Although its finale proved anticlimactic and downright disheartening, the 2017-18 Idaho men’s basketball season was fraught with unforgettable happenings, characters, noteworthy numbers and honors.
It began with a radiation of hope. The media and fellow Big Sky coaches picked the Vandals to finish first in the conference, therefore potentially earning their first NCAA Tournament bid since 1990.
It ended, however, with a blunder. Southern Utah, the No. 10 seed in the Big Sky Tournament, sent Idaho home early.
That was the dimmest point of this season, a season which, for the most part, was composed of exuberant finishes, breakthroughs and a certain quality of play which had been rare in Idaho teams of the past few years.