RTC Conference Primers: #18 – Big Sky Conference
Posted by jstevrtc on October 18th, 2010
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Predicted Order of Finish
- Weber State (14-2)
- Montana (12-4)
- Northern Colorado (11-5)
- Northern Arizona (11-5)
- Montana State (10-6)
- Eastern Washington (8-8)
- Portland State (6-10)
- Sacramento State (5-11)
- Idaho State (3-13)
All-Conference Team (key stats from last season in parenthesis)
- Damian Lillard (G) – Weber State (19.9 PPG, 4.0 RPG, 1.1 SPG, 85.3% FT)
- Cameron Jones (G) – Northern Arizona (19.3 PPG, 4.3 RPG, 1.3 SPG, 50.2% FG)
- Devon Beitzel (G) – Northern Colorado (14.3 PPG, 3.3 RPG, 2.0 SPG)
- Brian Qvale (C) – Montana (10.2 PPG, 7.1 RPG, 2.0 BPG, 61.5% FG)
- Bobby Howard (F) – Montana State (14.3 PPG, 5.8 RPG, 51.8% FG)
Sixth Man
- Broderick Gilchrest (G) – Idaho State (15.5 PPG, 3.2 APG, 2.0 SPG)
Top Newcomer
- Vaughn Autry, Montana
- Lillard, Now Only A Junior, Is Your Reigning Big Sky MVP
What You Need To Know
- In the mood to watch some Big Sky hoops? You’re in luck. The only thing standing between you and it is either a road trip to a game, or a visit to www.bigskytv.org, where the conference will live-stream every game played at any Big Sky gym — and it’s free!
- The Big Sky Tournament is one seriously exclusive gathering, probably second only to that in the Garden of Eden. Only six teams get into the conference’s post-season bash — the bottom three regular season finishers can start studying for finals early.
- It might be a small conference, but they don’t exactly grow ’em small in Big Sky country. Montana will boast nice length along their front line, starting 6’11 Brian Qvale and 7’0 Derek Selvig (6.0 PPG, 5.1 RPG last year in 20.8 MPG). They’ll get their shots at the big time when they travel to Nevada, Utah, and UCLA early in the season and host Oregon State on December 15.
