
GRIZ NOTES
- The team leading at halftime has won all nine games that Montana has played in this season. The Griz are 4-0 when leading at the break and 0-5 when trailing.
- The previous six games that Montana has played in have all been decided by single digits.
- Montana has been .500 or better through 10 games every season since 2020-21. The Grizzlies started the COVID season at 4-6 through 10 games.
- The Grizzlies have allowed 80+ points in six of the nine games this season.
- Montana has a better field goal percentage than its opponent in seven of nine games this season.
- The Griz are 3-0 when outrebounding their opponent this season.
- UM has been outscored in six straight halves of basketball. The last half that they won was the second at Texas A&M (50-41).
- Montana has lost three straight home games for the first time ever under DeCuire and the first time overall since 2004.
- Money Williams is averaging 10.0 assists per game over the last two contests and has seven games with at least 5 assists this season.
- Williams has scored at least 15 points in eight straight games. He reached the 20-point mark for the fourth time this season in Wednesday’s loss to NDSU.
- Tyler Isaak set a new career high with 4 steals against North Dakota State.
- Brooklyn Hicks scored in double figures for the 5th time this season on Wednesday.
- Tyler Thompson is 7-of-12 (.583) from three-point range over the last two games. He’s averaging 7.6 points per game and is shooting 40.9 percent from three-point range.
- Courtney Anderson Jr. scored in double figures for the second time this season on Wednesday. He entered the game with just two field goal attempts from inside the arc but had three two-point tries against NDSU.
BISMARCK – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is asking for the public’s help in connection with a dead whitetail buck found southeast of Bismarck.
In a news release, the department said a landowner discovered the buck in the ditch on the morning of Nov. 30 off Lincoln Road near 249th Street Southeast. Upon investigation, Department game wardens determined the buck had been shot and was likely killed the evening of Nov. 29 or the early morning hours the following day.
North Dakota’s deer gun season closed Nov. 23.
Evidence at the scene indicated the deer was likely shot in another location and dumped at the Lincoln Road site.
The Game and Fish Department encourages hunters, anglers and landowners who witness a fish or wildlife violation to file a report with the Report All Poachers program. To report information on this case or others, call the RAP line at (701) 328-9921.
The RAP line offers rewards for information leading to the conviction of fish and wildlife violators. Callers can remain anonymous.
It’s December 1975. You’re steering your boat-sized Buick down 13th Avenue toward West Acres (WAAAAAAY out west). You’re singing along to the No. 1 song, “Fly, Robin, Fly,” when a familiar Christmas worry creeps in.
I don’t know for a fact that my mother actually lived out this exact scene 50 years ago. But it sounds like her. (Except she’d be listening to the Carpenters or Neil Diamond — not Silver Convention.)
But I hope Joan Briggs didn’t think too long and hard about what we kids wanted that Christmas of ’75. We, like millions of Americans, had caught the fever of that year’s hottest gifts: the Pet Rock and mood rings. Both are celebrating their 50th birthdays this year.
As we mark the golden anniversary, let’s look back at why those gifts were such hits.
First up: the Pet Rock. And did you know a North Dakota native invented it?
We’ve probably all had that fleeting thought (particularly as we’re paying bills): If only I had that million-dollar idea!
Think Spanx. Snuggies. Post-it notes.
A North Dakota native named Gary Ross Dahl had one of those lightning-bolt ideas — the viral (before they called it that) Pet Rock. It would make him a millionaire in less than a year.
Gary Ross Dahl was born in Bottineau, North Dakota, on Dec. 18, 1936, to Richard “Arnold” Dahl and Lavone Ferm Dahl. Arnold was a projectionist at the Pasture Theatre. In the early 1940s, the family moved to Spokane, Washington, where Arnold got a job with a lumber company and Lavone worked as a waitress and welcomed a second child, a daughter.
According to Curt Eriksmoen, in his “Did You Know That” column from April 26, 2015, after his parents’ divorce, Gary said he became “an obnoxious brat, somewhere between a juvenile delinquent and just a bad kid.”
He joined the Marine Corps in 1954 to straighten himself out.
He obviously did — finding his way to Washington State University and eventually California, where he worked as an artist designing signs in San Diego. That later led to a job as an account executive for an advertising agency.
When he wasn’t writing ad copy, he and his wife, Marguerite, took care of enough animals to fill a petting zoo: two German shepherds, two cats, two goats, two chickens and a guinea pig.
This is where fate steps in.
Dahl was at a bar with some buddies one night, commiserating about high-maintenance pets. He quipped that the perfect pet would be … a rock. No feeding. No grooming. No mess. No allergies. Just pure, geological companionship.
Sure, it was a joke. But the light bulb went on — and Dahl was on his way to making millions.
He got to work packaging his new “pet,” placing a smooth stone atop a bed of packing material inside a cardboard box complete with air holes — for “breathing.” Each rock came with “The Care and Training of Your Pet Rock,” a wonderfully deadpan manual that taught owners how to command their rock to “sit,” “stay” and “roll over” (best taught on a hillside).
The Pet Rock debuted in August 1975 and immediately became a cultural phenomenon. A few months later, Dahl’s wife was telling reporters they’d already sold 60,000 of them. By Christmas, more than a million had been “adopted” nationwide.
Ten years before they brought us the hugely popular Santa Bear, the folks at Dayton’s Department Store were all in on the Pet Rock. Gift buyer Ed Hovis called it the “smash stocking stuffer for 1975.”
Here in Fargo-Moorhead, shoppers flooded into the West Acres Dayton’s, picking up their new “pets” for just $4.
Absolute seasonal silliness, to be sure. Still, in 1975, the Pet Rock seemed to delight people as much as dog and cat videos do today.
In The Forum, one columnist wrote that while the shopping crowd looked grim and foot-weary, “every person at the Pet Rock display was smiling from ear to ear.”
But not everyone was amused.
The Duluth News Tribune’s letters section erupted into figurative rock-throwing, with one writer peppering his letter with gems like: “The real rocks are in the purchaser’s skull,” “I bet in this country, with the right promotion and a box and ribbon, human waste could be sold,” and “People who put this item out, those who buy it and those who advertise it are all sick.”
Sounds like someone needed a pet rock to snuggle.
Another letter fought back that it was just for fun and “a form of social commentary, something of which we have far too little.”
By early 1976, the craze faded, despite Ross offering shoppers red, white and blue bicentennial rocks.
He tried to make lightning strike twice that Christmas of ’76 by offering the equally silly “Original Sand Breeding Kit,” which allowed “buyers to grow their own desert wasteland.”
It didn’t hit. But it didn’t really matter. That single year — 1975 — made Dahl a millionaire.
He remained active in the world of advertising, later co-authoring “Advertising for Dummies,” which surely would include a chapter on how the power of one odd idea, packaged with just the right amount of tongue-in-cheek charm, can set you up for life.
Dahl always insisted, “I packaged a sense of humor for a very bored public.” And it’s hard to argue that a sense of humor might be one of the best Christmas gifts of all.
Gary Ross Dahl died March 23, 2015, at age 78. In one final, fitting twist, his obituary appeared in many newspapers on April 1 — April Fools’ Day.
And yes, if you’re wondering, the Pet Rock never really went extinct. You can still buy one on Amazon today for $29.95 — proving that inflation affects even imaginary pets.
For a man who once sold the world a rock in a box, maybe Dahl’s greatest legacy is simpler than all the numbers: for one strange, silly season in 1975, he reminded us that laughter itself is sometimes the perfect Christmas gift.
Next week: The other Christmas fad of 1975 — the mood ring — and does the one I wore in sixth grade still work?
What did Christmas shopping look like more than 50 years ago?
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