BUTTE — Montana Tech head men's basketball coach Adam Hiatt frequently referred to the Frontier Conference triple round-robin format — where each of the league's six teams would play the other five opponents three times during the course of conference play - as a 'gauntlet.'

With the Frontier now doubled in size to 12 teams , each program will now play the other 11 opponents twice this upcoming season for a total of 22 conference games. And teams will play back-to-back league games on Friday's and Saturday's.

In other words, this new format in the expanded Frontier will be a gauntlet of its own.

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"This is gonna be the long marathon year," said Hiatt. "Our season has grown, we have 12 t

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