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Men's Basketball Steve Schaack, ISU Sports Information

Men's Basketball Plays at Bakersfield on Saturday

Tipoff is at 8 p.m.

Tomas Sanchez had a career-high 24 points at USF on Monday.
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POCATELLO, Idaho- Idaho State returns to the state of California for an 8 p.m. (MST) contest at Cal State Bakersfield of the Western Athletic Conference. The game will be heard live on 930 CBS Sports Radio and Rock 102.5. Fans can log onto isubengals.com to follow the game through live stats, and audio.

Cal State Bakersfield leads the series 2-1. The Bengals dropped a 75-56 contest in Bakersfield on Dec. 7, 2010 and lost 82-79 in Pocatello on Feb. 15, 2010.

Career Nights at San Francisco
Three Bengals had career-nights in the 93-90 overtime win over San Francisco. Chris Hansen had a career-high 33 points while Tomas Sanchez had a career game with 24 points. Andre Hatchett tied his career-high of 20 points but did have a career-best 12 rebounds.

Streaks Snapped at San Francisco
The win over San Francisco snapped a 22-game road non conference losing streak. Before the victory over the Dons the last road non conference win was a 68-65 victory at UMKC. The win also snapped a 13-game losing streak to nonconference Division I opponents. Prior to Monday, the last win over a non league Division I school was a 76-63 win at home vs. North Dakota. North Dakota joined the Big Sky Conference a year later.

Scoring Early and Often
Through the first three games the Idaho State men's basketball team is averaging 84 points a game. For the 2012-13 season the Bengals scored only 57 points a contest.  The Bengals have scored 60 points or more in their first three games (99 vs. Evergreen, 60 at Arizona State and 93 at San Francisco). Last year it took ISU six games to score more than 60 points (70-52 win over Montana Western). For the season ISU only scored 60 points or more in nine games.

Did You Know...
This is the earliest Idaho State has picked up its second win of the season since 2005-06 when the program started 6-1
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