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By Kamie Ethridge’s standards, her Washington State women’s basketball team has fallen short this season.

PULLMAN – No matter how his Washington State team plays, if the Cougars cruise to a win or slog through a loss, David Riley tends to sound about the same afterward. He may not be a flawless coach, but when he talks about how things unfolded, he’s usually pretty even-keeled.

Braden Huff was named to the West Coast Conference All-Academic Team for the second straight season and teammate Emmanuel Innocenti joined him as one of the 11 players honored Wednesday.

For a fourth straight year and sixth out of the last seven, Gonzaga women’s basketball boasts the West Coast Conference Player of the Year.

PULLMAN – Ace Glass can add a couple achievements to his resume.

Gonzaga was halfway to an outright West Coast Conference championship Saturday.

Graham Ike captured his first West Coast Conference regular-season championship last week and can now add WCC Player of the Year to his growing list of accolades.

MOSCOW, Idaho – A salty fourth quarter that saw Idaho come back from being down seven points in the third period gave the Vandals a school record tying 15 straight wins and the most conference wins in history at 17.

As the Eastern Washington men’s basketball team retreated to its locker room on Monday, the other results around the Big Sky Conference made it easier for the Eagles to digest their 85-81 home loss to Idaho in the regular season finale.

FRISCO, Texas – Anton Watson has yet to officially complete his second full season as a professional basketball player, but the former Gonzaga standout already sees a big change in himself as a member of the G League’s South Bay Lakers.

Gonzaga’s road loss to West Coast Conference rival Saint Mary’s resulted in a predictable drop in the AP poll, the NET rankings and in most NCAA Tournament bracket projections.

The Whitworth men’s basketball team will travel to Houston in its return to the NCAA Division III Tournament.

The West Coast Conference Tournament has a bracket but it’ll still be another week until Gonzaga knows its opponent for a semifinal game at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.

MORAGA, Calif. – Gonzaga didn’t collect a win but possibly a week’s worth of bulletin board material from Saturday’s 70-59 loss at Saint Mary’s, giving the Gaels a share of the West Coast Conference regular -season title for the fourth consecutive year.

Nothing would have changed for the Gonzaga women’s basketball team had it won Saturday.

Halfway through the eight-game winning streak that Eastern Washington will put to the test at home on Monday night against Idaho, Tyler Powell had himself a day.

PULLMAN – Whenever this Washington State season comes to an end, when the players say their goodbyes and clean out their lockers and coaches start planning for the offseason, they might regret one theme above all.

Mikey Lewis was standing just outside the 3-point line, appropriately enough, and surrounded by hundreds of celebrating Saint Mary’s fans when he began to answer a reporter’s question about his recent hot shooting streak.

Saint Mary’s guard Mikey Lewis, who had a pair of big games in wins over Gonzaga last season as a freshman, found the range again. Lewis connected on seven 3-pointers – five in the second half as the Gaels outscored GU 41-23 – and scored a career-high 31 points. The 6-foot-3 sophomore from Oakland connected on 7 of 13 from distance, including a couple with a defender tightly contesting the shot.