PULLMAN – Washington State isn’t offering a public timeline on the hire of a new football coach, but the people leading the charge are operating with “a sense of urgency.”
The 3-point line isn’t Gonzaga’s first option offensively and the Zags struggled to find the range from distance in the season’s first four games.They’ve made considerable progress over the last six games, even factoring in a clunker – 3 of 22 against Michigan. That trend continued Sunday with Gonzaga draining 10 of 18 3s in a 109-58 rout over North Florida at the McCarthey Athletic Center.
PULLMAN – A couple days before coach Jimmy Rogers turned Washington State’s football program upside down, deciding to leave for the same job at Iowa State on Friday after just one season with the Cougars, whispers bounced around the Cougar Football Complex.
Following Eastern Washington’s decisive 90-66 victory over the visiting Kansas City Kangaroos, Eagles head coach Dan Monson admitted that when he woke up Saturday morning, he was preparing for the worst.
Less than two minutes into North Florida’s season opener, Kamrin Oriol brought the ball down the floor against the Florida Gators and spotted up from the 3-point line.
Whitworth squandered a 17-point lead as visiting Mary Hardin-Baylor dominated the second half to hand the Pirates their first loss, 92-90, on Saturday night at Whitworth Fieldhouse.
BROOKINGS, S.D. – Kolton Mitchell scored 22 points, including a clutch made free throw in the final seconds, to help Idaho beat South Dakota State 84-81 in Brookings, S.D.
NASHVILLE – During the first half of Friday’s ESPN2 broadcast, commentators Karl Ravech and Jimmy Dykes took a brief pause to give viewers a sense of the hostility building among 18,507 fans at Bridgestone Arena, most of them dressed down in Kentucky blue.
