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Making the NAIA Women’s Basketball National Tournament is the goal for all 95 schools that play Division I basketball. However, just 32 teams achieve that goal and one of them is the Montana State University-Northern Skylights.

The Skylights (24-8), who finished second in the Frontier Conference in both the regular season and the conference tournament, received an at-large berth into the field and will play their first game tonight against No. 22 and sixth-seeded Loyola of New Orleans (26-6). Tip-off time inside the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra is set for 8.

“Last year’s loss at...