Men's Basketball | 3/6/2017 1:05:00 PM
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RENO, Nev.- The Idaho State men's basketball team enters the Big Sky Conference tournament as the No. 10 seed. The Bengals open play, Tuesday, March 7 at 5:35 p.m. pacific time vs. No. 7 seed Sacramento State. The winner of Tuesday's game plays No. 2 seed Eastern Washington.
Jerry Miller will call the action live on 102.5 KMGI with the pregame show beginning at 5 p.m. Pacific time. To follow the game online fans should log onto isubengals.com for live video, audio and stats.
Scouting Sacramento State
Sacramento State 12-17 and finished Big Sky Conference play 9-9. Justin Strings led the Hornets offense with a 15.9 points per game average and 17 points in Big Sky play. Marcus Graves is scoring 13.3 points a game and 14.2 in league. Eric Stuteville averages 12.3 points overall and 6.3 rebounds and in league he is scoring 13.2 and averaging seven rebounds a game. Nick Hornsby is scoring 11.7 points in conference and averaging eight rebounds. The Hornets are scoring 70.4 points a game and 72.6 in league. Sac State is shooting .460 percent from the field, .316 percent from the three-point line and .652 percent from the three-point line. Sacramento State averages 35.4 rebounds a game, 13.2 assists, 11.9 turnovers, 4.7 steals and 4.3 blocks.
Series vs. Sacramento State
Idaho State leads the series 28-19 but the Hornets have won five of the last seven meetings. The teams split the season-series last year, with ISU winning 66-64 in Pocatello and losing 82-71 in Sacramento. Idaho State's last win in Sacramento was 68-67 on January 14, 2012. ISU is 1-0 vs. Sacramento State on a neutral court when the Bengals beat Sac State 85-80 on Dec. 7, 1991.
Big Sky Conference Tournament Schedule
North Dakota earned its first-ever Big Sky regular-season championship and the No. 1 seed at next week's conference tournament as the 2016-17 regular schedule came to a conclusion on Saturday.
All 11 seeds have been claimed at the Big Sky tournament with No. 8 Portland State and No. 9 Northern Arizona tipping off on Tuesday at 2:35 p.m. Pacific. No. 7 Sacramento State and No. 10 Idaho State will take the court at 5:35 p.m. on Tuesday with No. 6 Montana State and No. 11 Southern Utah closing out the first round at 8:05 p.m.
No. 1 UND will open with either PSU or NAU on Thursday at 12:05 p.m. No. 4 Idaho will face No. 5 Montana at 2:35 p.m. No. 2 Eastern Washington opens tournament play against either Sac State or ISU at 5:35 p.m. and No. 3 Weber State opens play against the winner of game three at 8:05 p.m.
Notes From Loss to Montana
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Ethan Telfair's 32 point game gives him eight games of scoring 30 points or more. Only three other Bengals in program history have scored 30 points or more in a career.
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Ethan Telfair is now in 17th place on the ISU all-time scoring list with 1,107 points. Nate Green (1993-97) is in 16th with 1,141 points.
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Ethan Telfair has 129 career steals, ranking him third all-time.
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Ethan Telfair set a career-high in free throws made and attempted by going 15-16.
- Idaho State has now given up 90 points or more in six games. The Bengals are 1-24 when giving up 70 points or more.
- This was the 14th game ISU has allowed opponents to shoot 50 percent or greater.
Bengals In the Big Sky Tournament
The Bengals are 15-22 in the Big Sky Conference tournament. In 2008 and 2009 the Bengals hosted first round games in Pocatello and beat Montana 67-65 in 2008 and Northern Colorado 67-60 in 2009. The Bengals then lost in the semi-finals to Portland State both years, 72-61 in 2008 and 61-53 in 2009. The last time ISU won the conference tournament was during the 1986-87 season. The Bengals finished the regular season 5-9 in league and tied for fifth and won the tournament by beating Nevada 92-81 in the title game.
