NCAA basketball

PULLMAN – Somewhere outside the Washington State locker room, as the team entered the tunnel for halftime against LMU, David Riley pulled Ace Glass aside.

The Gonzaga women’s basketball team gave coach Lisa Fortier another milestone victory Friday.

PORTLAND – Washington State’s women’s basketball team faded in the second half and absorbed a 62-49 loss to Portland on Friday in a West Coast Conference game at the Chiles Center.

Tyon Grant-Foster and Graham Ike didn’t start for seventh-ranked Gonzaga on Friday, but they were happy to play the role of finisher in a tense 80-72 overtime victory over Seattle U at the McCarthey Athletic Center.

The Zags’ defense, three days after yielding 93 points to San Diego, wasn’t perfect against the Redhawks, but it kept GU within striking distance until the offense found its stride in the second half and overtime.

Three takeaways at the buzzer of Gonzaga’s 80-72 overtime win over Seattle U on Friday at the McCarthey Athletic Center.

During WCC media day interviews last October, Junseok Yeo’s new teammates at Seattle U provided a description of the forward that lined up almost exactly with the one Mark Few gave of his former player Tuesday night anticipating Friday’s matchup against the Redhawks at McCarthey Athletic Center.

With their West Coast Conference farewell tour underway, maybe it’s time to revisit Gonzaga’s welcome-to-the-WCC moment.

It’s the start of a new year, but Seattle U and Chris Victor have already spent two months carrying out many of the resolutions they set for themselves before the college basketball season started.

Tyon Grant-Foster and Seattle U are both new to the West Coast Conference, but they’re hardly new to each other.

Almost everyone makes New Year’s resolutions and Danny Sprinkle is no different.

At the tail end of an 11-day layoff during which every player got to go home for a Christmas break, the Eastern Washington men’s basketball team was back at Reese Court this week trying to fix what ailed it during a 2-11 start to the season.

At this point, we just have to accept it: College basketball is trolling us.

Transferring from Idaho to Washington State for a final basketball season with the Cougars in 2023-24 worked out exceptionally well for Beyonce Bea and Isaac Jones.

SAN DIEGO – Mark Few pushed back against the idea there’d be any nostalgia as Gonzaga makes its final trips to different West Coast Conference venues during the program’s 37th and final year in the conference.

SEATTLE – In the spring, when they realized the pieces they’d be losing and the replacements they needed, Washington State coaches understood the weaknesses they needed to strengthen in the transfer portal. They needed better defenders, they needed better big men. They needed guards who wouldn’t contribute to the turnover bug that bit last season’s team .

PULLMAN – Washington State’s women’s basketball team rallied back from a 14-point, fourth-quarter deficit and closed to within five points, but the comeback fizzled and the Cougs suffered a 67-58 West Coast Conference loss to Loyola Marymount on Tuesday at Beasley Coliseum.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – When one thing isn’t clicking for No. 7 Gonzaga, two or three others usually are.

It’s not like Gonzaga women’s basketball coach Lisa Fortier has needed to put out a help wanted ad.