No. 5 Boise State women’s basketball will play No. 12 San Jose State in the first round of the 2026 Credit Union 1 Mountain West Women’s Basketball Championship. The matchup is set for March 7 at 3:30 p.m. MT in Las Vegas and will be broadcast on the Mountain West Network and KBOI 670 AM.
The winner of this game will advance to face No. 4 New Mexico in the quarterfinals on March 8, also at 3:30 p.m. MT.
Boise State currently leads the nation with four active players—Natalie Pasco, Tatum Thompson, Dani Bayes, and Mya Hansen—who have each scored over 1,000 points entirely with the Broncos program.
San Jose State enters the tournament with a record of 4-27 overall and a conference mark of 2-18. The Spartans are still looking for their first win outside their home arena this season; their most recent victory was against Utah State on February 18 by a score of 58-56. The team ranks second in the Mountain West in blocks per game (3.9), with Gabriela Pato third individually at 1.2 blocks per game. Boise State has won its last seven games against San Jose State and holds a lifetime record of 32-14 over them, including an undefeated record (3-0) at neutral sites.
Head coach Gordy Presnell has recorded his twenty-first Mountain West tournament win, ranking him second behind New Mexico’s Don Flanagan, who has twenty-two wins.
All five Boise State starters—Bayes, Hansen, Libby Hutton, Pasco, and Tatum Thompson—have surpassed two hundred points this season. They were also the first team in the conference to have five players exceed both one hundred and one hundred fifty points.
This season marks Boise State’s fourteenth conference win for the first time since collecting nineteen during the 2018–19 campaign; it is Presnell’s second time reaching that total since joining Boise State.
With twenty-three wins so far this year—their highest total since recording twenty-nine victories in the shortened pandemic season—the Broncos have reached this milestone seven times under Presnell’s leadership (five times as part of Mountain West competition).
Boise State has outscored opponents by more than one hundred points in third quarters throughout this season (608–490). When outrebounding their opponents they are seventeen-and-one.
A Bronco player has led scoring in twenty-two out of thirty-one games played; Tatum Thompson did so eight times while Pasco led five times, Bayes four times, Hutton four times, and Hansen once.
Presnell currently ranks eighteenth all-time among NCAA Division I women’s basketball coaches with seven hundred ninety-two career victories and fourth among active D1 head coaches.
The Broncos lead both their conference and rank second nationally by converting thirty-eight point four percent (218-of-567) from three-point range—behind only UConn’s thirty-nine point four percent (292-of-742).
Pasco leads all MW players with seventy-five made threes this season while shooting forty-four point one percent from beyond the arc—a mark good enough for tenth-best nationally—and averages two point four made threes per game.
Tatum Thompson holds first place individually within MW rankings for field goal percentage at forty-seven point three percent.
Mya Hansen tops all MW players with one hundred thirty-six assists (four point four per game), contributing to a team average sixteen point two assists per contest—the best rate among conference teams.
Boise State averages seventy-point-one points per game offensively—the second-highest figure in its league—and boasts individual performances like Bayes’ single-game seventy-seven point eight percent shooting from deep against UC Davis on November Fourteenth; her performance ties for second-best single-game percentage ever recorded by a Bronco player while placing thirteenth nationally for any single contest this year.
Bayes now ranks fourth all-time at Boise State for career three-pointers made (209), trailing only Pasco who is second overall (270).
The Broncos finished their home schedule with fifteen wins inside ExtraMile Arena—their highest home total since the two thousand seven–eight campaign—and notched six road wins including one at San Jose State; it is their best away record since two thousand nineteen–twenty.
Their nine-game conference winning streak earlier this year was snapped on February Eleventh by Fresno State but marked their longest such run since joining Mountain West play.
Several career milestones were achieved during regular-season action: Both Bayes and Tatum Thompson surpassed one thousand career points versus Grand Canyon January Third—with Thompson also reaching five hundred rebounds—and Hansen scored her own thousandth career point against New Mexico February Seventh.
Against Wyoming January Fourteenth twelve different Broncos contributed points off what became a bench-high thirty-seven that night.
At home they opened yet another year unbeaten through seven games—for three straight seasons—and reached eight consecutive home victories twice running.
A ten-game home winning streak spanned late February Two Thousand Twenty-Five into December Thirty-One Two Thousand Twenty-Five; it was their longest such stretch since combined fourteen-straight wins between two previous seasons.
In nonconference contests held at ExtraMile Arena they now boast twenty-two straight wins—the nation’s fourteenth-longest current streak.
Preseason honors included Tatum Thompson being named preseason player of year while Natalie Pasco joined her as an all-conference selection.
Fans can follow live stats via BroncoSports.com or tune into televised broadcasts on Mountain West Network or radio coverage via Garrett Jones calling games on KBOI AM.
