Q2 reports the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics women’s basketball tournament will continue to be held in Billings through 2020, a year longer than its original contract, according to local officials. Visit Billings and Rocky Mountain College said the success of the 32-team tournament the past two years at MetraPark convinced NAIA officials to add the 2020 tournament, which was originally scheduled only through 2019.
Longtime Carroll College coach Bob “Putter” Petrino Sr. has died at the age of 81. A 1955 Butte Central alumnus, Petrino won three state championships in the Mining City, one in football and two more in baseball. He continued at then-Western Montana College in Dillon before entering coaching. Petrino returned to the Butte Central Maroons in 1965, before becoming the head coach at Carroll College, mentoring the Fighting Saints from 1971 to 1998.