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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.

Mikey Lewis, Saint Mary's upset Gonzaga to force share of WCC regular-season championship.

The Dallas Mavericks are promoting Ryan Nembhard to a standard contract, according to a league source. The team waived veteran guard Tyus Jones to clear a roster spot for the undrafted rookie point guard.

It increasingly appears the Big Ten and SEC are inching toward a football breakaway

A month ago, Sean Farnham made his way from California to Spokane. For work. Nothing unusual about that. That part of his “work” was raising money for cancer research in the town he was visiting, now that’s not in the usual category. The next night Farnham went back to his day – or more correctly his night – job. Calling college hoop. In what Farnham calls the best rivalry on the West Coast.

MOSCOW, Idaho – The University of Idaho women had a memorable senior day. They cut down the nets as conference champions.

Coming out of halftime on Saturday, Northern Arizona opened on a 5-1 run to cut the Eastern Washington men’s basketball team’s lead to 16 points.

PULLMAN – The Washington State women’s basketball team closed its regular season on a high note, winning consecutive games for the first time in 2025-26.

The Northwest Conference crown is back in familiar hands.

Gonzaga women’s basketball coach Lisa Fortier might need to do a toe check on her players on the short flight back from Portland to see how many they have left.

MORAGA, Calif. – Gonzaga’s defense held up for a solid 20-25 seconds on Saint Marys’ first possession Saturday night at UCU Pavilion.

MORAGA, Calif. – Gonzaga's Jalen Warley will miss his second straight game tonight at Saint Mary's with a left quad contusion, a school official told The Spokesman-Review roughly eight hours before the regular-season finale at UCU Pavilion.

Nearly a year to the day after an upset loss at home to Lewis & Clark ended Whitworth’s season, the men’s basketball team got its retribution on Friday night.

I admit to having a soft spot – if not a blind spot – for Wayne Tinkle. He was the first college coach I ever covered.

MORAGA, Calif. – Twelve teams were technically in the picture when the West Coast Conference season started in late December.

MORAGA, Calif. – They are relative newcomers to one of the longest-running rivalries in the West, but Gonzaga point guard Mario Saint-Supery and Saint Mary’s counterpart Joshua Dent will have a big say in how the final regular-season meeting of the West Coast Conference opponents plays out Saturday (7:30 p.m., ESPN) at UCU Pavilion.