football team captured their first UMAC championship in the Hubert H. Humphry Metrodome signaling the end of coach Ken Crandall's coaching career at UMNM. The last conference title for the Cougar football program was the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (NIC) title in 1987, the second of two straight NIC titles. Over the next three years, the Cougars suffered losing records under coach Todd Hickman. In 2010, the team overcame their preseason rating (tied for last) to end the season with a winning record (5–4) and ending in a three-way tie for 3rd in the conference. 2016 record (4-6) 2017 record (6-4), undefeated at home.
== Media ==
University students operate the radio station "the U-90 alternative, the prairie's only alternative" 89.7 FM (KUMM). The university produces a television program that airs on PBS stations in the state. Pioneer Public Television carries Prairie Yard and Garden. UMN Morris also has a student-run publication, The University Register, a newspaper which is published weekly.
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