Southern Utah at Idaho State
Thursday • 7:05 p.m. • Holt Arena
Radio — 930 CBS Sports or Rock 102.5
Web — isubengals.com (live stats)
Free live video stream — watchbigskytv.com
Records — Idaho State is 5-8 overall and 2-2 in the Big Sky. Southern Utah is 1-12 and 0-4 in the league.
Last outing — Idaho State lost on the road at Northern Colorado 82-75. Southern Utah dropped a home contest to Northern Arizona 70-36.
Up next — Idaho State travels to Weber State on Monday.
Probable starters
Southern Utah:
F A.J. Hess, 6-6, So., 7.9 ppg
F Casey Oliverson, 6-8, So., 5.0 ppg
C Cal Hanks, 6-11, Jr., 3.3 ppg
G Trey Kennedy, 6-3, Fr., 10.1 ppg
G John Marshall, 6-1, Fr., 4.3 ppg
Idaho State:
C Avibakuro Preh, 6-9, Sr., 2.5 ppg
F Jeffrey Solarin, 6-4, Jr., 11.1 ppg
G/F Chris Hansen, 6-4, Sr., 16.5 ppg
G Andre Hatchett, 6-3, Sr., 15.1 ppg
G Tomas Sanchez, 6-3, Sr., 15.7 ppg
Game notes: Idaho State, Southern Utah
Find the Journal's game preview story here.
Quotes this week from ISU basketball ...
— Idaho State head coach Bill Evans' takeaways from where the Bengals stand right now.
"We need to get better. We’re getting outrebounded now by a pretty good margin and we’re turning the ball over too much. Now, we’re second in the league in field-goal percentage offense. We’re first in the league in field-goal percentage defense and we’re second in the leauge in field-goal percentage defense from beyond arc. We probably lead the league in three-point field-goal percentage.
“So we’re doing good things. Can’t turn the ball over so much. We need more possessions. ... We’ve got to rebound the ball better. We’re giving them too many possessions.”
— Senior center Ayibakuro Preh on what he learned about his team last week on the road when the Bengals lost two tight games to North Dakota and Northern Colorado.
“We learned that we are a very tough team. We play can together. ... We made some big plays when we needed to, sometimes, which is uncharacteristic compared to the last season. ... We had this hunger. You could see the hunger in the guys. We kind of perservered despite some controversies.”
“You can tell we’re still trying to learn how to execute some things. There’s some little things we miss, some assignments. ... Not intentionally but we need to get over that and take that extra step to be able to hit our spots when we needed to.”
— And here's Tomas Sanchez regarding how he bounced back from a five-point, seven-turnover performance against North Dakota last Thursday to register 21 points and five assists against Northern Colorado Saturday.
“I just had to put it behind me. I was upset but there’s nothing I could do after the game, and I knew we were going to a tough place to play to play a good team. My teammates, ... they had confidence in me that I’d have a good game. It felt good that they had my back and I played better.”
“I don’t know if I went to sleep (last Thursday after the North Dakota game). ... I took it to heart. I felt like if I would have just played even an average game, we probably could have won that game. And even with me playing bad, my teammates stepped up and we had a chance to win it and could have won it. ... I feel like if I played better and as a whole, if I cut down my turnovers and as a team we cut down our turnovers, we wouldn’t have even been in that position. We could have won."
“We learned from it. I think we’re still growing, and it’s going to help us in the long run.”
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