Entering its fifth year under head coach Joddie Gleason and associate head coach Skip Gleason, the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team is decidedly a Gleason-recruited team.
Two Idaho players and two Eastern Washington players were named to the All-Big Sky Conference preseason men’s and women’s basketball teams, which were released by the league on Thursday.
The Idaho men’s and women’s basketball teams received first-place votes and landed among the top four in the Big Sky preseason polls, released by the league on Wednesday.
The Eastern Washington men’s basketball team defeated Carroll College 87-74 in an exhibition game on Monday night at Reese Court in Cheney, and the sad irony was that Andrew Cook wasn’t there for it.
Larry Weir also stays busy broadcasting prep contests and minor-league baseball games, but it’s the more than 1,300 EWU contests that have buttressed his legacy.
The Big Sky Conference’s last season for the foreseeable future with regular travel patterns – and no “lone wolf” – will begin with a familiar opponent for both Idaho and Eastern Washington.
There was a time not so long ago when Joddie Gleason could take a few weeks off after the women’s college basketball season to reflect, relax and recharge.
Every year, an NBA draft prospect finds himself compared to a player or two already in the league. It’s how most of us find ourselves making sense of the draft and of the dozens of players in it.
Now that it has been around for a full recruiting cycle, the Eastern Washington men’s basketball coaching staff has spent this offseason realigning the team’s roster with the staff’s priorities.
During Eastern Washington University’s spring break this week, Emmett Marquardt went back to Seattle, settled about his decision to stay with the Eagles men’s basketball program next season.
During Eastern Washington University’s spring break this week, Emmett Marquardt went back to Seattle, settled about his decision to stay with the Eagles men’s basketball program next season.
