State B Pays Tribute To Wright

The Washington State B basketball tournaments are paying tribute to long-time former broadcaster and B Tournament contributor Dick Wright, who died last month from cancer.

A tribute to Wright is printed in this year’s tournament program.

Several fans at the Spokane Arena are wearing blue ribbons in Wright’s memory. The ribbons emerged, said Wright’s daughter, Kay McGlocklin, last week at the Northwest District B Tournament.

“Wilbur-Creston started it,” she said.

Wright was a B Tournament sponsor for the team. As a special tribute, some of the players broke out the warm-up T-shirts they wore last year that read “We love Dick & Jeannie.” A No. 1 adorns the back.

Wright’s wife, Jeannie, who remains Wilbur-Creston’s sponsor, sat on the bench with the Wildcats on Wednesday.

“Just a lot of people are wearing them,” McGlocklin said of the ribbons.

Even Wright is adorned with one.

“I put one on his Hall of Fame plaque” on the Arena concourse, McGlocklin said. , DataTimes