Mid-Major Basketball Coverage

Idaho will become the 12th member of the Big Sky Conference in 2014, leaving the WAC, and essentially nailing down the lid on the once great basketball league.

Junior college transfer Marko Kovacevic has been ruled ineligible to play for Montana because of a grade he received in math at Western Nebraska Community College. The ruling strips the Grizzlies of depth in the frontcourt for the coming season.

Montana's top defender and conference player of the year candidate Will Cherry is out for 6-8 weeks after reportedly breaking his foot. This has impacts from the national level on down to the conference race in the Big Sky.