After a solid win against the SMU Mustangs, the men’s basketball team heads to Evansville, Indiana to face, well, the Evansville Purple Aces. This matchup is one (of ten matches) between the Mountain West Conference and the Missouri Valley Conference. The two conferences previously squared off between 2009 to 2012, and picked up again last year with the MWC holding the overall lead 3-1-1.
If the Purple Aces sounds familiar, it should, as the Broncos last squared off against Evansville in Coach Leon Rice’s first year at Boise State. The two teams met in the College Basketball Invitational where the Broncos beat the Aces to help propel the Broncos into the semifinals that year (where the Broncos ran into familiar foe Oregon).