The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team is in Kansas City to play Evangel University in the first round of the NAIA national basketball tournament Wednesday night. And while the Lights are hard at work preparing for Wednesday night's game, they also took part in plenty of other

The Montana State University-Northern Lights pose for a team photo while attending an NAIA Champions of Charachter event at a Kansas City YMCA Monday afternoon.

Northern spent part of Monday interactiing with local youths at Black Bob Elementary School chapter of the Kansas City YMCA. Team's attending the national tournament can volunteer for  events put on by the NAIA Champions of Charchter during their trip to the national tournament, and the Lights have always partaken in spending time with local youths while in K.C.

The Lights attended a dinner put on by their honorary coaches for the NAIA national tournament Monday night in Kansas City.

Monday also saw Northern attend a dinner with the Lights' honorary coaches at in Kansas City, as well as practice for Wednesday night's upcoming game.

The MSU-N men's basketball team speaks to locak Kansas City youths on Monday afternoon.

For much more on the Lights, see Tuesday's Havre Daily News.

MSU-N head coach Shawn Huse talks to local Kansas City kids Monday afternoon at a YMCA.