BOISE – With a 12-game winning streak on the line, Boise State turned to its veteran leader and most experienced player in crunch time. Abu Kigab said, ‘I got this.’ The fifth-year senior and former Oregon transfer tied the game on a basket with 1:34 to play and put the Broncos up for good with…
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The Boise State football team has turned to a former player to fill the final vacancy on its coaching staff. Nate Potter, who was inducted into the Boise State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2018, has been hired as tight ends coach and run-game coordinator. Potter, who spent the past three seasons coaching tight ends…
Longtime Boise State Football assistant coach Kent Riddle is stepping down to spend more time with his family, Bronco Nation News first reported on Tuesday. Riddle has spent the past 29 seasons as a college coach, including 13 at Boise State. He was with the Broncos from 2001-2005 and then again from 2014-2021. During his…
The Boise State football team has hired former Southern Utah head coach Demario Warren as cornerbacks coach. Warren spent the last 14 years at Southern Utah, including the past six as head coach. Warren led Southern Utah to the second Big Sky Conference Championship in school history in 2017, but agreed to “part ways” with…
Bronco Nation News has entered into a business partnership with KTIK 95.3 FM The Ticket to enhance and expand coverage of Boise State Athletics. As part of the agreement Idaho Sports Talk hosts John Mallory and Mike Prater will make appearances on live shows on the Bronco Nation News social media channels and website, while…
New Boise State running backs coach Keith Bhonapha met with the media Friday for the first time since his hire was announced. Bhonapha, an assistant at Boise State from 2006 to 2013, spent the last eight years at Washington. Here’s the full video of his Zoom press conference with the media:
Boise State has hired Kelly Poppinga as co-special teams coordinator and EDGE position coach, the Broncos announced Friday. Poppinga replaces Stacy Collins, who held similar roles before leaving earlier this week for Penn State. Boise State still has one assistant coach opening with the recent departure of cornerbacks coach Jeron Johnson. Poppinga comes to Boise State…
Boise State cornerbacks coach Jeron Johnson has left the program to spend more time with his family. Bronco Nation News was first to report the news on Thursday and Boise State confirmed it with a release later in the day. “This was a tough decision,” Johnson said in the release. “I will always have love…
Boise State has hired Keith Bhonapha as an associate head coach and running backs coach, just over 24 hours after the team announced that Winston Venable would be stepping down to pursue other opportunities. Bhonapha returns to Boise after spending eight seasons at the University of Washington. Before leaving with Chris Petersen to Seattle, Bhonapha…
Boise State wide receiver Octavius Evans has declared for the 2022 NFL Draft and will not return for a final season with the Broncos. Evans had an extra year of eligibility remaining due to the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the 2020 season, but will instead pursue a professional career. The 6-foot-1 Evans tied for second…
Boise State running backs coach Winston Venable has stepped down to ‘pursue other opportunities, the school announced Thursday. Venable, a former All-WAC linebacker for the Broncos, spent two seasons as Boise State’s running backs coach. “I will be forever grateful for the opportunity to come back and impact a program that helped shape who I…
BOISE – With a 12-game winning streak on the line, Boise State turned to its veteran leader and most experienced player in crunch time. Abu Kigab said, ‘I got this.’ The fifth-year senior and former Oregon transfer tied the game on a basket with 1:34 to play and put the Broncos up for good with…
SAN DIEGO – Leon Rice could only lean back in his chair and shake his head. Hearing it again was just as crazy as experiencing it live. Boise State scored just 42 points – and beat San Diego State at Viejas Arena. The Broncos, who went nearly 10 minutes without a point in the second…
LOGAN, Utah – Marcus Shaver Jr. missed the first 10 shots he took Thursday night. He made the one that mattered. Shaver Jr. connected on a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 1.7 seconds left to give Boise State a 62-59 win over Utah State at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum. The win…
For the second game in a row the Boise State men’s basketball team wasn’t clicking on all cylinders and didn’t look particularly great for a good chunk of the night. But the Broncos did just enough to win – again. Boise State got out-rebounded, missed 13 free throws and let Air Force shoot 51.2 percent…
The Boise State men’s basketball team starts a three-game in five-day stretch Tuesday when it hosts Air Force Tuesday night at ExtraMile Arena at 7 p.m. The Broncos (12-4, 3-0 MW), who have won nine games in a row, are playing their first home game in three weeks and the first of just two in…
ALBUQUERQUE, NM — It certainly won’t be the prettiest win the Boise State men’s basketball team has this season. But it was a win — the Broncos’ ninth in a row — so they’ll gladly take it. The Broncos shot just 35.5% from the field, missed 17 free throws and allowed New Mexico to shoot…
Boise State basketball coach Leon Rice has been known to sit down for a hand of blackjack or roll the dice at a craps table occasionally while in Las Vegas for recruiting, Mountain West Media Day or other reasons. So of course he compared Boise State’s eight-game win streak and the busy schedule the next…
RENO, Nev. – A 14-day layoff did nothing to slow the momentum of the Boise State men’s basketball team. Marcus Shaver Jr. had 28 points and Emmanuel Akot had 23 as Boise State returned to action after a two-week pause due to COVID-19 protocols with a dominant 85-70 road win at Nevada on Wednesday night.…
BOISE – As it turns out it wasn’t just one or two positive COVID-19 cases that forced the Boise State men’s basketball team to postpone the past three games. “We had quite a large number that tested positive,” Boise State coach Leon Rice said Monday. “And we had some guys that were really, really sick.”…
Bronco Nation News has entered into a business partnership with KTIK 95.3 FM The Ticket to enhance and expand coverage of Boise State Athletics. As part of the agreement Idaho Sports Talk hosts John Mallory and Mike Prater will make appearances on live shows on the Bronco Nation News social media channels and website, while…
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BOISE – With a 12-game winning streak on the line, Boise State turned to its veteran leader and most experienced player in crunch time. Abu Kigab said, ‘I got this.’ The fifth-year senior and fo...
B.J. RAINS
B.J. Rains is a three-time winner of the NSMA Idaho Sportswriter of the Year Award. He covered Boise State Athletics for the Idaho Press from 2013 to 2021 before leaving to create Bronco Nation News. Rains, who was a voter in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll from 2014-2021, also makes weekly appearances on KTIK 93.1 FM each Friday at 4 p.m.
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