Butler University Athletics

Butler fell at Boise State in the team's first road contest of the season, dropping a 100-81 decision to the host Broncos Sunday afternoon in Idaho.
 
Boise State used 17 three-pointers to take the win.
 
With the result, Boise State improves to 2-0 on the young season while Butler falls to 2-1.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:

• Boise State opened the game by making six of their first nine attempts from three-point range, capping a 12-0 run for a 26-10 lead at the 12:11 mark of the first half.
• The Broncos would nine three-pointers in all during the first 20 minutes in registering a 51-31 lead at the half, which was Boise State's largest of the first segment.
• The lead grew to 26 in the second half before the Bulldogs began to fight back.
• A 13-0 run by Butler cut the lead to 79-67 with 5:11 to play.
• Butler trimmed the advantage to as few as 11 shortly after before Boise State had a spurt to close the game.

 
TIP-INS:

• Boise State shot 17-for-35 (49 percent) from three-point range Sunday. Butler's defense had limited its two opponents to a combined 9-for-45 (20 percent) mark from three-point range.
• Aginaldo Neto (25) and Spencer Ahrens (24) led five Broncos in double figures. Neto and Ahrens combined for nine three-pointers.
• After making a combined 36 three-pointers over the team's first two games, Butler was only 8-for-36 from behind the arc Sunday (22 percent).
• Jalen Jackson and Eduardo Klafke each scored 19 points to lead Butler.
• Treyson Anderson posted his first double-double in a Butler uniform and the third of his career with 13 points and 13 rebounds.
• Nine of Butler's 15 turnovers came in the first half; in total, Boise State converted those turnovers into 18 points.
• Butler shot only 39 percent from the floor in the contest.
• Butler did make 15 of their 16 free throw attempts.
• Butler and Boise State have played in four consecutive seasons, encompassing all four tips in the series history. The first two match-ups came on neutral courts -- at the 2023 ESPN Events Invitational in Orlando and at The Crown in Las Vegas in 2025. Sunday's tip concluded a home-and-home series that saw the teams play in Indianapolis last season.
• Butler and Boise State played 11 months ago in Indianapolis; only four of the 20 participants in that box score are still on their team's respective roster: Butler's Drayton Jones and Boise State's Aginaldo Neto, Pearson Carmichael and Spencer Ahrens.

UP NEXT: The Bulldogs return to Hinkle Fieldhouse to host Pittsburgh Friday. Tickets are still available for the 6:30 p.m. start. The tip against the ACC foe begins a home-and-home series with the Panthers.