Boise State Basketball Favored to Win Conference This Year

It has been quite the year for Boise State athletics and if you can believe it, they're only getting started.

The department has always been known best for their big blue football field and the Fiesta Bowl victories--but over the last couple of years as football has worked to 'scrap back' to relevancy, the basketball program has really been on the rise.

Lead by Leon Rice, former assistant coach at Gonzaga University, the program has made it to 'The Big Dance' also known as March Madness for consecutive years. Now, this year, with some key transfer players and some heightened expectation, the Broncos are expected to win the Mountain West Conference.

It's been years since this was the case.

San Diego State, who played in the National Title game just a couple of years ago? They're picked fourth.

Fans are getting awfully excited, as well:

It ill be exciting to see how Boise State can capitalize on all of the 'blue and orange energy' that is in the air with football back on track--and the basketball season right around the corner!

This Former Nampa Basketball Star is ESPN's Darling

It's not often that you see Sports Center re-run a single play as often as they did last night. The good folks at ESPN could not get enough of the dominating performance by one particular Texas Tech player who left it all on the court. His team defeated Baylor-- the defending National Champion and the only remaining undefeated team in the country this season.

Plot twist, this player has some serious Idaho ties-- with NO offers out of High School, Adonis Arms played in Nampa at Northwest Nazarene University where he gained the skill set and the reputation to make his way up to the big time stage.

Gallery Credit: Credit: Mateo, 103.5 KISS FM

Boise State's Most Underappreciated Star

Boise State seems to mean "football" for most, right? On a national stage, after all, it's the blue turf and the success that the Broncos have had on it that made the university a household name. What happens on the hardwood, however, is far from appreciated at the level that it should be. Leon Rice came to Boise State as a blessing from one of the most powerful basketball programs in the nation: Gonzaga University. Now, the winningest basketball coach in the history of the school seems to take immediate heat if the Broncos aren't in the Final Four. Spoiled by wins on the football field, fans seem to expect the same of the basketball program but when the investment in basketball is so much less than football--can you really have these types of expectations!?

Gallery Credit: Credit: Mateo, 103.5 KISS FM

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