Bobcats Host 1st-Place Idaho State
1/19/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Montana State faces the most difficult challenge of its league season todate, hosting Big Sky Conference-leading Idaho State at 7:05 pm Saturday in Worthington Arena. Already in the catbird’s seat for the host role of the league tournament, the Bengals bring a 5-0 Big Sky record to Bozeman after Thursday’s win in Missoula. Idaho State uses a suffocating zone defense, ‘the razor’, to allow league-low 61.4 points a game and 38% opponent field goal percentage. Backcourt mates David Schroeder (16.0) and Akbar Abdul-Ahad (14.4) lead ISU’s veteran lineup.
GAME FACTS
Idaho State at Montana State
DATE: January 20, 2007
TIPOFF: 7:05 pm
SITE: Bozeman
ARENA: Worthington Arena
RADIO: Bobcat Netw’k (Kris Atteberry)
VIDEO: BigSkyTV.org
NEXT TIME: 2/27/07 in Pocatello
Montana State at Northern Colorado
DATE: January 25, 2007
TIPOFF: 7 pm
SITE: Greeley, CO
ARENA: Butler-Hancock Pavilion
RADIO: Bobcat Netw’k (Kris Atteberry)
VIDEO: BigSkyTV.org
NEXT TIME: 2/21/07 in Bozeman
HIGHLIGHTS
• MSU’s 43-20 second half scoring advantage marked the first time the team had outscored the opponent in the second half in seven games
• The Bobcats’ win marked its first this season when trailing at halftime (in 12 tries)
• MSU hit just five three-pointers Thursday, half its average over the previous four games
STREAKS
• MSU has held the opponent to less than 50% shooting in 10 straight games, its longest streak of the season
• On Thursday, MSU snapped a string in which it was out-rebounded in three straight games
• After hitting at least 10 three-pointers in four straight games, MSU has gone two games without
NOTEWORTHY
• Nick Dissly has 940 career points
• The Cats out-shot their opponents from the field in each their five wins
Last Time Out
Montana State held Weber State to three baskets after halftime, turning an eight-point deficit into a runaway 63-48 victory in the team’s first home game in a month. Carlos Taylor scored a career-high 21 points and Nick Dissly added 15 to lead the Bobcats, who shot 61% from the floor in the second half. MSU avenged a 21-point loss in Ogden on January 6.
Three After Three
MSU has hit at least one three-pointer in the last 369 games. From 1986 to late ‘92-93 MSU rolled up 197 straight games with a trey, giving MSU at least one three in 566 of the last 567 games.
Bombin’
Although Brad Huse has made it clear that his teams won’t rely on three-point field goals to a degree that makes it a one-dimensional outfit, the Bobcats have shown long-range proficiency this season. The Bobcats nailed a school-record 15 triples against Great Falls, and is second in the Big Sky with 7.67 three-pointers a game. MSU is seventh in the league with a 33% rate from three-point land, but is second in three-point defense (also 33%).
Glasswork
Montana State’s rebounding work stands as perhaps the team’s most pleasant surprise this season. MSU averages 35.7 boards a game, second in the league, and is fifth in the Big Sky in rebound margin, less than a rebound a game out of first.
The Glass Master
MSU slipped to sixth in the league in rebound margin after the last three conference opponents out-rebounded the Bobcats, but remains just remains just over a board-and-a-half from the league’s top spot in that category. Much of MSU’s rebounding resurgence is due to the play of Ted Morris, presently second in the Big Sky with 7.5 a game.
Triple Threats
Two of MSU’s three in-state starters are moving up the school’s three-point charts. Senior Nick Dissly has 132 three-pointers in his career, ninth in school history, while junior Casey Durham has 109 treys, 13 short of joining the top 10.
Stalking 1,000
Nick Dissly continues a pace that will move him well into MSU’s 1,000-Point Club. Dissly enters the Weber game with 940 career points, and could finish with just over 1,100 in his career. That wouldn’t crack the school’s top 20 list in scoring, but it would grab for him the honor as MSU’s most productive scorer ever from Bozeman.
First-Year Facts
Brad Huse is working against history during his first season as MSU’s head coach. Since 1960, only two of the school’s seven head coaches posted a winning mark in his first season... Huse is the third straight Bobcat basketball coach to have previously served as an MSU assistant... MSU has now been coached by a native Montanan for 17 straight years.
GAME FACTS
Idaho State at Montana State
DATE: January 20, 2007
TIPOFF: 7:05 pm
SITE: Bozeman
ARENA: Worthington Arena
RADIO: Bobcat Netw’k (Kris Atteberry)
VIDEO: BigSkyTV.org
NEXT TIME: 2/27/07 in Pocatello
Montana State at Northern Colorado
DATE: January 25, 2007
TIPOFF: 7 pm
SITE: Greeley, CO
ARENA: Butler-Hancock Pavilion
RADIO: Bobcat Netw’k (Kris Atteberry)
VIDEO: BigSkyTV.org
NEXT TIME: 2/21/07 in Bozeman
HIGHLIGHTS
• MSU’s 43-20 second half scoring advantage marked the first time the team had outscored the opponent in the second half in seven games
• The Bobcats’ win marked its first this season when trailing at halftime (in 12 tries)
• MSU hit just five three-pointers Thursday, half its average over the previous four games
STREAKS
• MSU has held the opponent to less than 50% shooting in 10 straight games, its longest streak of the season
• On Thursday, MSU snapped a string in which it was out-rebounded in three straight games
• After hitting at least 10 three-pointers in four straight games, MSU has gone two games without
NOTEWORTHY
• Nick Dissly has 940 career points
• The Cats out-shot their opponents from the field in each their five wins
Last Time Out
Montana State held Weber State to three baskets after halftime, turning an eight-point deficit into a runaway 63-48 victory in the team’s first home game in a month. Carlos Taylor scored a career-high 21 points and Nick Dissly added 15 to lead the Bobcats, who shot 61% from the floor in the second half. MSU avenged a 21-point loss in Ogden on January 6.
Three After Three
MSU has hit at least one three-pointer in the last 369 games. From 1986 to late ‘92-93 MSU rolled up 197 straight games with a trey, giving MSU at least one three in 566 of the last 567 games.
Bombin’
Although Brad Huse has made it clear that his teams won’t rely on three-point field goals to a degree that makes it a one-dimensional outfit, the Bobcats have shown long-range proficiency this season. The Bobcats nailed a school-record 15 triples against Great Falls, and is second in the Big Sky with 7.67 three-pointers a game. MSU is seventh in the league with a 33% rate from three-point land, but is second in three-point defense (also 33%).
Glasswork
Montana State’s rebounding work stands as perhaps the team’s most pleasant surprise this season. MSU averages 35.7 boards a game, second in the league, and is fifth in the Big Sky in rebound margin, less than a rebound a game out of first.
The Glass Master
MSU slipped to sixth in the league in rebound margin after the last three conference opponents out-rebounded the Bobcats, but remains just remains just over a board-and-a-half from the league’s top spot in that category. Much of MSU’s rebounding resurgence is due to the play of Ted Morris, presently second in the Big Sky with 7.5 a game.
Triple Threats
Two of MSU’s three in-state starters are moving up the school’s three-point charts. Senior Nick Dissly has 132 three-pointers in his career, ninth in school history, while junior Casey Durham has 109 treys, 13 short of joining the top 10.
Stalking 1,000
Nick Dissly continues a pace that will move him well into MSU’s 1,000-Point Club. Dissly enters the Weber game with 940 career points, and could finish with just over 1,100 in his career. That wouldn’t crack the school’s top 20 list in scoring, but it would grab for him the honor as MSU’s most productive scorer ever from Bozeman.
First-Year Facts
Brad Huse is working against history during his first season as MSU’s head coach. Since 1960, only two of the school’s seven head coaches posted a winning mark in his first season... Huse is the third straight Bobcat basketball coach to have previously served as an MSU assistant... MSU has now been coached by a native Montanan for 17 straight years.
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