Good morning from Boise. I arrived at 8:15 after taking the oh-dark-30 to cover the girls state basketball tournaments.I'll see three games today involving local teams.Click the tab below to see more.In the photo above, Coeur d'Alene girls coach Dale Poffenroth received a confetti shower…
COUGARS Even Tim Floyd knows it. "Outside of UCLA, no team has given us more trouble than Washington State," Floyd told the Los Angeles Times this week. Which makes tonight's matchup at the Galen Center all that more interesting. The Cougars want to play in…
COUGARS The final five games of the Pac-10 season come against teams in the conference's top six. That sixth-place team is USC, the Cougars' first opponent on this weekend's trip to Los Angeles. Washington State has been pretty successful against the Trojans in Tony Bennett's…
Idaho rallied from a 13-point deficit to shock Boise State on Wednesday night, winning 56-54 at the Broncos' Taco Bell Arena. The Vandals knocked off BSU for the second time this season after Marvin Jefferson snapped a tie with a putback with 4.3 seconds left.After…
Gonzaga has won (or shared) the last eight WCC player of the year awards. With four games remaining in the WCC season, Matt Bouldin is in position to make it nine straight Bulldogs.More on Bouldin and the other WCC awards, GU's Thursday night matchup with…
Click the tab below to see team-by-team capsules of each team in the Idaho high school state girls basketball tournaments.Katie Baker of Lake City is pictured above.
COUGARS We've got a lot for you this morning, so we're going to get right at it. There is a ton of basketball stuff, of course, along with another football commit for 2010. Read on.
There wasn't a surprise on the second night of Greater Spokane League district basketball play. League champions Gonzaga Prep boys and Lewis and Clark girls earned the right to play for regional berths. Their opponents, third-seed Lewis and Clark and girls second-place finisher Mead respectively.…
COUGARS This week is, according to WSU basketball coach Tony Bennett, a life lesson. "The test will be, a lesson of life, can you dust yourself off and get back up and try and finish strong," Bennett said Tuesday, looking back to the Cougars second-half…
COUGARS The last couple days have been somewhat thin on WSU news around the web. But we've found a couple things to pass on. You can find them on the link.
Gonzaga climbed a couple notches to No. 17 in the Associated Press top 25. The Bulldogs are No. 20 in ESPN/USA Today's rankings. More here.
I've traveled home, had the requisite number of computer issues, so I'll take another stab at getting this post off the ground. Lots of stuff to get to after Gonzaga's 78-73 win over San Francisco. Read on for the day-after USF post.
COUGARS It was that kind of day in the Pac-10. WSU did what it did, blowing a lead and losing to Oregon State. Stanford blew even a bigger lead – 22 points – and lost to Cal. Arizona dominated UCLA, which a week ago looked…
Back with an expanded game story. The unedited version is below. Check back tomorrow for a day-after post.
The Vandals looked shaky early, but had little trouble posting a 74-66 win over San Jose State on Saturday night. The game, or second half at least, wasn't as close as the final score suggests.Read on for my game story from Moscow, where only 1,697…
Regional wrestling is over. Next up is Mat Classic XXI in Tacoma Feb. 20-21. How did teams fare? Pretty well actually. East Valley in 3A, Deer Park in 2A and Republic in B appear to be the teams most likely to contend for state titles.The…
The final play-in games and final berths were nabbed Saturday as the pairings for the Idaho state girls basketball tournaments were finalized.Click the tab below to see the pairings.
Here's a quick game story that I'll update in about an hour. Read on.
Gonzaga shot it well, rebounded it well, but turned the ball over frequently, which pretty much kept the Bulldogs from grabbing a bigger lead against San Francisco. GU leads 41-37 at half after making 17 of 26 shots (65.4 percent) and holding a 19-10 rebounding…
COUGARS In some ways maybe it was fitting. Oregon State frittered away a nine-point second-half lead in Corvallis and lost in overtime. Washington State returned the favor and even more so Saturday afternoon, giving up a 13-point, first-half lead with a strikingly lackadaisical second half…
A couple of notes with four minutes to tipoff.Senior Micah Downs is expected to start tonight against San Francisco. He lost the starting job to Steven Gray prior to the Tennessee game in Knoxville on Jan. 7, but Gray has struggled in three of the…
COUGARS Washington State's postseason hopes may have melted away in an almost 9 minute stretch of the second half Saturday, when the Cougars couldn't get a shot to drop, couldn't get a stop and, in effect, ensured they couldn't get a win. WSU squandered all…
COUGARS It's easy to see the fruits of a defensive effort like WSU had in the first half today. When the opposition is shooting 38 percent and has scored just 20 points, it's pretty obvious the Cougars are doing pretty darn well on the defensive…
COUGARS If you watch Aron Baynes works on his right-handed jump hooks on one end and Caleb Forrest and Charlie Enquist their 15-footers on the other, as I am right now, you would understand how WSU will be attacking Oregon State this afternoon. For more…
COUGARS There's something scary about Valentine's Day. And this year more than ever. Think about it. Friday the 13th, then Valentine's Day? Coincidence? I think not. Anyhow, any day that's symbol is a heart and the mascot shoots arrows, well that scares us old guys.…
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