The team finished the season with a 36–2 record[1] and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll.
[2][3] They defeated Amateur Athletic Union champion Cook's Painters in a best-of-three series.
[4] This team was later nicknamed the "Golden Bobcats" and is now a prominent part of the lore for the men's basketball program at Montana State University.
[5] This Montana State squad is considered one of the best college teams in the first half of the 20th century.
[6] The 1928–29 season was a culmination of the entire decade in which the school revolutionized a fast break offense coupled with high-pressure defense, something that no other teams had ever done.