{"id":212613,"date":"2026-03-20T07:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212613\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:27:31","slug":"we-did-something-special-idaho-vandal-players-react-to-loss-to-houston-reflect-on-the-journey-idaho-vandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/212613\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We did something special&#8221;: Idaho Vandal players react to loss to Houston, reflect on the journey | Idaho Vandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"195\">It was a mix of emotions in Idaho&#8217;s locker room after the Vandals&#8217; 78-47 loss to Houston in the first round of the NCAA Tournament: pride, joy, sadness, excitement for the future, among others.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"322\">But despite the outcome, the overwhelming theme was that they wouldn&#8217;t have wanted to do it with anyone else by their side.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"583\">After the loss, we talked with several Vandals inside their locker room, including Idaho&#8217;s leading scorer, Kolton Mitchell (14 points), along with Isaiah Brickner, Brody Rowbury, Jack Payne, Trevon Blassingame, Jackson Rasmussen, Seth Joba and Biko Johnson.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"639\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Watch the Idaho Vandals&#8217; full postgame reaction above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a mix of emotions in Idaho&#8217;s locker room after the Vandals&#8217; 78-47 loss to Houston in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,30031,83237,54000,83236,154,83235,83238],"class_list":["post-212613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local-sports","tag-local-sports-news","tag-spokane","tag-spokane-sports","tag-sports","tag-sports-spokane","tag-wasington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}