NCAA basketball

MOSCOW, Idaho – Stung by their third-straight loss, a lackluster performance against Weber State on Thursday, the Idaho men’s basketball team played “with desperation and urgency ” on Saturday.

As the lead grew for the Eastern Washington men’s basketball team on Saturday, it seemed only reasonable that Weber State – sitting right next to Eastern in the Big Sky standings – would eventually make a run of its own.

Saturday presented an opportunity for the Gonzaga women’s basketball team to see how much it had improved since starting conference play in late December.

Three takeaways at the buzzer from Gonzaga’s 94-86 road win over Santa Clara on Saturday.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Santa Clara had its hands full with Graham Ike in the first half Saturday at the Leavey Center.

Caden Pierce won’t be joining Gonzaga’s roster in 2026-27 but Mark Few’s team will encounter the Princeton transfer during nonconference play next season.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Earlier this week, Allen Graves offered a theory on why college basketball programs in high-major conferences probably passed up on the opportunity to recruit the versatile 6-foot-9 forward from Louisiana.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – It doesn’t profile as the biggest sporting event to take place within Santa Clara city limits this month, but good luck identifying a game on the West Coast Conference calendar generating more hype than the one happening Saturday night at the Leavey Center.

PULLMAN – Washington State’s women’s basketball team dominated the first quarter, then promptly lost momentum. Portland bounced back from a rough start and surged past the Cougars 68-61 in a West Coast Conference matchup Thursday at Beasley Coliseum.

OGDEN, Utah – Guard Hope Hassmann scored a career-high 25 points and Idaho pulled away from the Big Sky Conference's last-place team, which gave the first-place Vandals a fight for much of Thursday's game at Dee Events Center.

At the tail end of nonconference play in December, Dan Monson expressed concern about whether Eastern Washington’s schedule had been too difficult to that point, and that it might drain the team’s confidence heading into Big Sky play.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Idaho State can’t come calling at a better time.

The farewell tour in the West Coast Conference continued Thursday for the Gonzaga women’s basketball team against the next-to-last-place San Diego Toreros.

Gonzaga-Santa Clara doesn’t approach the annual GU-Saint Mary’s collisions that seemingly determine the West Coast Conference hierarchy. But for sheer drama, individual excellence (hello Steve Nash), inexplicable fouls 70 feet from the hoop, game-winning shots and the expiration of a pair of lengthy homecourt winning streaks, Zags-Broncos more than holds its own for must-see moments over the course of Gonzaga’s 46-year run in the WCC.

PULLMAN – A woman has accused Washington State University basketball player Emmanuel Ugbo of stalking and harassing her after she ended their relationship.

Ten days ago, at the midpoint of the Big Sky Conference’s men’s basketball season, the Eastern Washington Eagles were not in a great spot.

The 2026 Final Four could be a memorable weekend for Mark Few, regardless of whether his Gonzaga team is still competing for a national championship.

Gonzaga looked dominant. Washington State looked disjointed.