The Vandals’ promising start to winter break took a turn for the worse on Thursday.
Idaho lost to UC Irvine 67-59, snapping a two-game win streak. The normally sharp-shooting Vandals could not get any sort of rhythm going, and their off night shooting the ball sank the team’s chances of recording their first win at the Centurylink Arena in Boise since 2013.
To the Vandals’ credit, the game was never fully out of reach. Irvine never broke out into a double-digit lead and the lead changed six different times. It wasn’t until the final minutes of the second half that the Anteaters were able to establish a lead greater than six points.