Northwestern is preparing to take on Boise State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Thursday at the Golden 1 Center.
Northwestern players celebrate after being announced as the No. 7 seed in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament during a Selection Sunday watch party at Welsh-Ryan Arena on March 12, 2023, in Evanston. The Wildcats will play No. 10 seed Boise State.
Now Rice wants to do the same for his Boise State team that is looking for its first tournament win when the 10th-seeded Broncos take on the seventh-seeded Wildcats in a West Region game Thursday at the Golden 1 Center .“The last couple years we’ve done a lot of checking off boxes that this program has never done before,” Rice said. “That’s one of the last boxes I think would be huge for this program, to check off an NCAA Tournament win.
Boise State has been to this stage a lot more, making its ninth trip. But the Broncos have lost their opening-round game the previous eight times, including 64-53 to Memphis last year. After making the tournament for the first time in 2017 — in what coach Chris Collins said was viewed by many fans like a Final Four at other schools — success has been harder to come by at Northwestern.
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