Boise State basketball versus LSU: Five things you should know
by Kevan Lee on Dec 9, 2011 2:08 PM PST
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PrintThings get real tomorrow night for the Boise State men's basketball team when it travels into SEC country to take on the LSU Tigers. Real exciting, that is. This Bronco team has a very good chance to pull off the upset, according to my irrational love of the team and the lofty expectations I place on everything I adore.
Tip-off is at 6:00 p.m. MT, and you can watch the game on TV if you are lucky enough to have LSU regional cable channel COX Sports. Radio listeners can get the game on 670 KBOI. To get you prepped and ready for your non-football Saturday sports watching, here are five things you need to know about LSU and the Broncos.
1. Former Boise State basketball player Trent Johnson is LSU's head coach. And people don't like him. He lost 14 of his last 15 games last season and was named one of the most overpaid coaches in America by Forbes magazine (HT: Scott Slant). His 2011 season includes a home loss on Thanksgiving Eve to South Alabama.
2. Boise State is the No. 9 team in the country in scoring, averaging nearly 85 points per game. Twenty-three of those points come courtesy of Australian freshman Anthony Drmic (15 ppg) and Igor Hadziomerovic (8 ppg). Throw another shrimp on the barbie, etc.!
3. The Broncos shoot a cool 50 percent from the field. LSU shoots a YBA-like 39 percent.
4. Saturday's game against LSU will be Boise State's fourth game in eight days, but it's all good. Idaho State was one of those four.
5. LSU plays its basketball in the 13,000-seat Pete Maravich Assembly Center, affectionately dubbed the "Deaf Dome" by none other than Dick Vitale who, due to being a billion years old, is possibly deaf. Ironic.
Note: OBNUG reader ihavenofriendzz took the liberty of starting an LSU gamethread 36 hours early.)
Your turn
What do you think of the Broncos' chances on Saturday? Are you hoping for a win? A good show? An Australian revolution? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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big game for our broncos
we are 8-0 at home…. 0-1 on the road. We will see how good our young team can handle adversity in a ruckus road atmosphere.
but broncos prevail. of course. go broncos
not worried about a crazy road atmosphere...
Tiger fans are too busy worrying about football to remember that LSU even has a bball team.
You can watch a stream off LSUsports.net for $13 bucks
I enjoy listening to Bob and Abe on KBOI 670 though
Can't Wait!
……will this be televised?
"you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"- WG#99
by BustersBroncosBustsBCS on Dec 9, 2011 2:52 PM PST reply actions
13 sweet dollars to LSU athletics...........no thanks
"you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"- WG#99
by BustersBroncosBustsBCS on Dec 9, 2011 2:53 PM PST reply actions
EXACTLY, and Bob is a great
You might score a free online stream somewhere, who knows.
by BSUbluNorange on Dec 9, 2011 3:12 PM PST up reply actions
Re-Activated! and Re-Energized
Up until about three years ago we had basketball season tickets in addition to our football season tickets. When ticket prices for football continued to rise, we got rid of our basketball tickets. It wasn’t a hard choice to make. After all, watching Graham coach a game was more pain than it was worth. Now I’m regretting letting go of my season tickets (I hope I can find someone willing to sell me theirs). Not that the arena is packed, I’m wishing I could have that decision back. Wait…there are plenty of season tickets you say? Seven dollars a person tickets you say? I’m sincerely Re-energized about this team. Go Broncos, and God bless coach Rice.
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Teddy Roosevelt, the great optimist.
by Glass Half Full on Dec 9, 2011 3:13 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Shrimp on the Barbie?
Paul Hogan has alot to be held acountable for. There is nothing less dinky di or true blue than that phrase :)
Great to read about Anthony we Aussies love hearing about one of us going well in the states. If no one heard we claimed Kyrie Irving as the next big thing for the Australian national team after learning he was born and lived here until the ripe old age of 2!
Go Broncos
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
To those of us culturally unaware...
What ought we to say? So as to NOT incur the wrath of Oz
--To my brothers of FOOL (Fraternal Order of Offensive Lineman - Medio, turpis et arcu agro usque)
There be no wrath
We aussies are a placid bunch. We understand the phrase. But if you wanted to invite an Aussie to a bbq words are not needed. Just the crack of can and all is understood.
BTW we call shrimp prawns and we rarely have them on the barbie. It’s more a snag (sausage) or a very well done piece of cow. And everything is marinated in beer. We would even clean the hot plate with beer if there was enough to go around.
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
by Moutoa on Dec 10, 2011 7:05 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Everything goes better with beer...
so my mates from down under say. Through my military career, soccer teams, etc, they are some of the best true blue (really) friends you could ever have. When I was a little kid, I can remember my dad hanging with his flying mates from Australia’s RAAF. They had just met but you would have sworn they had known each for 20 years. Taking the family down there as soon as I can!!
If my YBA team were allowed on the intergoogle...
They’d be offended. Hmph
Everybody, pizza party after the game!
--To my brothers of FOOL (Fraternal Order of Offensive Lineman - Medio, turpis et arcu agro usque)
Hopefully we beat them so bad in basketball...
that they feel the need to “avenge” it by scheduling us in football. :)
Clippers // Chargers // Rays // Boise State
"The Lakers do win games. But things can change." - Blake Griffin
by 82-0 on Dec 9, 2011 5:33 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I think I could live with that ...
If you twist my arm … that’s enough …
"Boise State football is now a Fargo winter. You know what's coming, and that information does you no good whatsoever". Matt James / The Fresno Bee
"The BCS and Sugar Bowl owe Kellen Moore a hand-written apology on a Hallmark card." ... Chris Dufresne, LA Times
by Lestermeister on Dec 10, 2011 5:52 AM PST up reply actions
This could be quite a statement...
my dislike of the Bayou Bengals goes back, way back. I am supposed to go to a wedding tonight but will have the game on the radio, discretely. Go Broncos!
Oh yeah, BEAT ARMY!!!
Nope, not a good outing at all.
I followed as well as I could from SLC…but from averaging over 80 to 40 something or whatever the final was, not encouraging. Learning experience for the young team, I suppose. I’ll keep following, but geeeez I’m anxious for us to be better than this.
and
here I was thinking of trying to make it to the Iowa game.
"And don't you think it sounds stupid, When some one's treated different cause there not the same as me or you?"
"As time passes by, regrets for the rest of my life."
"I want it, I need it, Revenge is dripping from my teeth."
"Everywhere we turn more hatred surrounds us."
"Too many talk down on things they don't know."
-A7X
by Ihavenofriendzz on Dec 10, 2011 7:13 PM PST reply actions
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2012 Boise State Football Schedule
@ Michigan State  |
Fri 08/31 | 6:00 p.m. MT |
| Miami (OH) | Sat 09/15 | 2:00 p.m. MT |
| BYU |
Thu 09/20 | TBA |
| @ New Mexico | Sat 09/29 | TBA |
| @ Southern Miss | Sat 10/06 | TBA |
| Fresno State | Sat 10/13 | 1:30 p.m. MT |
| UNLV | Sat 10/20 | 1:30 p.m. MT |
| @ Wyoming |
Sat 10/27 | 1:30 p.m. MT |
| San Diego State | Sat 11/03 | 8:30 p.m. MT |
| @ Hawaii | Sat 11/10 | 5:00 p.m. MT |
| Colorado St. | Sat 11/17 | 1:30 p.m. MT |
| @ Nevada | Sat 12/1 | TBA |
