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MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2010

Gonzaga's Will Foster gains control over a loose ball against Santa Clara's Chris Cunningham during the first half of their NCAA college basketball game at the McCarthey Athletic Center in Spokane, Wash. Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. (Rajah Bose / Fr120940 Ap)

Trio await GU Senior Night 

Back with the final post of the day (I think), and this one is about Gonzaga's three seniors, who will play in their last game at the McCarthey Athletic Center tomorrow.Read on below for an unedited article that will run in Tuesday's S-R. Also, a…

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The Gonzaga women sit on the bench at the end of their loss to San Diego in the WCC tournament championship Sunday, March 9, 2008. Left to right are Tiffanie Shives (34), Heather Bowman (30), Courtney Vandersloot (21) and Janelle Bekkering (11).  (Christopher Anderson / The Spokesman-Review)

More on Vandersloot, Gonzaga awards

When Kelly Graves took his turn on the West Coast Conference pre-tournament conference call he was asked to comment about all the honors his team swept.Not surprisingly he couldn't say enough about his players but on his fifth Coach of the Year award he joked,…

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Gonzaga guard Matt Bouldin cuts down the net for WCC title.  (Associated Press)

More on Bouldin, WCC awards 

As promised, here's an expanded version of the All-WCC awards and the major individual awards that were announced Monday afternoon. One correction to the previous post: Elias Harris was newcomer of the year (not freshman). Read on for an unedited article.Also, Gonzaga stayed at No.…

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GU women dominate WCC awards

All kinds of deja vu for the Gonzaga women and the West Coast Conference post-season honors.Courtney Vandersloot repeats as MVP, Vandersloot, Heather Bowman and Vivian Frieson repeat as first-team selections, Kelly Graves is Coach of the Year for the fifth time in 10 seasons, Katelan…

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Bouldin named WCC player of year

Gonzaga senior guard Matt Bouldin was named the WCC player of the year, the league announced Monday afternoon. GU’s Elias Harris was selected freshman of the year and Mark Few was chosen coach of the year. Saint Mary’s center Omar Samhan was voted defensive player…

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D3 bracket: Whits open at home

The Whitworth men's basketball team drew a first-round bye in the NCAA Division III Tournament bracket and will host the winner of the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at Chapman game that will take place on Thursday night.The Pirates will play that winner on Saturday. You can read more…

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