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Dave Boling: Gonzaga should be great, but these days you need a lot more than a crystal ball to predict college hoops

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

As the Gonzaga men’s basketball team heads into the 2025 season, with a goodly number of unknown elements – like almost every other team – we’ll just settle on some ball-park assessments rather than an unfounded prediction.

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EWU men look to bounce back after Dan Monson’s young team was roughed up a season ago

Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

Last year’s Eastern Washington men’s basketball team was young, with four first- or second-year players shouldering significant minutes. It wasn’t ideal.

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EWU women have roster coach Joddie Gleason believes can recapture success of NCAA Tournament team

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 31, 2025

Entering its fifth year under head coach Joddie Gleason and associate head coach Skip Gleason, the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team is decidedly a Gleason-recruited team.

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Idaho, Eastern Washington see two players each make All-Big Sky preseason basketball teams

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 23, 2025

Two Idaho players and two Eastern Washington players were named to the All-Big Sky Conference preseason men’s and women’s basketball teams, which were released by the league on Thursday.

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Idaho men’s, women’s basketball earn attention in Big Sky preseason polls

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 22, 2025

The Idaho men’s and women’s basketball teams received first-place votes and landed among the top four in the Big Sky preseason polls, released by the league on Wednesday.

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Eastern Washington loses guard Andrew Cook for season with ankle injury

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 20, 2025

The Eastern Washington men’s basketball team defeated Carroll College 87-74 in an exhibition game on Monday night at Reese Court in Cheney, and the sad irony was that Andrew Cook wasn’t there for it.

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An EWU institution: From a ‘blue’ debut to his love of red, Larry Weir enters 35th season as Voice of the Eagles

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 19, 2025

Larry Weir also stays busy broadcasting prep contests and minor-league baseball games, but it’s the more than 1,300 EWU contests that have buttressed his legacy.

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Big Sky basketball schedules pit Eastern Washington and Idaho in conference opener

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 4, 2025

The Big Sky Conference’s last season for the foreseeable future with regular travel patterns – and no “lone wolf” – will begin with a familiar opponent for both Idaho and Eastern Washington.

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‘A tremendous human being’: Bill Smithpeters, who coached EWU women to first NCAA Tournament berth, dies at 94

UPDATED: Sat., July 26, 2025

Mike Divilbiss had never coached college basketball when he replied to an ad Bill Smithpeters posted in The Spokesman-Review in 1984.

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Through retention and recruiting, Eastern Washington women feel good about rebuilt roster

UPDATED: Sun., May 25, 2025

There was a time not so long ago when Joddie Gleason could take a few weeks off after the women’s college basketball season to reflect, relax and recharge.

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NBA Draft prospects – including Cedric Coward and Hunter Sallis – compare themselves to current players

UPDATED: Fri., May 23, 2025

Every year, an NBA draft prospect finds himself compared to a player or two already in the league. It’s how most of us find ourselves making sense of the draft and of the dozens of players in it.

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Eastern Washington places focus on building guard depth during offseason

UPDATED: Sat., May 10, 2025

Now that it has been around for a full recruiting cycle, the Eastern Washington men’s basketball coaching staff has spent this offseason realigning the team’s roster with the staff’s priorities.

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Dave Boling: Gonzaga should be great, but these days you need a lot more than a crystal ball to predict college hoops

EWU men look to bounce back after Dan Monson’s young team was roughed up a season ago

EWU women have roster coach Joddie Gleason believes can recapture success of NCAA Tournament team

Idaho, Eastern Washington see two players each make All-Big Sky preseason basketball teams

Idaho men’s, women’s basketball earn attention in Big Sky preseason polls

Eastern Washington loses guard Andrew Cook for season with ankle injury

An EWU institution: From a ‘blue’ debut to his love of red, Larry Weir enters 35th season as Voice of the Eagles

Big Sky basketball schedules pit Eastern Washington and Idaho in conference opener

‘A tremendous human being’: Bill Smithpeters, who coached EWU women to first NCAA Tournament berth, dies at 94

Through retention and recruiting, Eastern Washington women feel good about rebuilt roster

NBA Draft prospects – including Cedric Coward and Hunter Sallis – compare themselves to current players

Eastern Washington places focus on building guard depth during offseason