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TUESDAY, FEB. 2, 2010


Notes from WSU's Tuesday

COUGARS • UPDATED: 8 P.M. A little different late Tuesday post for us – and for you. We put together a notebook for tomorrow's S-R from Ken Bone's press conference and some conversations after practice. That's available on the link. Read on.

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The Gonzaga bench from left; Andrew Sorenson, coaches Tommy Lloyd, Leon Rice, Ray Giaocoletti and and Mark Few watch the game slip away from the Zags as they lose to Portland State. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

The lowdown on Lloyd 

A nice read in the Walla Walla paper on Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd (seated next to ex-Zag Andrew Sorenson). There's a Glory Days beginning, recounting Lloyd's 52-point game for Walla Walla C.C., and it traces his rise to Bulldogs assistant.Read it below.

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Whitworth's Pilkinton ignores pain

Whitworth senior Cassie Pilkinton (pictured above, taken by Kirk Hirota) is the subject of this week's women's basketball notebook. It appears below in a longer version with more notes than will ever make Wednesday's newspaper.The only other news is Gonzaga creeping up to 26th in…

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Eagles' skid continues

Eastern Washington's men's basketball team lost its sixth straight game Monday night, dropping a 68-62 non-conference decision to Seattle University.You can read the game story that ran in Tuesday morning's S-R here, check out what Eastern's sports information department posted about the game here and…

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A nice mix of WSU, Pac-10 tunes 

COUGARS An eclectic group of items from around the Pac-10. Nothing too important, but a lot of interesting reads. Today is basketball media day at WSU, plus Pac-10 coaches get on the phone with the media. Tomorrow is, of course, football's Christmas Day, or as…

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