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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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Roddie Anderson III has always been a scorer, so the thought of going scoreless was a foreign concept to him. But three games in a row without scoring? Safe to say it’s probably never happened in his life. Anderson, Boise State’s starting point guard, didn’t have the start to the season…
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LARAMIE, Wyo. – Boise State’s players and coaches watched on the team bus on the short drive from the hotel to the Arena-Auditorium the final seconds of Air Force’s stunning upset win at New Mexico on Saturday afternoon. And all it did was focus them in even more for the task at hand. Having it…
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LARAMIE – Leon Rice doesn’t try hiding or downplaying to his team the fact that Wyoming’s Arena-Auditorium is the highest elevation in Division-I at 7,220 feet. Wyoming famously boasts the challenges and potential effects of playing at such high elevation in signage near the visiting locker room and during pregame warmups as an intimidation and…
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Back in January Boise State trailed by nine points midway through the second half at San Jose State and was behind in the final minutes at Fresno State before using late comebacks to win both games on the road. It was a different story the past 72 hours at ExtraMile Arena. Boise State topped Fresno…
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Just like that, the Boise State men’s basketball team is back in a tie for first place in the loss column. Despite a grueling stretch to start conference play and ugly road losses at Colorado State and Utah State last week, Boise State’s 90-66 home win against Fresno State – combined with Utah State’s loss…
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Leon Rice is not really sure what led him to approach Chris Chambers in the Boise State weight room that day, but he knows it was no accident. And that made the random email he received from his dad Kevin two weeks ago even tougher to take. “Was going through past text messages with my…
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