The thought of three games in five days with the last two against two white hot teams on the road was already hard to fathom - especially with only eight players.
After a 30-point loss to Fresno State on February 1st, the Spartans (7-15, 0-10 MW) suffered a 16-point loss at Utah State, where they actually played their best half of basketball all year – all with only a seven-man rotation for head coach Tim Miles.
Spark plug forward Trey Anderson suffered a head injury two-minutes into the Utah game and missed playing at Boise.
Now, they were seven.