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SALT LAKE CITY – The No. 19 Westminster College men's basketball team travels to Billings, Mont. for the Frontier Conference Championship Game at Rocky Mountain (Mont.) on Monday night. The game will tip at 7 p.m. MST from the Fortin Center with the winner receiving the league's automatic invite to the 2014 Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship.

FOLLOW THE ACTION
The game will be streamed live on the web courtesy of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Department. Westminster will host a viewing party for all fans in the Shaw Student Center on the Westminster campus. Live stats will also be available for the game. Complete playoff information is available by clicking here.

GRIFFIN NOTES
Westminster enters the title game at 19-11 overall this season and winners in six if the last seven games they have played. The second-seeded Griffins advanced to their first title game since 2010 with a 90-84 win over fifth-seeded Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) on Friday night in the Behnken Field House. Westminster is 7-6 in road games this season.

For the year, Westminster is scoring 74.70 points per game while shooting 47.5 percent from the field to rank 17th in the NAIA. The team connects on 34.4 percent of its attempts from beyond the arc and 66.4 percent at the foul line. They are dishing out 12.33 assists per outing and place ninth in the NAIA with a 4.13 turnover margin.

The Griffins rank 18th in the NAIA by holding the opposition to 69.33 points per game and 47th by limiting opponents to 44.1 percent shooting. Westminster forces 16.37 turnovers per game by averaging 8.97 steals per game – 17th in the nation. They also lead the conference by blocking 2.87 shots per game.

Seniors Tallon Robertson and Blake Skidmore are the top two scorers on the team as they combine to average 34.16 points per game. Robertson is scoring 18.03 points per night and he is seventh in the NAIA by shooting 57.7 percent. Skidmore scores 16.13 points per game and is shooting 41.7 percent from three – 35th in the country. Colton Moon leads the team with 98 assists and is 22nd in the nation with 59 steals. Moon also places 19th nationally by grabbing 2.03 steals per game.

GRIFFINS IN THE POSTSEASON
This marks the Griffins 15th-straight appearance in the Frontier Conference Tournament. They have a record of 19-12 in the event while winning the championship in both 2009 and 2010. Westminster has hosted a home game in all six seasons of the current format with a 9-1 mark in those contests. This is the Griffins first trip to the championship game since winning in 2010 and the sixth time in school history. Monday will also mark the first-time they have played on the road in a title game.

Westminster and Rocky Mountain have met in the Frontier Conference Tournament eight time entering Monday with each team winning four times. The last meeting was a 75-68 win by Rocky in the 2013 quarterfinals in Salt Lake City. The Griffins last beat Rocky in the tournament, 73-53, in the 2012 quarterfinals in the Behnken Field House. Rocky swept the regular season series this season, winning 66-51 in Billings on Feb. 1.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Westminster's average of34.7points per game in the paint accounts for 41.8 percent of the team's total scoring average. They have totaled at least 30 points in the paint during 19 games during the year and nine times reached 40 points in the painted area. The Griffins are also getting 17.7 points from opponent turnovers during games which are 21.4 percent of the season average.

RUN THROUGH ROBERTSON
Senior Tallon Robertson has been the focal point of the Griffin offense this season. The forward is averaging 18.03 points per game this season to rank fourth in the Frontier Conference and 39th in the NAIA. He has recorded 13 games with at least 20 points this season. Robertson closed the regular season with a career-best 36 points in the win at Montana Tech. That is tied for the sixth-most points ever scored in a game by a Griffin and he established a new school-record by making 16 field goals.

Robertson leads the Frontier and ranks seventh in the NAIA by shooting 57.7 percent and his 7.40 rebounds per game are 42nd nationally. He has pulled down double-digit rebounds on nine occasions with eight double-doubles. Robertson leads the Frontier at 1.33 blocks per game – 26th in the NAIA – and he is 26th nationally with 40 total blocks. That total ranks third for a single season in school history and he is second all-time with 60 career blocks.

SKIDMORE A STARTER
Blake Skidmore is second on the team and ninth in the conference by scoring 16.13 points per game. He has scored in double figures 24 times and reached the 20-point mark in nine contests. Skidmore led the Griffins with 28 points in the semifinals win over Lewis-Clark State on Friday. For the season, Skidmore is 35th in the nation by making 41.7 percent from beyond the arc with his 65 made threes is fourth in the Frontier.

NAIA TOURNAMENT SELECTION SHOW
The NAIA is excited to announce that the 32-team pairings in the the Division I Men's and Women's Basketball National Championships will be officially announced with a live and free video-stream selection show on March 12, with the women's segment at 6 p.m. MST and the men's at 7 p.m.  There will be commentary and analysis during the show. The video will appear on NAIA.org roughly five minutes prior to the start of the show.