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Thursday was a big day for all things basketball at Montana Tech as the NAIA held their selection show for the men's and women's national tournament and both the men and the women will be bringing the copper, green and white to the big dance.

Montana Tech junior forward Hayden Diekhans was awarded both the Frontier Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards and head coach Adam Hiatt took home the Frontier Conference Coach of the Year award it was announced Wednesday afternoon.

Hayden Diekhans had 23 points and 11 rebounds, and the top-seeded Montana Tech Mens Basketball Team turned a 4-point halftime lead into a 19-point blowout of the second-seeded University of Providence Argos in the championship game of the 2025 Frontier Conference Basketball Tournament which wrapped up at the Pacific Steel and Recycling Four Seasons Arena on Tuesday evening.

The Montana Tech men's and women's basketball teams continue to make strides on the court and in the latest coaches' poll as the men are back in the top 10 and the women are receiving votes.

For the third time this season, Montana Tech's Hayden Diekhans is a Frontier Conference men's basketball player of the week. The junior from Geraldine landed the league's defensive player of the week honor, the Frontier office announced Monday afternoon.

Montana Tech's men's basketball team begins 2025 ranked 11th in the first NAIA coaches' poll of the year, the national office announced Wednesday morning.

The expansion of the Frontier Conference will take effect in 2025. The Frontier now stands at 14 members for football and as such will be split into 2 divisions. According to the Frontier Conference Website, the conference will be split into an East Division and a West Division, each with 7 members. The winner of each division will get an automatic bid into the NAIA national playoffs.

It's a good time to be an Oredigger. Both the men's basketball team and football team are ranked in the national top ten and both have a big weekend on tap with the hoops squad hosting a mini-tournament and the football program wrapping up their regular-season with a huge game.

If you are looking for a chance to see the Orediggers in action, there is no time like the present. The Montana Tech men's and women's basketball teams will both have their home-openers tonight and tomorrow at Kelvin Sampson Court and expectations are high for both squads.

Following a third-consecutive blowout victory, Montana Tech's football team broke into the top 10 of the latest NAIA top 25 ratings. The Orediggers checked in 10th in the latest poll, announced Monday by the NAIA's national office. It's Montana Tech's highest spot in the ratings since the Diggers were No. 10 in the September 23 iteration of the poll.