HELENA — As No. 9 Carroll College ranks inside the top 10 of the NAIA national poll for the first time since 2023, MTN Sports' Jonny Walker sat down with Fighting Saints head coach Troy Purcell.

A full transcript from the video interview with Purcell is available below:

MTN Sports: Another week, another move up in the NAIA national poll. It seems like every week you guys are moving up. Just what do you make of that?

Troy Purcell: You know, we're where we want to be. It means a lot, but it doesn't mean anything. We just got to continue to get better. And it's a place where we need to be. Because then when you hopefully get into the playoffs, you're in a high ranking where you're not traveling across the world playing the best person in the nation — or supposedly ranked in the nation at

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