Eastern Washington Eagles NCAA Basketball News

Dave Rose has coached a lot of basketball games on his birthday, but none have compared to the present he received Saturday night at the Marriott Center.

Eastern Washington 100, Seattle U 97 CHENEY - Brandon Moore scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and Kevin Winford sank five of six foul shots in the final 57 seconds of overtime as the Eagles held off the Redhawks .

Luke Babbitt scored 29 points and Brandon Fields hit a 3-pointer with 4.3 seconds left to lead Nevada over Eastern Washington 73-70 on Thursday night.

GAME NOTES: The Las Vegas Classic gets underway this week and as part of that, the Nevada Wolf Pack entertain the Eagles of Eastern Washington at the Lawlor Events Center in Reno tonight.

For the second consecutive year, Seattle University and Eastern Washington needed overtime to settle their men's basketball contest, but Eastern Washington jumped out to an early lead in the extra session and held on to defeat SeattleU, 100-97, Saturday afternoon at Reese Court.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN: After a week of finals, Seattle University made the trip east Friday in preparation for Saturday's game at Eastern Washington.

Eastern Washington's third-year head men's basketball coach Kirk Earlywine thought some of the young players on his team grew up during Saturday afternoon's 100-97 non-conference overtime win over visiting Seattle University - and with good reason.

As a college men's basketball team preparing to spend most of the holiday season on the road, Eastern Washington University decided on Saturday afternoon to leave its friends, fans and family members with a warm memory on its way out the door.

Brandon Moore scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed 11 rebounds and Kevin Winford sank 5-of-6 foul shots in the final 57 seconds of overtime as Eastern Washington held off Seattle 100-97 on Saturday.

EASTERN WASHINGTON EAGLES COACH: Kirk Earlywine . RECORD: 3-5 Overall, 0-1 Big Sky Conference LAST SEASON: 12-18 overall, 6-10 in the Big Sky.

EWU's Brandon Moore will have his hands full in trying to contain Seattle's Charles Garcia After playing a tough eight games in 22 days to start the season, the Eastern Washington men's basketball team took some time of for fall finals.

Dominic Waters had 23 points and eight assists Saturday night to lead Portland State to a 98-75 win over Eastern Washington in the Big Sky Conference opener for both teams.

's men's basketball team probably could have done better than Walla Walla University.

Dunn, Eastern Washington top Walla Walla 89-61 Eds: APNewsNow. Eastern Washington 89, Walla Walla 61.

MOSCOW The Idaho men's basketball team kept its hot-shooting streak alive Saturday night at Memorial Gym, with a 76-54 win over Eastern Washington in which the Vandals hit 54.2 percent from the floor.

Idaho played superbly in stretches in polishing off Eastern Washington 76-54 at Memorial Gym tonight.

A LOOK AT THE MAVERICKS UT Arlington continues its 4-game season-opening homestand Tuesday as its hosts UT Permian Basin at 7 p.m....the game will be preceded by the UTA women's team taking on UMKC at 4 p.m....the Mavericks will be looking to snap a 2-game losing streak after dropping a 72-68 decision to Eastern Washington Saturday...UTA is now 1-2 ...

Ike Okoye had 21 points, a career-high 17 rebounds and a career-tying six blocks and Boise State withstood Eastern Washington's second-half charge for an 82-69 victory on Tuesday night.

Before the season even started, coach Scott Cross said he could live with losses if his team plays hard and shows effort the entire game.

There. Now that we've tried to establish some perspective, it still needs to be said loud and clear: Klay Thompson is talented enough to break all kinds of school records this season, and he's going to be given every opportunity to do so.