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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”. The WNIT Tournament History: Three Appearances (2004, 2006, 2008) freshman teams during this time suffered the unfortunate distinction of the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach: Mark Campbell 2004-First Round, 2006-First Round, 2008-First Round nickname “Kittens”. (Idaho State, 1992) As a branch of the University of Idaho, the school’s colors were black and Big Sky Tournament History: 14 Appearances gold, just like the Vandals, and although the official colors switched to black ISU QUICK FACTS (1991, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and orange sometime in the 1940s, the football team wore black jerseys Founded: 1901 2012) with gold trim through the 60s. The squad also used red numerals for a Location: Pocatello, Idaho 1991-Semifinals while in the late 1940s, and the squads’ 1970 home jerseys were more red Enrollment: 14,489 1997-Semifinals than orange. It wasn’t until 1971 that a truly orange jersey was used by the football team for the first time. Nickname: Bengals 1998-Quarterfinals 2000-Semifinals Colors: Orange and Black The school’s official colors are black and orange (PMS 165), and the trim Affiliation: NCAA Division I 2001-Champions (ISU 68, UM 59 at ISU) color is gold (PMS 137), a small remembrance to harken back to ISU’s rich 2004-Finals history. Conference: Big Sky Conference 2005-Semifinals President: Dr. Arthur C. Vailas 2006-Semifinals Athletic Director: Jeff Tingey 2007-Champions (ISU 84 - NAU 78 at UM) SPORTS INFORMATION Assoc. Athletic Director: Nancy Graziano 2008-Quarterfinals Assistant Sports Information Director (Women’s Basketball Contact): 2009-Semifinals Athletic Phone: 208-282-4668 Jaime Schroeder Faculty Athletic Rep.: Dr. Scott Benson 2010-Quarterfinals 2011-Quarterfinals Cell Phone: 541-215-0838 2012-Champions (ISU 49 - NC 46 at ISU) Office Phone: 208-282-3651 Big Sky Regular Season Champions: Three E-mail: [email protected] (2001, 2006, 2012) Web Site Address: www.isubengals.com FAX/TICKETS Athletic Department FAX 282-4063 Ticket Information 282-FANS Idaho State Basketball Tradition 2011-12 NCAA Tournament Idaho State won the Big Sky Conference Tournament, defeating No. 2 seed Northern Colorado in the final, 49-46. Senior guard Chelsea Pickering and junior forward Ashleigh Vella led ISU with 12 points apiece. Sophomore Cydney Horton led the rebound effort with nine for Idaho State and recorded a game-high five blocks. Sophomore guard Lindsey Reed scored in double digits for the Bengals, notching 10 in the contest. The Bengals defeated Sacramento State in the semifinals, 70-57. Reed led ISU with her first double-double of the season, scoring 17 points and pulling down a career-high 11 rebounds. Horton, Pickering, Vella and junior guard Kaela Oakes also scored in double figures in the contest. For their excellent performances during the 2012 Big Sky Women’s Basketball Tournament sponsored by Idaho Central Credit Union, Ashleigh Vella and The Bengals practice on the court at MacCarthey Athletic Center at Gonzaga Lindsey Reed were named to the Big Sky Conference University prior to their first-round game against Miami (FL). All-Tournament team and Chelsea Pickering was named tournament MVP. Idaho State was led by junior forward Ashleigh Vella with 12 points and seven rebounds in the team’s third ever trip to the NCAA Tournament. Vella also tallied two blocks and three steals in the contest. The conference championship title sent ISU to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in program In her final game as a Bengal, senior Chelsea Pickering notched nine points, five rebounds, two steals history where the No. 14-seed Bengals faced No. and one assist. She ended her career with 1200 points, 401 rebounds, 216 assists and 153 steals. She 3-seed Miami (FL) in Spokane, Wash. ISU fell to the is third in program history for 3-point field goals made (138), sixth in steals (153), ninth in free throw Hurricanes 70-41 in the first round. percentage (75.7) and seventh in points (1200). “I’m very proud of our team to make it to this point,” ISU Head Coach Seton Sobolewski said. “I told them in the locker room, they helped make a dream of mine come true. As a coach, you work hard your whole life and you hope you get an opportunity to be a head coach someday and you hope that ISU Head Coach Seton Sobolewski celebrates you can put a team together that can make a run to win a championship and maybe play in the NCAA ISU’s Big Sky Conference Championship Tournament. I’m very, very proud of them and I told them I am indebted to them the rest of my life.” 2008-09 BIG SKY CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT Due to injuries the Bengals were reduced to eight active players for a majority of the season, but the strain didn’t keep the team down as they finished fourth in the regular season and made their 11th Big Sky tournament appearance. ISU faced off against Sacramento State in the first round where Oana Iacovita hit the game winning shot with .6 seconds left to give Idaho State a 78-76 overtime victory at the Dahlberg Arena handing ISU its first overtime contest in a Big Sky Tournament game in program history. Four Bengals posted double-figures in points with Jenna Brown leading ISU scoring 23 points. ISU shot 51.9 percent for the contest and 61.5 percent from the trey. ISU’s victory over the Hornets advanced them to the semifinal round where they had a near upset of eventual tournament champion Montana. The Bengals led Montana by 11 points in the first half and would reduce the Griz to a two point lead with 4:55 remaining before the Griz would take it away at the line to hand ISU a season ending Eric Connolly Eric Connolly 70-56 loss. Oana Iacovita would lead the Bengals with 22 points and seven rebounds followed by senior Jenna Brown with 15 points. The Bengals out-shot Montana in field goal percentage with 47.1 percent and three-point In 2009, the Bengals appeared in their 11th Big Sky Conference field goal percentage with 31.8 percent, but it was at the line that Montana stole the show hitting 19-of-22 while Tournament falling to eventual champion Montana after a near ISU reached the line just twice in the contest. upset. Pictured above is Oana Iacovita’s game-winning overtime shot against Sacramento State. 2007-08 WOMEN’S NIT Boise State went on a 16-0 run starting with 7:45 to go, turning a close physical 49-44 game into a runaway, as the Boise State Broncos picked up their first ever postseason win, defeating ISU 77-54 at Taco Bell Arena. The Bengals finished their season 20-10, while Boise State improved to 24-7, and they ran their home court winning streak to 17 straight dating back to last season. Both teams struggled mightily from the field, but the Broncos were able to counter that with 27 offensive rebounds, allowing them to survive a 31% shooting night by getting off 85 shots. The Bengals had cut a nine-point Bronco second half to just five after a perfect laser pass from Andrea Videback to Natalie Doma made it 49-44 with 7:58 to go, but after a media timeout, Tasha Harris sank two free throws to start a 16-0 run that spanned just 3:52. Boise State picked up 66 rebounds, including the 27 on offense as the two teams had 110 combined rebounds. The Bengals were led by Andrea Lightfoot, who scored 16 in her final game, and Natalie Doma had another double-double with 13 points and 17 rebounds, as she recorded her 77th consecutive double-figure scoring game, a school record.