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THIS WEEK IN IDAHO STATE BASKETBALL
The red hot Bengals face first-place North Dakota in a Big Sky game in Grand Forks, N.D. at 2 p.m. mtn. ISU and UND have both won four straight games.
The Bengals are 9-11 overall and 7-4 in Big Sky play and have won six of their last seven games. ISU lost the first meeting between the schools 48-47 in Pocatello.
The Bengals are led by Linsdey Reed with 15.4 points per game and
Jessica Tingey with 11.3 PPG. Tingey leads the Bengals with 6.8 rebounds per game.
ABOUT NORTHERN DAKOTA
North Dakota finds themselves in first place and flying high on a four-game win streak. The game against ISU will be the fourth consecutive road game for UND.
UND is led by Madi Buck with 16.8 PPG and Mia Loyd with 14.4 PPG and a team-high 9.3 RPG.
Head Coach Travis Brewster leads UND in the second season as head coach. In his first season at North Dakota Brewster guided UND to a 11-18 record.
LAST MATCHUP: UND TOPS ISU 48-47
Lindsey Reed's 3-pointer fell short in the waning seconds and North Dakota held on to win 48-47 over Idaho State at Reed Gym Thursday night.
The Bengals move to 3-9 on the season and 1-2 in Big Sky Conference play. North Dakota remains on top of the Big Sky with a 4-0 conference record and 9-4 overall.
Reed paced Idaho State with 13 points and Tingey hauled in eight rebounds for the Bengals.
North Dakota outrebounded Idaho State 48-31.
LAST GAME: NORTHERN COLORADO
Lindsey Reed scored 24 points to lead Idaho State to a 79-71 win over Northern Colorado, their fourth consecutive win and sixth in seven games.
The Bengals led 33-31 at the half and pushed their lead to as many as 11 in the scoend half before prevailing 79-71.
Bitter scored 15 points, Jenkins added 13 points and Willard scored 10 to combine with Reed as the four Bengals that scored in double-figures.
SOBOLEWSKI BECOMES THE WINNINGEST COACH IN ISU HISTORY
The win over Northern Arizona was Head Coach
Seton Sobolewski's 94th career victory. The win pushed Sobolewski past Jon Newlee as the winningest coach in ISU history.
Sobolewski has led Idaho State to the Big Sky tournament each year of his tenure including 2012 when the Bengals won the championship to advance to the NCAA tournament.
REED NAMED BIG SKY PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Reed, a senior from Kingman, Ariz., averaged 18.5 points, 10 rebounds and five assists to lead Idaho State to wins over Sacramento State and Northern Arizona.
Reed was the key ball handler against the Hornets' press and had just three turnovers for the game. The guard had a career-high 14 rebounds to go along with 14 points and four assists in the 62-53 win.
On Saturday, Reed had 23 points, six rebounds, six assists and a steal to help ISU defeat Northern Arizona 82-72.
This is the first time Reed has received a player of the week award.
REED HITS THE MILLENNIUM MARK
With 19 points against Illinois-Chicago
Lindsey Reed surpassed 1000 career points. She is just the 17th player in ISU history to join the 1000 point club. She also hit the 500 career rebound mark against Black Hills State in the first game of the season. Reed is the leading scorer for the Bengals this season and averages 14.6 PPG.
TRIP TO THE WNIT
The Bengals played in their second-consecutive post season national tournament in 2013. The Bengals played Brigham Young in Provo in the opening round of the WNIT. The Bengals fell 69-54 to the Cougars.
Ashleigh Vella scored a team high 15 points and
Jessa Jeppesen grabbed eight rebounds in the loss to BYU.
TWO STARTERS RETURN FOR THE BENGALS
Kara Jenkins and
Lindsey Reed return for the Bengals. Jenkins comes into the season with 580 career points and 479 career rebounds. She has played in 93 games and has 53 starts for Idaho State.
Reed has 970 career points and 492 career rebounds. She has 92 games under her belt including 89 starts in her career at ISU.
OTHER RETURNERS FOR THE BENGALS
Along with the two starters the Bengals have three other seniors, one junior and one sophomore to round out the list of returning players.
Senior
Jessica Tingey, formerly Jessica Jensen, has 64 career points and 65 career rebounds. Senior
Alissa Willard, a JC transfer, played in 15 games in 2012-13 and scored four points. Senior
Sheryl Bitter has the most experience of last season's non-starters; she had played in 77 games and scored 109 points in her career at Idaho State.
Junior Becca Schimpsher has played in 35 career games and has 46 points. Sophomore
Anna Lee Policicchio played in only six games last season but spent time over the summer with the Canadian U19 National team.
ISU NEWCOMERS
The Bengals have eight newcomers, one JC transfer in junior guard
Jasmine Lemon and seven freshmen;
Grace Kenyon,
Sherise Porchia,
Katrina Bacovcin,
April Dawson,
Lindsay Brown,
Natalie Mecham and
Kyndall Adams.
BENGALS RANKED FIFTH IN BOTH PRESEASON POLLS
The Idaho State Women's basketball team was picked to finish fifth in the Big Sky Conference by both the coaches and the media.
The first five spots were the same in both polls. Eastern Washington is the favorite followed by Montana, Northern Colorado, Montana State then Idaho State.
In the coaches poll the Bengals were picked just above Southern Utah followed by Portland State, North Dakota, Sacramento State, Northern Arizona and Weber State. In the Media Poll Sacramento State was picked in the sixth spot followed by Portland State Southern Utah, North Dakota, Northern Arizona and Weber State. ISU received four first place votes in the media poll out of 30 ballots cast.
