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1975–76 Idaho Vandals Men's Basketball Team
The 1975–76 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 1975–76 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Members of the Big Sky Conference, the Vandals were led by second-year head coach Jim Jarvis and played their home games on campus at the Memorial Gymnasium and Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho. They were 7–19 overall and 3–11 in conference play. The Vandals played their first game in the Kibbie Dome on Wednesday, January 21, against Palouse rival Washington State of the Pac-8. It was commemorated with a visit by Vandal great Gus Johnson, who played in the preliminary alumni game. The evening easily set a school attendance record for basketball at 6,449, which stood for five years. No Vandals were named to the all-conference team; senior guard Steve Weist and senior forward Ervin Brown were honorable mention. It was the fourth selection for Weist. The conference tournament debuted this season; through 1983, it was hoste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Jarvis
James C. Jarvis (born March 3, 1943) is an American former basketball player and coach. He played professionally in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and later coached at the NCAA Division I level for the University of Idaho. Early years Born in Caldwell, Idaho, Jarvis' parents were Curtis E. and Margaret Helen (Mumford) Jarvis. His father was a high school basketball head coach, first at Caldwell High. In the early 1950s, the family moved from Caldwell to Coquille, Oregon, where Curt coached at Coquille High School. He later moved to Roseburg High School when Jim was a high school sophomore. A point guard, Jarvis played collegiately at Oregon State University in Corvallis, where he helped the Beavers win the NCAA West Regional championship in 1963 and earn their first Final Four appearance. An honorable mention All-American as a senior in 1965, Jarvis also played baseball for the Beavers, and had a brief career as an infielder in the minor leagues in 1966. He was lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980–81 Idaho Vandals Men's Basketball Team
The 1980–81 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team represented the University of Idaho during the 1980–81 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Vandals were led by third-year head coach Don Monson and played their home games on campus at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho. Idaho won its first eleven games (including road wins at Nebraska, Washington State, and Gonzaga), went in the regular season, and won the Big Sky Conference regular season championship, their first conference title in 58 years. The Vandals' conference record earned them the host position for the conference tournament (top four teams of the eight), which Seeded seventh in the West region of the 48-team NCAA tournament, they traveled to El Paso, In the first round, Idaho lost by one point in overtime to they ended at , with most of the key players returning. Polls Idaho was ranked for the first time in school history in February, for three weeks in the UPI coaches poll. Curiously, they entere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idaho Vandals Men's Basketball Seasons
Idaho ( ) is a landlocked state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west; the state shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border to the north with the Canadian province of British Columbia. Idaho's state capital and largest city is Boise. With an area of , Idaho is the 14th-largest state by land area. The state has a population of approximately two million people; it ranks as the 13th-least populous and the seventh-least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. For thousands of years, and prior to European colonization, Idaho had been inhabited by natives. In the early 19th century, Idaho was considered part of the Oregon Country, an area which was disputed between the U.S. and the British Empire. Idaho officially became a U.S. territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty of 1846, but a separate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1982 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 5–6 at the Kibbie Dome at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Top-seeded 1981–82 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team, Idaho defeated in the championship game, 85–80, to clinch their second consecutive (and second overall) Big Sky men's basketball tournament. Entering the conference tournament, Idaho was and ranked sixth in both national polls (AP, UPI), then fell to eighth in 1981–82 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings, both final polls the following week. Format First played in 1976 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament, 1976, the Big Sky tournament had the same format for its first eight editions. The regular season champion hosted and only the top four teams from the standings took part, with seeding based on regular season conference records. Idaho's sole conference loss was to Montana in Missoula. Nevada–Reno made their first Big Sky tournament appearance in their third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1981 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament was the sixth edition of the tournament, and was held March 6–7 at the Kibbie Dome at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Top-seeded Idaho defeated in the championship game, 70–64, to clinch their first Big Sky tournament title. Format First played in 1976, the Big Sky tournament had the same format for its first eight editions. The regular season champion hosted and only the top four teams from the standings took part, with seeding based on regular season conference records. No new teams qualified for the Big Sky tournament this year. This was the first year in which three-time defending champion Weber State was not in the title game; the Wildcats tied for fifth and failed to make the field. Bracket NCAA tournament The Vandals received an automatic bid to the 48-team NCAA tournament, their first appearance, and were seeded seventh in the West region. They lost to Pittsburgh by a point in overtime at El P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1980 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament was the fifth edition of the tournament, held February 29 and March 1 at the Dee Events Center at Weber State College in Ogden, Utah. Top-seeded Weber State defeated in the championship game, 50–42, to clinch their third consecutive Big Sky tournament title. The Wildcats had played in all five finals, dropping the first two. Format Introduced in 1976, the Big Sky tournament had the same format for its first eight editions. The regular season champion hosted and only the top four teams from the standings took part, with seeding based on regular season conference records. Second-seeded Idaho made its inaugural appearance in the conference tournament, having been in last place in the previous five seasons. Membership in the Big Sky remained at eight: Gonzaga left in the summer of 1979 for the WCAC and was replaced by Nevada–Reno. Bracket NCAA tournament Weber State received the automatic bid to the expanded 48-tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1983 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 11–12 at Centennial Coliseum Weber State defeated in the championship game to clinch their fourth Big Sky tournament title. and Wolf Pack were the regular season co-champions, while Idaho was attempting to win a third consecutive This was the twentieth season for the Big Sky and its first employing the three-point shot, for conference play only, with the line at . adopted the three-point shot for the 1986–87 season, at a considerably shorter Format First played in 1976, the Big Sky tournament had the same format for its first eight editions. The regular season champion hosted and only the top four teams from the standings took part, with seeding based on regular season records. No teams made their inaugural tournament appearances this season. This year was the final Big Sky tournament with four teams; it expanded to include all eight teams in 1984. The first tiebreaker in the standings were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1976 Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament was held at the Wildcat Gym at Weber State College in This was the first edition of the tournament. The top three teams had the same 9–5 conference record and the fourth was a game back; the top two seeds won their Boise State defeated Weber State in the championship game, 77–70 in and received an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, their first appearance, but fell to UNLV in Format The Big Sky had eight members for the 1975–76 season, but only the top four teams from the standings qualified for the tournament, and the regular season champion was the host. This format was in place for the first eight editions, This was the thirteenth year of the conference and the ninth season in which the Big Sky champion had an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament, all in the West regional. Two years earlier, a one-game tiebreaker playoff was required to determine also won by the The seeding of the three co-cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sky Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The Big Sky Conference men's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in men's basketball for the Big Sky Conference. The event has been held annually since 1976, the conference's thirteenth year. The tournament winner earns a berth in the NCAA Division I tournament. Format and host sites For the Big Sky's first twelve seasons, it did not have a conference tournament. Starting with its fifth season of the regular season champion received a berth in the West regional of the NCAA tournament. an unscheduled tiebreaker playoff was held; the two had identical records (conference & overall) and each had won at home to split the season series; visiting Idaho State prevailed at Montana in the Tuesday night playoff. For the tournament's first eight editions (1976–1983), only the top four teams (of eight) in the conference standings participated. The tournament expanded to eight teams in 1984, then scaled back to six in 1989. Before 2016, when the tournament ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Johnson (basketball)
Gus (Honeycomb) Johnson Jr. (December 13, 1938 – April 29, 1987) was an American college and professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA). A chiseled , forward who occasionally played center, Johnson spent nine seasons with the Baltimore Bullets before he split his final campaign between the Phoenix Suns and Indiana Pacers, where he won the ABA championship in his final game. He was a five-time NBA All-Star before chronic knee issues and dubious off-court habits took their tolls late in his career. Johnson was the prototype of the modern NBA power forward, a rare combination of brute strength, deceptive quickness, creative flair and startling leaping ability who played with equal flair and ferocity at both ends of the court. Well known for his frequent forays above the rim, he was among the first wave of great dunk shot artists in the game. He shattered three backboards on dunk attempts in his career, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kibbie Dome
The P1FCU Kibbie Dome, known simply as the Kibbie Dome and formerly named the Kibbie-ASUI Activity Center, is a multi-purpose indoor athletic stadium on the campus of the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. It is the home of the Idaho Vandals of the Big Sky Conference for four sports (Idaho Vandals football, football, tennis, indoor track and field, College soccer in the United States, soccer). Idaho Vandals men's basketball, Basketball was played in the venue until the autumn 2021–22 Idaho Vandals men's basketball team, 2021 opening of the adjacent Idaho Central Credit Union Arena (ICCU Arena). The Kibbie Dome opened as an outdoor concrete football stadium in October 1971 Idaho Vandals football team, 1971, built on the same site of the demolished wooden Neale Stadium. Following the 1974 Idaho Vandals football team, 1974 season, a barrel-arched roof and vertical end walls were added and the stadium re-opened as an enclosed facility in September 1975 Idaho Van ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
