Lights make statement with a pair of Frontier wins

Call this weekend what you want - a turning point, a confidence builder, a momentum builder. For the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball, it's a statement.

A statement that the Lights have put the earlier inconsistency behind them and are a team no one wants to play.

Northern made it a clean sweep for the weekend, cruising to a pair of decisive conference wins and playing some of its best basketball of the season.

On Friday night, the Lights swept the Montana Tech Orediggers on the season with a 94-58 shellacking. Northern followed up the definitive win with an equally convincin...