Montana State University-Northern women's basketball coach Mike Erickson and his team went into this weekend's Frontier Conference Tipoff Tournament looking forward to some tough games against some conference foes.

Instead, the Skylights ran into a glorified free-throw contest on Friday night and couldn't quite come out of their doldrums on Saturday until it was too late, leading to a pair of losses to Carroll College and UM-Western on the weekend.

On Friday night, Carroll edged Northern in what at times resembled a basketball game but more often looked like a free-throw contest between the...