Lucas Gebhart Co-Editor-in-Chief/ Sports Editor POCATELLO – A career night for Novak Topalovic lifted the men’s basketball team to a 71-65 home win over visiting Sacramento State Saturday night at Reed Gym. Topalovic’s line includes a laundry list of career-highs, which include points (25), rebounds (17) and field goals made […]
Men’s Basketball
Lucas Gebhart Co-Editor-in-Chief/Sports Editor POCATELLO – ISU led for the first 35 minutes of Thursday night’s game at Reed Gym, but exchanged blows with visiting Portland State down the stretch as the game’s only three lead changes came in the final three minutes. With 44 seconds left, and ISU (8-9, […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor ISU never trailed to Northern Arizona, but almost let Saturday night’s game at Holt Arena slip through its hands. “Ugly wins are still wins,” said guard Brandon Boyd. “I’m happy about that, but we have to execute better because we didn’t play well tonight.” With under […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor After scoring 62 on Saturday and picking up its first win at Weber State since 2007, the men’s basketball team returned home Thursday night and blew out visiting Southern Utah, scoring a season-high 93 points in the 93-78 victory. The win marks the first time ISU […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State opened the second half of Saturday night’s game at Holt Arena on an 8-0 run, while Northwest Nazarene went ice cold from the field in what senior Kyle Ingram referred to as a “trap game.” “They are a really good shooting team,” Ingram said […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor With under four minutes to play, Idaho State lead by seven, but as the clock trickled to under two minutes, the Bengals suddenly found themselves down by one. With three-and-a-half to play, CSUN’s Michael Warren drained a three-pointer with a defender in his face and following […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor POCATELLO – Jared Stutzman dominated in Idaho State’s first win Friday night at Holt Arena, helping his new team to a 92-71 home victory over visiting Bethesda. The sophomore, who transferred from Utah Valley was originally going to sit out the year because of NCAA rules, […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor In a game that featured seven lead changes and six ties with both teams having nearly identical statistics in every category except for rebounding, a second half rut allowed Utah Valley to cruise to an 84-71 victory Tuesday night at Reed Gym. At the under-12 media […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State men’s basketball team added four new transfer players this offseason, including the reigning Northwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year, Jacob McCord. McCord and five-foot-seven-point guard, Sam Dowd, out of North Idaho College and Blake Truman, who spent the last two seasons with […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor After a 16-win season last year and losing one starter, the Idaho State men’s basketball team backed up one of the best seasons in recent program history with six total wins, four which came from Division I schools. The Bengals were the only school in the […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer Originally from Santiago, Chile, Idaho State junior guard Geno Luzcando has made an impact on the men’s basketball team from the minute he stepped on campus. Luzcando found ISU through a family friend that was living in Provo and in his three seasons with the Bengals, […]