On six different occasions in the second half, the Boise State men’s basketball team pulled within three points of Drake.
While the Broncos had little trouble manufacturing points, they couldn’t come up with the necessary defensive stops to ultimately close the gap in an 83-74 loss to the Bulldogs on Tuesday at the Knapp Center in Des Moines, Iowa.
“You can’t just hope some of your problems go away. That’s a really bad strategy,” Boise State coach Leon Rice said during a postgame radio interview with Bob Behler on 670 AM.
“You have to make them go away, and right now we’re not doing a good enough job of that.