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2011–12 Montana Grizzlies basketball team

American college basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ4623933 ↗
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The 2011–12 Montana Grizzlies basketball team represented the University of Montana during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Grizzlies, led by sixth year head coach Wayne Tinkle, played their home games at Dahlberg Arena and are members of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 25–7, 15–1 in Big Sky play to be crowned regular season champions. They were also champions the Big Sky Basketball tournament to earn the conference's automatic berth into the NCAA tournament where they lost in the second round to Wisconsin.

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“2011–12 Montana Grizzlies basketball team” enters the record as american college basketball season. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Montana, Grizzlies and basketball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “2011–12 Montana Grizzlies basketball team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.