Lady Griz (and fans) make the grade
8/11/2020 11:18:00 AM | Women's Basketball
The Montana women's basketball team, with its 3.634 GPA, made the Women's Basketball Coaches Association Academic Top 25 Honor Roll for the 2019-20 school year, the organization announced on Tuesday.
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The news followed the NCAA's release of attendance figures for the 2019-20 season. Montana averaged 3,062 fans last winter, a number that led the Big Sky Conference and ranked 41st nationally.
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It marked the 36th consecutive year -- or the entirety of the NCAA's record-keeping history -- that the Lady Griz have ranked in the top 45 in the nation in home attendance.
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Montana's attendance last season nearly doubled the Division I average of 1,582 and helped the Big Sky rank 12th out of 32 Division I conferences at 1,095.
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South Carolina led the nation in home attendance at 12,218. Oregon (10,852), Iowa State (9,690), Connecticut (9,527) and Louisville (9,159) rounded out the top five.
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Tuesday's announcement from the WBCA is just the third time in program history that Montana, which ranked 22nd, has earned a spot on the WBCA Academic Top 25 Honor Roll.
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The previous awards came in 2010-11 (3.411 GPA, No. 13 ranking) and 2011-12 (3.399, No. 17).
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South Dakota (3.793) topped the Honor Roll, followed by Youngstown State (3.782), Robert Morris (3.777) and Western Illinois (3.751).
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Southern Utah and Northern Arizona joined Montana as the only programs from the Big Sky Conference on the 2019-20 Honor Roll.
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The news followed the NCAA's release of attendance figures for the 2019-20 season. Montana averaged 3,062 fans last winter, a number that led the Big Sky Conference and ranked 41st nationally.
Â
It marked the 36th consecutive year -- or the entirety of the NCAA's record-keeping history -- that the Lady Griz have ranked in the top 45 in the nation in home attendance.
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Montana's attendance last season nearly doubled the Division I average of 1,582 and helped the Big Sky rank 12th out of 32 Division I conferences at 1,095.
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South Carolina led the nation in home attendance at 12,218. Oregon (10,852), Iowa State (9,690), Connecticut (9,527) and Louisville (9,159) rounded out the top five.
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Tuesday's announcement from the WBCA is just the third time in program history that Montana, which ranked 22nd, has earned a spot on the WBCA Academic Top 25 Honor Roll.
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The previous awards came in 2010-11 (3.411 GPA, No. 13 ranking) and 2011-12 (3.399, No. 17).
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South Dakota (3.793) topped the Honor Roll, followed by Youngstown State (3.782), Robert Morris (3.777) and Western Illinois (3.751).
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Southern Utah and Northern Arizona joined Montana as the only programs from the Big Sky Conference on the 2019-20 Honor Roll.
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