In brief: GU-Stanford game sold out

Women’s basketball: Tickets for today’s Gonzaga University women’s basketball game versus No. 3 Stanford University are sold out.

The Bulldogs host the 2010 NCAA tournament runners-up at 2 p.m. at the McCarthey Athletic Center. The game will be televised locally on SWX and can also be heard on 1050-AM.

The only other Zags women’s home game to sell out was their 77-58 loss to Tennessee on Dec. 30, 2008 at McCarthey.

Also, GU announced that Sonja Greinacher, a 6-4 post from Essen, Germany, has signed a letter of intent.

“Sonja is one of finest and most decorated players in Europe,” GU coach Kelly Graves. “I am amazed at her skill set for someone of her size – she could play one of four positions on the floor. She is an athletic rebounder with the ability to finish anything around the rim. She has an amazing court sense and her ability to pass the ball is as good as I’ve seen in a post player in a long time”

Greinacher played for the German U18 National Team the last two years. She averaged 14.0 points and nearly 11.0 rebounds in this year’s European Championships.

Underwhelmed by Hall induction

Basketball: For most long-retired athletes, an invitation to join a Hall of Fame is a major achievement. The induction ceremony is a chance to celebrate a life well-lived and a career maximized.

For Jerry West? Not so much.

West plans to be in attendance when he’s ushered into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame today in Kansas City, inducted in the founding class for his remarkable career at West Virginia.

Yet West also is sports’ most notorious pessimist this side of Lou Holtz or Jerry Sloan.

“I think they think I’m going to die right away,” West said earlier this week. “That’s why they do these things. It’s nice, but that doesn’t define me as a player.” … I don’t really embrace stuff like that.”

Associated Press