Eric Barriere was thought to be one of the most explosive and dynamic offensive players in the country heading into a 2020 season that was ultimately delayed and essentially cut in half this past spring.
New Eastern Washington head coach David Riley needed an experienced and proven scorer, so he signed Central Arkansas transfer and All-Southland Conference guard Rylan Bergesen earlier this month.
Dominic Gonnella ran for 163 yards and two touchdowns and Jalen Bussey ran for 143 yards and North Dakota State rallied from a two-touchdown deficit to smash Eastern Washington University 42-20 on Saturday in an opening-round game of the FCS playoffs.
Here are five things EWU will need to in its first-round playoff game Saturday to upset a relatively vulnerable NDSU team that went with a true freshman quarterback Cam Miller last week after senior starter Zeb Noland went down with an injury.
It wasn't the type of robust, talent-stocked track and field meet North Central girls coach Kelly Harmon was accustomed to opening his season with, but that didn't matter.
Eric Barriere was among the top Football Championship Subdivision quarterbacks entering a fall 2020 season that was ultimately postponed, truncated and played in a rare spring setting.
Sixth-ranked NDSU, playing without several of its key components from its 2019 national title team who either entered the transfer portal, opted out of the spring season to enter the NFL Draft or battling an injury, isn't the talent-heavy team it typically is, considering the circumstances.
Dozens of of departures by athletes and coaches have appeared to compound EWU's well-documented financial issues that have led to talk of the Eagles potentially making cripping cost-cutting measures throughout the entire athletic department.
It was the most difficult decision of their basketball lives, but former Eastern Washington stars Tanner and Jacob Groves are happy they chose Oklahoma.
Tanner Groves, who scored 35 points against the Jayhawks in Eastern Washington's first-round NCAA Tournament loss last month, is headed to the Big 12 Conference after committing to Oklahoma
A week after the conclusion of the NCAA Tournament in Indianapolis, the Cardinals and Sasquatch were in the beginnings of their respective junior college seasons in front of roughly 500 mask-wearing fans at Rolly Williams Court.
In a coronavirus-altered season where dozens of the nation's FCS teams -- even Big Sky powers Montana and Montana State -- opted out of the rare spring season, the Eagles appear to have the sort of resume that will extend its strange but electric campaign.
Eastern Washington was thrown for a loop when a fifth-string quarterback and a completely different brand of Idaho offense stepped on Roos Field’s blazing red turf Saturday.
INDIANAPOLIS – Street preachers occupied busy blocks of downtown Indianapolis, scalpers hustled the corners. And Baylor’s green- and yellow-clad fans outnumbered Gonzaga’s by a noticeable margin at bars, restaurants and vendor booths on Monday, but the Bulldogs brought a sizable and spirited contingent inside cavernous Lucas Oil Stadium.
INDIANAPOLIS – Senator Maria Cantwell was engulfed in basketball culture before she was old enough to make the distinction between Republican and Democrat.
INDIANAPOLIS – The Gonzaga hat on Claire Rudolf Murphy’s head conveyed her allegiance, but the vigor in the Spokane author’s voice had nothing to do with the nearby NCAA Tournament.
They've met in a NCAA Tournament, a NIT season tip-off and other neutral sites spanning Dallas, Texas to Fresno, California. Now top-ranked Gonzaga (31-0) and No. 2 Baylor (27-2) meet at college basketball's ultimate neutral site: The NCAA national title game.