2002-2003 Headlines
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Yellowjackets Add Two Cagers to 2003
Recruiting Class (May 5, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – MSU Billings men’s basketball coach Craig
Carse has signed two more recruits for the 2003-2004
season....more.
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Yellowjackets Rank Second for Scoring,
Three-Pointers in Final NCAA Stats (April 30, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The NCAA published its final basketball
statistics for the 2002-2003 season and the MSU Billings
basketball team finished second in the nation for both
scoring and three-point field goals made....more.
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Yellowjackets Announce First Four
Basketball Signings (April 17, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – MSU Billings head basketball coach Craig
Carse announced Thursday that he has received three
national letters of intent and a commitment from a junior
college player....more.
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Cook to Leave Yellowjacket Basketball Team (April 4, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings basketball team announced Friday that
sophomore Joe Cook (6'7" guard, Shepherd, Mont.) will not
return to the team next season....more.
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Yellowjacket Cagers Garner All-Conference
Awards (March 11, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Senior Dan Thompson was named to the Pacific West
All-Conference First Team on Tuesday as selected by the
league’s coaches....more.
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Yellowjackets Cruise to Senior Night
Victory (March 8, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Senior Dan Thompson’s 33 points led the
MSU Billings men’s basketball team to an 87-66 victory
over Nova Southeastern on Senior Night....more.
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Career-Highs from Thompson, Stirmlinger
Lead Yellowjackets Past Nova Southeastern (March 7, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Dan Thompson scored 27 of his career-high
43 points in the second half Friday night as the
MSU Billings pulled away from Nova Southeastern for a
106-70 win....more.
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Yellowjackets
Host Florida Team Friday and Saturday for Final Home Games
– Will Honor Three Seniors after Saturday’s Game (March 5, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team will
close the 2002-2003 season with a pair of games against
Nova Southeastern on Friday and Saturday....more.
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Yellowjackets Close PacWest Play with Loss
at Hawaii Pacific (March 1, 2003)
HONOLULU, HI – A strong start and a 14-point first-half
lead weren’t enough for the MSU Billings Yellowjackets as
they succumbed to Hawaii Pacific 81-70 in their PacWest
finale....more.
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Yellowjackets Drop Second Straight at
BYU-Hawaii (February 27, 2003)
LAIE, HI – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team lost its
second straight game to No. 19 BYU-Hawaii Thursday night, falling 103-89....more.
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Yellowjackets Fall at No. 19 BYU-Hawaii,
Slip to Third Place (February 25, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team had
its 10-game winning streak snapped Tuesday night, losing
91-78 at No. 19 BYU-Hawaii....more.
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Yellowjackets Take on First-Place BYU-Hawaii (February 24, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings men's
basketball team will try for its 11th-straight win on
Tuesday night when the Yellowjackets face BYU-Hawaii in
Laie, Hawaii....more.
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Yellowjackets Win Tenth in a Row by Downing
Western New Mexico (February 22, 2003)
SILVER CITY, NM – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team
extended its current winning streak to 10 games with an
83-73 win at Western New Mexico on Saturday....more.
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Munoz Erupts again as Yellowjackets Roll to
Ninth Straight Win (February 20, 2003)
SILVER CITY, NM – Apparently last week was a sign of
things to come from Yellowjacket shooting guard Cameron
Munoz....more.
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Yellowjackets Crack West Region Top Ten (February 19, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The
MSU Billings Yellowjackets, winners of their last eight
games, have moved back into the NCAA II West Region Top 10
this week....more.
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Munoz’s Nine Threes Lead Yellowjackets over
Vulcans (February 15, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Even though his college career is only 20
games old, Cameron Munoz has found his favorite opponent....more.
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Yellowjackets Host Hawaii-Hilo in Key
PacWest Game Saturday (February 14,
2003)
BILLINGS, MT – After sweeping a pair of games against
Chaminade earlier in the week to take over third place in
the PacWest Conference standings, the MSU Billings
Yellowjackets have their sights set on second place
Hawaii-Hilo....more.
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Yellowjackets Pull Away from Chaminade for
Seventh Straight Win (February 13,
2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Justin Hassell scored a season-high 29
points Thursday night to lead MSU Billings over Chaminade
97-83 in PacWest Conference action....more.
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Photos of
the Yellowjackets vs. Chaminade (February 13, 2003)
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Yellowjackets Stay in the Hunt with PacWest
Win over Chaminade (February 11, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings Yellowjackets won their
sixth straight game, the fifth straight in conference
play, downing Chaminade University 87-71....more.
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Yellowjackets Host Chaminade in Critical
PacWest Games (February 10, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – It’s true that every game is important.
But when middle-of-the-pack teams meet in mid-season
conference match-ups, the games are critical....more.
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Yellowjackets Roll Past Great Falls (February 6, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Dan Thompson’s career-high 34 points led
the MSU Billings Yellowjackets to a 102-61 non-conference
win over the University of Great Falls....more.
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Yellowjackets Host Great Falls Thursday Night (February 5, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Has anyone checked the nets recently at
Alterowitz Gymnasium? If not, it might be a good idea to
do it before seven o’clock Thursday night....more.
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Yellowjackets Topple School Scoring Record
– Route Mustangs (February 1, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Seven years to the day after the
MSU Billings men’s basketball team set a school and
PacWest Conference scoring record in a 141-114 win over
Alaska-Anchorage, they set a new record in a 146-73 route
of Western New Mexico....more.
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Photos of
the Yellowjackets vs. WNMU (February 1, 2003)
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MSU Billings Pulls away from Western New
Mexico, 109-91 (January 30, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – At a handful of junctures, Thursday night’s
game between MSU Billings and Western New Mexico was
primed to turn into a blowout....more.
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Yellowjackets Host Western New Mexico
Thursday and Saturday in PacWest Play (January 28, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The PacWest match-up between MSU Billings
and Western New Mexico won’t have quite as many story
lines as the Super Bowl had. But it might come close....more.
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Yellowjackets Face Montana AAU in Men’s
Basketball Exhibition Saturday (January
24, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The Yellowjacket men’s basketball team will
tune up for the stretch run of the Pacific West Conference
basketball schedule by hosting a collection of alumni in
an exhibition game Saturday night....more.
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Yellowjackets Pull away from No. 6 BYU-Hawaii for
Ten-Point Win (January 18, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Dan Thompson’s
game-high 27 points led MSU Billings to an 89-76 PacWest
Conference win over first-place BYU-Hawaii Saturday....more.
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PHOTOS of the Yellowjackets vs. BYU-Hawaii
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MSU Billings Rebounds to Down Hawaii
Pacific (January 16, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – Two nights
after Hawaii Pacific ended the nation’s longest home
winning streak, MSU Billings bounced back for a 98-81 win....more.
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MSU Billings to Honor Mike
Harkins at Men’s Basketball Game Saturday (January 15, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – MSU Billings will honor former men’s
basketball coach Mike Harkins during halftime of the
Yellowjackets’ game against BYU-Hawaii on Saturday,
January 18....more.
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Yellowjackets’ Home Winning
Streak Comes to an End (January 14, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The Montana State University-Billings men’s
basketball team lost at home for the first time in the last 39 tries Tuesday night,
falling to No. 2 Hawaii Pacific 72-71....more.
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PHOTOS of Yellowjackets vs. Hawaii Pacific
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Yellowjackets Host No. 2
Hawaii Pacific (January 13, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team
won’t have an easy time in its quest for its first
conference win of the season....more.
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Yellowjackets End Road Trip
with Loss at Hilo (January 8, 2003)
HILO, HI – A slow start was once again the demise of the
MSU Billings men’s basketball team as the Yellowjackets
dropped their fifth-straight game, 86-77, Wednesday night at
Hawaii-Hilo....more.
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Yellowjackets Handed First
Loss at Cal State-L.A. (December 28, 2002)
LOS ANGELES, CA – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team
lost its first game of the season Saturday night, 75-55 at
Cal State-Los Angeles....more.
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Munoz Nets 39, Yellowjacket
Rally Falls Short (January 6, 2003)
HILO, HI – Cameron Munoz may have already shed his
“potential to be good” tag. The Yellowjackets’ true
freshman shooting guard poured in 39 points, including ten
3-pointers, Monday night against the University of
Hawaii-Hilo as a Yellowjacket rally fell just short in a
101-91 loss....more.
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Yellowjackets Drop PacWest
Opener at Chaminade (January 4, 2002)
HONOLULU, HI – The MSU Billings Yellowjackets started the
defense of their PacWest Conference title with an 89-76
loss at Chaminade Saturday night....more.
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Yellowjackets Begin PacWest
Title Defense Saturday at Chaminade (January 3, 2003)
BILLINGS, MT – The cast of characters has changed, but the
mission remains the same for the MSU Billings men’s
basketball team this year....more.
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Broncos Buck Yellowjackets
for Second Loss (December 30, 2002)
POMONA, CA – The MSU Billings Yellowjackets closed out the
year with their second loss in California, falling 82-66
at Cal Poly Pomona on Monday....more.
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Yellowjackets Handed First
Loss at Cal State-L.A. (December 28, 2002)
LOS ANGELES, CA – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team
lost its first game of the season Saturday night, 75-55 at
Cal State-Los Angeles....more.
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Yellowjackets No. 6, Lady
Yellowjacket No. 7 in First West Region Polls (December 20, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams
at MSU Billings were ranked in the top 10 this week in the
season’s first regional polls....more.
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Thompson’s 3-pointer Lifts
Yellowjackets to Improbable Win (December 19, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – Unbelievable! That was the refrain
coursing through Alterowitz Gymnasium Thursday night after Dan Thompson’s 3-pointer with six seconds on the clock
gave MSU Billings an 82-81 victory over the University of
Charleston....more.
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Yellowjackets Host East
Region Power University of Charleston (December 18, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – East meets West Thursday night when the MSU Billings
Yellowjackets host the University of Charleston Golden
Eagles at Alterowitz Gymnasium....more.
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Yellowjackets Climb to No.
16 in National Poll (December 17, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team
climbed to No. 16 this week in the NABC/Division II
Bulletin Top 25 poll....more.
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Yellowjackets Offense Hits
High Gear in Win over St. Martin’s (December 14, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – Seven players scored in double figures as
the MSU Billings Yellowjackets rolled over St. Martin’s
College (0-8) to remain undefeated at 5-0....more.
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Yellowjackets Host St.
Martin’s in West Region Match-up (December 12, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team will
host St. Martin’s College in an important West Region game
Saturday night....more.
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Yellowjackets Roll Past
Chadron, Improve to 4-0 (December 7, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – Jerett Skrifvars scored a career-high 29 points as the MSU Billings
Yellowjackets ran past the Chadron State Eagles 103-69
Saturday night....more.
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Yellowjackets Host Chadron
State Saturday Night (November 6, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team will
look to extend its NCAA DII-best 35-game home winning
streak Saturday night when the Yellowjackets host Chadron
State College....more.
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Yellowjackets Cruise to
Third Straight Win, 101-79 over Minot State (November 30, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – Jerett Skrifvars scored 20 points to lead the MSU Billings men’s basketball
team to a 101-79 victory over Minot State on Saturday
night....more.
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MSU Billings Rallies in
Second Half to Down St. Martin’s (November 27, 2002)
LACEY, WA – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team
outscored St. Martin’s College 46-28 in the second half to
overcome a nine-point halftime deficit en route to an
86-77 West Region victory Wednesday night....more.
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MSU Billings Opens
Basketball Season against Cal State-San Bernardino (November 23, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – The Montana State University-Billings
Yellowjackets will open the 2002-2003 men’s basketball
season by hosting the defending West Region Champion Cal
State-San Bernardino Coyotes on Saturday....more.
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MSU Billings to Hold First
Public Scrimmage on Thursday (November 13, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings men’s basketball team,
ranked No. 22 in the NCAA Division II preseason poll, will
hold its first public scrimmage of the year Thursday night....more.
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Yellowjackets
Picked No. 22 in NCAA Preseason Poll,
No. 2 in PacWest Coaches’ Poll (October
29, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings Yellowjackets were ranked
No. 22 in the nation Tuesday in the NCAA preseason men’s
basketball poll....more.
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Yellowjacket
Basketball Announces Open Practice (October 11, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – MSU Billings men’s basketball coach Craig
Carse announced that the Yellowjackets’ first practice on
Tuesday, October 15 will be open to the public....more.
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MSU Billings
Schedules Billings Bees Basketball Clinics (October 11, 2002)
BILLINGS, MT – The MSU Billings basketball programs have
scheduled their twelfth annual Billings Bees Basketball
Clinics for students in grades K-8....more.
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MSU Billings Announces Men’s Basketball Schedule,
Season Ticket Packages (September
19, 2002)
BILLINGS –Montana State University-Billings
announced the Yellowjackets men’s basketball
schedule and season ticket packages....more.
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