Montana Griz men, women’s basketball teams add transfers

MISSOULA — The Montana males’s and ladies’s basketball applications continued to fill out their rosters with some switch information over the weekend.

The lads’s staff has added 6-foot-3 guard Aanen Moody from Southern Utah and 6-3 guard Jonathan Brown from NAIA Central Methodist College in Missouri. Each gamers have two years of eligibility remaining. Each gamers made the bulletins on their social media accounts.

Moody joins this system as a grad switch after spending two seasons with Southern Utah together with a previous cease at North Dakota from 2017-20. The Dickinson, North Dakota native, scored 6.5 factors and grabbed 2.2 rebounds per recreation final season for the Thunderbirds. He shot at a 43.5% clip from the sphere and 40.2% mark from deep.

Brown is available in as a junior for the Grizzlies. The native of London, England, scored 18.6 factors and shot at a forty five.7% fee from the sphere and 37.2% mark from 3-point vary as a sophomore at Central Methodist. He additionally averaged 4.2 rebounds and three.0 assists per recreation in 32 video games performed final season.

Brown joined Central Methodist after a earlier cease at NCAA Division II college Fresno Pacific.

Moody and Brown’s additions spherical out Montana’s ultimate two scholarships on its roster. For a full have a look at the remainder of Montana’s incoming roster and people who have transferred, click on right here.

The Girl Griz additionally made a splash with the addition of guard Gina Marxen from Idaho. Marxen, who introduced her dedication by way of Twitter, was the Massive Sky Convention Freshman of the 12 months in 2018-19 and an all-conference participant in 2019-20 and 2020-21 earlier than sitting out final season. In her most up-to-date season, the Sammamish, Washington native performed in and began 20 video games for Idaho and averaged 12.5 factors, 4.6 assists and three.5 rebounds per recreation for the Vandals. She shot the ball at a 36% clip from the sphere and 33.6% fee from deep.

The Girl Griz just lately introduced that guard Sammy Fatkin can be the lone senior getting back from final 12 months’s staff. Marxen joins mid-season switch Keeli Burton-Oliver as the 2 transfers on UM’s roster to date this upcoming season.