Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Big Sky Conference announced Monday that it will move its postseason basketball championship tournament from Reno, Nevada to Boise, Idaho after the 2017-18 season. After three years in the Reno Event Center, the Big Sky Conference reached another three-year agreement with CenturyLink Arena, located in […]
Women’s Basketball
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Mark Liptak, a sports media veteran with experience in radio and print, has acted as the play-by-play broadcaster for the women’s basketball team since 2008. Since taking over the mic in 2008, Liptak has covered over 250 ISU women’s basketball games. “Everybody’s put here to do […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor For the second consecutive season, the women’s basketball team fell short of a Big Sky championship after falling in the championship game to Montana State, 62-56, Saturday afternoon in Reno. ISU went 19-14 overall this season and earned the six-seed going into the conference tournament. Last […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor It’s a possibility that by the time this article prints, both Idaho State teams will already be eliminated from the Big Sky Tournament in Reno. Because of this possibility and the fact that this story has to be written no later than Saturday because of deadlines, […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer In a road game against Southern Utah, sophomore guard Saylair Grandon broke her finger causing her to be sidelined. The injury comes after Brooke Blair was lost for the season at the beginning of the year with a knee injury, leaving the Bengals with two offensive […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State women’s basketball team has found comfort inside the confines of Reed Gym this season as the Bengals are 7-2 at home with both losses coming to the Big Sky’s top two teams, one of which was an overtime loss. The Bengals sit in […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State women’s basketball team has seen an increase in international players the last three season. This is due in part to associate head coach Ryan Johnson and the connections he has built overseas that date far beyond his time at ISU. The Bengals have […]
Thomas Attebery Staff Writer The plans for a new $20 million on-campus arena that would house volleyball and basketball has yet to reach the halfway point of the fundraising stage. According to ISU Athletic Director Jeff Tingey, the school is in need of a large gift in naming rights to […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer Two members of this year’s women’s basketball team, Brooke Blair and Freya Newton are 7,000 miles from home, away from the crashing blue surf, white sand beaches and clear blue skies and into single digit temperatures with sub-zero windchill. The two hail from New Zealand and […]
Madison Shumway Staff Writer After starting 27 games as a true freshmen, Grace Kenyon was forced to the bench after an injury ended her sophmore season before it started. Kenyon tore her ACL, forcing her to sit out last season and use her one and only redshirt. Kenyon underwent surgery […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor With a 26-23 halftime lead in the Big Sky Conference Championship game, the Idaho State women’s basketball team was 30 minutes away from punching its ticket to the NCAA tournament. A strong second-half performance from Jon Newlee’s Idaho Vandals was too much for the Bengals and […]
Madeleine Coles Staff Writer ISU senior Tressa Lyman is an athlete of many talents. Lyman, who plans to graduate this May with a degree in elementary education, has played volleyball at ISU for the five years she has attended. But she also stepped up to play a little more than […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor @IdahoSportsLG The Idaho Vandals defeated the Idaho State Bengals in the Big Sky Women’s Basketball Conference Championship game by a score of 67-55, a game which ISU led 26-23 at halftime. Vandals’ head coach Jon Newlee, who coached in Pocatello for six seasons, was fired up […]
Sven Alskog Sports Editor Emeritus After holding a 26-23 lead at halftime, the Idaho State Bengals fell victim to a dominating second half by the Idaho Vandals, who would hold on to win the Big Sky women’s basketball championship 67-55 on Saturday afternoon at the Reno Events Center. The Vandals […]
Sven Alskog Sports Editor Emeritus This March has given the Idaho State women’s basketball team a chance to pull off some Cinderella magic, as the Bengals won their third game in five days as the #9 seed, advancing to the Big Sky Conference title game on Saturday at 12:05 p.m. […]