MSU-N basketball teams tumble on the road

It was a difficult weekend of near misses and tough losses for both the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams.

The Lights took to the road for the second time in 2010, traveling to Las Vegas for the prestigious Vegas NAIA Shootout.

Once in Las Vegas, Northern squared off against a pair of NAIA powerhouses in No. 4 Robert Morris, which beat the No. 25 Lights 78-77 on Friday night, and Vanguard University, which took down Northern 73-69 on Saturday afternoon.

The game against Robert Morris was a rematch of Northern's 2008 NAIA national tournament first-round gam...