Lights hope to hit stride at Tech, LC State

It's been a tough Frontier Conference season so far the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team. And, a tough six-game road trip continues this weekend.

Tonight, the Lights (3-7, 14-8) are in Butte for a battle with the Montana Tech Orediggers (1-9, 6-16), and Saturday, MSU-N travels to fifth-ranked Lewis-Clark State (8-2, 20-2) for a showdown with the high-powered Warriors.

Both games are rematches from games in Havre three weeks ago, where the Lights throttled the Orediggers, but came up short in what was then part of a 10-game LC State winning streak.

While the Lights...