Bronco Nation News is reviewing every player of the Boise State basketball roster from the 2024-25 roster – how each player performed, the role they played, and what’s in store for them next season. We’re starting with the departing players. Up next is outgoing senior Alvaro Cardenas. Stats 34.8 MPG, 11.5 PPG, 3.1 RPG, 6.9…
Bronco Nation News is reviewing every player of the Boise State basketball roster from the 2024-25 roster – how each player performed, the role they played, and what’s in store for them next season. We’re starting with the departing players. Up next is outgoing senior Alvaro Cardenas. Stats 34.8 MPG, 11.5 PPG, 3.1 RPG, 6.9…
Bronco Nation News is reviewing every player of the Boise State basketball roster from the 2024-25 roster – how each player performed, the role they played, and what’s in store for them next season. We’re starting with the departing players. Up next is outgoing senior O’Mar Stanley Stats 17.0 MPG, 6.6 PPG, 4.6 RPG, 0.7…
Amidst the chaos of transfer portal season, Boise State quietly nabbed their fourth high school commit of the 2025 class in Link Year forward Bhan Buom. Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, Buom transferred to the prestigious Link Year Academy in Missouri to finish out his high school career. The school has a long track record of…
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Over the next few weeks, Bronco Nation News will be doing a brief review on every player from the 2024-25 Boise State basketball team. This is day one of a series which will look at how each player performed, the role they played, and what’s in store for them next season. Today we begin with…
Boise State has its second transfer of the offseason. And it’s another big one. One day after Emmanuel Ugbo entered the transfer portal, former Georgetown center Drew Fielder will reportedly be signing with the Broncos. After spending two seasons at Georgetown, Fielder initially committed to USC upon entering the portal, but later flipped and will…
With Florida diving on the floor to ice a 65-63 win over Houston in the National Championship, the 2024-25 college basketball season has officially ended. And what a year it was. For Boise State the season ending on Saturday in the College Basketball Crown semifinals to Nebraska, 79-69, -losing a roller coaster season for the…
LAS VEGAS – Tyson Degenhart hugged anyone and everyone he could as he walked off the court for the final time. Nearly 25 minutes after the game had ended, he showed up to the postgame press conference still wearing his uniform. He wasn’t ready for it to end. Neither was his coach Leon Rice or…
For the players in Saturday’s CBC Semifinals match between Boise State and Nebraska, the stakes have never been higher. Literally. The monetary stakes are unlike anything we’ve seen in college athletics before. A win would net the winners $50,000 in NIL revenue and a chance to play for the $300,000 grand prize in the CBC…
Wednesday might go down as one of the better days in Boise State’s 2024-25 season – and the 2025-26 season as well. The Broncos knocked off Butler 100-93, to advance to the CBC Semifinals and secure $50,000 in NIL revenue. As the game ticked towards halftime, reports began swirling of some off the court news…
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B.J. Rains is a three-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 93.1 FM each Friday at 4 p.m.
Amidst the chaos of transfer portal season, Boise State quietly nabbed their fourth high school commit of the 2025 class in Link Year forward Bhan Buom. Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, Buom transferred to the prestigious Link Year Academy in Missouri to finish out his high school career. The school has a long track record of…
Boise State has its second transfer of the offseason. And it’s another big one. One day after Emmanuel Ugbo entered the transfer portal, former Georgetown center Drew Fielder will reportedly be signing with the Broncos. After spending two seasons at Georgetown, Fielder initially committed to USC upon entering the portal, but later flipped and will…
Boise State made another big splash in the transfer portal Wednesday, landing a commitment from 7-foot Arizona transfer Dylan Anderson. The Broncos beat out several big-time programs for Anderson including Washington, Creighton and Texas. He’s expected to immediately be in the mix for the starting spot at center, which could slide O’Mar Stanley to the…
Boise State continued to reload its roster Wednesday with a commitment from NAIA star Javan Buchanan, winning a competitive recruiting battle that included Texas Tech and others. Sources confirmed the commitment to Bronco Nation News on Wednesday. Buchanan was a first-team NAIA All-American after averaging 20.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.1 blocks and 1.1…
The Boise State men’s basketball team made its first offseason addition via the transfer portal on Wednesday – and it’s a big one. The Broncos landed a commitment from San Jose State point guard Alvaro Cardenas, who averaged 13.2 points and 5.5 assists per game last season. Cardenas, who shot 38.5 percent from 3-point range…
Boise State added its third and potentially final piece to Leon Rice’s ‘super team’ on Friday with the commitment of St. John’s transfer O’Mar Stanley. Stanley made the announcement on Twitter. The 6-foot-8 forward made 18 starts for St. John’s as a season last year, mostly towards the end of the season. He averaged 15.1…
Max Rice won’t be the only Rice hearing it from opposing fans when the Boise State men’s basketball team goes on the road next season. He’ll have his brother to help take some of the heat. Kade Rice, the youngest son of coach Leon Rice, told BroncoNationNews.com he has committed to join the Broncos as…
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A historic year for the Boise State men’s basketball team continued Thursday with the signing of the highest-ranked high school prospect in program history. Boise State announced the signing of 6-foot-10 forward Sadraque Nganga, a four-star prospect ranked in the top 100 in the 2022 class by both 247Sports and ESPN. Nganga had offers from…
Sadraque Nganga, a four-star 6-foot-9 power forward has verbally committed to play under Leon Rice at Boise State, first reported by Joe Tipton of On3 Recruits on social media. Nganga had offers lining up from multiple blue blood programs including Kentucky, Arizona and UCLA before injuries to the prospect from Chandler, AZ precipitated that he…
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