Montana Tech Orediggers

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.

A quartet of Montana Tech women's basketball players laid claim to Academic All-District honors from College Sports Communicators, the organization announced Tuesday morning.

It has truly been a historic season for Montana Tech Basketball. On the men's side of things, the Diggers are Frontier Conference regular season and tournament champions for the fourth year in a row and the women have been chosen as an at-large selection for the NAIA National Tournament which begins Thursday. Both teams will be headed to 4-team pods, the men to Santa Clarita, California where they will face first-round opponent Southern Oregon University, and the women to Madison, South Dakota where they will meet Dakota State. The winners of the pods will advance to the tournament's final site which is Kansas City, Missouri for the men and Sioux City, Iowa for the women.

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.

Montana Tech's football program and head coach Kyle Samson are excited to announce that 40 soon-to-be high school graduates will be joining the Oredigger program this coming fall.

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.

Already off to their best start in recorded history at 10-0, the Montana Tech Men's Basketball Team tonight will head west on I-90 to Dahlberg Arena in Missoula for a date with the Montana Grizzlies for an exhibition basketball contest at 7pm. While the game is an exhibition and will not count towards the Orediggers official record, it offers the Orediggers a chance to play up a couple of classifications, facing a Montana Grizzly team with Big Sky Championship aspirations, and maybe get a win as they did a few years back. Which gives the Griz plenty of motivation and reason to take the Orediggers seriously and as a clear threat.

The Montana Tech Orediggers fall athletic programs have experienced an incredible run of success on the gridiron, the court, and on the courses. Their runs, however, are not limited to the site of competition or list of all-conference honorees. Montana Tech has achieved something truly to be proud of.

Boom, boom. After dispatching the then #3 ranked Georgetown Tigers a couple of Saturdays ago in their home opener and fresh off a road win over archrival Carroll College, the Montana Tech Orediggers have moved up in the national rankings.