Women's Basketball
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL QUICKFACTS COACHING STAFF WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HISTORY Why the Bengals? Head Coach: Seton Sobolewski First Year of Women’s Basketball: 1974-75 season (38 years) How did Idaho State’s athletic teams become the Bengals, when there just (Northern Arizona, 2001) Overall All-Time Record: 471-552 (.460) aren’t any to be found in the region? A good question. Record at ISU: 68-55 (.552) (Four Seasons) Years in NCAA Tournament/Last: 3/2012 Last NCAA Opponent: Miami Originally, when the school was the Academy of Idaho in 1902, the school’s Career Record: Same Result: L, 70-41 (First Round) athletic teams were dubbed “Bantams”, and it stayed that way until 1917, Assistant Coach: Tony Giannotti (Second Season) Years in WNIT Tournament/Last: 3/2008 when J.A. Fogt became head football coach. Now Idaho Tech, the team’s (Southern Utah, 2000) Last WNIT Opponent: Boise State nickname was changed to “Tigers”, in part due to Ralph Hutchinson, who Assistant Coach: Laura Dinkins (First Season) Result: L, 77-54 (First Round) was the Director of Physical Education and Athletics. Hutchinson was a graduate of Princeton (the Tigers), so he founded the school’s first booster (Northern Arizona, 2008) Big Sky Tournament History/Last: 14 appearances/2012 club, the “I” Club, and brought the “Tiger” mascot with him. Graduate Assistant Coach: Kemie Nkele (Second Season) Last Big Sky Tournament Opponent: Northern Colorado (UC Riverside, 2009) Result: W, 49-46 (Finals) When the school became the University of Idaho-Southern Branch in Head Athletic Trainer: Jodi Wotowey NCAA Tournament History: Three Appearances (2001, 2007, 2012) 1927, the nickname switched to “Bengals”, although many newspaper and 2001-First Round, 2007-First Round, 2012-First Round (Saint Mary of the Plains, 1991) yearbook accounts refer to the team by both “Bengals” and “Tigers”.
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