Lights out to erase last weekend's flat performance

You can say it's in the past and it's a new season with new goals and new teams to focus on. You can also say you're a pilot and it doesn't mean you can fly a plane.

No matter how much the returning players of the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team talk about this season, a lingering thought remains in the back of their minds. It was the Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears that ended their season abruptly in the first round of the Frontier Conference tournament.

The Lights will meet Rocky for the first time since last year's 76-74 loss in Butte tonight at the MSU-Norther...