1980–81 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team  The 1980–81 Boise State Broncos men's basketball team represented Boise State University during the 1980–81 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Broncos were led by first-year head coach Dave Leach and played their home games on campus at Bronco Gymnasium in Boise, Idaho. They finished the regular season at with a record in the Big Sky Conference, seventh in the   Leach was hired in March from Oregon State, where he had spent the previous decade as an assistant under Assistant coach Prescott Smith also moved over from OSU, and was earlier at Portland State.