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2028 Big Sky Conference Standings
TEAM CW CL Pct W L Pct RPI Prestige
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Colorado State Rams 1 0 1.000 6 7 .462 318 39
Portland Pilots 2 1 .667 7 8 .467 189 46
Northern Colorado Bears 2 1 .667 5 7 .417 259 35
Montana State Bobcats 2 1 .667 5 9 .357 115 47
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks 2 1 .667 4 10 .286 269 43
Sacramento State Hornets 1 1 .500 5 8 .385 203 52
Eastern Washington Eagles 1 1 .500 3 9 .250 258 49
North Dakota Fighting Sioux 1 1 .500 8 6 .571 192 37
Montana Grizzlies 1 2 .333 7 9 .438 232 48
Southern Utah Thunderbirds 0 2 .000 4 8 .333 333 40
Weber State Wildcats 0 2 .000 1 12 .077 261 35
So who are we? I don't actually know yet. Gun to my head, I'd say
Colorado State is the class of the conference this year, weird as that sounds considering they've been so bad for so long. Meanwhile we pull off a massive nonconference upset over 75 prestige
Portland State in a rivalry game, 71-68 as we make a huge comeback and
Alvaro Houghton bangs in a clutch trey with 6 seconds left. He scored 16, while
Arthur Rodriguez had 19 points and 5 rebounds. PotG went to Viking, though.
Second game with
Montana next because the Big Sky doesn't believe in logical schedules like the Big West. The Grizzlies beat our asses this time because we go into a shooting funk again.
Another back-to-back? Wow, I hate this conference. Familiar tale of the tape on the road in Arizona:
Code:
Portland 81, Northern Arizona 73
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Portland (9-9, 3-2):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Bruce Boyd C 18 3-4 1-2 1 1 1 4 7
Dominique Judson PF 37 5-8 5-9 2 11 0 1 16
Arthur Rodriguez SF 35 4-12 4-4 4 7 0 1 12
Alvaro Houghton SG 34 5-14 3-6 5 10 4 3 16
Sid Johnson PG 32 6-11 5-8 1 4 2 1 21
Gary Hine PG 14 1-3 3-4 0 0 1 0 6
Chris Campbell PG 5 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 1 0
Heath Wagstaff C 19 1-3 0-0 1 6 0 4 3
Amos Stackhouse C 6 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 1 0
John Brown C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Turnovers: 8 (D.Judson 2, A.Rodriguez 1, A.Houghton 1,
S.Johnson 1, G.Hine 3)
Blocked Shots: 1 (A.Houghton 1)
Steals: 4 (D.Judson 1, A.Houghton 2, G.Hine 1)
3P FGs: 10-29 (D.Judson 1-2, A.Rodriguez 0-7,
A.Houghton 3-9, S.Johnson 4-8, G.Hine 1-2, H.Wagstaff
1-1)
Northern Arizona (5-12, 3-3):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Isaac Routh C 34 4-6 4-8 0 10 2 5 12
Cliff Baldwin PF 31 3-6 2-4 3 4 1 5 8
Junior Martinez SF 31 2-10 1-2 0 4 3 4 5
Roscoe Rodgers SG 32 9-15 0-0 4 5 2 2 21
Lawrence Bryant PG 25 2-9 2-2 1 3 2 1 7
Edwin Slayton PG 20 2-6 0-0 2 3 3 3 6
Oliver Michell PG 7 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 3
Jason Hulett PF 12 3-4 1-1 2 4 0 2 8
Tim Quick PF 4 0-0 3-4 0 1 0 0 3
Harland Merrick SG 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Reno Jackson PF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0
Charles Kowalski SF 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Turnovers: 10 (I.Routh 2, C.Baldwin 2, R.Rodgers 3,
E.Slayton 2, O.Michell 1)
Blocked Shots: 4 (I.Routh 1, C.Baldwin 2, L.Bryant 1)
Steals: 3 (C.Baldwin 1, L.Bryant 1, E.Slayton 1)
3P FGs: 8-21 (I.Routh 0-2, C.Baldwin 0-1, J.Martinez
0-3, R.Rodgers 3-7, L.Bryant 1-2, E.Slayton 2-3,
O.Michell 1-2, J.Hulett 1-1)
Player of Game: PG Sid Johnson (PORTL)
We don't have a bench to speak of, so we're top-heavy. Next night, we score 5 points in 10 minutes, and that's more than enough for
Eastern Washington to see us off.
83-73 road win over
Montana State in a wild, swingy, streaky game. We were down by almost 20 after the Bobcats didn't miss a single shot in the first 10 minutes.
Sid Johnson again - 20 points, 7 rebounds, and a steal.
Alvaro Houghton scores 17,
Bruce Boyd 13. And we have our first bench showing in a victory, with
Gary Hine scoring 11.
Either way, we're guaranteed to have hit at least the .500 conference goal in the first half. I'd really like a buffer. We get it, but it requires going to OT and
Arthur Rodriguez to nail a 3 point shot as time expires for the 80-78 win vs
Southern Utah. This is definitely a cardiac team. Every starter except
Dominique Judson scores 13 or more, with Rodriguez winning the game ball for his gamewinner, 14 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, and 3 steals.
Even better, we FINALLY land our second choice big man.
Code:
#10 C Rainier Roussell
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Height: 7-0
Weight: 235
High School:
Hometown: Beauvais, France
GPA: 2.67
Test Score: 1240
Rating: ***
Attributes:
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Type INS JPS FTS 3PS HND PAS ORB DRB PSD PRD STL BLK QKN STR JMP STA
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Current: 37 28 31 5 27 22 46 44 19 22 36 49 13 81 39 16
Potential: D B D F C D C B B C C C
Season Stats:
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PTS OREB REB AST TOS A/T STL BLK PFS
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15.4 1.8 8.8 0.9 1.7 0.55 1.2 4.2 2.3
Shooting Averages:
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FGM FGA FG% FTM FTA FT% 3PM 3PA 3P%
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6.5 11.6 .563 2.4 5.0 .470 0.1 0.4 .125
Recruiting Notes:
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Qualified: Yes
Committed to Portland
Rankings: Foreign #23 Overall, Foreign #4 C
High School Awards: None
Top 5 Schools: *Portland, Nebraska, California, Michigan State, Kent State
He kept holding out for a bigger school to offer before at last signing. Raw in a lot of areas, but I'm pretty excited about his defensive upside if the scouting is legit. As it stands, our new Frenchman's only real competition will be true freshman
Heath Wagstaff, who is honestly probably best suited to SF because he's a good perimeter defender, but terrible at post defense. Also, the 6th 3* in school universe history, the third since becoming a Big Sky member, and the first of my regime.
I wish I had a second scholarship to offer PG
Tony Smith, an Oregon All-State who is raw, but looks great. I didn't though, so he signed with conference foe
Eastern Washington. Hope that doesn't come back to haunt me in the following years.