B.J. Rains is a four-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 95.3 FM each Friday at 4 p.m.
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LAS VEGAS – Welp. The Boise State men’s basketball team will be left to sweat it out on Selection Sunday after suffering a 69-56 loss to Colorado State in the championship game of the Mountain West Tournament on Saturday. The Broncos could have earned an automatic bid to the Big Dance with a win over…
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LAS VEGAS – Tyson Degenhart and the Boise State men’s basketball team are one win from a fourth straight trip to the NCAA Tournament. Degenhart had 22 points, becoming Boise State’s all-time leading scorer in the process, and the Broncos topped regular season champion New Mexico, 72-69, on Friday night in the semifinals of the…
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LAS VEGAS – The Boise State men’s basketball team knew it needed one, probably two and maybe three wins down here in Las Vegas to land in the NCAA Tournament. One down. Two to go. Alvaro Cardenas had 16 points and Tyson Degenhart added 14 points and seven rebounds and the Broncos overcame an 11-point…
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Boise State did what it needed to do Tuesday night at Air Force – blow out a bad team to keep its NCAA Tournament hopes alive and set up a potentially special night on Friday. Five players scored in double figures and Boise State led by as many as 35 points…
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It wasn’t the 14-point margin that KenPom projected or the 17-point spread oddsmakers in Las Vegas had Saturday night in Fresno – but the Boise State men’s basketball team did enough to avoid a disastrous loss in a 66-61 win over Fresno State at the SaveMart Center. The Broncos trailed a good chunk of the…
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