BUTTE, Mont. -- They're starting to run out of fingers for all those rings.

The 15th-ranked Montana Tech men's basketball team won its fourth-straight Frontier Conference regular-season championship, topping visiting Providence, 83-52, in Saturday's finale to take the crown.

Keeley Bake scored 20 points to lead the Orediggers, while Hayden Diekhans notched his second-consecutive double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Diekhans added seven assists to his all-encompassing total.

Saturday's was a winner-take-all game for the outright league championship. The Orediggers, not far removed from a four-game losing streak, proved up to the challenge.

Montana Tech (22-6, 10-5 Frontier) started fast yet again on Kelvin Sampson Court. The Diggers, powered by a pair of Bake 3-pointers, leapt out to a commanding 17-4 lead and never looked back. Providence made a brief run to bring the deficit back within single digits, but it didn't last long.

Leading 17-9 with 10:51 left in the first half, the Diggers ripped off another 12-0 run to end all doubt in the early going.

Bake led Tech with 14 first-half points, and the rest of the Montana Tech team carried the Diggers through the second half.

Antoine Boyd Jr. led Providence (15-13, 9-6) with 12 points and seven rebounds.

Michael Ure added 17 points and eight rebounds for Montana Tech, and Ifeanyi Okeke chipped in nine points to the Diggers' cause.

With the victory, Tech wrapped up a fourth-straight Frontier regular-season championship, a feat not accomplished since MSU-Billings, then known as Eastern Montana College, won four consecutive titles from 1970-73.

Along with the regular-season title, Tech will carry the No. 1 seed into the Frontier Conference tournament, set to begin Sunday, March 2 in Great Falls. As the top seed in the six-team tournament, the Orediggers will face the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals on Monday, March 3 on the floor at the Pacific Steel & Recycling Four Seasons Arena.

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