{"id":145775,"date":"2025-09-10T05:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145775\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:04:17","slug":"idaho-vandals-kolton-mitchell-earns-spot-on-preseason-all-big-sky-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145775\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Vandals&#8217; Kolton Mitchell earns spot on preseason All-Big Sky team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, ID &#8211; The Idaho Vandals just had a basketball player receive some preseason recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Ribbon College Basketball yearbook announcing its preseason accolades for the Big Sky Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Vandals Kolton Mitchell was named to the preseason All-Big Sky team.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell is entering his third season with Idaho and has emerged as a top point guard.<\/p>\n<p>In 33 games started in the 2024-25 season, he averaged 11.1 points and shot an efficient 40 percent from the floor with 3.5 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He was making some Vandals history last season with the first freshman since 2018 to make 5 or more threes in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Also led the Big Sky Conference in free throw percentage in making 89.5% of his attempts, just second best in Vandal\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Vandals will open their season in Boise, taking on the Broncos on October 17th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW, ID &#8211; The Idaho Vandals just had a basketball player receive some preseason recognition. Blue Ribbon College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[90353,402,61329,90352,90350,90349,398,400,401,27548,90351,99],"class_list":["post-145775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-2024-25-season","tag-basketball","tag-big-sky-conference","tag-free-throw-percentage","tag-idaho-vandals","tag-kolton-mitchell","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-point-guard","tag-preseason-all-big-sky","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}