NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE EAGLES
AT PORTLAND STATE VIKINGS
Friday, November 7, 2025, 7 p.m. • Viking Pavilion (3,094), Portland, OR
Television/Live Stream: ESPN+ • Play-by-play: Matt Richert • Analyst: Devon Pouncey
Live Stats: www.ViksLive.livestats.us
OPENING TIP
Portland State opens its 2025-26 home schedule this Friday night facing Northwest Indian College at Viking Pavilion. Game time is 7 p.m. and it will air on ESPN+.
The Vikings opened their season Tuesday at Stanford, losing 89-79. Head Coach
Jase Coburn played four returning letterwinners and incorporated seven new players into the rotation. PSU shot well at .458 from the field, .481 from three-point range and .750 at the free throw line. However, they were hindered by fouls (30), allowing the Cardinal to shoot more than twice as many free throws, and by turnovers (21).
PSU got an eye-opening performance by JR G
Sebastian Tidor. The 2024-25 redshirt came off the bench to play 32 minutes and score 22 points with seven rebounds. He hit 7-11 field goals and 6-10 from three-point range. SR G
Jaylin Henderson pitched in 19 points, four assists and two steals. SR F
Terri Miller Jr. was also effective with 14 points, four rebounds and four assists.
Friday night's game will be the first of 14 at home this season for the Vikings, including five non-conference home games. The Vikings won their last 11 home games last season, going 13-1 overall at The Ship. This is the second year in a row the Vikings will play Northwest Indian. Last year, PSU won 110-48.
Northwest Indian College is located in Bellingham. WA. The Eagles lost a game Monday at Montana 106-41. They are scheduled to play at Montana State on Wednesday night.
COMING UP
The game with Northwest Indian starts a stretch of three of the next four games at Viking Pavilion. PSU travels to San Francisco for a Nov. 15 game, then plays at home against Bakersfield (Nov. 17) and Evergreen State (Nov. 19).
The Vikings play 11 non-conference games with five at home and six on the road.
GAME NOTES: PORTLAND STATE vs. NORTHWEST INDIAN
- ALL-TIME SERIES: Portland State leads the all-time series, 1-0, with a 110-48 win over the Eagles last December at Viking Pavilion.
- LAST SEASON: Dec. 14, 2024 at Viking Pavilion, PSU 110, NWI 48: PSU was expected to have a relatively easy time of it against NWI. And they did, rolling up a lower division school by 62 points. The Vikings shot 49-81 from the field for the game (.605) and were dominant on the glass with a 57-30 advantage. PSU forced 19 turnovers by the Eagles and turned them into 26 points... Terri Miller Jr. turned in just the second triple-double in school history with 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in just 17 minutes of game action... Shane Nowell scored a game-high 17 points for the Vikings... Qiant Myers went for 13 points and eight assists and Jaylin Henderson had 15 points on 7-8 field goals... Tyasin Burns and Mycole Rodriguez each scored 16 points for the Eagles. Rodriguez had a team-high six rebounds.
- STREAKS ON THE LINE: Portland State has won 11 straight home games entering the home opener... the Vikings are 62-2 against lower division schools in 29 previous seasons as a member of the Big Sky Conference and Division I (1996-2025). Head Coach Jase Coburn is a perfect 10-0 against such schools... Portland State has lost only 16 non-conference home games in the last 16 seasons (72-16). PSU is 32-15 against Division I schools, and 40-1 against lower division schools over that span.
- COACHES: Vikings Coach Jase Coburn (Arizona State, 2006) is in his fifth season as Head Coach. He spent eight previous seasons on the Park Blocks as an Assistant and Associate Head Coach. Coburn's overall record is 62-65. He is 1-0 against Northwest Indian... the Eagles are coached by Adam Lane. He is 0-1 against the Vikings.
HOT SHOTS
- VIKINGS OPEN TIDOR: You won't see many better debuts than the one JR G Sebastian Tidor had on Tuesday at Stanford. A redshirt last season, Tidor came off the bench in his first game as a Viking, scoring 22 points (7-11 FG, 6-10 3-pt, 2-2 FT) with seven rebounds and two assists in 32 minutes.
- DEEP GAME: Portland State was 13-27 from three-point range (.481) against Stanford. That is a very good start from distance. PSU would like to improve its long-range shooting game this season. The Viking program has not shot better than .341 as a team from behind the arc in the last 10 seasons with a pair of seasons below .300.
NOT SO HOT
- INFRACTIONS AND OBSTRUCTIONS: Portland State played well and also made a number of mistakes in its opener at Stanford. The Vikings committed 30 fouls and made 21 turnovers... last season the Vikings averaged 17.5 fouls and 12.7 turnovers per game.
VIKINGS, NEW AND OLD
HOMERS
Portland State has had a remarkable run at Viking Pavilion:
- PSU begins the 2025-26 season with an 11-game home court winning streak.
- The Vikings have won 12 straight Big Sky Conference home games dating back to the 2023-24 season.
- With a 13-1 home record last season, Portland State trailed in only five of the 14 games, winning wire-to-wire in nine games. In a total of 560 minutes played in Viking Pavilion, the Vikings trailed for only 67 minutes and 59 seconds. And the Vikings' lone home loss came by a single point.
- PSU is 24-3 at home over the past two seasons.
- Portland State's Feb. 19 game with Idaho has been added to the ESPNU schedule. It will be televised nationally with a 6 p.m. tip time. PSU games have been live streamed on ESPN+ in past seasons, but this will be the first nationally-televised basketball game at Viking Pavilion since it opened in 2018. PSU basketball has had one previous home game televised on ESPNU – a Feb. 21, 2009 contest with Boise State (and 93-81 Viking win). That game aired from the old Stott Center gymnasium.
FUN FACTS, MEANINGLESS TRIVIA
- TWO HANDS ARE BETTER THAN ONE: SR F Terri Miller Jr. is ambidextrous and will shoot with both hands during a game. He tends to shoot right-handed from distance and left-handed when playing inside. He said he doesn't think about the hand he shoots with, it just occurs naturally.
- I WANT MY MTV: There is no one more musical than "TV", the Vikings own SR C Tre-Vaughn Minott. He can play seven musical instruments and also enjoys producing music. His mixes can be found on YouTube at Tellavision_topic... Minott is also the long-time boyfriend of Aliyah Boston of the Indiana Fever (they met at South Carolina).
- HE CAN ALMOST FLY: SR G Jaylin Henderson has a 47-inch vertical leap.
- CONNECTIONS: SR G Jaylin Henderson and SR F Terri Miller Jr. were teammates at Louisiana Tech in 2023-24... SR F Isaac Brice is the son of a former Vikings assistant football coach, Alundis Brice (2007-08).
- HE'S OURS NOW: Portland State JR G Keyon Kensie Jr. is a transfer from the University of San Diego. His collegiate career scoring high is AGAINST Portland State last season. Kensie had 20 points for the Toreros in a Viking win.
- THAT WINNING FEELING: Head Coach Jase Coburn has a 25-23 record in non-conference games in his five years at the helm of the Viking Ship. That includes a respectable 11-16 road record in those games... PSU is 17-10 in non-conference play since the start of the 2023-24 season... Coburn ranks eighth in career wins at Portland State (62) among 14 all-time coaches... among Big Sky schools, he has had the most success against Northern Arizona (7-1) and Idaho (7-2) and the least success against Eastern Washington (1-7).
- THERE IS A FIRST FOR EVERYTHING: Portland State's Feb. 19 game against Idaho will be televised on ESPNU. PSU games have been live streamed on ESPN+ in past seasons, but this will be the first nationally-televised basketball game at Viking Pavilion since it opened in 2018. PSU basketball has had one previous home game televised on ESPNU – a Feb. 21, 2009 contest with Boise State (and 93-81 Viking win). That game aired from the old Stott Center gymnasium.
- DUNK YOU VERY MUCH: The Vikings had 123 dunks on the season, smashing the school record of 84, set in 2018-19. SR C Tre-Vaughn Minott led the team with a school-record 44 while Jaylin Henderson had 32... Minott had a school-record five dunks against Idaho on Jan. 11.
- STUDENT-ATHLETES: Portland State earned the NABC Academic Excellence Award for team GPA (3.17) last season... the Vikings had four players named to the NABC Honors Court: Jaylin Henderson, Qiant Myers, Sebastian Tidor, and Terri Miller Jr... five Vikings earned Academic All-Big Sky Conference honors: Henderson, Myers and Miller, as well as Kelcy Phipps and Hayden Curtiss.
