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.

Who? The Bengals of Idaho State. What? Oh, please let Idaho State end up in the same pod as Princeton- the Princeton Tiger begat the Idaho State Bengal. Benny is not the most original name,...

Nigel Burton, the new head coach of the Portland State Vikings last season, installed a balanced attack (with lots of running from the pistol) in the pace of a pass-happy run-n-shoot. ...