The Idaho men's basketball team's best season in the last 19 years ended Saturday night -- in completely forgettable fashion. The Vandals were blasted 76-56 by Utah State at Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in the second round of the CollegeInsider.com tournament. "This game needs to…
Good evening from Pittsburgh. Gonzaga gave Ohio State everything it could handle but the second-seeded Buckeyes made the key plays in the closing minutes to pull out a 73-66 win. Here's my game story, notebook, John Blanchette's column and Chris Anderson's photos.
We're sitting courtside at the McCarthey Athletic Center ready for tipoff between the Gonzaga women's basketball team and Rutgers in the opening round of the women's NCAA tournament. In case you missed it, here's an advance story on the long journey the Scarlet Knights took…
A GRIP ON SPORTS It seems upsets, real upsets, like a 15 seed defeating a two seed, are somewhat akin to Lay's potato chips. You can't stop with one. At least not Friday. It had been 11 years since a lightly regarded 15 seed rose…
In the chaotic moments after Idaho dispatched UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday, UI athletic director Rob Spear tweeted that it looked the Vandals would play Loyala Marymount in the next round of the CIT. Then Don Verlin said roughly the same thing to reporters. But…
COUGARS FROM PULLMAN -- The headline is in reference to the question Vince posed in this blog post a few days ago. Seemed like a rhetorical question at the time, huh?
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