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Montana Tech's intercollegiate athletics programs captured the Frontier Conference's George Bandy Memorial Conference All-Sports Award for the third-consecutive academic year, the league office announced Tuesday.

After a successful 2024 campaign that saw them finish the season with a 9-3 record and hosting a second-round NAIA national playoff game, the Montana Tech Orediggers look for another successful run in 2025 as the Frontier Conference expands. The Orediggers have released their 2025 schedule which will see some significant changes as the Frontier Conference separates into a two-division league bringing several new faces to town along with many familiar foes.

Bill Melvin of the Butte Civic Center confirmed to NBC's Josh Margolis that the Mining City and the Butte Civic Center will be hosting the next two Frontier Conference Men's and Women's postseason championship tournaments starting in the spring of 2026. The conference could not have made a better choice.

The 2024-25 season was a coming-of-age season for Hayden Diekhans of the Montana Tech Orediggers. Diekhans, by the start of last season, had gained a reputation as a relentless defender with a nice jump shot and unusual speed, but still more or less a role player for the then 3-time defending Frontier Conference regular season and tournament champions. By the end of the season, the Orediggers were the 4-time defending Frontier Conference regular season and tournament champions, a first for any team in Frontier history, and Diekhans had emerged as a superstar, although one with a very blue-collar manner of business and was named the Frontier Conference Defensive Player of the Year as well as the league's Player of the Year awards. On Monday, he was named to the NAIA's All America Second Team.

Thursday was a big day for all things basketball at Montana Tech as the NAIA held their selection show for the men's and women's national tournament and both the men and the women will be bringing the copper, green and white to the big dance.

Montana Tech junior forward Hayden Diekhans was awarded both the Frontier Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards and head coach Adam Hiatt took home the Frontier Conference Coach of the Year award it was announced Wednesday afternoon.

Hayden Diekhans had 23 points and 11 rebounds, and the top-seeded Montana Tech Mens Basketball Team turned a 4-point halftime lead into a 19-point blowout of the second-seeded University of Providence Argos in the championship game of the 2025 Frontier Conference Basketball Tournament which wrapped up at the Pacific Steel and Recycling Four Seasons Arena on Tuesday evening.

The Montana Tech men's and women's basketball teams continue to make strides on the court and in the latest coaches' poll as the men are back in the top 10 and the women are receiving votes.

For the third time this season, Montana Tech's Hayden Diekhans is a Frontier Conference men's basketball player of the week. The junior from Geraldine landed the league's defensive player of the week honor, the Frontier office announced Monday afternoon.

Montana Tech's men's basketball team begins 2025 ranked 11th in the first NAIA coaches' poll of the year, the national office announced Wednesday morning.