MISSOULA — Expectations every year are high for the Montana soccer program, but this year's non-conference slate provided plenty of early challenges.

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Fast forward to today, and the program is red hot, playing some of its best soccer ever.

"At the start of the season, the majority of the teams that we just played finished above us in the RPI (rating percentage index) last year, so they were better than us," UM head coach Chris Citowicki said. "It was one of the most difficult schedules we had put together yet for nonconference. So to be 6-2-1, I still don't know what to say about it. I'm pretty pleased."

Entering 2025 as the preseason favorite in the Big Sky Conference, Montana began the season in mid-Au

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