2017–18 Montana Grizzlies basketball team
The 2017–18 Montana Grizzlies basketball team represented the University of Montana during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
The Grizzlies, led by fourth- year head coach Travis DeCuire, played their home games at Dahlberg Arena in Missoula, Montana as members of the Big Sky Conference.
They finished the season 26 – 8, 16 – 2 in Big Sky play to win the Big Sky regular season championship.
They defeated North Dakota, Northern Colorado, and Eastern Washington to be champions of the Big Sky Tournament.
They earned the Big Sky's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament where they lost in the First Round to Michigan.
Weber State Wildcats tennis
The Weber State Wildcats men's tennis team is the men's tennis program that represents Weber State University located in Ogden, Utah.
The team competes in the Big Sky Conference in Division 1 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
The Wildcats play home tennis matches at the Edman Courts located on the universities campus, which supports up to 1000 spectators.
The team in recent years has had great success competing in the Big Sky Conference.
The Wildcats have won the regular season championship in 2014, 2015, and 2016.
The 'Cats also won the Big Sky tournament championship in 2016, and played in the schools first ever division 1 NCAA tournament against UCLA in Los Angeles.
In 2014 the Wildcats went undefeated (10–0) in Big Sky play and won the regular season championship for the first time in over 20 years.
In 2015, the Wildcats went 10–1, and took the regular season championship for the second consecutive year.
In 2016, the Wildcats went 10–1 in Conference play, winning their third straight regular season championship, and won the schools first Big Sky tournament championship in over 24 years against the University of Idaho in Sacramento, California at the Big Sky Championships.
The Wildcats are coached by Brad Ferreira, who played for the Wildcats from 1986 to 1990, and helped lead the 'Cats to four consecutive Big Sky Championships.
Since taking over the program in 2012, Ferreira has compiled a 35–6 Big Sky record, and has brought back three regular season titles to the 'Cats, and a Big Sky tournament championship.
With such an impressive three year Big Sky resume, Ferreira was named the 2016 Big Sky Conference tennis coach of the year.
Ferreira has recently been named the programs director of tennis for both Weber States men's and woman programs, and has hired Mark Roberts as a full-time assistant.
Roberts has coaching experience as an assistant coach of woman's programs at UNLV, Southern Methodist University, and UTEP.
While coaching at UNLV from 2008-2012, Roberts was chosen as the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2012.
Roberts played collegiately at Boise State and New Mexico State and earned team MVP as a sophomore playing for Boise State before transferring to New Mexico State.
Big Sky (song)
"Big Sky" is a song by the British rock band the Kinks.
Appearing on their critically acclaimed album "
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society", the song was written by Ray Davies.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
The Kinks
The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.
They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s.
The band emerged during the height of British rhythm and blues and Merseybeat, and were briefly part of the British Invasion of the United States until their touring ban in 1965 (as a result of constant fighting between the brothers).
Their third single, the Ray Davies-penned
"You Really Got Me", became an international hit, topping the charts in the United Kingdom and reaching the Top 10 in the United States.
Their music was influenced by a wide range of genres, including rhythm and blues, American rock and roll, British music hall, folk, and country.
They gained a reputation for reflecting English culture and lifestyle, fuelled by Ray Davies' wittily observational writing style, and are considered one of the most influential groups of the period.
Early works included albums such as "Face to Face" (1966), "Something Else" (1967), "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" (1968), "Arthur" (1969), "Lola Versus Powerman" (1970), and "Muswell Hillbillies" (1971), along with their accompanying singles.
After a fallow period in the mid-1970s, the band experienced a revival during the late 1970s and early 1980s with their albums "Sleepwalker" (1977), "Misfits" (1978), "Low Budget" (1979), "Give the People What They Want" (1981) and "State of Confusion" (1983).
In addition, groups such as Van Halen, the Jam, the Knack, the Pretenders and the Fall covered their songs, helping to boost the Kinks' record sales.
In the 1990s, Britpop acts such as Blur and Oasis cited the band as a major influence.
Ray Davies (rhythm guitar, lead vocals, keyboards) and Dave Davies (lead guitar, vocals) remained members throughout the band's 32-year run.
Longest-serving member Mick Avory (drums and percussion) was replaced by Bob Henrit, formerly of Argent, in 1984.
Original bass guitarist Pete Quaife was replaced by John Dalton in 1969, and Dalton was in turn replaced by Argent bassist Jim Rodford in 1978.
Session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins accompanied the band in the studio for many of their recordings in the mid-to-late 1960s.
In 1969 the band became an official five-piece when keyboardist John Gosling joined them, being replaced by Ian Gibbons in 1979, who remained in the band until they broke up in 1996 as a result of the commercial failures of their last few albums and creative tension between the Davies brothers.
The Kinks have had five Top 10 singles on the US "Billboard" chart.
Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40.
In the UK, The Kinks have had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums.
Four of their albums have been certified gold by the RIAA and the band have sold over 50 million records worldwide.
Among numerous honours, they received the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Service to British Music".
In 1990, the original four members of The Kinks were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2005.
In 2018, after years of ruling out a reunion, Ray Davies and Dave Davies announced they were working to reform the Kinks.
Big Sky Conference Tournament
Big Sky Conference Championship or Big Sky Conference Tournament may refer to:
Big Sky
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2017 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team
The 2017 North Dakota Fighting Hawks football team represented the University of North Dakota during the 2017 NCAA Division I FCS football season.
They were led by fourth- year head coach Kyle Schweigert and played their home games at the Alerus Center.
The Fighting Hawks were a member of the Big Sky Conference.
They finished the season 3 – 8, 2 – 6 in Big Sky play to finish in a three- way tie for 9th place.
This was North Dakota's final year as a full member of the Big Sky.
While most of the school's athletic programs will move to the Summit League in 2018, the football program will be classified as an FCS independent in 2018 and 2019 before joining the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020.
Their games against Big Sky members will still count in the Big Sky standings but they will be ineligible for the Big Sky championship.
Big Sky Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The Big Sky Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament is held at the end of each women's college basketball regular season.
The tournament was first conducted by the Big Sky Conference at the end of the 1988–89 season, the first in which the conference sponsored women's sports.
The Big Sky includes in its history the preceding six years of the Mountain West Athletic Conference, a women's athletic league consisting mostly of Big Sky members that operated from 1982 to 1988, so the inaugural tournament was in March 1983.
(The MWAC of the 1980s is not affiliated with the current Mountain West Conference (MWC), launched in 1999).
The tournament winner receives the Big Sky's automatic bid into the NCAA tournament.
Prior to the 1982–83 season, Big Sky members with women's basketball programs housed them in several different conferences.
The formation of the MWAC brought the women's sports programs of all Big Sky members under a single umbrella, and the Big Sky ultimately absorbed the MWAC in 1988, incorporating all MWAC statistics and records as its own.
From the tournament's inception through the 2015 edition, each matchup was contested on the home court of the higher seed, a practice also used by the Big Sky men's tournament.
The 2016 men's and women's tournaments were the first to be held at a predetermined neutral site, with both held at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada.
On September 18, 2017, the Big Sky Conference announced that its men's and women's basketball tournaments would move to CenturyLink Arena for three years, starting in 2019.
Starting in 1986, an MVP was selected at the conclusion of the championship game.
In 1989 (the first under the Big Sky name), the conference added all-conference team honors, in addition to the MVP.
The dominant program has been Montana, with 21 titles through 2017; next is Idaho State with three.

Question: Which award the performer of song Big Sky (Song) got?
Answer: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame