MOSCOW, Idaho – The Idaho men's basketball team fell to Sacramento State, 67-56, on Saturday afternoon. The Vandals (7-20, 3-13 BSC) made a late comeback bid, but the Hornets (14-12, 7-10 BSC) held on to win and earn the season split.

THE GAME
After Sac State got a quick basket to start the game, Damen Thacker drilled a three-pointer to give the Vandals a 3-2 lead. However, the Hornets would take it right back with a layup by Osi Nwachukwu on their next possession. Ultimately SAC would not relinquish the lead again. After the visitors built a small cushion, a Scott Blakney layup with 12:45 to play in the first brought the Vandals within two points, 10-8, before the Hornets would push their lead out to as many as 11. Sac State entered halftime with a 28-19 lead.
 
Babacar Thiombane opened the scoring in the second half, but Sacramento State used a 19-7 run to take a 19-point lead, 47-28, with under 13 to play. The Vandals began to slowly chip away at the lead. The home side closed the game outscoring the Hornets, 16-11, in the final six minutes, with half of the Vandals' points coming from Trevon Allen. However, Idaho was unable to string together enough stops to get closer than eight points, and fell, 67-56.
 
Trevon Allen led the Vandals with 21 points, while Quinton Forrest had 10 points and nine rebounds.
 
THE NOTES
Trevon Allen moved into 10th place on the Vandals' all-time career scoring list. He now sits at 1264 total points.
 
Allen reached 20 points for the 15th time this season and led Idaho in scoring for the 20th game. He had just four points in the first half but scored 17 in the final 20 minutes.
 
The Vandals were edged in rebounding, 34-32.
 
The Hornets scored 44 points in the paint compared to 26 for the Vandals.
 
Idaho finished the game shooting 39.3 percent (22-for-56) after shooting just 7-for-25 (28.0 percent) in the first half.
 
THE NAME
Quinton Forrest. Forrest scored 10 points and had nine rebounds in the game. In 30 minutes of play the graduate student had four offensive boards, half of the Vandals' total.

THE QUOTES – Zac Claus

Trevon Allen, Quinton Forrest

 
UP NEXT
The Vandals hit the road for the final two away games of the regular season. Idaho takes on Northern Colorado beginning at 6 p.m. pacific time on Thursday, February 27.