{"id":255858,"date":"2025-11-01T17:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255858\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T17:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T17:15:13","slug":"broncos-open-2025-26-womens-basketball-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/255858\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos Open 2025-26 Women’s Basketball Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boise State opens its 2025-26 under head coach Gordy Presnell<\/a>, who is in his 21st season at Boise State and his 39th overall, by hosting Eastern Oregon, Monday, Nov. 3 at noon.<\/p>\n

Game 1 (Monday, November 3 – Noon)

\nEastern Oregon at Boise State\u00a0

\nSERIES: Boise State 15-2

\nNOTES: Boise State is 12-0 at home in a series that dates back to 1971-72…Broncos won first meeting 45-37, Feb. 5, 1972 in Boise…teams met in last year’s season opener with the the Broncos winning 87-57 at ExtraMile Arena…four players scored in double figures, led by Elodie Lalotte’s<\/a> 18 points…Dani Bayes<\/a> and Natalie Pasco<\/a> each tallied a dozen points and Abby Muse<\/a> chipped in 11 points.<\/p>\n

FOLLOW THE BRONCOS

\nLive stats and live stream are available on BroncoSports.com…game will be broadcast on KBOI 670 AM with Garrett Jones<\/a> calling the action.<\/p>\n

PRESEASON POLL

\nThe Broncos received a first place vote and were picked fourth in the 2025-26 Mountain West preseason poll.<\/p>\n

1-UNLV (19 first place votes) – 281 points

\n2-San Diego State (3) – 240

\n3-Colorado State (1) – 236

\n4-Boise State (1) – 210

\n5-New Mexico (2) – 207

\n6-Wyoming – 194

\n7-Grand Canyon (1) – 177

\n8-Air Force – 132

\n9-Fresno State – 95

\n10-Nevada – 92

\n11-Utah State – 54

\n12-San Jose State – 44<\/p>\n

COACH P

\nGordy Presnell<\/a> ranks 30th all-time in NCAA women’s basketball history with 769 victories…he enters the season fifth among current D1 head coaches.<\/p>\n

SEASON OPENERS

\nBoise State is 17-3 in season openers under Gordy Presnell<\/a> and has won its last three.<\/p>\n

PRESEASON ACCOLADES

\nTatum Thompson<\/a> was named the 2025-26 Mountain West Preseason Player of the year…named to the MW All-Conference Team last year when she averaged a team-leading 13.6 points and 6.8 rebounds per game…ranked 12th in the league in scoring and seventh in rebounding a year ago…recorded seven double-doubles and scored in double figures 24 times…in the conference championship quarterfinal against UNLV, she was 11-for-15 from the floor, tallied 25 points and pulled down eight rebounds…Natalie Pasco<\/a> was named to the 2025-26 MW All-Preseason Team with Thompson…Pasco averaged 12.5 points on 44.1% shooting last season…scored in double figures 22 times and shot 41.1% from beyond the arc to lead the Mountain West.<\/p>\n

THEY’RE BACK

\nBoise State returns its top-four scorers from 2024-25…Tatum Thompson<\/a> (13.6 points per game), Natalie Pasco<\/a> (12.5), Dani Bayes<\/a> (9.1) and Mya Hansen<\/a> (7.8) combined for 59.9% of the Broncos’ points last season.<\/p>\n

NEW FACES

\nThe Broncos have seven newcomers (six freshmen and one transfer)…sixth-year Madeline Cooke<\/a> utilized her redshirt last season and has not appeared in a game in the Blue and Orange.<\/p>\n

TICKETS ON SALE NOW

\nFans can purchase season tickets and single-game tickets for the 2025-26 season by visiting BroncoSports.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boise State opens its 2025-26 under head coach Gordy Presnell, who is in his 21st season at Boise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-255858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}