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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DAYTON, Ohio – Tyson Degenhart knows one thing that has to change if Boise State plans to make history Wednesday night with its first NCAA Tournament win in school history. The Broncos have to start faster. In each of Boise State’s NCAA Tournament games the past two seasons the Broncos fell behind early and were…
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DAYTON, Ohio – Boise State and Colorado are meeting with the media and holding open practices at UD Arena in Dayton today ahead of Wednesday’s First Four matchup. 📍Dayton, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/70dAnN1pOm — B.J. Rains (@BJRains) March 19, 2024 Greetings from UD Arena in Dayton! Boise State and Colorado will hold open practices and do interviews…
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Boise State coach Leon Rice didn’t need to do much research when he saw the Broncos were matched up with Colorado in the First Four in Dayton on Wednesday night. Rice and Colorado coach Tad Boyle have been close friends for two-plus decades and coached together with Team USA in each off the past two…
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What was expected to be a celebration on Sunday evening turned into a puzzled, frustrating, stunned moment that none saw coming. No, the Boise State men’s basketball team didn’t get left out of the NCAA Tournament. The Broncos are back in the Big Dance for the third straight season for the first time in program…
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LAS VEGAS – The New Mexico Lobos played like a team fighting for its NCAA Tournament lives Thursday night at Thomas and Mack Center. They were hungrier. They had more energy. They seemed to want it more. Boise State, meanwhile, started slow and never really recovered. The Broncos looked out of sync for much of…
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If Boise State senior center Abby Muse was ever going to get a triple-double, most including herself assumed it would have to involve blocked shots. After all, Muse is Boise State’s career record-holder in blocked shots and once had eight in a game and another time had seven. “For real,” Muse told Bronco Nation News…
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