UNDinterlockingGRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – The University of North Dakota women’s basketball team is picked by coaches and also by members of the media to repeat as Big Sky Conference champions.
 
     UND is tops in both preseason polls, followed by Montana.
 
     UND shared the league’s regular-season title last season and won the postseason tournament. The team advanced to its first NCAA Division I Tournament.
 
     A dozen letter-winners are back this season for head coach Travis Brewster, last year’s coach of the year in the Big Sky.
 
     UND opens its regular season Nov. 15 at Colorado, in the first round of the Preseason Women’s National Invitational Tournament.