The Bucks are one loss away from elimination in the first round, and they will have to play all their remaining games without star point guard and former Weber State Wildcat Damian Lillard, who tore his left Achilles tendon in a game 4 loss on Sunday evening.
While road games can normally be difficult for Wildcats fans to attend, former Weber State forward and current member of the Oklahoma City Thunder Dillon Jones is providing transportation from the Dee Events Center in Ogden to the ICCU Dome in Pocatell and tickets to the game between the Wildcats and Bengals free of charge for 50 fans.
The Weber State Wildcats have now lost four games in a row, including their first two in Big Sky Conference play, dropping to 6-10 on the year and finding themselves in a hole halfway through the season.
The Utah Jazz dropped their fifth straight game to the Thunder in Oklahoma City. Although the Jazz lost, two members of the Thunder who played their college basketball in Utah got minutes in the NBA Cup matchup.
The Weber State Wildcats traveled to Arizona as part of College Basketball's Feast Week and participated in the Arizona Tip-Off Desert Division where they battled with three other teams for the championship.
Winning at big-time college sports has never been free, but in a rapidly changing era in which players are allowed to earn money and be paid by their own schools, it has never been clearer that fans will be picking up a bigger part of the tab.
Dyson Koehler led the way for the Wildcats with 22 points on 7-9 shooting, including six 3-pointers as Weber State defeated Northwest Indian College 118-35, etching their names in the history books with their largest margin of victory in school history.