CHAMPIONSHIP CENTRAL: Vandals Face Bobcats with Tournament Title on the Line

📍 Boise, Idaho (Idaho Central Arena)
🗓 Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2 pm PT
📺 ESPNU

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BOISE, Idaho – After an enormous semifinal win yesterday, the Idaho Vandals Women’s Basketball crew (28-5, 17-1) performs the Montana State Bobcats (25-6, 16-2) in right now’s Big Sky Conference Championship sport.
The title sport is about to typoff at 2 pm PT, and could be seen on ESPNU. Tracy Warren and Angela Taylor could have the name on TV. Doug Taylor, the Voice of the Vandals, could be heard over the Varsity Network App. You can even hear Doug’s broadcast on Boise KFXD 630 AM and 105.5 FM in the Boise space.
This is the first time the Vandals have appeared in the championship sport since 2018. The 2019-20 Vandals gained the Big Sky semifinal and have been set to seem in the championship sport in opposition to Montana State, however the COVID-19 pandemic compelled the sport to be canceled. This can also be the first time each the males’s and ladies’s packages have appeared in the Big Sky title sport in the identical yr since 1989-90.
Idaho has had a historic season. The Vandals have now tied the faculty report for many wins in a season (28, 1984-85), and they’re at present using the longest successful streak in the program’s NCAA period (17). With 17 convention wins, the 2025-26 Vandals set a brand new program report for many convention wins in a season.
Coming into the championship sport, the Vandals have been the highest scoring offense in the Big Sky all season, and have been certainly one of the finest rebounding groups in the nation, main the convention on the glass all season.
This matchup is options vital star energy between the two groups who’ve been the finest in the Big Sky all yr lengthy. Idaho has the Big Sky Coach of the Year in Arthur Moreirain addition to the Big Sky’s Newcomer of the Year (Kyra Gardner) and Top Reserve (Debora Dos Santos). Gardner and Hope Hassmann have been each named First Team All-Big Sky, and Dos Santos was named Second Team All-Big Sky. Idaho’s Ana Pinheiro was chosen to the All-Defensive Team. Montana State has Taylee Chirrick who was named Big Sky MVP and Defensive Player of the Year. Chirrick and Addison Harris have been each named to the First Team All-Conference.
Idaho is aiming for its first berth in the NCAA Tournament since 2016.

IDAHO NOTES

• The Vandals have made 222 three-pointers this season and have made a 3 ball in 575 consecutive video games.
• With Arthur Moreira at the helm, Idaho has the first Brazilian head coach in Division I historical past. The Vandals even have the most Brazilians on roster of any crew in Division I with three.
• With 46 profession wins, Coach Moreira has surpassed Hall of Famer Tara VanDerveer for fifth-most wins in Idaho historical past.
• With a profession win share of .730, Moreira ranks third in Idaho historical past behind Pat Dobratz (.784) and VanDerveer (.750).
• Idaho has certainly one of the youngest teaching staffs in Division I, with a median age of 32.
• Debora Dos Santos simply surpassed the 1,000-career level plateau, whereas Hope Hassmann surpassed the milestone at Weber State this season.

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