Jordie McTavish begins his second season as an assistant coach with the Bengals on the heels of his stellar career at ISU. McTavish earned Big Sky Newcomer of the Year honors as he led the Bengals with a 15.6 scoring average and 155 assists.

McTavish was even better in league play, scoring 18.1 points per game and dishing out 105 assists to only 57 turnovers. McTavish's 30-point night against eventual league champion Cal State Northridge helped knock off the Matadors 89-84, and it was McTavish's free throw with one second remaining that provided the margin of difference in a 78-77 win that clinched ISU's first Big Sky Tournament berth in four years. Perhaps McTavish's best moment on the court came in overtime against Montana, when on a Fox Sports Net telecast, he scored eight straight points in overtime, turning a 71-67 deficit into a 75-71 Bengal lead. ISU went on to win that game 79-75, one of five Bengals overtime contests that season.

McTavish came to the Bengals from the University of Utah, where he played for two seasons under Rick Majerus as the understudy to eventual NBAer Andre Miller. McTavish was a key component off the bench for Utah's 1998 squad that finished runner-up to Kentucky for the National Championship.

McTavish also has international experience, winning a silver medal with Team Canada as he helped Canada qualify for the 2000 Olympics, held in Sydney, an Olympics that McTavish missed due to a knee injury suffered in the Pan Am Games, held in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1999.