Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor For the second consecutive season, the Idaho State women’s basketball team has toppled a Power Five program. Last year, the Bengals went to Madison and beat the University of Wisconsin, 42-35, and this year, the Bengals traveled to Seattle and took out the nation’s 25th-ranked team […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Head coach Rob Phenicie devoted countless practice reps towards special teams during Idaho State’s annual summer camp this offseason. It was a clear point of emphasis by the first-year head coach that special teams had to be better than they were in the last couple seasons. […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Following one of the best seasons in recent program history two years ago, the Idaho State men’s basketball team was supposed to have a good season. After nearly a decade of losing 18-plus games, the 2015-16 team was the first to finish over the .500 mark […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Recruiting is the lifeline of college football. It’s how a program gets, builds and maintains what it has going for it. If recruits go, so does the program. This is why Idaho State was smart to publicly announce that it was planning to keep head football […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Before most fans were even settled in their seats, Idaho State was in a 21-point hole and was without senior defensive lineman JonRhyeem Peoples, who was ejected six plays into the game for targeting. By halftime, a comeback seemed unlikely as Idaho State (4-5, 2-5 BSC) […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor After making two consecutive runs to the conference championship game in Reno, the Idaho State women’s basketball team is entering what head coach Seton Sobolewski described as a weird season. Idaho State, who is coming off a 19-win season, lost seven players with remaining eligibility from […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State women’s golf team has a new mindset, one that lead to one of the best fall seasons in years and could lead to a record-setting spring season. Along with a new practice structure, first-year head coach Dalen Atkins has turned the women’s golf […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State Director of Athletics Jeff Tingey and head football coach Rob Phenicie announced a verbal agreement to a three-year contract extension during last week’s Monday press conference. Tingey and Phenicie have not worked out any of the details on a deal that would keep Phenicie […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor After putting up close to 700 yards of total offense and 59 points last week, the Idaho State football team was shutout in the second half of its 28-14 loss to Montana State Saturday afternoon in Bozeman. Idaho State (4-4, 2-4 BSC) was stopped on fourth […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor After five regular season meets, the Idaho State cross country team is in the final preparations for its biggest meet of the year, the Big Sky Conference Championships. The Bengals will send seven runners from each team to the championship race that is being held in […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State redshirt senior linebacker Mario Jenkins is one of two Big Sky Conference players to be named to nationally recognized watch lists. Jenkins, who was named Big Sky Conference Freshmen of the Year after the 2014 season, was named to the Buck Buchanan watch list […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Amidst a college basketball scandal that has grasped national headlines for over a month, Idaho State made its way onto the stage last week when head men’s basketball coach Bill Evans decided to omit the seven schools involved in the ongoing FBI investigation that saw assistant […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State offense was firing on all cylinders Saturday afternoon at Holt Arena as the Bengals collected points on nine of the team’s 16 drives, routing Portland State for a 59-30 victory. The 59 points is the most Idaho State has scored against a Division […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor For nearly 25 years, former Idaho State basketball player Steve Garrity, has lead, organized and promoted Hoop Camp, a one-day basketball camp dedicated to including and teaching the game to those who possess a wide range of mental and physical disabilities for virtually all ages. For […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Big Sky Conference released its annual preseason polls for the upcoming men’s and women’s basketball season last week. The Idaho State women’s basketball team, who has fallen in the conference championship game the last two seasons in Reno, was picked to finish eighth in the […]