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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The Boise State men’s basketball team just completed its best season in program history, winning both the Mountain West regular season and tournament championships and advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015. The Broncos won a program-record 27 games, finishing with a 24-4 stretch after a 3-4 start. And the Broncos…
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PORTLAND – A week or two from now, when Leon Rice and the Broncos reflect back on a historic, record-breaking season, they’ll have plenty of positives to smile about. It was tough to do that on Thursday. The Broncos, playing in their first NCAA Tournament since 2015, struggled early with missed shots and turnovers and…
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PORTLAND – This will undoubtedly go down as the greatest season in Boise State men’s basketball history, regardless of what happens in Thursday’s first round NCAA Tournament game against Memphis at the Moda Center. But beating the Tigers – winning just one more game in what’s already been a history, memorable year – would take…
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Boise State coach Leon Rice has found himself enjoying tape of Memphis this week – until he remembered the Broncos are playing them in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. “I’ve caught myself a bunch of times rewinding the tape just for my entertainment on some of their dunks…
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Dinner at the Milner house growing up was a little different than most families. It was a lot quieter. Kevin and Nancy Milner are both 100 percent deaf. Boise State backup center Lukas Milner can hear and talk just fine – but his parents both got sick and lost their hearing as infants. Milner is…
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The Boise State men’s basketball team couldn’t make it back to ExtraMile Arena in time to watch the NCAA Tournament Selection Show with fans at ExtraMile Arena on Sunday afternoon due to flight delays in Las Vegas. So the moment they’ve waited for their entire lives – to hear their name called on the selection…
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