GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Argo basketball enters the 2017 Frontier Conference playoffs in a familiar position. For the thirst straight year, UGF will be the tournament's 6-seed and will have to play a difficult road contest to keep the season going. This year the team travels to Lewiston, Idaho to take on the 3-seed, Lewis-Clark State College on Wednesday, March 1 at 8:00 p.m. MT.

The test will be tough, but it was last year too, when the Argos traveled to Dillon, Montana and beat the University of Montana Western in their home gym for the first time in the modern era of UGF athletics.  

While UGF has won in Lewiston, most recently in November of 2013, the Argos are 8-24 against the Warriors in the modern era and winless in seven meetings over the last two years. In both games at LC this season, the Warriors have handled UGF with relative ease. The first meeting was the opener of Frontier Conference play and was an 87-65 loss for UGF and then on February 8, the Warriors won 90-58.

When the Argos were at home, the story was quite different. The game was close throughout and UGF held a lead with two minutes left, but couldn't hang on in an 82-78 loss.

The most effective Argo against the Warriors had been senior forward Isaac Howard. He has shot 48 percent from the floor over the course of the three games, averaging just over 10 ppg. For the Warriors, guard Trea Thomas has played particularly well against UGF, averaging 4 more points per game than his season average of 9 ppg.

The good for UGF has been the emergence of senior forward John Makkar over the past two games. With senior center Andrej Slavik hurt for most of conference play, the Argos have struggled score out of the post, but Makker set a season high in points in each of UGF's last two regular season games. He scored 14 in a win over Rocky Mountain College on February 24, and followed that up with a 16-point effort against Montana Western. During that stretch, he has shot over 65 percent from the floor.

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