Idaho State seeks balanced play against Washington

Brock Mackenzie hopes to benefit from a homecoming as he leads Idaho State into his previous neighborhood to duel Washington in a nonconference males’s basketball sport Saturday evening in Seattle.

Mackenzie, a graduate switch from Level Loma Nazarene, performed his highschool ball at Eastside Catholic within the Seattle suburb of Sammamish.

The guard, only a second-team all-league choice in highschool, made a reputation for himself as a sophomore at Level Loma when he nailed a game-winning 3-pointer as a part of a 34-point explosion within the 2020 PacWest Convention event finals, incomes the Sea Lions an automated berth within the NCAA Division II Match.

Sadly, the season-ending occasion was canceled due to COVID.

Mackenzie left Level Loma as one in all its all-time main scorers and 3-point shooters. He has picked up at Idaho State the place he left off, presently averaging 13.5 factors whereas taking pictures 50 p.c on threes for the Bengals.

Coming off a 76-70 dwelling loss to St. Thomas of Minnesota, Idaho State (3-8) hasn’t had an issue scoring, level guard Miguel Tomley mentioned.

“Our rebounding needs to be our greatest factor that we have to change,” he mentioned. “And that has been one thing that is been instructed from the leap. So we have to get that straight.”

Rebounding was an issue the final time the Bengals visited Seattle. That they had simply 19 in an 85-66 shellacking in December of 2013.

Washington (8-3) was outrebounded 35-30 by Cal Poly in a hard-fought74-68 dwelling win on Tuesday. Keion Brooks was the distinction within the sport, hitting 10 of his 16 pictures en path to 30 factors.

The Huskies have alternated losses and wins since a 6-1 begin, however Brooks has been persistently good, averaging 17.8 factors per sport.

He credited his teammates after the Cal Poly efficiency.

“I kinda obtained right into a groove just a little bit,” the Kentucky switch mentioned. “My teammates did a fantastic job of discovering me. We made a variety of good choices. I used to be the beneficiary of it.”

–Discipline Degree Media