{"id":209015,"date":"2026-03-07T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T13:37:31","slug":"idaho-faces-sacramento-state-in-big-sky-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/209015\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho faces Sacramento State in Big Sky Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento State Hornets (10-20, 6-12 Big Sky) vs. Idaho Vandals (17-14, 9-9 Big Sky) Boise, Idaho; Saturday, 10 p.m. EST\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State Hornets (10-20, 6-12 Big Sky) vs. Idaho Vandals (17-14, 9-9 Big Sky)<\/p>\n<p>Boise, Idaho; Saturday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Vandals -5.5; over\/under is 158.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Idaho and Sacramento State meet in the Big Sky Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Vandals\u2019 record in Big Sky play is 9-9, and their record is 8-5 against non-conference opponents. Idaho has a 6-12 record against teams above .500.<\/p>\n<p>The Hornets\u2019 record in Big Sky games is 6-12. Sacramento State has a 7-16 record against opponents over .500.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho averages 10.5 made 3-pointers per game, 1.2 more made shots than the 9.3 per game Sacramento State gives up. Sacramento State averages 7.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.1 more makes per game than Idaho allows.<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet for the third time this season. The Vandals won 86-80 in the last matchup on Feb. 22. Biko Johnson led the Vandals with 25 points, and Mark Lavrenov led the Hornets with 20 points.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Kolton Mitchell is shooting 36.4% from beyond the arc with 2.3 made 3-pointers per game for the Vandals, while averaging 13.6 points and 3.9 assists. Isaiah Brickner is shooting 47.2% and averaging 15.9 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Prophet Johnson is averaging 18.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.6 steals for the Hornets. Arman Madi is averaging 13.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Vandals: 5-5, averaging 76.7 points, 32.7 rebounds, 13.1 assists, 6.0 steals and 2.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.2 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Hornets: 3-7, averaging 80.7 points, 29.4 rebounds, 13.5 assists, 8.4 steals and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 83.3 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento State Hornets (10-20, 6-12 Big Sky) vs. Idaho Vandals (17-14, 9-9 Big Sky) Boise, Idaho; Saturday, 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-209015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209015","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=209015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}