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Miguel Lopez scored 19 points and grabbed seven rebounds as Whitworth opened its Northwest Conference slate with an 87-63 victory over Puget Sound on Friday in Tacoma.

Sedona Prince scored 14 points, Taylor Mikesell added 11 — including four free throws in the closing seconds — and No. 13 Oregon beat Washington State 58-50 on Friday night.

Looking on the bright side, the Gonzaga women’s basketball players just got a head start on the second semester of class.

Pacific relies on balance, but sophomore guard Daniss Jenkins has emerged as the team’s most reliable scoring option.

The Bulldogs (14-0, 5-0 WCC) have had a week to rest and fine-tune after their closest conference win thus far, 73-59, over Saint Mary’s. The Tigers (5-2, 2-1) join BYU and Pepperdine as one-loss WCC teams behind GU, but they’re licking their wounds after a disappointing night in Malibu.

Washington State returned home Thursday hoping to rediscover the defensive form that carried the Cougars to an unbeaten record through the first two months of the 2020-21 season.

Like most Zags fans, Roger Powell Jr. was anxious to watch the Gonzaga-Portland game Jan. 9 but first had to wait for the Seattle-Los Angeles NFL game and the postgame show to end on FOX 28.

Marcus Tsohonis scored a career-high 27 off the bench, Erik Stevenson added 17 points before fouling out, and Washington picked up its first conference win of the season beating Colorado 84-80 on Wednesday night.

It is not often that the Whitworth men’s basketball program brings in a senior transfer.

The Gonzaga-Santa Clara men’s basketball game that was postponed Jan. 7 has been rescheduled for Feb. 6.

The Huskies returned to the court to practice last Saturday following a 10-day quarantine that wiped out four games and forced the Washington women’s basketball team to suspend activities after two players tested positive for COVID-19.

This is how Jeremy Eaton recounted his first doctor’s appointment in 10 years:Dec. 15: “The doctor starts pushing across my abdomen and says, ‘You have a CT scan at 9 a.m.’ I’m like, ‘Why, I don’t feel that bad,’ thinking this is going to cost me a couple grand.”Dec. 16: “Next morning, get the results. She says, ‘You have stage four rectal cancer and it’s moved into your liver, kidney and lungs.’“I just looked at her and said, ‘You’re kidding me.’“And I said, ‘Am I dead?’

That much-anticipated opening Thursday of March Madness will belong to the play-in teams, part of a scrambled and modestly condensed schedule for the 2021 tournament released Tuesday.

Kansas coach Bill Self knew the question was coming after the Jayhawks became the only team in the country that has lined up against No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 2 Baylor.Self dished out heavy praise for both undefeated teams, but declined to pick when asked who would win a head-to-head matchup. He did say the teams are in a class by themselves.

The Pac-12 race is tracking as projected, with two primary exceptions: Arizona State and USC.

He’s been the engine of Washington State’s offense this season, averaging a conference-high 21.7 points in Pac-12 games, but Isaac Bonton recently approached coach Kyle Smith with a play call that had nothing to do with high ball screens or pick-and-rolls.

Idaho is 0-11, and lacks a dynamic scoring capability. Damen Thacker is leading the Vandals and averaging 11.5 points a game. But in a pair of defeats to Northern Colorado last week, Idaho displayed some intriguing production from its two big men.

Corey Kispert and Jalen Suggs added to Gonzaga’s collection of WCC weekly honors.