NCAA basketball

Nolan Hickman’s basketball career will pick back up in the NBA G League.

The NCAA’s request to remove Tyon Grant-Foster’s eligibility case to a federal court was denied Friday and remanded to Spokane County Superior Court, according to a motion signed by U.S. District Judge Thomas Rice.

LAS VEGAS – Gonzaga’s impending move to the Pac-12 Conference could be viewed one of two ways from the group of West Coast Conference teams it’s leaving behind.

Two Idaho players and two Eastern Washington players were named to the All-Big Sky Conference preseason men’s and women’s basketball teams, which were released by the league on Thursday.

LAS VEGAS – For the first time in five years, the Gonzaga women’s basketball team was not the West Coast Conference preseason pick to win the regular-season championship.

LAS VEGAS – It is going to be a new season in more ways than one in West Coast Conference women’s basketball.

LAS VEGAS – The last two years have not turned out favorably, but coaches still expect Gonzaga will return to the top of the West Coast Conference standings by the end of its final year in the league.

Graham Ike remembers a man with huge hands and an even bigger heart.

Division I coaches seem to be higher on Gonzaga than Associated Press Top 25 voters entering the 2025-26 college basketball season.

The ongoing NCAA eligibility waiver saga of Gonzaga transfer Tyon Grant-Foster encountered another potential roadblock Wednesday afternoon.

The Idaho men’s and women’s basketball teams received first-place votes and landed among the top four in the Big Sky preseason polls, released by the league on Wednesday.

Last December, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based newspaper, The News & Observer, published a story counting down the 10 most influential people in Raleigh, Durham sports in 2023.

The slow trickle of national preseason recognition that could come Graham Ike’s way over the next two weeks began Tuesday morning.

Twelve total former Gonzaga players saw the floor during an NBA season that culminated with a riveting Finals matchup between former college teammates Andrew Nembhard and Chet Holmgren.

LAS VEGAS – In the early 1990s, Jay Triano famously made a recruiting push to sign one of the top young point guards in Canada. The player rode three hours by ferry and car from Victoria, B.C., to Vancouver to meet Triano and see Simon Fraser University’s campus, eventually declining the offer to play college basketball in the U.S.

The Eastern Washington men’s basketball team defeated Carroll College 87-74 in an exhibition game on Monday night at Reese Court in Cheney, and the sad irony was that Andrew Cook wasn’t there for it.

Mark Few contributed a written statement to the lawsuit filed by Tyon Grant-Foster, who continues to seek an additional year of eligibility after the NCAA denied the player’s appeal last Friday – the latest development in a waiver saga involving the Grand Canyon transfer dating back to early June.

Sunday’s preseason exhibition against Northwest University illuminated a number of things for Gonzaga. Some positive, some negative.

Finding a way onto Gonzaga’s exhibition schedule often requires a tie to the Zags’ coaching staff. For Northwest University coach Rick Skeen, it involved calling in a favor from Corey Kispert, the former GU All-American entering his fifth season with the NBA Washington Wizards.