Menomonie High School graduates Noah Feddersen and Emma Mommsen are dancing with their collegiate basketball teams during March Madness.

Feddersen and the North Dakota State University Bisons (27-7, 14-2 Summit League) advanced to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship for the first time since the 2019-20 season after winning both the Summit League regular season championship and the Summit League Tournament championship.  The Bisons were awarded the 14th seed and will play Michigan State University, which received the third seed in the bracket, in their first game, Thursday, March 19 at at approximately 3:05 p.m. CT, in Buffalo, N.Y., at KeyBank Center. The game will be broadcast on TNT. If North Dakota could pull off the huge upset over the 11th-ranked Spartans, they would face the winner of the Louisville/South Florida contest, Saturday, March 21. Since 1985, there have been 23 games where the 14th seed defeated the third seed. This is NDSU’s sixth NCAA Tournament bid since 2009, and the Bison will be looking for their third victory in March Madness.

Mommsen and the Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears (26-7, 17-5 NSIC) advanced to the NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship for the second consecutive year after finishing second in the North Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) and going on to win the NSIC Tournament title to secure the automatic qualifying bid for the second year. Along the way, the Bears twice knocked off top-ranked Minnesota State, Mankato – once to close out the regular season, Feb. 21, and again in the tournament championship game, March 3.

C-SP entered the NCAA Division II tournament ranked 22nd and faced Northwestern Oklahoma in the opening round, March 13, Mankato, Minn., and prevailed in a tightly contested defensive battle to grab their first NCAA Regional win in 11 years, with a 52-45 decision in the low-scoring affair.

Mommsen led the way for the Golden Bears in another low scoring contest in the second game of the regional with 15 points on an efficient 7-of-10 from the floor while grabbing nine rebounds and coming up with one block on defense, as Concordia took a 59-53 win over No. 14-ranked Fort Hays State. But the Bears historic season came to an end Monday night when Concordia lost, 94-87, to conference opponent University of Minnesota-Duluth in double overtime in the NCAA regional championship game.

Mommsen started all 33 games this season, averaging a career-best 6.7 points per game and pulled down 5.3 rebounds.

Leading up to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball tournament, Feddersen closed off the season on a tear, scoring in double figures in 12 consecutive games, starting January 22, while coming off the bench. During that run, Feddersen saw his scoring average jump from 7.0 points per game to 9.4 points per game to close out the regular season. His double figure streak ended in the Summit League championship game when he was held to eight points. But Feddersen drilled a victory-clinching 3-pointer from the top of the key with 51 seconds left to help seal the 70-62 win over the University of North Dakota.

Coming into this season, Feddersen had started 53 games for the Bison, then started the first 16 games of the 2025-26 season. Feddersen moved out of the starting line-up on Dec. 31, and started to come off the bench in January. It took a couple of games for Feddersen to adjust, but adjust he did, going on to win the Summit League Sixth Man of the Year Award. Feddersen shot 65 percent in league play and 44 percent from three-point range, averaging 10.9 points off the bench. The Bisons have a knack for acquiring Sixth Man Awards. Feddersen became the second straight (Tajavis Miller) and sixth NDSU player overall to earn Sixth Man of the Year honors.