{"id":210015,"date":"2026-03-08T06:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210015\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T06:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T06:10:23","slug":"idaho-vandals-dominate-sacramento-state-in-big-sky-conference-tournament-opener-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/210015\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Vandals dominate Sacramento State in Big Sky Conference tournament opener | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE, Idaho &#8212; The Idaho men&#8217;s basketball team opened the Big Sky Conference tournament with a strong performance, outscoring the Sacramento State Hornets, 68-45.<\/p>\n<p>Idaho raced out to an early lead, using efficient shooting and strong defensive pressure to limit Sacramento State&#8217;s scoring chances. Jackson Rasmussen paced the V&#8217;s with 17 point while Kolton Mitchell contributed with seven rebounds, anchoring Idaho&#8217;s effort on the glass.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento State was unable to mount a fourth-quarter rally as the Vandals&#8217; margin remain comfortably in double digits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Vandals will move on to the second round and will face the Montana State Bobcats on March 8 at 7 p.m. pacific time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOISE, Idaho &#8212; The Idaho men&#8217;s basketball team opened the Big Sky Conference tournament with a strong performance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[96677,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-210015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-2022-23-idaho-vandals-men","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210015","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=210015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}