Checkin' in with the Griz:

In the biggest game of the season for the Montana women's basketball team, coach Robin Selvig started his three seniors Saturday. That meant Laura Cote and Dana Conway were on the floor for a rare Big Sky Conference tip-off, and junior Britney Lohman had to cover the best player in the league, Idaho State's Natalie Doma.

It couldn't haveworked out much better. Lohman set the tone defensively with a lockdown on Doma, Cote took command offensively during a key first half stretch and Montana used hot shooting to bury the Bengals, 76-54, before a season-high crowd of 5,524 at Dahlberg Arena.

Interesting side note: Doma, needs 26 points to pass Montana assistant coach Shannon (Cate) Schweyen as the Big Sky's career scoring leader. She got 12.