📍 Boise, Idaho (Idaho Central Arena)
🗓 Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2 p.m. PT
📺  ESPNU
📻 Listen Live (Game can also be heard on Boise KFXD 630 AM, and 105.5 FM, as well as the Varsity Network App)
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BOISE, Idaho – After a big semifinal win yesterday, the Idaho Vandals Women's Basketball team (28-5, 17-1) plays the Montana State Bobcats (25-6, 16-2) in today's Big Sky Conference Championship game. 
 
The title game is set to tipoff at 2 p.m. PT, and can be seen on ESPNU. Tracy Warren and Angela Taylor will have the call on TV. Doug Taylor, the Voice of the Vandals, can be heard over the Varsity Network App. You can also hear Doug's broadcast on Boise KFXD 630 AM and 105.5 FM in the Boise area. 
 
This is the first time the Vandals have appeared in the championship game since 2018. The 2019-20 Vandals won the Big Sky semifinal and were set to appear in the championship game against Montana State, but the COVID-19 pandemic forced the game to be canceled. This is also the first time both the men's and women's programs have appeared in the Big Sky title game in the same year since 1989-90. 
 
Idaho has had a historic season. The Vandals have now tied the school record for most wins in a season (28, 1984-85), and they are currently riding the longest winning streak in the program's NCAA era (17). With 17 conference wins, the 2025-26 Vandals set a new program record for most conference wins in a season. 
 
Coming into the championship game, the Vandals have been the highest scoring offense in the Big Sky all season, and have been one of the best rebounding teams in the nation, leading the conference on the glass all season.
 
This matchup is features significant star power between the two teams who have been the best in the Big Sky all year long. Idaho has the Big Sky Coach of the Year in Arthur Moreira, as well as the Big Sky's Newcomer of the Year (Kyra Gardner) and Top Reserve (Debora Dos Santos). Gardner and Hope Hassmann were both named First Team All-Big Sky, and Dos Santos was named Second Team All-Big Sky. Idaho's Ana Pinheiro was selected to the All-Defensive Team. Montana State has Taylee Chirrick who was named Big Sky MVP and Defensive Player of the Year. Chirrick and Addison Harris were both named to the First Team All-Conference.
 
Idaho is aiming for its first berth in the NCAA Tournament since 2016. 

IDAHO NOTES 

• The Vandals have made 222 three-pointers this season and have made a three ball in 575 consecutive games.
• With Arthur Moreira at the helm, Idaho has the first Brazilian head coach in Division I history. The Vandals also have the most Brazilians on roster of any team in Division I with three.
• With 46 career wins, Coach Moreira has surpassed Hall of Famer Tara VanDerveer for fifth-most wins in Idaho history. 
• With a career win percentage of .730, Moreira ranks third in Idaho history behind Pat Dobratz (.784) and VanDerveer (.750).
• Idaho has one of the youngest coaching staffs in Division I, with an average age of 32.
• Debora Dos Santos just surpassed the 1,000-career point plateau, while Hope Hassmann surpassed the milestone at Weber State this season.

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