{"id":52664,"date":"2025-11-14T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52664\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:46:16","slug":"vandals-drop-tight-battle-78-74-to-university-of-san-diego-the-argonaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/52664\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals drop tight battle 78-74 to University of San Diego \u2013 The Argonaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Idaho Vandals men\u2019s basketball teams lost\u00a0their first game of the season against San Diego in a nail biter. Idaho made a strong comeback in the second half, and the game kept\u00a0reaching a tie\u00a0all the way up\u00a0until\u00a0the final minute,\u00a0before falling 78-74. After their first road game loss of the season, they will try and bounce back from a tough loss and play University of\u00a0California,\u00a0San Diego.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0firsthalf, Idaho had a poor start, being down 8-2. Idaho crawled back and tied it at 11,\u00a0until San Diego hit\u00a0four\u00a0three-pointers in under three minutes. San Diego kept this momentum into\u00a0the rest of the\u00a0half,leading the game 38-27. Idaho was 1-7 on three-pointers in the first half,\u00a0while San Diego was 50% on 14 three-point shots.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Idaho came out of the second half running and brought it up to 39-40 San Diego. From this point until the rest of the game,\u00a0both teams went back and\u00a0forth,\u00a0and there was no clear winner until the final\u00a0twelve seconds of the game. San Deigo was winning 76-74 with 34 seconds\u00a0remaining.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Idaho fouled San Diego and went up the line the for a free throw and\u00a0missed, giving Idaho 21 seconds to tie or win the game. On the right side of the floor, as redshirt sophomore guard Kolton Mitchell was getting the ball from a handoff, it slipped out of his fingers,\u00a0causing a turnover with just twelve seconds left.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"\"UI guard Kolton Mitchell dribble drives with his left hand by a Washington State defender | John Keegan | Argonaut<\/p>\n

After San Diego hit both free throws,\u00a0the game ended in a heartbreaking loss for the Idaho Vandals basketball team.\u00a0Freshman\u00a0forward\u00a0Jackson Rassmussen had a great game,\u00a0with 23 points and 10-12 from the free throw line. Idaho also dominated the paint with 34 points over San Diego\u2019s 22 points. Although the\u00a0stat\u00a0line\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0show it as much, the\u00a0Vandals had a lot of second chance points and rebounds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Idaho will look to rebound from this and get a few more wins before heading down to Boise to host the Holiday Hoops Classic over\u00a0Thanksgiving.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The next game against UC San Diego will tip off on Saturday, Nov.\u00a015,\u00a0at 1\u00a0p.m. in La Jolla, California,\u00a0and can be streamed on ESPN+. The next home game for Idaho is on\u00a0Nov. 22 and\u00a0will be the last time the Vandals play at home until Dec.\u00a03.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Timmon Friel can be reached at\u202f[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Idaho Vandals men\u2019s basketball teams lost\u00a0their first game of the season against San Diego in a nail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[17683,33332,33333,15431,74,76,75,16852],"class_list":["post-52664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-idaho-vandals","tag-jackson-rasmussen","tag-kolton-mitchell","tag-mens-basketball","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-university-of-san-diego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52664","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=52664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}