Coach Leon Rice's squad will be doing it again with shooters and playmakers plus one big, a formula that worked very well (21-11, 9-7) last season.
Backcourters Anthony Drmic and Derrick Marks are the top Bronco scorers and fellow guard Jeff Elorriaga is one of the best catch-and-shoot marksmen around. Out of his 225 total shot attempts, 188 were from beyond the three-point line and he connected on 42% of them. Incredibly, he's a former walk-on.
Let's see how much help Ryan Watkins, the nominal big, can get upfront from newcomer frontcourters James Webb and Nicholas Duncan.
To illustrate the degree in which Boise played small, Watkins at 6-foot-8 was the starter in the middle and on the court for 23 minutes an outing. He averaged 8.4 points and 6.8 boards each time out while shooting 62%. Yet Rice's squad out-rebounded opponents on the year.
Boise State will be an upper division finisher in the coming season.
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