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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.

The Week 1 schedule is a massive letdown compared to the barrage of marquee matchups offered in the opening week of the 2025 season. The list of premier games for the Labor Day weekend includes Baylor-Auburn, Clemson-LSU, Louisville-Mississippi, Notre Dame-Wisconsin and Florida State-SMU. Not exactly a clear-your-calendar lineup.

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

Gonzales, the former Gonzaga standout who turns 33 on Feb. 16, signed a minor-league contract that included an invitation to MLB spring training with the Padres on Feb. 4.

The Pac-12’s master schedule has received plenty of attention in the days since its release on Wednesday, largely due to the unique flex week at the end of the regular season.

Caden Bateman blocked a shot at the buzzer and Whitworth survived after nearly blowing a big lead, holding on for a 72-69 Northwest Conference win over Lewis & Clark on Friday night at the Whitworth Fieldhouse.

Craig Bray, who held multiple defensive coaching positions at Washington State and Idaho in the ’80s and ’90s and is the father of WSU defensive coordinator Trent Bray, died Tuesday of a heart attack.

Kirby Moore is the kind of guy you could get a beer with.

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.

BOISE – Gem State football fans have been waiting 16 years for Idaho and Boise State to renew their football rivalry. They'll only have to wait five more years.

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.