Just hours after Idaho Central Credit Union bestowed $10 million for naming rights toward Idaho’s impending new basketball arena, both Idaho men’s basketball and Sacramento State appeared to still be in the giving mood, exchanging the edge in what could be described as a game of advantage hot-potato.
It was a contest full of interchanging droughts, runs and sometimes objectively head-scratching moments, but Idaho came out on top 69-68 against a Hornet team which was given almost no realistic shot to win by the sports media.
It wasn’t as if the Vandals turned in an ostensibly poor performance against the now 4-11 Hornets, but almost as if neither team felt entirely justified to win or lose.