MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - Tate Unruh scored 21 points, grabbed seven rebounds and Northern Colorado advanced to the Big Sky tournament semifinals with a 69-56 win over Montana State on Thursday night.
Tim Huskisson had 14 points and seven rebounds, Tevin Svihovec scored 12 including an 8 for 9 performance from the free-throw line and the fifth-seeded Bears shot 58.8 percent from the field in the second half.
The Bears (13-17) were 23 of 28 from the line overall, going 17 for 19 in the second half. Northern Colorado (13-17) out-rebounded the Bobcats 35-23.
Christian Moon led fourth-seeded Montana State (13-17) with 15 points and Paul Egwuonwu had 11 points and eight rebounds.
Northern Colorado will face top seeded Montana in the Big Sky tournament semifinals Friday. The Bears are 0-2 against the regular season Big Sky champs this season, losing 85-77 on Jan. 12 and 73-63 on Feb. 7.
The Grizzlies received a first-round bye in the tournament.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Northern Colorado (13-17) « | 28 | 41 | 69 |
| Montana State (13-17) | 30 | 26 | 56 |
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| Northern Colorado Bears | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Barden, F | 38 | 3-7 | 1-2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| T. Huskisson, F | 29 | 5-11 | 4-6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
| C. Osborne, C | 36 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| T. Unruh, G | 35 | 6-10 | 6-6 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 21 |
| T. Svihovec, G | 34 | 2-5 | 8-9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| G. Tucker | 14 | 0-2 | 4-4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| P. Garnica | 9 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| E. Addo | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-41 | 23-28 | 35 | 10 | 9 | 69 | |
| 48.8% | 82.1% | ||||||
| Montana State Bobcats | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| P. Egwuonwu, F | 39 | 5-12 | 1-2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| F. Davis, F | 23 | 2-7 | 2-3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| C. Moon, G | 34 | 5-12 | 4-7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 |
| M. Colbert, G | 33 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| A. Biglow, G | 22 | 4-7 | 0-0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Coleman | 22 | 3-6 | 2-2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| D. Robison | 16 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| M. Dison | 5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| E. Norman | 4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| B. Brumwell | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| J. Budinich | 1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 21-53 | 9-14 | 23 | 7 | 19 | 56 | |
| 39.6% | 64.3% | ||||||
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