BOZEMAN \u2014 The Montana State men’s basketball team won big against Sacramento State on Saturday in its final game of the regular season at Worthington Arena, 82-61. <\/p>\n
The Bobcats maintained a steady lead until two minutes remained in the first half, when Sacramento State’s Arman Madi scored seven straight, bringing the Hornets within five. <\/p>\n
WATCH THE HIGHLIGHTS:<\/p>\n
Montana State men trounce Sacramento State in final home game<\/p>\n
Seth Amunrud scored two back-to-back 3-pointers early in the second half, extending Montana State’s lead to eight. Amunrud finished with a game-high 21 points while hitting 5 of 7 3-pointers.<\/p>\n
The Bobcats would continue to roll and build a lead from which Sacramento State couldn’t bounce back. Jed Miller added 18 points and Jeremiah Davis had 16 for MSU.<\/p>\n
Montana State, now 17-13 overall and 11-6 in the Big Sky Conference, will wrap up the regular season on Monday on the road at Northern Arizona at 6 p.m. Mountain time. MSU is currently in the No. 2 position in the standings with the Big Sky postseason tournament set to begin next Saturday in Boise, Idaho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOZEMAN \u2014 The Montana State men’s basketball team won big against Sacramento State on Saturday in its final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[92359,92360,92361,38979,121,123,122,17685,92362],"class_list":{"0":"post-198594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-arman-madi","9":"tag-big-sky-basketball","10":"tag-big-sky-mens-basketball","11":"tag-montana-state-bobcats","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-sacramento-state-hornets","16":"tag-seth-amunrud"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}