More on Grier’s departure

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The Billy Grier-to-San-Diego news you read first on the S-R’s website last night has been amplified a little bit with Steve Bergum’s story in today’s paper.

• The Times’ Bud Withers also has a story on Grier moving to the Toreros, and the San Diego paper has just this little note .

• Also, here is the ESPN report which appeared on its website about three hours after Bergum’s report.

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• Dave Trimmer examines the state of Eastern Washington’s basketball program, and coach Mike Burns, in today’s S-R. A former EWU employee passed on this piece of information yesterday: Athletic director Darren Hamilton said he had decided to fire Burns days before Hamilton was in fact let go by the University. With Hamilton gone, such thoughts seemed to have disappeared.

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• Ohio State’s victory and UCLA’s win Saturday were a big deal, but the most exciting finish came in the NCAA Division II title game between formerly undefeated Winona State and Barton College. You can watch video of the exciting ending here .

• The Arizona State women have traveled further in the NCAA tournament then they every have, and now Rutgers awaits in the Elite Eight. The opponent is ironically sad, because the Scarlet Knights were the scheduled opponent that night last November when the game was cancelled following Jordan Johnson’s death in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Whether Briann January plays Monday – she didn’t against Bowling Green on Saturday due to the concussion she suffered last week – is still to be determined.