George Ferguson Column: Skylights getting a raw rankings deal

Needless to say, I've had problems with how the NAIA ranks its basketball teams for years now. It all started in 2007-08 when the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team was left out of the NAIA national tournament.

Call me a homer, but when a Northern team is deserving of better, I'll stand up and try to be heard every time.

This is one of those times.

The MSU-Northern women's basketball team is off to its best start in over a decade. The Skylights are 14-1 and 1-0 in the Frontier Conference. Northern rattled off eight straight wins to start the season, and that was in spite o...