{"id":214696,"date":"2025-09-10T05:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214696\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:19:10","slug":"idaho-vandals-kolton-mitchell-earns-spot-on-preseason-all-big-sky-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/214696\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Vandals&#8217; Kolton Mitchell earns spot on preseason All-Big Sky team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, ID &#8211; The Idaho Vandals just had a basketball player receive some preseason recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Ribbon College Basketball yearbook announcing its preseason accolades for the Big Sky Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Vandals Kolton Mitchell was named to the preseason All-Big Sky team.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell is entering his third season with Idaho and has emerged as a top point guard.<\/p>\n<p>In 33 games started in the 2024-25 season, he averaged 11.1 points and shot an efficient 40 percent from the floor with 3.5 assists.<\/p>\n<p>He was making some Vandals history last season with the first freshman since 2018 to make 5 or more threes in a game.<\/p>\n<p>Also led the Big Sky Conference in free throw percentage in making 89.5% of his attempts, just second best in Vandal\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Vandals will open their season in Boise, taking on the Broncos on October 17th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW, ID &#8211; The Idaho Vandals just had a basketball player receive some preseason recognition. Blue Ribbon College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":214697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[117373,1339,89674,117372,117370,117369,1317,1337,1338,55490,117371,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-214696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-2024-25-season","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-big-sky-conference","11":"tag-free-throw-percentage","12":"tag-idaho-vandals","13":"tag-kolton-mitchell","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaabasketball","17":"tag-point-guard","18":"tag-preseason-all-big-sky","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115178318216220360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}