Bobcat Cagers Close Home Season By Crushing Sac State

Saturday, February 28

Bozeman, Mont.

1 p.m.

Montana State University

17-13,11-6Big Sky

Sacramento State

9-20,5-12Big Sky

Sacramento St.

Montana St.

Jed Miller was brilliant in his final game in Worthington Arena

Photo by: Bobcat Creative Services

2/28/2026 6:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Box Score

Rebounding and a pair of hot shooters boost MSU to the win

By: Bill Lamberty

BOZEMAN, Mont. (Feb. 28, 2026) – The Montana State men's basketball team flew to Phoenix on Saturday evening in advance of Monday night's game at Northern Arizona, but it was a few hours earlier that the Bobcats really took off.

Jeremiah Davis hit a three-pointer with 14:22 to play to trigger a game-changing 17-3 run, boosting the Bobcats to an 82-61 home win over Sacramento State. The game closed the home portion of Montana State's regular season, but kept alive the team's hopes for a share of the Big Sky regular season championship. A win on Monday, coupled with a Portland State loss to Weber State, would give the Cats a share of the crown.

On Saturday, it was Davis and MSU sharpshooters Jed Miller and Seth Amunrud who owned the day, and the Bobcats who owned the glass. Montana State gathered in 50 rebounds, its most against a Division I opponent this season, and held the Hornets to just 21, the fewest by a Division I foe in 2025-26.

"In the scouting process you're always trying to find chinks in the (opponents') armor, and one of the Sacramento State chinks has been the rebounding battle," said MSU coach Matt Logie. "They're minus-seven on the glass in conference play, so we knew there was an opportunity there. But you have to go do the work to take advantage of it."

Amunrud scored a game-high 21 points with 10 rebounds to register his first double-double as a Bobcat, while Miller netted 18 points with nine rebounds and six assists in his final game in Worthington Arena. Davis added 16 points. Logie said persistence from the perimeter paid dividends as the game progressed.

"I think we got good looks in the first half," he said. "When a couple of them didn't go down early, I thought we passed up a couple more, and so at halftime, we just talked about being us. If we create a great uncontested three, that's what we work for, and in the second half they stepped up with confidence and kept finding each other and that's how you can get that snowball rolling a little bit."

The Bobcats also enjoyed an impressive performance from an emerging contributor. Freshman Howie Keene scored 11 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for his first double-double and career highs in both categories.

"It's incredibly impressive," Logie said. "He's run the race you ask of all freshmen that you really believe in to run. That is, to figure out how to get on the floor with your defense and rebounding, to be tough enough and resilient enough to understand it might not come right away, but stick to the process and be confident and be yourself. He's just done an exceptional job."

Since three one-minute appearances in a six-game stretch to open league play, Keene's opportunity began arriving. In MSU's most recent three games he's averaged 22 minutes, and on Saturday he helped boost a struggling Bobcats offense when his team needed him the most by scoring eight points with seven rebounds in the first half.

" Earlier in the year when he was getting DNPs and was not ready to play, we kept telling him, you're on the right path, we trust you, you just need the opportunity to come," Logie said. "The opportunity's now in front of him, and he's taking advantage of it just like, we hoped he would."

Montana State raised its record to 17-13 with the win, 11-6 in Big Sky play. The Hornets fall to 9-20, 5-12. The Bobcats close the regular season at Northern Arizona on Monday at 6 pm MT.

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