Game 5 Preview: Idaho State at Pepperdine

Men's Basketball | 11/25/2018 9:16:00 PM

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POCATELLO, Idaho- The Idaho State men's basketball team continues its trek against schools from the West Coast Conference with a game at Pepperdine on Nov. 26. Tipoff is at 8 p.m. (MST). Idaho State has already played Gonzaga and Pacific and still has a match up on Dec. 7 at Santa Clara coming up.

Jerry Miller will call Monday nights game on 102.5 KMGI. To follow the game with live stats, audio and video log onto isubengals.com.

Scouting Pepperdine
Pepperdine is 3-2 and coming off a tournament in the Bahamas where they went 2-1,  beating Towson, 74-65 and Miami (Ohio) 86-80 and losing to Georgia Southern 88-78.  Pepperdine averages 83.6 points a game and gives up 77.4. They shoot .466 percent from the field and .383 percent from the three-point line. Pepperdine also shoots .796 percent from the free throwing line, averages 32.6 rebounds, 7.6 steals, 13.2 turnovers and 2.2 blocks a game. Colbey Ross leads Pepperdine in scoring at 20.4 points a game. Kameron Edwards is scoring 17.7 points and averaging 7.3 rebounds.

Pepperdine (0-4)             
0-1 Home, 0-2 Away, 0-1 Neutral             
1979-80     H     L     72-85                 
1978-79     A     L     66-88                 
1970-71     A     L     87-95                 
1968-69     N     L     47-58

Recapping Bethesda
- Idaho State made a school record 19 3-pointers.
- The 115 points scored tied for the fifth most points scored in a game by a Bengal team.
- 14 players dressed and 13 scored in the game.
- No player played more than 21 minutes.
- Chidi Udengwu and Alonzo Walker had double-doubles. Udengwu had 11 points and 11 rebounds and Walker had 10 points and 10 rebounds.
- Idaho State led by as many as 57 points and 56 points were scored off the bench.
- Lyle Sutton played a career-high 11 minutes.
- This is the first time in the Bill Evans era that a team has had six players score in double figures.

Boyd Leads the Way
In Brandon Boyd's career at Idaho State he has led the Bengals in scoring 20 times, assists 15 times and steals 20 times.