Basketball Season Starts Tonight

Fri., Nov. 8, 1996

All four of the area’s Division I women’s basketball teams and two of the D-I men’s teams open their exhibition schedules this weekend.

Gonzaga and Idaho kick off tonight with the Bulldog women facing Brahe, Sweden, at Martin Centre, and the Vandal women playing host to Simon Fraser at Memorial Gym. Both games start at 7.

In Saturday’s exhibitions, Eastern Washington’s men take on the Blue Angels at 4 p.m. at Reese Court and Brahe travels to Washington State to play the Cougar women at 8 p.m. at Bohler Gym.

On Sunday, WSU’s men meet Telecom, Portugal, at 2 p.m. at Friel Court, and EWU’s women face Simon Fraser at 4 at Reese Court.

Locals scare Notre Dame

The NBC Thunder, a traveling exhibition basketball team based in the Spokane area, dropped an 80-78 decision at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday in South Bend, Ind.

For the Thunder, Kyle Dixon (Gonzaga) had 18 points and six assists, Jon Kinloch (Gonzaga) had 17 points and Lewis Lofton (NIC, Weber State) had 12 rebounds.

The Thunder plays at Kansas State on Friday.

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