Men's Basketball Opens Season Friday at Arizona State

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POCATELLO, Idaho- Idaho State opens the 2017-18 season on Friday, November 10 at 8 p.m. at Arizona State. Jerry Miller will call the action live on 102.5 KMGI with the pregame show starting at 7:30 p.m. The game will be televised live on the Pac 12 Network.

Scouting Arizona State
Arizona State finished the 2016-17 season 15-18 overall and 7-11 in Pac 12 play. ASU averaged 78.6 points a game and gave up 81.7 points. Tra Holder and Shannon Evans II are the top two returning scorers. Holder averaged 16.2 points a game while Evans netted 15 points a game. Arizona State coach Bobby Hurley is in his third year as head coach of the Sun Devils.

Series vs. Arizona State
Arizona State leads the series 4-1. The last meeting between the two schools was an 88-60 Sun Devil win on Nov. 13, 2013 in Tempe. ISU's only victory was 72-68 in 1958 in the NCAA tournament at Cal Berkeley.

Returning Scorers
While Idaho State loses Ethan Telfair's 17.5 points per game averages, the Bengals still return 61.5 percent of its scoring from last season. The returning leading scorers are Brandon Boyd (12.4), Geno Luzcando (10.6), Novak Topalovic (10.2) and Balint Mocsan (5.4).

Did You Know
- Geno Luzcando scored in double figures in 16 games last year and in 43 games dating back to the start of his sophomore season.
- Since his sophomore year, Geno Luzcando has 38 games with two steals or more.
- Gary Chivichyan has made a 3-pointer in the last five games he has appeared in.
- Novak Topalovic has recorded five rebounds or more in 47  games since the 2015-16 season.
- Geno Luzcando has 158 career steals, ranking him second all-time in ISU history. Jim Rhode (1985-89) is first with 189.
- Geno Luzcando has 856 career points.
- Five nonconference home games are the most since
- ISU plays schools from the Pac 12, WAC, Mountain West, Big West, West Coast and the Horizon League during non conference play.
- Kyle Ingram returns for his final year after taking a  redshirt year last season. During the 2015-16 season Ingram played in all 31 games, starting 26 and he averaged six points and 4.6 rebounds a game while shooting 53 percent from the field.

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