Idaho State Plays at Denver and Utah over Thanksgiving Holiday

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POCATELLO, Idaho- Idaho State continues its road trip over the Thanksgiving holiday with games at Denver and Utah. The Bengals play at Denver on Wednesday, November 25 at 4 p.m. and then travel to Salt Lake City for a 7 p.m. tipoff in the Hunstman Center. The Utah contest can also be seen on the Pac 12 Network. Jerry Miller will call all games live on 101.1 KEIR and fans can log onto isubengals.com for information on how to access live stats, video and audio.

The Bengals enter the 2015-16 season with five returning players with Division I experience. The only returning starter is Ben Wilson.  Evan Hall, Geno Luzcando, Erik Nakken and Justin Smith are the returning Bengals with playing experience.

Spencer Nicolds and Novak Topalovic were on the team last year but redshirted while Clint Nwosuh, Ethan Telfair, Gary Chivichyan, Brandon Boyd, Ali Faruq-Bey, Stephen Lennox, Xavier Banks and Kyle Ingram will see their first Division I action as Bengals.

Idaho State vs. Denver
The series between the two schools is tied at 4-4. ISU played at Denver last year and lost 54-38 on Nov. 16. Prior to last season, the last meeting between the two schools was during the 1974-75 season, a 98-68 victory in Pocatello.

Scouting  Denver
Denver is 3-1 and has won three straight since a season-opening loss to Milwaukee. In Denver's only home game, it beat Utah Valley 75-62.

Scouting  Utah
Utah is 4-1 and led in scoring by Jakob Poeltl's 20.8 points a game and 9.8 rebounds. Jordan Loveridge is averaging 17.8 points and Lorenzo Bonam is scoring 10.2. Utah is scoring 75.2 points a game and shooting .430 percent from the field. The Utes are shooting .306 from the three-point line, .715 percent from the free throw line and averaging 38.2 rebounds a game.

Long Range
Through the first three games Idaho State is shooting .398 percent from the 3-point line and has made 39 3's on 98 attempts. Last year through the first three games ISU was 12-44 from the three-point line (.273 percent).

Did You Know
Since the 2007-08 season ISU has four road conference wins over Division I teams. The Bengals won at Idaho, 71-69 in overtime on Dec. 1, 2007, 68-65 at UMKC during the 2009-10 season, 93-90 in overtime at San Francisco during the 2013-14 season and 67-51 at Grand Canyon last year.

Bengals Against the Pac 12
ISU has lost 23 straight to teams in the Pac 12 conference. The Bengals last win was a 62-57 victory at Oregon during the 1986-87 season. The win at Oregon was also the last time ISU beat a team from any Power 5 conference. Idaho State did beat Utah 72-68 in Pocatello during the 2008-09 season but the Utes were a member of the  Mountain West Conference.