Lights outlast Bears

One win looked easy. But getting a home Frontier Conference sweep was anything but for the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team.

Just one night after the Lights demolished nationally-ranked Carroll College, the Rocky Mountain College Battlin' Bears' made life very difficult for Northern. Still, MSU-N found a way to gut out a 55-52 win over the Bears and take full of advantage of their only home stand in January.

But Saturday night's win at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse didn't come without some tense moment, unlike Friday's route of the Saints. Against Carroll, Northern shot 55...