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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ALBUQUERQUE – Boise State’s charter flight home late Wednesday night nearly got rerouted at the request of coach Leon Rice. “We’re actually going to divert the plane to Vegas and put it all on 12 black,” Rice joked on the BNN Postgame Show. With the way things went for Boise State’s No. 12 at The…
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On paper there appears to be very little chance the Boise State men’s basketball team can go down to Albuquerque and hang with the New Mexico Lobos on Wednesday at The Pit. But that’s why they play the games, right? No. 19 New Mexico (18-3, 6-2 MW) has won five straight games by double digits,…
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Any remaining margin for error just got even smaller for Leon Rice and the Boise State men’s basketball team. The Broncos gave up a game-tying bucket with 1.3 seconds left and suffered a 90-84 home loss in overtime to Utah State on Saturday afternoon. The loss itself is not a ‘bad’ one. But with road…
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The Boise State football team has added a second former five-star prospect to the roster in less than three weeks. This one comes with a bit of a risk, but the payoff could be tremendous. The Broncos announced the signing of Kilgore Junior College transfer Chris Marshall on Wednesday. Marshall previously was at Texas A&M…
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FRESNO – Boise State blew a 16-point lead in the second half but used a late Chibuzo Agbo 3-pointer and a key defensive stop to hang on for a 72-68 road win at Fresno State on Tuesday night. “Any road Mountain West win is a good win,” Boise State guard Max Rice said. “It got…
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A few days after fans and media members criticized Boise State’s bench for a lack of production – and coach Leon Rice for not playing them more – a trio of Broncos made sure to quiet that talk on Saturday. Cam Martin, Jace Whiting and Andrew Meadow combined for 10 points in 36 minutes off…
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