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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It’s been three days since one of the worst games in program history and Boise State coach Leon Rice still can’t believe what he witnessed. The Broncos (3-3) shot a program-worst 22.4 percent and scored just 39 points in a 46-39 loss to CSU-Bakersfield last Friday. “You think you’ve seen it all coaching a long,…
Let’s get this out of the way first: Boise State won’t be playing in the Potato Bowl. It’s not going to happen. Despite multiple bowl projections continuing to have the Broncos staying at home to finish the season, it’s not something that is realistically an option. For years the Broncos have preferred to give players…
