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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2018-19 Roster..................................... Page 1 Meet the Eagles............................................. 2 Eagle Basketball Highlights........................ 3-5 2017-18 Review........................................ 6-10 Shantay Legans & Assistants..................11-15 Season Outlook...................................... 16-18 Quick Facts/2018-19 Sche-dule.................. 19 Player Profiles........................................ 19-37 2018-19 Opponents................................ 38-40 Eagles in the Pros.................................. 41-49 Eagle Honors.......................................... 50-56 Year-by-Year Statistical Champions............ 57 Year-by-Year/Coaches Records............. 58-60 Team and Individual Records................. 60-63 Game, Season & Career Leaders.......... 64-68 Record versus Opponents...................... 70-72 History/Letterwinners/Hall of Fame........ 73-78

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0 %Tyler Kidd 1 Austin Fadal 2 Ty Gibson 5 Casson Rouse 10 Jacob Davison 11 Jack Perry 12 %Steven Beo 13 %Luka Vulikic 14 ^Mason Peatling 20 Cody Benzel 22 Elijah Jackson 23 Jordan Veening 24 %Kim Aiken Jr. 25 Michael Meadows 35 %Tanner Groves 34 Jesse Hunt 42 Joshua Thomas 4 #Ralueke Orizu

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Hometown / Previous School

West Seattle, Wash. / O’Dea HS ’14 / Skagit Valley CC San Ramon, Calif. / Monte Vista HS ’17 / Hillcrest Prep (Ariz.) Issaquah, Wash. / Issaquah HS ‘15 Lacey, Wash. / Timberline HS ‘18 Long Beach, Calif. / Cantwell-Sacred Heart HS ‘16 Melbourne, Australia / Camberwell Grammar School ’16 Richland, Wash. / Richland HS ’16 / BYU Belgrade, Serbia / Svetozar Markovic Jagodina HS Melbourne, Australia / Beaconhills College HS ‘16 Spokane, Wash. / Ferris HS ‘14 Seattle, Wash. / Chief Sealth HS ‘18 Sumas, Wash. / Nooksack Valley HS ‘18 Redlands, Calif. / East Valley HS ’17 Hollywood, Calif. / Campbell Hall HS ‘18 Spokane, Wash. / Shadle Park HS ’17 Geraldton, Australia / Sir Francis Drake (Calif.) HS ‘15 Spokane, Wash. / Central Valley ’16 Atlanta, Ga. / South Cobb HS ’17 / Savannah State (Ga.)

Eastern Games Via Webcast, Radio, Mobile & Live Stats Webcast: www.watchbigsky.com or via PlutoTV Radio: 700-AM ESPN & 105.3-FM (also via https://tunein. com/radio/EasternWashington-Eagles-SportsNetwork-s273711/) TuneIn’s Mobile Apps: Search for “Eastern Washington” Broadcasts feature veteran playby-play announcer Larry Weir

Live Stats: ewustats.com

*Has used redshirt year. ^2017-18 Starter. %Redshirted the 2017-18 season (Vulikic as an injury hardship; Beo as NCAA Division I transfer). #Will redshirt 2018-19 season.

Head Coach: Associate Head Coach Assistants: Dir. of BB Operations: Asst. Dir. of BB Oper.: Dir. for Ath. Performance:

Shantay Legans (Second Season as Head Coach & 10th Season Overall at EWU; Fresno State ’04; 20-15/13-5 in one season) Nick Booker (Second Season; Davidson ‘04) David Riley (Fifth Season as assistant; previously Director of BB Operations; Whitworth ‘11) Bobby Suarez (Second Season; Florida Gulf Coast ’12) Zachary Byrne (Third Season; East Carolina ’16) T.J. Lipold (Second Season: Westmont Col., Calif., ’12) Nate Barry (First Season; Idaho ‘11) Athletic Trainer: Ryan Moreau (Third Season; Central Michigan ’13)

Pronunciations Ralueke Orizu. . . . . . . . . Ray-LAY-kay Or-EE-zoo Luka Vulikic. . . . . . . . . . . Lou-kah Vool-ih-kich

Shantay Legans. . . . . . . . Shawn-tay Leg-uhns

2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 MEET THE EAGLES

#24 Kim Aiken Fr.RS - Redlands, Calif.

#20 Cody Benzel Sr - Spokane, Wash.

#25 Steven Beo So. - Richland, Wash.

#10 Jacob Davison So. - Long Beach, Calif.

Shantay Legans - Head Coach

Nick Booker Associate Head Coach

#2 Ty Gibson #35 Tanner Groves #34 Jesse Hunt Sr. - Issaquah, Wash. Fr.RS - Spokane, Wash. Sr. - Geraldton, Australia

#0 Tyler Kidd Jr. - Seattle, Wash.

David Riley Assistant Coach Bobby Suarez Assistant Coach

#14 Mason Peatling #11 Jack Perry Jr. - Melbourne, Australia So. - Melbourne, Australia

#42 Joshua Thomas #13 Luka Vulikic So. - Spokane, Wash So. - Belgrade, Serbia

Zachary Byrne Dir. of BB Operations

EWU Newcomers ^Will redshirt 2018-19 season. T.J. Lipold Asst. Dir. of BB Oper.

#1 - Austin Fadal #22 - Elijah Jackson #25 - Mike Meadows #4 - ^Ralueke Orizu #5 - Casson Rouse #23 - Jordan Veening Fr. - San Ramon, Calif. Fr. - W. Seattle, Wa. Fr. - Hollywood, Calif. So. - Atlanta, Ga. Fr. - Lacey, Wash. Fr. - Sumas, Wash.

2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Eagle Basketball Highlights . . . • NCAA Tournament berths in 2015 & 2004, NIT in 2003 & CBI in 2016, 2017 and 2018. • Big Sky Tournament champions in 2015 & 2004. • Big Sky regular season champions in 2015, 2004 and 2000. • The summer of 2018 was the fourth-straight year an Eagle has represented EWU in the NBA Summer League. • SHANTAY LEGANS made history in 2017-18, as his team’s 20 wins were the most by a first-year Eastern coach in EWU’s NCAA Division I era. Among the victories was a 67-61 victory at Stanford to break EWU’s 21-game losing streak versus Pacific-12 Conference foes. Interestingly, he played for California for three seasons from 2000-03 and the Bears lost to the Cardinal in all five meetings. • The Eagles from 2013-14 through 2017-18 have recorded win totals of 15, 26, 18, 22 and 20, including the top two win totals in EWU’s 34-year history in NCAA Division I . The combined 101 victories in five seasons, 86 in four, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the most since EWU became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. The same can be said of EWU’s stretch of league victories -- 10, 14, 10, 13, 13 -- in that five-year span. Eastern has had its first back-to-backto-back national tournament postseason appearances at the Division I level with a current stretch of four-straight, including its first-ever win (79-72 over Pepperdine in the CBI in 2016). • BOGDAN BLIZNYUK was the 2017-18 Big Sky Conference MVP and a unanimous first team all-league selection, and went on to earn first team All-NABC District 6 honors. He broke the Big Sky Conference and Eastern all-time career scoring records, with a final total of 2,169. He set a NCAA Division I single season record as a senior when he made 77 consecutive free throws. and finished with a total of 16 school records, three Big Sky marks and nine Big Sky Tournament records. He concluded his senior season with 741 points (sixth in Big Sky history), tying the record in the final minute of his career and then breaking it on his last career shot with 10 ticks left. He earned second team NABC All-District 6 and second team All-Big Sky honors as a junior. He was the Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year in 2014-15. As a sophomore, he recorded the first triple-double in school history when he had 11 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists against Northern Arizona on Jan. 16, 2016. • JACOB WILEY, playing in his first and only season as an Eagle in 2016-17, made Big Sky Conference history by becoming just the second player in league history to score at least 639 points and have at least 303 rebounds in a single season in the league’s 54-year existence. The honorable mention All-American, Big Sky MVP and first team NABC All-District 6 selection finished with totals of 694 and 309, respectively, and no other player in league history has coupled that with at least 58 blocks (Wiley finished with 94 to come one shy of the league record) or a shooting percentage of at least .621 (Wiley finished at .643). Wiley finished the season ranked sixth in NCAA Division I in field goal percentage, eighth in blocked shots (2.76 per game), 29th in scoring (20.4), 48th in rebounds (9.1) and 112th in free throw percentage (.828). He signed a contract with the New Jersey Nets of the NBA. • FELIX VON HOFE finished his career in 2016-17 sixth in league history for career 3-pointers with a school-record total of 262. He played in a school-record 128 games and finished with the 18th-most points in school history with 1,058, and 3-point records for both makes (262) and attempts (657). • A four-time All-Big Sky performner, VENKY JOIS was selected to the All-Big Sky Conference first team as a senior for the second -straight season. He was also a NABC All-District 6 second team selection in the 2015-16 season, and a year earlier he earned first team All-District 6 honors and was picked for the Big Sky Conference All-Tournament team. He was the Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year in the 2013-14 season, and earned honorable mention All-Big Sky accolades as both a freshman and sophomore. He set 10 school records as an Eagle, including what was then a school-record 1,803 career points. • Eagle sharpshooter TYLER HARVEY was selected by Orlando in the second round as the 51st pick overall in the National Basketball Association Draft on June 25, 2015. Harvey was a walk-on to the Eastern program in the fall of 2011, then developed into a honorable mention All-American in the 2014-15 season when he led NCAA Division I in scoring (23.1) and 3-pointers made per game (4.00). He set Big Sky Conference and school records with 128 3-pointers in the 2014-15 season. • The Eagles closed a monumental 2014-15 campaign with a 26-9 record overall after finishing 14-4 in the Big Sky Conference to share the regular season title with Montana. Eastern swept through three games in the Big Sky Conference Tournament on Montana’s home court in Missoula, Mont., to garner the school’s second NCAA Tournament appearance in school history. The Eagles finished with program bests for victories overall (26), in the Big Sky (14), on the road (11) and in non-conference play (9) as a member of NCAA Division I. Eastern set a total of 18 school records during the year. * Eastern’s heart-stopping 88-86 victory at Big Ten Conference member Indiana Nov. 24, 2014, will go down as one of the greatest victories in school history after the Eagles snapped the nation’s third-longest non-conference home court winning streak at 43 in front of 11,636 Hoosier fans at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Ind. It was the first-ever win for the Eagles in 14 tries against a Big Ten Conference opponent and was the first Big Sky win on a Big Ten home court. • Streak of nine-straight Big Sky Conference Tournament berths from 1998-2006 (fifth-best streak in league history). • Second or better in Big Sky regular season standings five-straight seasons from 2000-2004. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 FOUR YEARS OF MEMORIES . . . The most successful back-to-backto-back-to-back seasons in Eastern’s NCAA Division I History • 2015 NCAA Tournament & Big Sky Regular Season & Tournament Champions • 2016 College Basketball Invitational & First Postseason Win as DI Member • 2017 & 2018 College Basketball Invitational & 4-Year Total of 86 Victories

2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 2017-18 REVIEW: Eagles 20-15 For Third 20-Win Season in Four Years Following the head coaching debut for Shantay Legans, Eastern looks to the future after Bogdan Bliznyuk era ends with 86 victories in four seasons

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here is no denying the great success the Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team had in the 2017-18 season, but the final two losses were a lesson for the future. The Eagles had a highly-competitive and highly-successful season in the first year at the helm for Eastern head coach Shantay Legans. His squad went on a late-season eight-game winning streak that was the best in 14 years, and the Eagles were among a record six Big Sky teams who won at least 20 games in the 2017-18 season. At 20-15 on the year, Eastern had 20 victories for the second-straight season and the third time in the last four, with EWU achieving that mark just one other time in the school’s 35 seasons as a member of NCAA Division I. The Eagles played 11 opponents who advanced to national postseason tournaments, with the Eagles winning five of the 15 meetings against those teams. Among EWU’s non-conference victories was a 67-61 win at Stanford to break EWU’s 21-game losing streak versus Pacific-12 Conference foes.

After beating Portland State 78-72 and Southern Utah 82-70 in the Big Sky Conference Tournament, the Eagles fell to regular season champion Montana 82-65 in the championship game. Eastern, which had a 41-29 halftime lead against the Grizzlies, then fell 87-65 at Utah Valley in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational. After playing sensational basketball for 8 1/2 games and capturing third-place in the regular season conference standings, Legans vows the Eagles will use the last three halves of the season to also build upon. “They did achieve a lot, but you can’t settle and say a third-place finish and just getting to the championship game is a good season,” he said. “That’s a losing mentality, and I don’t want our team to think that’s okay. I know they’ll get patted on the back and it’s a great accomplishment to win 20 games and play without guys who were injured, but you can’t have that mentality. You have to think you want to win the league championship and go to the NCAA Tournament.” The Eagles beat every Big Sky team other than regular season league runner-up Idaho in the 2017-18 season, and finished third after being predicted to finish sixth by the media and seventh by the coaches in the league’s preseason polls. Included in the league triumphs was the school’s first road

sweep in two years in late February, including a win over Weber State to give EWU a tiebreaker advantage in the league. Eastern snapped the nine-game winning streak of the Wildcats, and one game earlier handed regular season champion Montana its first league loss after 13 victories. “They competed every game and I’m proud of this team,” he continued. “I like everybody we have coming back and coming in. I think we have the best shooters in the league, and I believe Mason Peatling is going to be the best big man in the league. It was a good season, but to me, if you don’t win it and get to the NCAA Tournament, it’s kind of a loss.” Besides its 20-15 record, the Eagles were 13-5 in the Big Sky, and won 17 of their last 24 games after a 3-8 start. The Eagles finished 11-1 at home, 6-12 on opponent home courts and 3-2 at neutral sites in the 2017-18 season, and were 5-4 on the road in the league season and 8-1 at home. Eastern equaled a school-record with 35 games played in the 2017-18 season. Eastern made its sixth appearance in a national postseason tournament in school history and fourth-in-a-row. Eastern advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2004 and 2015, were in the NIT in 2003 and have played in the last three College Basketball Invitational (CBI) tournaments in 2016, 2017

2017-18 EWU Men’s Basketball Team Front Row (left to right): Jesse Hunt, Grant Gibb, Sir Washington, Benas Griciunas, Bogdan Bliznyuk, Ty Gibson, Cody Benzel. Back Row: Tyler Kidd, Joshua Thomas, Brendan Howard, Richard Polanco, Mason Peatling, Tanner Groves, Luka Vulikic, Kim Aiken, Jacob Davison, Steven Beo, Jack Perry. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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and 2018. A big part of that success was Bogdan Bliznyuk, who joined Sir Washington and graduate transfer Benas Griciunas as EWU’s three departed seniors. In his 138th and final game of his career, Bliznyuk tied EWU’s single season scoring record with 50 seconds left, then broke it with a 3-pointer on the last shot of his illustrious career with 20 ticks remaining. Bliznyuk, the Big Sky’s all-time leading scorer with 2,169 points, finished with 741 as a senior to rank sixth in league history and break the previous school record of 738 set three years ago by Tyler Harvey. In setting a total of 16 school records, Bliznyuk scored 27 points in his finale – the 44th time he’s scored at least 20 and his 100th double-digit performance. He also closed his career with a variety of Big Sky Conference Tournament marks, a NCAA Division I single season free throw record with 77-straight makes and the utmost respect from his head coach. “I love Tyler to death, but I wasn’t about to let Bogdan go without that record,” said Legans. “I want to make sure our team knows how important everything is, and Bogdan is going to understand some day how much he accomplished. It was probably the best single season a player has had at Eastern Washington and probably the best career – he’s going to be in the record books a long time.”

More Team Notes Eagles Achieve Second Consecutive 20-Win Season, With Four-Straight Years of 18+ At 20-15 on the season, the Eastern basketball program has hit a threshold that has occurred just four times now in Eastern’s 35-year history in NCAA Division I. Since 1983-84, the only other times EWU has won 20 games came in 1985-86 (20-8), 2014-15 (26-9) and in 2016-17 (22-12). The 2017-18 team is just one of six in the school’s 35-year NCAA Division I history to have at least 18, including the last four seasons in a row. Eastern has been in the Big Sky Conference for 31 seasons now, with a high of 14 league wins in 2014-15. Finishing 13-5 in league play in both 2017-18 and 201617, only one other time has EWU exceeded 11 league wins, that coming in 1999-00 when EWU had 12 to share the regular season league title with Montana. From 2013-14 through 2017-18, Eastern has had win totals of 15, 26, 18, 22 and 20 games. The two 20-victory seasons are the top two win totals in EWU’s 35-year history in NCAA Division I. The combined 101 wins in five seasons, 86 victories in four seasons, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the most since EWU became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. The same can be said of EWU’s stretch of league victories – 10, 14, 10, 13, 13 – in that five-year span. Legans, Bliznyuk & Washington Were Tourney Tested Fourth-year seniors Bogdan Bliznyuk and Sir Washington both played in EWU’s 2015 NCAA Tournament game versus Georgetown, as well as four other games in national postseason tournaments. Bliznyuk averaged 19.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists in those five games, while making 33-of-69 shots overall (47.8 percent), 7-of-17 from the 3-point stripe (41.2 percent) and 25-of-29 free throws (92.6 percent). Washington averaged 4.8 points, 3.4 rebounds and 0.4 assists. In four games, Ty Gibson has scored 11 points with two rebounds and an assist, and Cody Benzel has

Selected to play in Portsmouth Invitational April 11-14, 2018, in Portsmouth, Va. Selected to play in Reese’s College All-Star Game on March 30, 2018, at the Final Four in San Antonio, Texas (11 points, 5x7, 3 rebounds, 2 steals) Lou Henson Mid-Major All-America Team (March 29, 2018 by collegeinsider.com/40 players) Honorable Mention All-America (March 27, 2018 by Associated Press) First Team NABC All-District 6 (March 13, 2018) All-Mid Major Third Team (selected by CollegeSportsMadness.com) Big Sky Conference MVP (selected by coaches) First Team All-Big Sky (selected by coaches) First Team All-Big Sky & Payer of the Year (selected by hoopshd.com) Big Sky All-Tournament (selected by media/staff) Nominated for CoSIDA Academic All-America Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (March 5 by BSC) Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 26 by BSC and College Sports Madness) Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 19 by BSC) Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (Jan. 29 by BSC) Mid-Season All-Big Sky (Jan. 1 by HoopsHD. com; 5 players selected) Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (Dec. 19 by BSC) EWU Scholar-Athlete of the Month (December) Lou Henson Award Watch List (Nov. 8 by Collegeinsider.com) Preseason First Team All-Big Sky (league office) Preseason First Team All-Big Sky (College Sports Madness)

Mason Peatling Honorable Mention All-Big Sky (selected by coaches)

Cody Benzel

EWU Scholar-Athlete of the Month (January)

2017-18 Big Sky Conference All-Academic Selections Cody Benzel Bogdan Bliznyuk Ty Gibson Benas Griciunas Jesse Hunt Mason Peatling Jack Perry

2015 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2015 BIG SKY TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS • 2015 BIG SKY REGULAR SEASON CHAMPS

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seven points, five rebounds and a pair of assists. Jesse Hunt did not play in 2018 versus Utah Valley in the College Basketball Invitational, but has played in three other postseason games and has seven points and eight rebounds. Mason Peatling played as a freshman in the 2015-16 season against Wyoming in the CBI and scored four points, then had five points, five rebounds and a pair of assists versus UVU.

Head coach Shantay Legans has coached in three Big Sky Conference Tournament games as a head coach and 10 as an assistant, with a record of 8-5 in five appearances. Eastern’s 2014-15 squad won the title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament with a trio of victories in Missoula, Montana. Included was a come-from-behind 69-65 over the host Grizzlies in the championship game.

Bliznyuk finished with a record 10 games of Big Sky Tournament experience, and Eastern was 7-3 in his four seasons as an Eagle. Washington played in seven games, but was injured and didn’t play in 2015. In those 10 games, Bliznyuk averaged 19.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game in the league tournament. Besides his 32 points against Southern Utah and 35 points against Portland State in 2018, he scored 32 points with eight rebounds in the 2017 semifinals versus Weber State, and had 18 points, nine rebounds and six assists in the quarterfinals against Sac State.

Now in its 31st year as a member of the league, Eastern made its 16th appearance in the Big Sky Conference Tournament in 2018. The Eagles have a record of 15-14 in its 28 games – 1-0 in the first round, 5-5 in the quarterfinals, 7-4 in the semifinals and 2-5 in the championship. The Eagles advanced to the title game in 1990, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2015 and 2018, and won the title in 2004 and 2015. Before winning the 2015 title, Eastern hadn’t appeared in the tournament at all since the 2011-12 and 2010-11 seasons, which were EWU’s first since 2006. The Eagles qualified for each tournament from 1998-2006.

Bliznyuk scored 82 points in three 2018 tournament games, making 31-of-46 shots overall (67.4 percent), 6-of-8 from the 3-point stripe and 14-of-18 free throws. His points, field goals and field goal attempts were Big Sky single tournament records as he was named to the All-Tournament team. He also holds Big Sky Tournament career records for games played (10, 7-3 record), minutes (333), points (193), field goals (72) and field goals attempted (126). He shattered the previous scoring record of 165 set by current Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak from Montana from 1983-86. Bliznyuk made 77 consecutive free throws in an 18-game stretch from Dec. 31 to March 8 to set a new NCAA Division I single season record.

Legans Has Most Coaching Wins for a Rookie in 75 Years First-year head coach Shantay Legans is the 18th coach in Eastern history, and has made history of his own. His 20 wins are the most by a first-year Eastern coach in EWU’s NCAA Division I era, besting Ray Giacoletti with 17 in the 2000-01 season. Joe Folda also won 17 games in 1982-83 as an interim head coach during Eastern’s rise from NAIA to NCAA Division I. Thus, you have to go back to the 1942-43 season when Bob Brumblay won 27 games in his debut season to find a rookie Eastern coach with more than 18 victories, which is also the only time it’s happened. Among the victories was a 67-61 triumph at Stanford to break EWU’s 21-game losing streak versus Pacific-12 Conference foes. Interestingly, he played for California for three seasons from 2000-03 and the Bears lost to the Cardinal in all five meetings.

Washington averaged 4.6 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists in the seven tourney games he played, including an 11-point effort in 2016-17 versus the Hornets and seven as a senior versus PSU. Eastern went on to lose to Georgetown 84-74 in the NCAA Tournament, with Bliznyuk finishing with 11 points, six rebounds and a pair of assists after earning Big Sky Freshman of the Year honors. Washington missed the Big Sky Tournament with an injury, but was 2-of-2 from the field and 2-of-2 from the free line to finish with six points and a pair of rebounds in five minutes against the Hoyas.

2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Records Broken by Bogdan Bliznyuk (16 individual school records set, tied or established, plus one NCAA, three Big Sky and nine Big Sky Tournament marks) Records by Bliznyuk during the 2017-18 season . . . NCAA, Big Sky & EWU – 77 Consecutive Free Throws Made in a Single Season (previous record 73 by Gary Buchanan from Villanova over a 21-game stretch in the 2000-01 season). Big Sky & EWU – 2,169 Career Points (previous BSC record of 2,102 by Idaho’s Orlando Lightfoot from 1991-94 & EWU record of 1,803 by Venky Jois from 2013-16) Big Sky Tournament – Career records for games (10), minutes (333), points (193), field goals (72), field goal attempts (126), fouls (24) & turnovers (30) Big Sky Tournament – Single tournament records for points (82) & field goals (31) EWU – 741 Season Points (previous record of 738 by Tyler Harvey in 2014-15 season) EWU – 265 Season Field Goals Made (ties record of 265 by Jacob Wiley in 2016-17 season) EWU – .902 Season Free Throw Percentage (previous record of .900 by Jeffrey Forbes in 2010-11 season) EWU – 138 Career Games Played (previous record of 128 by Felix Von Hofe from 2014-17)

2017-18 BIG SKY STANDINGS Big Sky Overall Team W L Pct. W L Pct. #Montana 16 2 .889 26 8 .765 Idaho 14 4 .778 22 9 .688 %Eastern Wash. 13 5 .722 20 15 .571 Weber State 13 5 .722 20 11 .708 &Northern Colo. 11 7 .611 26 12 .684 &Portland State 9 9 .500 20 14 .588 Idaho State 9 9 .500 14 16 .467 North Dakota 6 12 .333 12 20 .375 Montana State 6 12 .333 13 19 .406 Southern Utah 5 13 .278 13 19 .406 Sacramento St. 4 14 .222 7 25 .219 Northern Arizona 2 16 .111 5 27 .156 #NCAA Tournament. %College Basketball Invitational. &College Insider Tournament (UNC won the title).

EWU – 4,272 Career Minutes Played (previous record of 3,927 by Venky Jois from 2013-16) EWU – 776 Career Field Goals Made (previous record of 729 by Ron Cox from 1974-77) EWU – 1,553 Career Field Goal Attempts (previous record of 1,286 by Dave Hayden from 1970-73) EWU – 467 Career Free Throws Made (previous record of 386 by Rodney Stuckey from 2006-07)

Records set or involved with in the 2016-17 season . . . EWU – 529 Season Field Goal Attempts (previous record 510 by Rodney Stuckey in 2006) EWU – 45 Single Game Points vs. Portland State 2/4/17 (ties record previously set by Rodney Stuckey vs. Northern Arizona, 1/5/06, and also achieved by Jacob Wiley versus PSU 2/4/17) EWU – 53 Single Game Minutes Played vs. Portland State 2/4/17 (ties record previously set by Shannon Taylor vs. Weber State, 1/16/99, and also achieved by Jacob Wiley versus PSU 2/4/17) EWU – 29 Single Game Field Goal Attempts vs. Portland State 2/4/17 (previous record 28 set by Adris DeLeon vs. Northern Colorado, 1/17/08) EWU – 1,395 Season Combined Points, Bogdan Bliznyuk (701) and Jacob Wiley (694)

College Basketball Invitational Tournament March 13: Utah Valley 87, Eastern Washington 65

Big Sky & EWU – 90 Game Combined Points, Bogdan Bliznyuk & Jacob Wiley (previous records unknown, but no two players have scored 41 or more each in the same game in the Big Sky and no two Eastern players have scored 31 or more in the same game)

More Milestones from EWU’s 130-124 Victory Over Portland State on 2/4/17 . . . * The combined 90 points by Bliznyuk and Wiley was easily a school and Big Sky Conference record, and came just two points from the NCAA Division I mark of 92 set by Kevin Bradshaw (72) & Isaac Brown (20) for U.S. International (now Alliant International) vs. Loyala Marymount on Jan. 5, 1991. Interestingly, they combined for 68 (Bradshaw 37, Brown 31) in a 118-83 loss to Eastern on Feb. 2, 1991, and 39 the year before (Bradshaw 30, Brown 9) in a 102-93 victory over EWU on Dec. 21, 1989. * The 20 free throws attempted by Bogdan Bliznyuk equaled the second-most in school history behind the record of 21, and his 17 free throws made were second behind the record of 20 (Tyler Harvey was 20-of-20 on 1/23/14 vs. Southern Utah, and Matt Piper was 17-of-21 on 12/28/82 vs. Humboldt State). * With 92 being the NCAA record for combined points, it was the first time in NCAA history two players have scored at least 45 points in the same game. Notre Dame had two players also score 90 on Feb. 23, 1970, in a 121-114 non-overtime win over Butler (Austin Carr with 50 and Collis James with 40). Loyola Marymount’s Bo Kimble and the late Hank Gathers each scored 40 against Gonzaga in 1989, and the Bulldogs also had a 40-point scorer in that game, Doug Spradley. On Feb. 20, 1971, Idaho State’s Willie Humes scored 58 points and MSU’s Bill Brickhouse and Willie Weeks each scored 38 in a 105-92 Bobcat win, also in regulation. * On Big Sky Conference lists, the 45 points both Bliznyuk and Wiley scored equaled the 12th-most in the 54-year history of the league.

BIG SKY CAREER SCORING LEADERS 1. Bogdan Bliznyuk, Eastern Wash. 2. Orlando Lightfoot, Idaho 3. Jeremy Senglin, Weber State 4. Bruce Collins, Weber State 5. Larry Krystkowiak, Montana 6. Tanoka Beard, Boise State 7. Damian Lillard, Weber State 8. Steve Hayes, Idaho State 8. Steve Connor, Boise State 10. Nate Holmstadt, Montana State 11. Tom Domako, Montana State 12. M.R.Richardson, Montana 13. Donn Holston, Idaho State 14. Jim Potter, Idaho State 15. Venky Jois, Eastern Washington

(4) 2014-18 (3) 1991-94 (4) 2013-17 (4) 1976-80 (4) 1982-85 (4) 1989-93 (3) 2008-12 (4) 1973-77 (4) 1974-78 (4) 1995-99 (4) 1984-88 (4) 1974-78 (4) 1983-87 (4) 1992-95 (4) 2012-16

138 91 124 120 120 110 103 110 108 119 118 107 121 112 122

2,169 2,102 2,078 2,019 2,017 1,944 1,934 1,933 1,927 1,864 1,841 1,827 1,819 1,810 1,803

Note: Eastern’s women’s player Delaney Hodgins finished here career with a school-record total of 2,120 to rank third in Big Sky history. Just five men’s players in the 55-year history of the league and only four women in 29 years have gone over the 2,000-point mark.

BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS

ROAD TO

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Big Sky Conference Tournament Reno Events Center • Reno, Nevada

March 6 - First Round (seeds #5-12) #8 North Dakota 76, #9 Montana State 74 #5 Northern Colorado 82, #12 Northern Arizona 59 #10 Southern Utah 76, #7 Idaho State 68 #6 Portland State 71, #11 Sacramento State 67 March 8 - Quarterfinals #1 Montana 84, #8 North Dakota 76 #5 Northern Colorado 82, #4 Weber State 55 #10 Southern Utah 92, #2 Idaho 78 #3 Eastern Wash. 78, #6 Portland State 72 March 9 - Semifinals #1 Montana 91, #5 Northern Colorado 89 (ot) #3 Eastern Wash. 82, #10 Southern Utah 70 March 10 - Championship #1 Montana 82, #3 Eastern Wash. 65

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20-15 (11-1 Home, 6-12 Away, 3-2 Neutral), 13-5 Big Sky Conference/t-3rd (8-1 Home, 5-4 Away)

TOTAL 3-PTS REBOUNDS ## Player GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO A TO Blk Stl Pts Avg 32 BLIZNYUK, Bogdan 35 35 1228 35.1 265 502 .528 45 113 .398 166 184 .902 33 205 238 6.8 83 1 137 119 10 29 741 21.2 Big Sky Conf. 18 18 651 36.2 149 276 .540 24 61 .393 78 79 .987 20 116 136 7.6 45 1 86 63 7 15 400 22.2 10 DAVISON, Jacob 34 7 544 16.0 77 160 .481 27 65 .415 61 73 .836 21 73 94 2.8 57 0 18 33 11 27 242 7.1 Big Sky Conf. 18 1 246 13.7 39 75 .520 14 32 .438 18 23 .783 9 33 42 2.3 24 0 7 15 5 10 110 6.1 11 PERRY, Jack 35 27 957 27.3 83 184 .451 56 130 .431 17 21 .810 8 61 69 2.0 46 0 85 52 0 13 239 6.8 Big Sky Conf. 18 18 537 29.8 47 107 .439 31 75 .413 10 12 .833 3 35 38 2.1 27 0 53 40 0 8 135 7.5 14 PEATLING, Mason 31 26 644 20.8 95 181 .525 5 21 .238 44 71 .620 64 111 175 5.6 104 8 20 27 37 28 239 7.7 Big Sky Conf. 16 14 386 24.1 60 105 .571 1 6 .167 18 31 .581 37 81 118 7.4 50 3 14 12 24 15 139 8.7 20 BENZEL, Cody 34 20 687 20.2 70 177 .395 67 161 .416 18 19 .947 5 35 40 1.2 49 1 18 12 5 20 225 6.6 Big Sky Conf. 18 16 500 27.8 51 123 .415 50 112 .446 9 9 1.000 4 26 30 1.7 33 1 13 8 2 17 161 8.9 02 GIBSON, Ty 35 29 915 26.1 72 184 .391 61 164 .372 15 20 .750 12 64 76 2.2 49 1 44 23 1 22 220 6.3 Big Sky Conf. 18 18 495 27.5 31 83 .373 25 72 .347 3 5 .600 9 33 42 2.3 22 0 24 13 1 16 90 5.0 04 WASHINGTON, Sir 34 8 782 23.0 75 200 .375 21 71 .296 46 75 .613 16 83 99 2.9 76 0 55 38 4 23 217 6.4 Big Sky Conf. 18 1 436 24.2 52 119 .437 13 37 .351 32 46 .696 7 62 69 3.8 38 0 33 23 4 17 149 8.3 15 GRICIUNAS, Benas 34 10 453 13.3 77 164 .470 3 23 .130 19 36 .528 21 81 102 3.0 63 1 11 20 23 7 176 5.2 Big Sky Conf. 17 1 187 11.0 38 62 .613 0 1 .000 8 14 .571 8 31 39 2.3 25 0 3 5 11 3 84 4.9 34 HUNT, Jesse 20 5 366 18.3 55 111 .495 14 38 .368 25 31 .806 32 79 111 5.6 59 2 21 24 9 6 149 7.5 Big Sky Conf. 4 3 80 20.0 13 26 .500 6 10 .600 11 13 .846 7 14 21 5.3 16 2 4 6 5 1 43 10.8 05 POLANCO, Richard 27 0 227 8.4 38 83 .458 9 30 .300 18 25 .720 9 34 43 1.6 60 2 10 29 5 5 103 3.8 Big Sky Conf. 13 0 93 7.2 13 31 .419 4 14 .286 10 11 .909 6 11 17 1.3 29 1 6 16 2 0 40 3.1 13 VULIKIC, Luka 8 8 205 25.6 25 55 .455 0 5 .000 7 15 .467 7 22 29 3.6 16 0 20 14 2 6 57 7.1 Big Sky Conf. 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 12 GIBB, Grant 12 0 31 2.6 2 9 .222 1 4 .250 1 2 .500 1 5 6 0.5 3 0 2 0 1 0 6 0.5 Big Sky Conf. 4 0 8 2.0 1 3 .333 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 3 3 0.8 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 0.5 42 THOMAS, Joshua 7 0 11 1.6 2 7 .286 1 3 .333 0 0 .000 2 1 3 0.4 2 0 0 3 0 0 5 0.7 Big Sky Conf. 3 0 6 2.0 1 3 .333 1 2 .500 0 0 .000 0 1 1 0.3 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 1.0 TEAM 27 51 78 2.2 0 8 0 Big Sky Conf. 13 25 38 2.1 0 6 0 TEAM TOTALS 35 936 2017 .464 310 828 .374 437 572 .764 258 905 1163 33.2 667 16 441 402 108 186 2619 74.8 Big Sky Conf. 18 495 1013 .489 169 422 .400 197 243 .811 123 471 594 33.0 312 8 244 209 61 102 1356 75.3 OPPONENT TOTALS 35 884 1983 .446 241 673 .358 511 711 .719 295 887 1182 33.8 594 10 464 413 77 192 2520 72.0 Big Sky Conf. 18 451 1029 .438 132 378 .349 211 297 .710 153 420 573 31.8 274 3 249 202 41 102 1245 69.2 SCORE BY PERIODS: Eastern Washington Opponents Date Opponent O 29 at Portland% N 10 Walla Walla Univ. N 12 at Washington^ N 14 at Stanford^ N 17 at UNLV N 20 Georgia State& N 22 Eastern Kentucky& N 24 at Utah^ D 3 at Seattle D 7 at San Francisco D 10 at South Dakota D 12 at Wyoming D 17 CSUN D 20 Univ. of Providence~ D 29 at Northern Colorado* D 31 at North Dakota* J 4 Portland State*~ J 6 Sacramento State* J 12 Idaho*=~ J 18 at Northern Arizona*

1st 1261 1118 Score W, 76-70 W, 82-61 L, 69-79 W, 67-61 L, 76-91 L, 50-68 W, 83-62 L, 69-85 L, 65-84 L, 71-81 L, 73-75 L, 88-93 (ot) W, 86-58 W, 94-66 L, 75-88 W, 77-64 W, 81-74 W, 82-67 L, 51-58 W, 81-76

2nd 1340 1375 J 20 J 25 J 27 F 1 F 3 F 9 F 15 F 17 F 22 F 24 M 1 M 3 M 8 M 9 M 10 M 13

OT 18 27

OT2 – –

OT3 – –

Total 2619 2520

at Southern Utah* L, 62-66 (ot) North Dakota* W, 95-71 Northern Colorado*! W, 67-65 at Sacramento State* W, 74-54 at Portland State* L, 81-94 at Idaho*=~ L, 64-66 Montana* W, 74-65 Montana State*! W, 84-79 at Weber State* W, 75-70 at Idaho State* W, 74-69 Southern Utah* W, 74-51 Northern Arizona* W, 85-68 Portland State! (BSC Tourn. QFinals) W, 78-71 Southern Utah! (BSC Tourn. SFinals) W, 82-70 Montana+ (BSC Tourn. Championship) L, 65-82 at Utah Valley (CBI First Round) L, 65-87

All Times Pacific. %Exhibition Game. *Big Sky Conference Game. &MGM Resorts Main Event. ^Televised by the Pac-12 Networks. !Televised by Eleven Sports. ~Televised regionally by SWX. =Doubleheader with EWU women’s team. +Televised by ESPNU.

Statistical Game Leaders SCORING – Bogdan Bliznyuk 27 (51 in career), Cody Benzel 2 (3 in career), Jacob Davison 2 (2 in career), Ty Gibson 1 (3 in career), Jack Perry 1 (1 in career), Mason Peatling 1 (1 in career), Benas Griciunas 1 (1 in career), Richard Polanco 1 (1 in career). REBOUNDS – Bogdan Bliznyuk 16 (39 in career), Jesse Hunt 8 (9 in career), Mason Peatling 8 (9 in career), Jacob Davison 3 (3 in career), Sir Washington 2 (5 in career), Benas Griciunas 2 (2 in career), Jack Perry 1 (1 in career), Luka Vulikic 0 (1 in career). ASSISTS – Bogdan Bilznyuk 24 (57 in career), Jack Perry 7 (7 in career), Ty Gibson 4 (5 in career), Luka Vulikic 3 (3 in career), Sir Washington 2 (8 in career), Richard Polanco 1 (1 in career). STEALS – Bogdan Bliznyuk 10 (41 in career), Mason Peatling 12 (17 in career), Ty Gibson 10 (17 in career), Jacob Davison 10 (10 in career), Sir Washington 8 (18 in career), Cody Benzel 7 (13 in career), Jack Perry 5 (5 in career), Luka Vulikic 4 (11 in career), Jesse Hunt 3 (7 in career), Benas Griciunas 2 (2 in career), Richard Polanco 2 (2 in career). BLOCKED SHOTS – Mason Peatling 20 (23 in career), Benas Griciunas 8 (8 in career), Jacob Davison 5 (5 in career), Bogdan Bliznyuk 4 (20 in career), Jesse Hunt 4 (8 in career), Luka Vulikic 2 (3 in career), Cody Benzel 2 (3 in career), Richard Polanco 2 (2 in career), Grant Gibb 1 (1 in career), Sir Washington 0 (6 in career).

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ship game in his debut season.

SHANTAY LEGANS

He was an Eastern assistant for eight years before becoming EWU’s 10th coach at the NCAA Division I level. Legans spent six years on the staff of Jim Hayford (now head coach at Seattle), and two previous seasons under former head coach Kirk Earlywine (now an assistant at Idaho). Legans was associate head coach under Hayford for the final three of those eight seasons.

Second Season (10th Overall at EWU) Fresno State ‘04

L

ike the strides the Eastern Washington University Basketball program has made since he arrived as an assistant in 2009, Shantay Legans made some history as a head coach too in the 2017-18 season when he led the Eagles to a fourthstraight national postseason tournament berth. His 20 wins are the most by a first-year Eastern coach in EWU’s NCAA Division I era, besting Ray Giacoletti with 17 in the 2000-01 season. Joe Folda also won 17 games in 1982-83 as an interim head coach during Eastern’s rise from NAIA to NCAA Division I. Thus, you have to go back to the 1942-43 season when Bob Brumblay won 27 games in his debut season to find a rookie Eastern coach with more than 18 victories, which is also the only time it’s happened. Among the victories was a 67-61 triumph at Stanford to break EWU’s 21-game losing streak versus Pacific-12 Conference foes. Interestingly, he played for California for three seasons from 2000-03 and the Bears lost to the Cardinal in all five meetings. He also was instrumental in the development of of Big Sky Conference all-time leading scorer Bogdan Bliznyuk, who left EWU in 2018 as the Big Sky Conference Player of the Year and an honorable mention All-America selection. Bliznyuk played in the NABC All-Star game at the “Final Four” after finishing with 2,169 career points and breaking a total of 16 school records along the way. Entering his 10th season on the EWU coaching staff, Legans was announced as EWU’s new head basketball coach on March 29, 2017. Legans is the 18th coach in Eastern history, and directed the Eagles to a 13-5 record in the Big Sky Conference and appearance in the BSC Tournament champion-

Legans has been a part of Eastern teams from the 2013-14 through 2017-18 seasons which have win totals of 15, 26, 18, 22 and 20 games. The three 20-victory seasons are the top three win totals in EWU’s 34-year history in NCAA Division I. The combined 101 wins in five seasons, 86 victories in four seasons, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the most since EWU became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. The same can be said of EWU’s stretch of league victories ­– 10, 14, 10, 13, 13 – in that five-year span. Legans has coached in 13 Big Sky Conference Tournament games, with a record of 8-5 in five appearances. Eastern’s 2014-15 squad won the title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament with a trio of victories in Missoula, Montana. Included was a come-from-behind 69-65 win over the host Grizzlies in the championship game. A former player at Cal and Fresno State, Legans assisted Hayford in recruiting, scouting and game preparation for the Eagles, as well as on-the-floor coaching and the development of EWU’s backcourt players. Eastern has had its first back-to-back-to-back national tournament postseason appearances at the Division I level with a current stretch of four-straight, including its first-ever win (79-72 over Pepperdine in the College Basketball Invitational in 2016). He helped coach Eastern to a 26-9 record overall, Big Sky Conference regular season and tournament titles and a NCAA Tournament appearance in the 2014-15 season. Besides coaching Bliznyuk at Eastern, Legans has helped developed a quartet of All-Big Sky Conference guards in Glen Dean, Cliff Colimon, Tyler Harvey, and Austin McBroom. Dean was the league’s Freshman of the Year in 2010 and an All-BSC guard in 2011; Colimon earned first-team all-league and All-Big Sky Conference Tournament honors as a senior in 2012. Bliznyuk followed in the footsteps of Jacob Wiley, who was a graduate transfer at EWU in 2016-17 and was also Big Sky MVP and an honorable mention All-America selection. Wiley eventually signed a contract and played with the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA, and also saw action for the Long Island Nets in the G-League. Both Wiley and Bliznyuk excelled at the Portsmouth Invitational pre-draft tournament. “Bogdan is a prime example of what Eastern Washington Basketball is all about,” Legans said. “He is a humble, hard-working and dedicated player on and off the court. What he has been able to accomplish for himself and our program is truly remarkable.”

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Legans helped develop Harvey from an Eastern walk-on to NBA draftee, including Harvey’s transition to a starting position late in the 2012-13 season. Harvey averaged 16.5 points on 55 percent shooting from the field (including 20-of-44 3-point attempts) in EWU’s last eight games that year after scoring just 17 points in the first 13 games he played. In the 2013-14 season, Harvey was a first team All-Big Sky selection and earned second team honors on the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-District 6 team – EWU’s first player honored on that team since Rodney Stuckey in 2007. He followed that by leading NCAA Division I in scoring (23.1) and 3-pointers (4.0) per game in the 2014-15 season, and was eventually taken in the second round of the NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic as the 51st pick overall. Harvey also earned honorable mention All-America honors and was a first team Academic All-America selection. Harvey was also MVP of the Big Sky Conference Tournament. The year after, McBroom earned first team All-Big Sky and NABC All-District 6 honors in his lone season as an Eagle. Legans came to Eastern in the 2009-10 season under then head coach Kirk Earlywine, and was retained by Jim Hayford when he took over as head coach in the 2011-12 season. Prior to coming to Eastern, Legans was as an assistant coach for two seasons at Laguna Blanca High School in Santa Barbara, Calif. Previously, he was a student assistant coach for Ray Lopes at Fresno State for two seasons before embarking upon a more than three-year career playing professional

Shantay Legans Coaching Career at EWU Year Head Coach 2017-2018=== Shantay Legans

Overall 20-15

Pct. .571

Conference 13-5/t-3rd

Year Head Coach 2016-17+++ Jim Hayford 2015-16!!! Jim Hayford 2014-15### Jim Hayford 2013-14 Jim Hayford 2012-13 Jim Hayford 2011-2012^^^ Jim Hayford 2010-2011^^^ Kirk Earlywine 2009-2010 Kirk Earlywine Totals (8 seasons as an assistant)

Overall 22-12 18-16 26-9 15-16 10-21 15-17 10-21 9-21 125-133

Pct. .647 .529 .743 .484 .323 .469 .333 .300 .484

Conference 13-5/2nd 10-8/t-5th 14-4/t-1st 10-10/t-6th 7-13/8th 8-8/4th 7-13/t-5th 5-11/7th 74-72 .507

Totals at Eastern (9 seasons)

145-148 .495

basketball in Europe. Legans also has experience coaching various AAU teams in California. He played at California for three seasons from 1999-2002, helping lead the Golden Bears to a collective record of 61-35 (.635). He then spent his senior season (2003-04) at Fresno State, which finished with a 14-15 record overall and a 10-8 mark in the Western Athletic Conference. He averaged 15.0 points and 5.6 assists while averaging more than 38 minutes per game in his final collegiate season. He was team captain at Fresno State and received his bachelor’s degree in African American studies in 2004. Formerly from Goleta, Calif., and Dos Pueblos High School,

87-77 .530

=== CBI Tournament participant & Big Sky Tournament runner-up. Best five-year (101) and four-year (86) stretches in EWU’s first 35 seasons as a member of NCAA Division I and first 31 seasons in the Big Sky Conference. +++CBI Tournament participant & Big Sky Tournament quarterfinalist; Most back-to-back-to-back wins (66) as a member of NCAA Division I. !!!CBI Tournament participant & Big Sky Tournament quarterfinalist; Most backto-back wins (44) as a member of NCAA Division I, including first post-season victory as a member of DI. ###NCAA Tournament participant, Big Sky Conference Tournament Champions & regular season co-Champions; School record for victories in NCAA Division I (26) & Big Sky Conference (14). ^^^Season concluded with Big Sky Conference Tournament berth.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Legans averaged 4.4 assists, 10.4 points and 1.4 steals per game during his 124-game collegiate career, making 83.9 percent of his free throws, 40.2 percent of his field goals and 36.6 percent of his three-point shots. While at Dos Pueblos High School, he was named league MVP and Player of the Year for Santa Barbara County. He also earned All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) honors, and was rated as the seventh-best point guard in the country by Recruiting USA and the No. 19 point guard by PrepStar. His high school team advanced to the CIF Playoffs each of his four seasons on the squad. Because of his accomplishments and contributions on and off the basketball court, Legans was part of the third class of inductees into the Santa Barbara Court of Champions on June 5, 2016, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Among the other previous inductees are basketball legends Jerry West, Jamaal Wilkes, Ben Howland, Gary Colson, Gary Cunningham and Brian Shaw. Legans was born July 30, 1981, in Ventura, Calif. He was married on May 10, 2014, to former Eastern women’s basketball player Tatjana Sparavalo. Their daughter, Zola Lee, was born June 16, 2016, and their son, Maksim (Mak) Lee, was born March 23, 2018. season as the team’s director of operations, in which he assisted the basketball coaching staff with travel, purchasing, film exchange, community service and handled many of the day-to-day office duties.

Associate Head Coach

Booker’s responsibilities as an assistant included skill development, academic monitoring, recruiting, on-court coaching (defensive emphasis), and summer camps. Booker was involved in the player-development process and has helped 10 players earn All-Big West Conference accolades in his tenure at UC Irvine.

NICK BOOKER Second Season

Booker also played a vital role in the performance of Anteater players in the classroom by working directly with UC Irvine’s academic support center to ensure the players’ obligations are met. In his career at UC Irvine, Booker has helped sign, and maintain eligibility, of arguably the best recruiting classes in UC Irvine history.

Davidson ‘04 With eight years of NCAA Division I basketball experience, Nick Booker enters his second season as the associate head coach on the staff of Eastern men’s basketball head coach Shantay Legans. His responsibilities at EWU include player skill development with emphasis on post players, and on-court coaching with defensive emphasis. He also oversees academic monitoring, recruiting, practice planning, in-season opponent scouting and summer camps. Before coming to Eastern for the debut season of Legans, Booker spent the 2016-17 season at his alma mater, Davidson College, as director of basketball operations. The previous six seasons he was at UC Irvine in California, including the last five as an assistant coach. As a player and coach, he has been a part of teams to advance to the NCAA Tournament twice, as well as the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) once, the College Insider Tournament (CIT) on two occasions and the College Basketball Invitational while at EWU in 2017-18. He was also an assistant on Saddleback College teams which won the California Community College Athletic Association title one season and was runner-up the year prior. “Coach Booker has a great basketball mind, and is well-respected among basketball coaches around the country and internationally,” said Legans. “His desire to help student-athletes succeed both on and off the court is an extremely important quality for our program. In his lone season on the staff at Davidson, the Wildcats finished 17-15 overall and 8-10 in the Atlantic 10 Conference. While on the bench for the Anteaters the previous six years, UC Irvine was 118-90 overall, 60-38 in Big West play and advanced to the postseason four times, including the 2015 NCAA Tournament. “Nick understands what we look for in student-athletes, and knows what It takes to be a successful coach,” added Legans. “He has won at every level, first, as a player at Davidson, but also at the junior college and NCAA Division I levels as a coach.” The 2016-17 season was Booker’s seventh year overall as a member of the UC Irvine basketball staff and his sixth as an assistant coach with the Anteater program. Booker was promoted to assistant coach prior to the 2011-12 season after serving his first

In the 2015-16 season, the Anteaters registered a school-record 28 wins and also set new UCI marks for non-conference victories (15) and road wins (13). The team advanced to the championship game of the CollegeInsider.com (CIT) postseason tournament and the Anteaters had an RPI as high as 41 (best in school history) during the regular season and a final RPI of 68. Booker was also involved in the school’s historic 2014-15 season when the Anteaters won the Big West Conference Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time. The Anteaters fell to three-time national champion Louisville by just two points in an NCAA Second-Round game at Seattle, Wash. The 2013-14 team advanced to the NIT and the 2012-13 squad played in the CIT where is recorded the first national postseason win in school history. That started a fouryear stretch in which the Anteaters were a collective 93-51 (21-16, 23-12, 21-13, 28-10), with a pair of Big West titles. Booker’s efforts helped the Anteaters become one of the most feared defensive teams in the nation. In four of his seasons on the staff, UC Irvine ranked in the top 25 in field goal percentage defense, including third in 2014-15. Prior to joining the Anteater staff, Booker served as an assistant coach at powerhouse community college, Saddleback College. Booker was instrumental in helping recruit and develop several All-State players, while the team captured the California Community College State Championship in 2009. He graduated from Davidson College in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in history. He was a member of the Wildcats’ team under current Davidson College head coach Bob McKillop. Booker was a starter for the 2002 Southern Conference championship team that competed in the NCAA Tournament against Ohio State. As a senior, he led Davidson in blocked shots and steals. Booker went on to receive his master’s degree in physical education from Azusa Pacific in 2010. A native of San Diego, Calif., where he earned four varsity letters at The Bishop’s School, Booker has three children, Philip, Kaleb, and Ella.

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appearances at the Division I level with a current stretch of four-straight, including its first-ever win (79-72 over Pepperdine in the College Basketball Invitational in 2016). He helped coach Eastern to a 26-9 record overall, Big Sky Conference regular season and tournament titles and a NCAA Tournament appearance in the 2014-15 season.

DAVID RILEY Fifth Season

In his first three seasons in the program, Riley was the team’s video and analytics coordinator, managed the team’s recruiting database and handled facility scheduling. He also assisted with player academics and summer camps.

Whitworth ‘11 David Riley begins his fifth season on the coaching staff in the 2017-18 school year after being elevated to an assistant men’s coaching position at EWU in May of 2014. He was previously Eastern’s director of basketball operations.

Riley earned first team All-NWC honors his final three seasons as a Pirate after starting 112 of 114 games in his career. He finished with 1,664 points (14.6 per game) to rank fourth in Whitworth history and made 43.1 percent of his three-point attempts (300-of696).

Riley’s main responsibilities are for payer development with emphasis on wing players, and on-court coaching with offensive emphasis. He also helps with academic monitoring, recruiting, practice planning, in-season scouting of opponents and summer camps. In April of 2017, Riley was selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) on its 2016-17 Under Armour 30-under-30 squad. The honor recognized Riley among a group of up and coming young coaches in men’s college basketball. “What a great honor for coach Riley to be recognized as one of the best young coaches in Division I men’s college basketball,” said Eastern head coach Shantay Legans. “There is no doubt in my mind that David will continue to climb the ladder in the basketball coaching ranks.” “David is a very intelligent, hard-working individual who comes from a family of great coaches,” Legans added. “Being a coach is in his genes, and he has taken the next step to assume more responsibility with recruiting. He is proving he can identify the right talent and create relationships with potential players and their families.” Riley played for former EWU head coach Jim Hayford at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., from the 2007-08 season through 2010-11, earning All-Northwest Conference accolades all four years. Whitworth teams were a collective 98-18 while Riley was there, with three NWC titles (55-9 in league play) and four appearances in the NCAA Division III Tournament. He graduated in 2011 from Whitworth, then joined Hayford at EWU the following season. Riley helped as a manager and team operations assistant three previous seasons, including the first two as a graduate assistant. He received his master of science degree in physical education from EWU in 2013. Riley has played a key role in EWU recording three 20-victory seasons – the top three win totals in EWU’s 34-year history in NCAA Division I. From the 2013-14 through 2017-18 seasons the Eagles have win totals of 15, 26, 18, 22 and 20 games. The combined 101 wins in five seasons, 86 victories in four seasons, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the most since EWU became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. The same can be said of EWU’s stretch of league victories ­– 10, 14, 10, 13, 13 – in that five-year span. Eastern has had its first back-to-back-to-back national tournament postseason

He averaged 16.5 points and 3.8 rebounds per game as a senior when he earned third team All-Region (D3hoops.com) honors. He made 45.6 percent of his shots from the field and 41.6 percent from three-point range (82-of-197). Riley drained a school-record 10 three-pointers and finished with 33 points in a 115-69 triumph over Willamette on Feb. 11, 2011. The Pirates finished 28-2 and advanced to the Elite Eight of the D-III Tournament for the first time in school history. In his junior season, he averaged 13.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game and made 40.9 percent of his 3-point shots (65-of-159). Riley scored 34 points in a win over Whitman on January 19, 2010. He helped Whitworth to a 26-3 record that included a perfect 16-0 mark in the NWC and a trip to the Sweet 16 of the D-III Tournament. He averaged 16.4 points and 4.1 rebounds as a sophomore while making 84-of-180 3-pointers (46.7 percent). He scored a career-high 37 points in a win over PLU on Jan. 17, 2009. Whitworth finished second in the NWC during the regular season, but upset Puget Sound in the conference tournament and advanced to the D-III second round. The Pirates finished 23-6. He averaged 11.9 points and 69-of-160 3-pointers (43.1) in his freshman campaign. He scored 29 points in a win over Caltech on Nov. 24, 2007, in just the second game of his Pirate career. He helped the Pirates finish 21-7, win the NWC regular season championship and advance to the D-III Sweet 16 for the first time in school history. Riley is formerly from Palo Alto, Calif., and graduated from Gunn High School in 2007. He earned All-Central Coast Section honors as a senior at Gunn. He was born Nov. 28, 1988, in Seattle Washington. He and his wife, Emily, were married on May 19, 2018. His father, Edward Riley, is a Whitworth graduate and a physician and professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Edward’s brother, Mike Riley, grew up in Wallace, Idaho, and began his coaching career in 1976 at Whitworth. He received his master’s degree in 1977 and has since gone on to head coaching positions at Nebraska (2015-2017), Oregon State (1997-98, 2003-2014), the San Diego Chargers (1999-2001) and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (1987-1990). Mike and Edward’s father, Bud Riley, was an assistant football coach at Idaho (1962-65), Oregon State (1965-72) and the head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1974-77). David Riley’s mother, Rev. Renee Riley, also graduated from Whitworth and was ordained in 1986. She was the Moderator of the Presbytery of San Jose in 1998. She passed away on April 6, 2005, at the age of 45 from a brain tumor.

Assistant Coach

BOBBY SUAREZ Second Season Florida Gulf Coast ‘12 Bobby Suarez enters his second year on the staff of head coach Shantay Legans as an assistant coach in the 2018-19 season, having spent four previous seasons at Florida State. Helping EWU win 20 games in the first year for Legans as a head coach, Suarez assists with player development with emphasis on guards. His other responsibilities are for recruiting, inseason scouting of opponents, on-court coaching and summer camps coordination.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 “Bobby has been a great addition to our staff,” said Legans of the 2012 graduate of Florida Gulf Coast. “He is energetic, well-connected, and hit the ground running. What impresses me the most about Bobby is his attentiveness and desire to work hard and win. He has been around winning basketball programs all of his career, and also has acquired international experience.” Serving at Florida State under two-time ACC Coach of the Year Leonard Hamilton, Suarez was assistant video coordinator for the Seminoles. His responsibilities include preparing team and individual video edits, self-scouts, opponent video breakdowns, film exchange, scouting reports and recruiting videos. He was also an assistant director of the Leonard Hamilton Basketball Team Camp held annually during the summer. While at Florida State, Suarez worked with closely with Malik Beasley, Dwayne Bacon, and Jonathan Isaac -- all first round NBA Draft picks. Also, he worked with NBA player Okaro White. The season after he left FSU, the Seminoles enjoyed one of the school’s best seasons ever. Florida State advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, beating Gonzaga 75-60 in the Sweet 16. Suarez served as a director of operations intern and as a head student manager while at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Fla., from 2009-2013. Suarez’s responsibilities included on-court development, compiling video edits and assisting with on-campus recruiting. He was also the assistant director of the Andy Enfield Summer camp. He was a member of the now famous “Dunk City” team that advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. During that magical 2013 season, Florida Gulf Coast won the Atlantic Sun Tournament championship to earn the league’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament. The Eagles defeated No. 2 seeded Georgetown and No. 7 seeded San Diego State, becoming the first No. 15 seed to advance to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.

Asst. Dir. of BB Oper./Video Coordinator

Suarez worked with four all-conference players during his time at Florida Gulf Coast: Brett Comer (who finished his career ranked 24th on the all-time NCAA career assists list), Bernard Thompson (the 2013 Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Year), Chase Fieler (the all-time program leader for rebounds, blocked shots and field goals made) and Sherwood Brown (2013 All-America Honorable Mention selection and the 2013 Atlantic Sun Player of the Year).

Westmont College ‘12

In 2014, Suarez worked for Orlando Antigua (now the head coach at USF) and assisted with day to day operations of the Dominican Republic National team. In 2017, Suarez worked with the Team USA Junior National team with day-to-day operations and on court development. Suarez earned his bachelor’s degree in business management from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2012.

T.J. LIPOLD Second Season T.J. Lipold began working for the EWU Basketball program in June of 2018 in an assistant director of basketball operations/video coordinator role. His responsibilities include film breakdown, scouting reports preparation, opponent player tendencies evaluation and day-to-day team operations. He played two years (2010-2012) under John Moore at Westmont College, where he was a part of back-to-back 25-win seasons and earned his bachelor’s degree. Before Westmont, T.J played his first two years of college basketball for Saddleback College (2009-10) under head coach Andy Ground and assistant Nick Booker. Booker is now EWU’s associate head coach. While at Saddleback, Lipold earned first team All-Orange Empire League on a team that won the CCAA State Championship in 2010.

Director of Basketball Operations

After completing his master’s degree in education in 2013, he started coaching at Saddleback College, serving as an assistant coach for three years. He contributed to another state title as part of the 2015 CCAA State Championship team, and his responsibilities included recruiting, practice planning, scouting, skill development and academic planning.

ZACH BYRNE Fourth Season

“I am just grateful for the opportunity to be a part of something special and learn from an awesome coaching staff on a day to day basis,” said Lipold. “Coaching at the college level has been a dream of mine since as young as I can remember, as I grew up in a gym watching my dad coach at Long Beach City College.”

East Carolina ‘12 Entering his third season as EWU’s director of basketball operations and fourth overall, Zach Byrne entered the Eastern Basketball program in 2015 after completing his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology at East Carolina University.

Assistant Athletic Director of Athletic Performance

His first year with the program in 2015-16 was as the video coordinator, and his responsibilities included film breakdown, in-game scout preparation, analytics and summer camps. Since then his responsibilities have included travel planning, scheduling, video and summer camps. “Zach is a key piece of our program behind the scenes,” said Eastern head coach Shantay Legans. “He deals with the day-to-day operations and is an extremely hard worker, with a great basketball mind. Zach will be returning for his fourth year in our program and will look to continue to expand his role for the program.” Byrne comes from a family with a strong coaching background, as his mom, Mary Byrne, was a Division I head volleyball coach for 15 years at South Dakota State and North Carolina State.

NATE BARRY First Season • Idaho ‘11 Athletic Trainer

RYAN MOREAU Third Season • Central Michigan ‘13

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 SEASON OUTLOOK: Belief is in Strength in Numbers & Versatility A faster, defensive-oriented approach will help the deep and multi-talented Eagles replace back-to-back MVPs

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ribble, drive, shoot and play defense. The Eastern Washington University men’s basketball team is full of players who can do it all.

Despite losing Big Sky Conference MVP’s in back-to-back years, the Eagles have recruited depth and versatility to help EWU remain a league title contender and candidate for a fifth-straight postseason appearance in a national tournament. Plus, second-year head coach Shantay Legans intends on having his team play more up-tempo in the 2018-19 season and create offense with their defense by employing more full-court pressure on opponents “Every team wants big guys, and everybody wants the quick little guys -- I just want players who can do multiple things,” Legans said. “I want every player to be a Swiss Army knife. I want them to be able to do everything. I want shooters to be able to put it on the floor. I want guys who can drive to be able to knock down open threes. I want guys to be able to switch on defense.” The term “Not Yet” is the team’s mantra for the season in order to strive to achieve the championship success they’ve come up just short of in the past three seasons. The pillars of the program utilize the acronym FTC for Family, Trust and Commitment, and Legans expects that to translate to the team’s play on the court. “It is going to be a lot of fun,” Legans said. “I think we will have four or five guys on the court at a time that can handle the ball, pass the ball, shoot the ball, and drive the ball. If you get all that and everybody is going in the right direction, I think we will be a hard team to guard.” The Eagles had a highly-competitive and highly-successful season in the first year at the helm for Legans. His squad went on a late-season eight-game winning streak that was the best in 14 years, and the Eagles were among a record six Big Sky teams who won at least 20 games in the 2017-18 season. The team had just three seniors, but two of them – Bogdan Bliznyuk and Sir Washington – became the school’s winningest players in EWU’s history as a member of NCAA Division I. They helped EWU win 86 games overall and 50 in the Big Sky Conference, and led the Eagles to national postseason tournaments in each of those four seasons. This year, the team does not return any players who averaged in double figures a year ago, but seven returning letter winners averaged between 16.0 and 26.1 minutes and 6.3 and 7.7 points per game. Eastern has a trio of seniors, but also has five sophomores and a pair of redshirt freshmen on its roster. “It is going to be a lot of fun and our future is really bright,” said Legans. “And I think our future could be now -- I’m not saying ‘let’s wait until next year.’ I think those seniors and juniors are really good and they are complemented really well by the sophomores and the freshmen we are bringing in. So I am really excited, and I wish the season could start next week.” Bliznyuk was the league MVP and became the third Eagle in the last four years to earn both honorable mention Associated Press All-America honors and first team Lou Henson mid-major All-America accolades. Jacob Wiley earned both honors in 2017 and Tyler Harvey was honored in 2015. Alvin Snow (2004) and Rodney Stuckey (2006 & 2007) also earned honorable mention All-America honors from AP. Wiley was the league’s MVP as a graduate transfer in the 2017-18 season in his only year in the program.

Eagle Head Coach SHANTAY LEGANS “Bogdan did so many great things, and the best thing he provided was his leadership,” said Legans. “He kept everybody tightly bound together. That’s probably the biggest asset that we are losing. As you go through my nine years here going into my 10th, there have always been very good players we’ve had to replace, and replacing their leadership is challenging. I am hoping that the players who played with him last year all picked up on that and will lead like he did.” Bliznyuk scored 2,169 career points, breaking the previous Big Sky Conference record of 2,102 and smashing the previous EWU record of 1,803. He finished his senior campaign with 741 points in the 2017-18 season, breaking the previous school record of 738 set three years ago by Tyler Harvey and ranking sixth in conference history. He finished his collegiate career with a total of 16 school records, a variety of Big Sky Conference Tournament marks and a NCAA Division I single season free throw record with 77-straight makes. The transition to life without Bliznyuk started in the spring, and Legans likes the potential of his veteran team. The returning players include honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference forward Mason Peatling, who Legans thinks has a chance to average a double-double in league play if not for the entire season. “We are going to play a lot different, so we need guys to step up,” said Legans. “We are trying to get these guys to understand their primary roles early.”

Eagle Frontcourt . . . Jesse Hunt was on his way to All-Big Sky honors before his junior season was shortened with a foot injury. Peatling took advantage of the increased minutes and received honorable mention All-BSC accolades. Hunt ended up starting five of the 20 games he played, averaging 7.5 points and 5.6 rebounds per game. He’ll enter his senior season with 17 starts in 83 total games, with averages of 3.6 points, 2.8 rebounds and 0.4 blocks per game – marks that only scratch the surface of his capabilities entering his senior campaign. Peatling, meanwhile, has started 43 of the 65 games he has played in his career, and has averages of 5.8 points, 4.3 rebounds and 0.7 blocked shots. Redshirt freshman Tanner Groves, at 6-foot-9, 235 pounds from Spokane’s

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Shadle Park High School, will also be a force down low. Jordan Veening, a 6-6 true freshman, is the only other foward on the roster, but swing man Kim Aiken Jr. will also see action in the frontcourt. “We have a pretty good trio of bigs down there who can really play,” said Legans. “I think Mason will be one of the best big men in the league. I think there is a lot of upside and a lot of star power on our team. Last year we spaced the floor around Bogdan and it was hard for people to guard him. Next year, Jacob (Davison) will be hard to guard, and Mason will be hard to guard. Now we have multiple guys coming at you in different ways, and I think we will have multiple guys scoring over 10 points a game.” One player waiting in the wings to compete will be Savannah State (Ga.) transfer Ralueke “Sticks” Orizu. Although Savannah State is transitioning to NCAA Division II, the 6-foot-9, 190-pound Orizu will still have to sit out the season because of NCAA transfer rules. “He is a very good shot blocker and offensively he’s got a long way to go, but he plays around the rim,” said Legans. “He dunks the ball, so he is going to be something kind of like a project. He is a really talented player, but he has to learn our system and how we want to play. Defensively I think he could probably be one of the best shot blockers in the league when he starts playing. He has unbelievable timing and has a seven-foot-one wing span.” “When you sit back and think about everything, he has a whole year in our program before he even plays,” Legans added. “It is kind of like his freshman year and he will be playing against Mason and Jesse. He is going to learn how to play at our pace very quickly, because those guys play really hard. The next year Mason will be a senior and he will be a sophomore along with Tanner. When he gets out there he’ll learn how to play and how we want to do things.”

Senior Guard TY GIBSON with Senior Forward JESSE HUNT

Eagle Backcourt . . . Eastern returns three starting guards, another budding Big Sky standout off the bench and a fifth who was injured and redshirted in 2017-18. Add to that a pair of transfers who redshirted last year, plus a redshirt freshman, and the Eagles have depth to both shoot and drive the ball. “There are multiple guys on this roster who I think can step up and play deep,” said Legans of the abilities of his guards. “We want to play much faster and I think we will be able to turn teams over a lot more next year. Especially with our depth at the guard position, we will be able to pick up man-to-man full court. We are going to do a little bit more on the defensive end to create a lot more offensive looks for us. We’re going to push the ball -- we have multiple guys that can make plays on the court.” Seniors Cody Benzel and Ty Gibson return with 101 and 97 games of experience, respectively. Benzel has started 27 games in his career, averaging 13.4 minutes and 4.9 points (6.6 as a junior) per game. Gibson has started 38 career games and has a 4.5 scoring average (6.3 as a junior) in an average of 17.4 minutes per game. Both players are three-point threats with Benzel ranking ninth in school history with 145 3-pointers, shooting at a 41.9 percent clip to rank 10th all-time at EWU. Gibson has made 119 3-pointers and is 13th in school history with 40.2 percent accuracy. Add in BYU transfer Steven Beo, and the Eagles will have three proven top-notch shooters in the league. Beo played in 31 games as a freshman for BYU in 2016-17 after averaging 27.7 points as a junior and 26.7 as a senior at Richland (Wash.) High School. “I think we have two of the best shooters in the league, with Ty and Cody,” said Legans. “And that’s not even mentioning Steven, who nobody got to see

last year, but fans from the area know he’s an unbelievable shooter. So I think we have three of the best shooters in all the conference.” Sophomore Luka Vulikic started Eastern’s first eight games at point guard before a foot ailment resulted in him redshirting. He averaged 7.1 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.6 assists in an average of 25.6 minutes per game, that after coming off a freshman season in which he started 22 of 32 games and averaged 2.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 0.7 assists. True freshman Jack Perry stepped up nicely, starting 27 of the 35 games he played and hitting big shots in some crucial moments for the Eagles. He finished with averages of 6.8 points, 2.0 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 27.3 minutes per game, while sinking 56-of-130 3-pointers for 43.1 percent. Also back at guard is athletic wing Jacob Davison, who earned a starting position for seven games but felt more comfortable coming off the bench. He finished second on the team with 242 total points (7.1 per game), and was a stat stuffer with 94 rebounds (2.8), 27 steals, 18 assists and 11 blocked shots. He also sank 27-of-65 3-pointers for 41.5 percent. Junior college transfer Tyler Kidd and redshirt freshman Kim Aiken Jr. were in the program a year ago as redshirts. Newcomers include highly-touted true freshman Elijah Jackson out of Chief Sealth High School in Seattle, as well as Californians Austin Fadal and Mike Meadows. Freshman Casson Rouse from Timberline High School in Lacey, Wash., and sophomore walk-on Joshua Thomas round out the guards. “I think we have two of the most athletic wings in the conference with Jacob and Elijah,” said Legans. “Jacob Davison is an unbelievable athlete who can really score, and we have some freshmen who can score too.”

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Junior Forward MASON PEATLING

Schedule . . . It will be another year of challenge after challenge when the Eagles embark upon their 2018-19 nonconference schedule, including four home games at Reese Court. Eastern will play 11 games – four at home and seven on the road – prior to the start of Big Sky Conference play on Dec. 29. Three of the road games will be at Pac-12 Conference foes, as well as a cross-country trip to play EWU’s season-opener at Syracuse on Nov. 6. “It’s a challenge, but we’ll be ready for tip-off on Nov. 6,” said Legans. “We’ll be tested on the road again, and our four games at home will be challenging as well. We’re looking forward to the non-conference portion of our schedule preparing us for our league schedule and ultimately the Big Sky Tournament in March.” Eastern will host Green Bay on Nov. 16 and either UMKC or Morehead State on Nov. 17, respectively, as part of a sub-regional of the 2K Classic benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project. The Eagles will also host powerhouse South Dakota State on Dec. 18, and Walla Walla on Dec. 21. When the Eagles open the season on Nov. 6, they’ll face a Syracuse team coming off a 23-14 record and appearance in the “Sweet 16” of the NCAA Tournament. Under veteran head coach Jim Boeheim, the Orange beat Arizona State (60-56), TCU (57-52) and Michigan State (55-53) before bowing to Duke (69-65). It will be EWU’s first-ever meeting versus Syracuse, which finished 8-10 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Eastern follows that by playing at Oregon on Nov. 9, which along with Syracuse, are also games played as part of the 2K Classic. After the 2K Classic sub-regional at Reese Court, the Eagles play their next five games on the road –- Washington, Seattle, North Dakota State and Stanford. Last season, in just the third game under Legans, Eastern upset Stanford 81-67 on Nov. 14, 2017. In all, Eastern’s non-conference schedule will include teams from seven different conferences – ACC, Pac-12, Horizon, Ohio Valley, Western Athletic, Summit and the West Coast. The 11 non-conference opponents EWU will play or could potentially play combined for a 202-170 overall record last season, and were 90-92 in their respective leagues. Besides the success of Syracuse, South Dakota State also advanced to the NCAA Tournament and finished 28-7 after winning the Summit League title with a 13-1 record. Washington, Stanford and Oregon all played in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT), winning first-round games before bowing out in the second round. Seattle and San Francisco joined EWU in the 2018 CBI. Both Eastern and the Redhawks – coached by former Eagle head coach Jim Hayford – fell in the first round. But the Dons advanced all the way to the championship series versus North Texas where USF won 72-62 in the opener but lost 69-55 and 88-77 in the next two games. In all, 10 of EWU’s 21 NCAA Division opponents appeared in postseason NCAA Division I Tournaments. Montana represented the Big Sky in the NCAA Tournament, while Portland State and Northern Colorado both played in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT). As expected, the 2018-19 schedule of games in the Big Sky Conference for

the Eagles will have a few twists and turns. It includes 20 league games for the first time since the 2013-14 and 2012-13 seasons. Those were the only years in the league’s 55-year history the schedule has included 20 conference games. The departure of North Dakota left the league with 11 members, making for a challenge in scheduling 20 games for each team in a span of 11 weekends. Travel partners – such as Idaho paired with EWU – were retained as much as possible, but the “lone wolf” is always prevalent when scheduling an odd amount of teams. Most notably, Eastern will play four games on Monday, including three at home at Reese Court in Cheney, Wash. The Eagles will also host Montana and Montana State in back-to-back games, but those will come nine days apart. However, the good news for the Eagles is that their road travel schedule is as good as could be expected. The lone Monday road game is at Northern Colorado -- four days after the Eagles play at nearby local rival Idaho. “Scheduling 11 teams in a 20-game schedule is definitely a difficult task,” said Legans. “But we are pleased with how it came out for us. It’s definitely different playing on Mondays, but we’ll embrace the challenges and fight to win the league title.” The Big Sky Conference Championship, which will take place in Boise, Idaho, for the next three years, is scheduled for March 13-16, 2019 at CenturyLink Arena.

Big Sky Conference Preseason Rankings

Media Poll Rank – Team – Points 1. Montana - 383 (33) 2. Weber State - 346 (2) 3. Northern Colorado - 280 4. Eastern Washington - 261 5. Montana State - 194 6. Idaho - 192 7. Portland State - 189 8. Idaho State - 176 9. Southern Utah - 128 10. Sacramento State - 115 11. Northern Arizona - 46 First place votes in parenthesis

Coaches Poll Rank – Team – Points 1. Montana - 100 (10) 2. Weber State - 90 (1) 3. Northern Colorado - 70 4. Eastern Washington - 63 5. Portland State - 55 t6. Montana State - 53 t6. Southern Utah - 53 8. Idaho State - 50 9. Idaho - 34 10. Sacramento State - 27 11. Northern Arizona - 10 First place votes in parenthesis

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 2018-19 Schedule AS OF OCTOBER 10, 2018 Date Opponent Time N 6 at Syracuse# 4 p.m. N 9 at Oregon#^ 6 p.m. N 16 Green Bay& 4:45 p.m. (approx.) UMKC vs. Morehead State, 2:35 p.m. N 17 UMKC or Morehead State&

– Consolation or Championship, 1:05 p.m. – Cons. or Championship, 3:15 p.m. (approx.) . . . EWU will play in this game regardless of outcomes on 11/16

2018-19 Quick Facts Location: Cheney, Wash. Founded: 1882 President: Dr. Mary Cullinan Enrollment: 12,635 (fall of ’18) Nickname/Colors: Eagles/Red and White Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Reese Court (5,000) Press Row Number: 509.359.6331 Athletic Director: Lynn Hickey Senior Woman Administrator: Sarah Adams Athletic Phone/Fax: 509.359.2463/2828 Sports Information Director: Dave Cook Office/Cell: 509.359-.6334/280.2502 E-Mail: DCOOK@EWU.EDU Web: WWW.GOEAGS.COM Twitter: @EWUathletics/@CoachLegans Facebook: EWU Athletics Head Athletic Trainer: Brian Norton Athletic Trainer (MBB): Ryan Moreau Facilities Manager: Kerry Pease Equipment Manager: Spenser Ybarra Head Coach: Shantay Legans (@CoachLegans) Office: 509.359.2497 Alma Mater: Fresno State ‘04 Record at Eastern/Big Sky Record: 20-15/13-5 (Second Season in 2018-19) Career Record: Same

Associate Head Coach: Nick Booker (Second Season in 2018-19; Davidson ’04) Assistant Coaches: David Riley (Fifth Season in 2018-19; Whitworth ’11); Bobby Suarez (Second Season in 2018-19; Florida Gulf Coast ’12). 2017-2018 Record: 20-15 Big Sky Record (place): 13-5 (3rd) 2017-2018 Postseason: College Basketball Invitational (lost to Utah Valley 87-65/First Round); Big Sky Tournament (defeated Portland State 78-71/ Quarterfinals; defeated Southern Utah 82-70/ Semifinals; lost to Montana 82-65/Championship). Letterwinners Back/Lost: 7/5 Starters Returning: 4 (G - Cody Benzel; G - Ty Gibson; F - Mason Peatling; G - Jack Perry) Other Letterwinners Returning: 3 (F - Jesse Hunt; G Jacob Davison; G - ***Luka Vulikic) Transfers: 1 (F - Ralueke Orizu) 2017-18 Redshirts Returning: 5 (G – Steven Beo; G/F - Kim Aiken; F - Tanner Groves; G - Tyler Kidd; G ***Luka Vulikic;) 2017-18 Non-Lettering Squad Members Returning: 1 (G Joshua Thomas) True Freshmen: 3 (G - Austin Fadal, G - Elijah Jackson, G - Mike Meadows) Starters Lost: 1 (F - Bogdan Bliznyuk – Big Sky MVP) Other Letterwinners Lost: 4 (G - Sir Washington, F Benas Griciunas; F - Richard Polanco; G - Grant Gibb)

***Redshirted in 2017-18 but lettered in 2016-17.

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at Washington 5 p.m. at Seattle 5 p.m. at North Dakota State 5 p.m. at San Francisco 7 p.m. at Stanford^ 4 p.m. South Dakota State 6:05 p.m. Walla Walla 2:05 p.m. Weber State* 2:05 p.m. Idaho State* 1:05 p.m. at Idaho*% 7:30 p.m. (tentative) at Northern Colorado* 6:05 p.m. Montana* 6:05 p.m. Montana State* 2:05 p.m. at Portland State* 7:05 p.m. at Sacramento State* 7:05 p.m. Southern Utah* 2:05 p.m. Northern Arizona* 6:05 p.m. at Montana State* 6:05 p.m. at Montana* 6:05 p.m. Northern Colorado* 2:05 p.m. Idaho*% 4:15 p.m. (approx.) at Southern Utah* 5:35 p.m. at Northern Arizona* 1:05 p.m. Sacramento State* 6:05 p.m. Portland State* 2:05 p.m. at Idaho State* 6:05 p.m. at Weber State* 6:05 p.m. Big Sky Tournament First Round TBA Big Sky Tournament Quarterfinals TBA Big Sky Tournament Semifinals TBA Big Sky Tourn. Champ.= 5:05 p.m.

All Times Pacific. *Big Sky Conference Game. #Preliminary game of the 2K Empire Classic benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project. &Subregional of the 2K Empire Classic benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project. =Televised by ESPNU. ^Televised by the Pac-12 Networks. %Doubleheader with EWU women’s team, which will host Idaho at 2:05 p.m. on 2/18. All Eastern Home Games Played at Reese Court on the Eastern Washington University campus.

Letterwinners Lost (^starter in 2017-18 season) No. Name Pos 32 ^Bogdan Bliznyuk G/F 4 Sir Washington G 15 Benas Griciunas C 12 Grant Gibb G 5 Richard Polanco F

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Ex Hometown (Previous School) 4L Lutsk, Ukraine / Todd Beamer HS ’14 ’18 1st Team All-Big Sky, BSC MVP, Hon. Men. AA 4L* Las Vegas, Nevada / Clark HS ’13 1L/TR* Silute, Lithuania / Findlay Prep ’13 / Auburn / UNC Charlotte 2L* Longview, Wash. / Mark Morris HS ‘15 1L Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic / Army-Navy Academy ’17

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #20 - Cody Benzel - G - 6-4 - 175 - Sr. - 3L* - Spokane, Wash. / Ferris HS ‘14

Shantay Legans Comments: “He had a terrific junior season. The thing that got him on the floor last year was his understanding of our defensive gameplans and of course his ability to stretch the floor. Though he was never labeled a defensive player during his early career, Cody placed an increased emphasis on that part of his game and wanted to show he could defend. Since then he’s been playing great basketball and has helped us out tremendously on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor. He has had his best summer and has shown great leadership.” Career: The Big Sky Conference Tournament championship game on March 10, 2018, was Benzel’s 100th game as an Eagle. In his 101-game career (27 as a starter), Benzel has averaged 13.4 minutes, 4.9 points and has 84 rebounds, 41 assists and 40 steals. He has made 145-of-346 3-pointers in his career to rank ninth and 11th, respectively on EWU’s all-time leaders list. His 41.9 percent accuracy is 10th-best in school history. In four games in national postseason tournaments, he has seven points, five rebounds and a pair of assists. 2017-18: Was named to the Big Sky All-Academic team. Benzel made 67 3-pointers to rank 11th in school history. He ranked 12th in the Big Sky Conference in 3-point shooting overall at 41.6 percent (67-of-161), including 50-of-112 (44.6 percent) in league games only to rank fifth. He also ranked fourth in league games only with an average of 2.8 treys per game. Benzel averaged 2.0 3-pointers per game to rank 11th overall in the league, and averaged 6.6 points per game (8.9 in league games only). Benzel finished with eight games in double figures (16 in his career) and a pair with at least 20. He picked up his pace in conference play, averaging 8.9 after owning a 4.5 average during non-conference play when he made only 16-of-42 (38.1 percent) 3-point attempts. Benzel scored at least 15 points five times during a nine-game stretch from Jan. 6 to Feb. 9, including a career-high 25 against Sacramento State (1/6/18) when he was 7-of-10 from the 3-point stripe, and 21 against Portland State (2/3/18). 2016-17: For the season, Benzel averaged 4.6 points on 47-of105 shooting from the 3-point stripe (44.8 percent to rank third in the Big Sky). In league games only, he led the league at 56.8 percent (21-of-37). Benzel came off the bench to make all four of his 3-point attempts in the first half to finish with 12 points in EWU’s 130-124 victory over Portland State (2/4/17) in three overtimes. It was his fifth double figure scoring game of the season and eighth of his career, but first since scoring 11 at Seattle (12/4/16). He hit a trio of 3-pointers in EWU’s Big Sky Conference Tournament game against Sacramento State (3/9/17). Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts 2015-16 33 1 194 5.9 37 89 .416 31 80 .388 3 4 .750 3 12 15 0.5 19 0 7 4 3 6 108 2016-17 34 6 473 13.9 54 118 .458 47 105 .448 2 3 .667 4 25 29 0.9 61 0 16 13 2 14 157 2017-18 34 20 687 20.2 70 177 .395 67 161 .416 18 19 .947 5 35 40 1.2 49 1 18 12 5 20 225 TOTAL 101 27 1354 13.4 161 384 .419 145 346 .419 23 26 .885 12 72 84 0.8 129 1 41 29 10 40 490

Avg 3.3 4.6 6.6 4.9

CAREER HIGHS – Points: 25, Sacramento State - 1/6/18; Rebounds: 5, North Dakota - 12/31/17; Assists: 3, Linfield - 11/11/16 & Seattle - 11/22/16 & Idaho State - 3/3/16; Steals: 4, North Dakota 12/31/17; Blocks: 2, Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17; FG Made: 8, Great Falls - 12/6/15; FG Attempts: 15, Great Falls - 12/6/15; 3FG Made: 7, Portland State - 2/3/18 & Sacramento State - 1/6/18; Great Falls - 12/6/15; 3FG Attempts: 14, Great Falls - 12/6/15; FT Made: 5, Seattle - 12/03/17; FT Attempts: 6, Seattle - 12/3/17.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 2015-16: The freshman redshirt averaged 3.3 points in an average of 5.9 minutes, and finished the year ranked fourth on the team with 31 3-pointers and was third with a .388 3-point shooting percentage. He scored in double figures 12 three times, including 23 points on a 7-of-14 3-point shooting performance against Great Falls (12/6/15). He also had a 12-point performance against South Dakota (11/29/15) when he made four 3-pointers in just eight minutes of action. Benzel’s other double figure performance was against George Fox (11/15/15) when he finished with 12 points. Late in the year, he had four points, three assists, two steals and two rebounds versus Idaho State (3/3/16). He made his collegiate debut in EWU’s opener at Mississippi State (11/13/15) and made the first start of his career against Great Falls. 2014-15: Redshirted. He showed glimpses of what’s to come when he scored 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the 3-point stripe in EWU’s 89-55 exhibition victory over Puget Sound (11/9/14). He also had three rebounds and a steal in 11 minutes of action. High School: Graduated from Ferris High School in 2014. He capped his career by playing in the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association (WIBCA) All-State Game. Was given honorable mention 4A All-State accolades by Associated Press as selected by sportswriters and broadcasters. Earned MVP honors in the Greater Spokane League as a senior after averaging 21.4 points per game. He made 48 percent of his shots from three-point range and 58 percent from inside the arc. Benzel led Ferris to a final record of 18-5 after dropping its last two games of the season. Prior to that, he scored 19 points with two assists and two dunks to help Ferris capture the 4A District 8 title. Benzel also had season-best outings of 36 and 34 points. Earlier in the season, he broke a 63-all tie with a basket with 27 seconds left to beat Mead 6763. He also earned first team All-GSL honors as a junior when he averaged 18.6 points. He scored a career-high 37 points in the district playoffs in 2013. Benzel also lettered as a sophomore. Personal: Marketing major at Eastern. Benzel was born Oct. 29, 1995, in Spokane, Wash. His parents are Ron and Molly Benzel. His older siblings, Jenny and Erik, also played basketball at Ferris. Jenny was a four-year starter and 2000 graduate, and Erik graduated the following year after starting two seasons for the Saxons. Erik played four seasons from 2001-05 at the University of Denver, and scored 17 points each of three games versus EWU. Denver won two of those, and Erik made 9-of-19 3-pointers (47 percent), 18-of-36 shots overall (50 percent) and had five steals collectively in his career versus EWU.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #2 - Ty Gibson - G - 6-3 - 190 - Sr. - 3L - Issaquah, Wash. / Issaquah HS ‘15

Shantay Legans Comments: “When Ty has it going he can be one of the best shooters in not only the Big Sky, but in all of NCAA basketball. Ty has a unique ability to shoot the ball from anywhere on the court at a high percentage. He has worked hard this summer on getting back to being a wellrounded scorer and not just a shooter. We look forward to Ty having a great senior season.” Career: In his 97-game career (38 as a starter), Gibson has averaged 17.4 minutes, 4.5 points, 1.5 rebounds and has 82 assists and 38 steals. He has made 119-of-296 3-pointers in his career, with both marks ranking just out of EWU’s top 10. His 40.2 percent accuracy is currently 13th-best in school history. In four games in national postseason tournaments, Gibson has scored 11 points with two rebounds and an assist. 2017-18: Was named to the Big Sky All-Academic team for the third-straight season. With 61 3-pointers made, Gibson ranks 16th in school history after a season in which he started 29 games and played in all 35. He averaged 1.7 3-pointers per game to rank 14th in the league. One of the team’s co-captains, Gibson averaged 6.3 points per game and scored in double figures 10 times (16 in his career). He had a career-high five assists versus Portland State (3/8/18) in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament, eclipsing the four he had on two previous occasions. He made four 3-pointers in seven attempts versus Southern Utah (3/1/18) to finish with 13 points. His high for the season was 15 points at Wyoming (12/12/17). He scored in double figures seven times in 13 pre-conference games and three of 18 league contests. 2016-17: Earned Big Sky All-Academic honors for the second time and was nominated by EWU for CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. In 34 games played (seven as a starter), Gibson averaged 5.2 points on 47.7 percent shooting from the field, including 48of-99 3-pointers (47.7 percent to rank second in the Big Sky). He was also second in 3-point shooting in league games only, making 50.0 percent Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts 2015-16 28 2 186 6.6 13 38 .342 10 33 .303 7 11 .636 5 11 16 0.6 19 0 13 6 0 4 43 2016-17 34 7 589 17.3 52 109 .477 48 99 .485 25 29 .862 3 50 53 1.6 60 0 25 10 2 12 177 2017-18 35 29 915 26.1 72 184 .391 61 164 .372 15 20 .750 12 64 76 2.2 49 1 44 23 1 22 220 TOTAL 97 38 1690 17.4 137 331 .414 119 296 .402 47 60 .783 20 125 145 1.5 128 1 82 39 3 38 440

Avg 1.5 5.2 6.3 4.5

CAREER HIGHS – Points: 21, at Northern Colorado - 2/11/17; Rebounds: 7, at Wyoming - 12/12/17; Assists: 5, vs Portland State - 3/8/18; Steals: 3, Montana - 2/15/18; Blocks: 1, 3 occasions; FG Made: 6, Great Falls - 12/8/16; & Northern Colorado - 2/11/17; FG Attempts: 11, Wyoming - 12/12/17; 3FG Made: 6, Great Falls - 12/8/16 & Northern Colorado - 2/11/17; 3FG Attempts: 10, Wyoming - 12/12/17; FT Made: 4, San Francisco - 11/27/16 & Weber State - 2/23/17; FT Attempts: 5, Weber State - 2/23/17.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 (28-of-56) to rank only behind teammate Cody Benzel at 56.8 percent (21-of-37). Gibson made just his third career start – and first in the 201617 season – against Northern Colorado (2/11/17) and set a new career high for points in a game with 21. His previous career high was 19 against Great Falls (12/8/16). He tied his career high for made 3-pointers, going 6-for-8 from beyond the arc. He started in all but one game after that, scoring in double figures in three of his seven games as a starter. Earlier, Gibson scored 13 points in a less than four minute span in the first half and finished with what was then a careerhigh 19 points in EWU’s 103-76 victory over Great Falls (12/8/16). In helping Eastern open leads of 27-2 and 39-4, he played only 15 minutes and still nearly doubled his previous high of 10 in his freshman season versus Southern Utah and again as a sophomore against San Francisco (11/27/16). He scored 13 points in a 3:43 stretch in the first half with four three-pointers and a free throw. Gibson made 6-of-7 shots from the field – all 3-point attempts – and made all three of his free throws. 2015-16: Earned Big Sky All-Academic honors for the first time. Gibson saw significant action as a true freshman, averaging 6.6 minutes and 1.5 points per game and starting twice. He made all three of his 3-point attempts and a free throw to finish with a season-high 10 points against Southern Utah (1/14/16). He made his collegiate debut in EWU’s opener at Mississippi State (11/13/15) and made the first start of his career against Great Falls (12/6/15). He had a season-high four assists versus Great Falls, plus scored eight points. High School: Graduated from Issaquah High School in 2015. Gibson averaged 23.8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game as a senior to earn All-State and KingCo League MVP honors. His All-State accolades included first team recognition from the Seattle Times, Tacoma News Tribune and Associated Press. The team captain also earned first team All-4A State Tournament recognition after setting State 4A tournament scoring records with 87 points and a 29.0 average to lead the Eagles to a fourth-place trophy. He scored 32 in his final high school game to help Issaquah finish 22-6 for the season. As a junior, he was first team All-KingCo, first team All-4A State Tournament and was also team captain. He helped Issaquah finish third in the state. He also earned first team All-KingCo honors as a sophomore in the first of his three years as team captain. He was honorable mention all-league as a freshman starter, scoring 24 points against Bothell’s Zach LaVine (now with the Chicago Bulls) in the league tournament semifinals en route to a state tournament appearance. Also earned two letters in baseball. Had a 3.98 cumulative grade point average at Issaquah, and won the Tutta Bella scholar athlete award. Personal: Professional accounting major at Eastern. He has a 3.99 grade point average at EWU thus far. Born July 17, 1996, in Bellevue, Wash. Parents are Mark and Kathy Gibson. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #34 - Jesse Hunt - F - 6-7 - 210 - Sr. - 3L - Geraldton, Australia / Sir Francis Drake (Calif.) HS ‘15

Shantay Legans Comments: “Jesse has experienced his share of both ups and downs in his three years for us so far, but as he’s worked hard and battled through adversity. He has shown flashes of greatness and the potential to be a force in the Big Sky. Before going down with a foot injury last season, he gave us a boost in practically every statistical category. He is a jack-of-all-trades and our swiss army knife, with a rare ability to play all five positions on the court. Now back to full health, we are expecting Jesse to have his best year by far in an Eagle uniform.” Career: In his 83-game career (17 as a starter), Hunt has averaged 12.0 minutes, 3.6 points, 2.8 rebounds and has 29 blocks. Hunt did not play in 2018 versus Utah Valley in the College Basketball Invitational, but has played in three other postseason games and has seven points and eight rebounds. 2017-18: Was named to the Big Sky All-Academic team for the third-straight season. A foot injury limited Hunt to just 20 games in the 2017-18 season, including just four brief appearances in EWU’s last 19 games of the season. Before initially injuring the foot on Jan. 5 in a practice, Hunt had started the last five games he played, helping lead the Eagles to four victories and averaging 14.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per game. He made 25-of-43 shots overall (58.1 percent), 7-of-11 from the 3-point stripe (63.6 percent) and 16-of-20 from the free throw line (80.0 percent) in those five games, and had registered his career high for scoring in the first four games. Playing for the first time in more than a month, he logged six minutes against Montana (2/15/18) in his first action in 10 games before aggravating the foot injury in that game. He returned for the Big Sky Conference Tournament and had a total of four points and five rebounds in EWU’s first two games. But he once again aggravated the injury in the title game, also versus Montana (3/10/18), and missed EWU’s College Basketball Invitational game versus Utah Valley (3/13/18). Hunt scored what was then a career-high 14 points and had eight rebounds in his first start of the season against CSUN (12/17/17), then had his second double-double of the season with 16 points and a career-high 11 rebounds against Providence three days later. He equaled his career high with 16 points at Northern Colorado (12/29/17) when he also had a career-high four blocked shots and eight rebounds in a career-high 29 minutes of action. He played 29 minutes at North Dakota (12/31/17) and finished with 16 points and eight boards, then had 11 points and four rebounds in just 16 minutes because of foul trouble against Portland State (1/4/18) – a day before his injury. For the season, Hunt averaged 18.3 minutes, 7.5 points, 5.6 rebounds and had nine blocked shots, while Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts Avg 2015-16 30 9 276 9.2 23 48 .479 5 17 .294 5 8 .625 28 27 55 1.8 55 2 9 7 8 8 56 1.9 2016-17 33 3 351 10.6 33 86 .384 10 43 .233 16 25 .640 22 46 68 2.1 68 3 12 15 12 3 92 2.8 2017-18 20 5 366 18.3 55 111 .495 14 38 .368 25 31 .806 32 79 111 5.6 59 2 21 24 9 6 149 7.5 TOTAL 83 17 993 12.0 111 245 .453 29 98 .296 46 64 .719 82 152 234 2.8 182 7 42 46 29 17 297 3.6 CAREER HIGHS – Points: 16, Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17 & Northern Colorado - 12/29/17 & North Dakota - 12/31/17; Rebounds: 11, Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17; Assists: 3, on four occasions; Steals: 2, Eastern Kentucky - 11/22/17 & Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17 & Idaho State - 3/3/16; Blocks: 4, Northern Colorado - 12/29/17; FG Made: 6, CSUN - 12/17/17 & Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17; FG Attempts: 10, Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17 & Northern Colorado - 12/29/17 & North Dakota - 12/31/17; 3FG Made: 2, on 7 occasions ; 3FG Attempts: 4, on 5 occasions; FT Made: 4, on 4 occasions; FT Attempts: 6, Montana State - 1/5/17.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 making 49.5 percent of his shots from the field and 80.6 percent from the free throw line. 2016-17: Earned Big Sky All-Academic honors for the second time and was nominated by EWU for CoSIDA Academic All-America honors. Hunt averaged 2.8 points and 2.1 rebounds in 33 games (twice as a starter). He came off the bench to contribute 21 points in just 34 minutes of action in EWU’s split against Montana State (1/5/17) and Montana (1/7/17). In the two games, he made 7-of-8 shots (3-of-4 from the 3-point line) and added nine rebounds. He had what was then a career-high 13 points in 18 minutes against Montana State, having scored scoring seven points in his previous five games. He also had seven rebounds against the Bobcats, then scored eight versus Montana, hitting all three of his shots from the field with a pair of 3-pointers. 2015-16: Earned Big Sky All-Academic honors for the first time. Hunt made the first start of his career against Pacific (11/28/15), and averaged 9.2 minutes, 1.8 rebounds and 1.9 points per game as a nine-game starter. He closed the year by averaging 4.8 points and 2.0 rebounds in EWU’s last five games. He scored 24 of his 56 points for the season in that stretch. Included was a season-high seven points, two rebounds and two steals in seven minutes against Idaho State (3/3/16). He closed the year with five points and three rebounds against eventual champion Nevada in the College Basketball Invitational. Hunt, who missed EWU’s game at Western Carolina (12/14/15) with a sprained ankle, had six points and a season-high eight rebounds against George Fox (11/15/15), then equaled his season high with eight boards versus Great Falls (12/6/15). High School: Graduated from Sir Francis Drake High School in 2015. As a senior, Hunt was selected to the 2015 California All-State second team after averaging 15.6 points, 9.6 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.0 blocked shots per game. Hunt led the team to a runner-up finish in the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Northern California Division III Championship. The Pirates lost to Moreau Catholic 80-69, despite Hunt’s 22 points and 13 rebounds. They advanced to the regional semifinals of the Division III California State Championships, falling to Campolindo 50-44. The Pirates finished with a 28-6 record overall. He also led his team to a runner-up finish at the CIF Northern California Division III Championship in his junior season. The Pirates finished 26-8 and lost to Chaminade 71-51 in the title game despite Hunt’s double-double with 16 points – 12 at the free throw line – and 13 rebounds. It was his team’s first appearance in the title game in 32 seasons. He had 38 points, 10 rebounds and four blocked shots on the road in the quarterfinals versus Sacred Heart. Hunt averaged 17.7 points, 10.1 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.5 blocked shots and 1.2 steals per game. His many honors included North Bay Player of the Year, All-Northern California third team and CIF Division III All-State second team, He also earned All-Marin County Athletic League first team honors and player of the year accolades from the Marin Independent Journal. The San Francisco Chronicle selected him as its North Bay Player of the Year. As a sophomore, Sir Francis Drake advanced to the quarterfinals of the playoffs and finished 26-7. He averaged 4.2 points and 3.3 rebounds per game while playing with a nagging back injury. Hunt had a 3.3 grade point average at Sir Francis Drake. Personal: Management major at Eastern, and has a 3.61 grade point average at Eastern. Born July 30, 1997, in Geraldton, Australia, but spent his entire high school career in the United States. Parents are Daniel and Helen Hunt. His father was on the 1982 Sir Francis Drake squad that went 34-0 and won the state title. He went on to play at the University of Portland and play 17 seasons of professional basketball in Australia. Fellow Australians playing for the Eagles include Mason Peatling and Jack Perry, as well as former Eagles Felix Von Hofe, Geremy McKay, Michael Wearne and EWU former all-time leading scorer Venky Jois. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #14 - Mason Peatling - F - 6-8 - 220 - Jr. - 2L - Melbourne, Australia / Beaconhills College HS ‘16

Shantay Legans on Mason Peatling: “Mason had a breakout sophomore season and was recognized by the conference’s coaches with All-Big Sky honorable mention honors, which was well deserved. He is one of those players who will outwork you on every single play -- he leaves it all out on the court. Mason applies that same work ethic in practice and has worked hard to perfect his game, and we are looking forward to another big jump from him this season. This summer he has done a great job leading our young players and showing them what hard work truly is.” Career: In his 65-game career (43 as a starter), he’s averaged 5.8 points and 4.3 rebounds with a total of 43 assists, 50 blocks and 40 steals. He played as a freshman in the 2016-17 season against Wyoming in the College Basketball Invitational and scored four points. He then had five points, five rebounds and a pair of assists versus Utah Valley in a repeat appearance in the CBI in 2018. 2017-18: Earned honorable mention All-Big Sky Conference honors as chosen by the league’s head coaches. Was also named to the Big Sky All-Academic team for a second time. For the season, Peatling averaged 7.7 points in 31 games (26 as a starter), and averaged 5.6 rebounds (17th in the Big Sky) and 1.2 blocked shots per game (fifth). He hit double figures in scoring 11 times in 2017-18 (15 in his career), and rebounding six times both as a sophomore and in his career. His averages were 8.7 points, 7.4 rebounds (seventh) and 1.5 blocks (fourth) in conference play, with five double-doubles (4-1 record). During Eastern’s eight-game winning streak from Feb. 15 to March 9, Peatling averaged 9.5 points and 7.4 rebounds on 34-of-53 shooting from the field (64.2 percent). In the seventh game, a victory over Portland State (3/8/18) in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament, he had 12 rebounds, a career-high four blocked shots, two steals and six points. The next night, in a semifinal win over Southern Utah (3/9/18), he finished with nine points and three steals, but just one rebound while playing just 16 minutes because of foul trouble. He provided some big games after joining the starting lineup in early January, and put together a stretch of three-straight double-doubles from Jan. 20 to Jan. 27. He had a career-high 19 points and 13 rebounds in an 84-79 win over Montana State (2/17/18), then had another with 11 points and 10 boards in Eastern’s regular season finale versus NorthYear GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO 2016-17 34 17 525 15.4 56 103 .544 11 30 .367 14 25 .560 31 71 102 3.0 67 2 23 20 2017-18 31 26 644 20.8 95 181 .525 5 21 .238 44 71 .620 64 111 175 5.6 104 8 20 27 TOTAL 65 43 1169 18.0 151 284 .532 16 51 .314 58 96 .604 95 182 277 4.3 171 10 43 47

Blk Stl Pts 13 12 137 37 28 239 50 40 376

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CAREER HIGHS – Points: 19, South Dakota - 12/10/17 & Montana State - 2/17/18; Rebounds: 15, Northern Colorado - 1/27/18; Assists: 3, Southern Utah - 1/21/17 & Great Falls - 12/8/16 & Montana - 2/15/18; Steals: 3, Idaho State - 1/12/17 & Southern Utah - 3/9/18; Blocks: 4, Portland State - 3/8/18; FG Made: 9, Montana State - 2/17/18; FG Attempts: 12, North Dakota - 1/25/18; 3FG Made: 3, Montana - 1/26/17; 3FG Attempts: 4, Walla Walla - 11/10/17; FT Made: 7, San Francisco - 12/7/17; FT Attempts: 8, Northern Colorado - 1/27/18; San Francisco - 12/7/17

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 ern Arizona (3/3/18). In a win over Northern Colorado (1/27/18) he had 17 points and a career-high 15 rebounds, making 6-of-11 shots from the field and finishing with two blocked shots. Peatling had the first double-double of his career with 10 points and 10 rebounds in EWU’s overtime loss at Southern Utah (1/20/18), then had 11-11 versus North Dakota (1/25/18). 2016-17: Earned Big Sky All-Academic honors for the first time. Peatling made his starting debut versus 17th-ranked Xavier (12/20/16) and started 17 total games. He averaged 4.0 points and 3.0 rebounds, with a high of 13 points at Montana (1/26/17) and highs of nine rebounds and three blocked shots versus Idaho (12/30/16). He also had seven points versus the Vandals and made 54.4 percent of his shots from the field for the season (56of-103) and 36.7 percent of his 3-pointers (11-of-30). He was in the starting lineup from Dec. 20 to Feb. 9, helping Eastern go 8-6 in those 14 games. He made his 16th start of the season in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Tournament against Sacramento State (3/9/17) and had eight points and six rebounds on 3-of-4 shooting from the field and 2-of-3 from the free throw line. He had scored only four total points in his previous seven games. He closed the season by scoring four points against Wyoming (3/15/17) in the College Basketball Invitational. High School/Club: Attended high school at Beaconhills College in Berwick (near Melbourne). In February 2016, Peatling helped the Victoria Navy U20 men’s team in becoming national champions in the Australia Junior Championships. He played from 2013-15 for the Dandenong Rangers in the South East Australian Basketball League. That was the same club that former Eagle Venky Jois played for prior to coming to Eastern in the fall of 2012. Eastern teammate Jack Perry and former Eagle Michael Wearne also played for Dandenong. At the U23 Victorian Youth Championship in 2015, Peatling was chosen as the Youth League Rookie of the Year after helping his team to a silver medal. He averaged 13.8 points, 7.9 rebounds, 2.4 assists, 1.8 blocked shots and 1.0 steals, including 22 points, 13 rebounds and three blocked shots in the Grand Final. During the 2015 league season, he averaged 4.4 points and 3.2 rebounds while making 47 percent of his field goal attempts, and had a high game of 19 points, nine rebounds and three blocked shots. Dandenong also finished as the runner-up for the U20 Australia Day Tournament in 2015. Also in 2015, Peatling was a late addition to the roster for Vic Metro, which went on to win the U20 Australian National Junior Championships. He played in six of eight games with a high outing of eight points and five rebounds. While playing in 2015 for his high school team, Beaconhills College, he was team captain and helped lead his team to a South Eastern Independent Schools regional championship. In 2014, he was a team captain in helping Dandenong finish third in the U18 Australian National Junior Classic Tournament. He also helped his team win the regular season title in the Victorian Basketball League and a runner-up finish at the Victorian Championship. In 2013, he was the MVP in helping Dandenong win the gold medal at the Victorian Championship Reserve tournament. Personal: Finance major at Eastern. He had a 3.92 grade point average through his first two years at EWU. Born March 31, 1997. He and his wife, the former Laura Burdack from Melbourne, Australia, were married in February, 2016. Parents are Marcus and Susie Peatling. Fellow Australians playing for the Eagles include Jesse Hunt and Jack Perry, as well as former Eagles Felix Von Hofe, Geremy McKay, Michael Wearne and former EWU all-time leading scorer Venky Jois. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #13 - Luka Vulikic - G - 6-6 - 190 - So. - 1L* - Belgrade, Serbia / Svetozar Markovic Jagodina HS Shantay Legans on Vulikic: “Luka is a very special player and we are looking forward to a huge year from him. Luka unfortunately had to redshirt his sophomore season due to injury, and our team missed his ball-handling and play-making ability last year. Now back to full health, Luka has had a great summer and has a lot to prove this year, and we are expecting him to have a great season.” 2017-18: A bout of planter fasciitis plagued Luka Vulikic after he started all eight of the games he played. Head coach Shantay Legans announced in February that Vulikic would redshirt as an injury hardship after averaging 7.1 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.5 assists in those eight games, but none since Dec. 3. He scored in double figures three times in those eight games, scoring 10 points each versus Walla Walla (11/10/17) in the team’s opener, at Washington (11/12/17) and then Utah (11/24/17). He had a career-high seven assists versus the Utes in a game he also had five rebounds, and Vulikic had a season-high eight rebounds with four assists in the season opener against Walla Walla. 2016-17: Earned Big Sky All-Academic honors for the first time. Vulikic started 22 of the 32 games he played in, and averaged 2.9 points, 2.8 rebounds and 0.7 assists per game. He started in every game from Dec. 20 to Feb. 9 as part of a starting lineup that went 8-6 in those 14 games. He had just two turnovers in 58 combined minutes versus Xavier (12/20/16) and Colorado (12/22/16), and he equaled his season high with 12 points versus the Buffaloes. He had 10 points and six rebounds at Montana (1/26/17). High School/Club: Attended Svetozar Markovic Jagodina High School. A former member of the Serbian U16 National Team, in 2015-16 he competed for the Serbian U19 National League (KLS) for Jagodina. The previous year, he played for Mega Vizura in the U19 National League. He led his Serbian team to a third-place finish in 2015 in the Euroleague Next Generation Tournament in Belgrade, earning all-tournament honors in the process. In 2014 when he played for the Serbian U16 National Team, he helped Zemun to a third-place finish in the U16 National League. He previously led his teams to championships in the Serbian U16 National League (2013 for Red Star), Demsar Cup international tournament (2012) and the U14 National League (2011 for Red Star). Skilled scoring, rebounding and passing the ball, he averaged 18.3 points, 5.5 assists and 6.0 rebounds at the Euroleague Next Generation Tournament. In the U19 National League in the 2015-16 season, he averaged 17.5 points, 5.8 assists and 6.5 rebounds. Earlier, he averaged 16.0 points, 5.0 assists and 3.4 rebounds in the U19 National League in 2014-15, and had averages of 14.8 points, 3.2 assists and 5.9 rebounds one year earlier in the U16 National League. He also played previously for Beostar and Mondo Basket in Serbia. Personal: Major undecided, but is considering business administration. He had a 3.4 grade point average through his first two years at EWU. Born July 18, 1997 in Belgrade, Serbia. His parents are Vlastimir and Sladjana Vulikic. He has a younger brother, Vuk. His name is pronounced “Lou-kah” “Vool-ih-kich” Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts 2016-17 32 22 514 16.1 35 81 .432 4 13 .308 20 36 .556 23 66 89 2.8 43 1 23 29 8 13 94 2017-18 8 8 205 25.6 25 55 .455 0 5 .000 7 15 .467 7 22 29 3.6 16 0 20 14 2 6 57 TOTAL 40 30 719 18.0 60 136 .441 4 18 .222 27 51 .529 30 88 118 3.0 59 1 43 43 10 19 151

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CAREER HIGHS – Points: 12, Seattle - 11/22/16 & at Colorado - 12/22/16; Rebounds: 11, Seattle - 11/22/16; Assists: 7, Utah - 11/24/17; Steals: 3, at Idaho State - 1/12/17; Blocks: 2, Seattle - 11/22/16; FG made: 5, on 4 occasions; FG attempts: 12, Walla Walla - 11/10/17; 3FG made: 1, on 4 occasions; 3FG attempts: 3, Seattle - 11/22/16; FT made: 5, at Colorado - 12/22/16; FT attempts: 8, at Colorado - 12/22/16.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #11 - Jack Perry - G - 6-2 - 175 - So. - 1L - Melbourne, Australia / Camberwell Grammar School ’16 Shantay Legans Comments: “What a season Jack had for us last year. Going from a planned redshirt year to the starting point guard as a true freshman says a lot about him as a player and as a person. Jack took everything in stride and got better every single game. With his high basketball IQ, he is a great leader and a coach on the floor, knowing exactly what the team needs at all times. He showed a tremendous ability to hit HUGE shots for us last year and we look forward to a lot of the same from him this year.” 2017-18: Was named to the Big Sky All-Academic team. Perry made 56 3-pointers to rank 19th in school history. He ranked sixth in the Big Sky Conference in 3-point shooting overall at 43.1 percent (56-of-130), including 31-of-75 (41.3 percent) in league games only to rank 12th. On the season he played in all 35 games (27 as a starter), and averaged 6.8 points and 2.4 assists per game while making 45.1 percent from the field overall. During Eastern’s eight-game winning streak from Feb. 15 to March 9, Perry averaged 9.9 points on 25-of-49 shooting from the field (51.0 percent) and 23-of-42 from the 3-point line (54.8 percent). He started EWU’s last 27 games, and scored in double figures in seven total games in 2017-18 (four during a sixgame span from Feb. 17 to March 8). He had a 14-point performance on 5-of-9 shooting from the field in a victory over Portland State (3/818) in the quarterfinals of the Big Sky Conference Tournament on March 8. One game prior, he had a career-high 18-point performance against Northern Arizona (3/3/18) in which he made a career-high six 3-pointers in nine attempts. He also had a 15-point performance against Idaho State (2/24/18) with five 3-pointers, and a career-high eight rebounds one game earlier at Weber State (2/22/18). He also had 11 points and five assists against Montana State (2/17/18). He had a 14-point, six-assist effort in EWU’s 82-67 win over Sacramento State (1/6/18), and had his first two double-figure scoring performances of the season with 13 at South Dakota (11/10/17) and 17 two nights later at Wyoming (11/12/17) when he also had a season-high seven assists. His clutch 3-pointer with 15 seconds left helped clinch EWU’s 81-74 win over Portland State (1/4/18), then he hit another clutch trey with 1:06 left in EWU’s 81-76 victory against Northern Arizona (1/18/18). HS: Graduated from Camberwell Grammar School in 2016. He had a 3.8 grade point average in 2016 and a perfect 4.0 in 2015 and 2014. He won various awards and served as team captain, and played in the AGS-APS School All-Star game where he scored 26 points. Perry was a member of the U20 Victoria State Team, and competed in the U20 National Championships in February 2017. He played club basketball for the Dandenong Rangers, and in 2016 helped them to the U18 Victorian and National Junior Classic Championships. Dandenong was fourth in the Eastern Conference, and he scored 15 points in the semifinals on 5-of-7 shooting from the 3-point arc. He also was co-captain for Victoria Metro, which won the U18 national championship. He also played for the U17 Australian National Squad. In 2015, he helped Victoria Metro finish fourth at the U18 national championships, and led Dandenong to a runner-up finish at the U18 Victorian Championships with a 24-point effort on 6-of-9 shooting from the 3-point stripe. Dandenong was also third in the National Junior Classic and finished third in the SEABL Eastern Conference. Dandenong is the same club that former Eagle Venky Jois played for prior to coming to Eastern in the fall of 2012. Eastern teammate Mason Peatling and former Eagle Michael Wearne also played for Dandenong. In 2014, Perry helped Victoria Metro finish as the runner-up at the U16 National Championships. Dandenong also was runner-up in the Victorian Championships when he scored a team-high 18 points. He helped his club win the title at the National Junior Classic. Personal: Interested in majoring in business management at Eastern. He had a 3.84 grade point average through his first year at EWU. Born Jan. 1, 1999, in Melbourne, Australia. Parents are Darren and Kerry Perry. Fellow Australians playing for the Eagles include Jesse Hunt and Mason Peatling, as well as former Eagles Felix Von Hofe, Geremy McKay, Michael Wearne and former EWU all-time leading scorer Venky Jois. Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts Avg 2017-18 35 27 957 27.3 83 184 .451 56 130 .431 17 21 .810 8 61 69 2.0 46 0 85 52 0 13 239 6.8 CAREER HIGHS – Points: 18, Northern Arizona - 3/3/18; Rebounds: 8, Weber State - 2/22/18; Assists: 7, Wyoming - 12/12/17; Steals: 3, Northern Arizona - 1/18/18; FG Made: 6, Sacramento State 1/6/18 & Wyoming - 12/12/17 & Northern Arizona - 3/3/18; FG Attempts: 12, Sacramento State - 1/6/18; 3FG Made: 6, Northern Arizona - 3/3/18; 3FG Attempts: 10, Idaho State - 2/24/18; FT Made: 2, on 7 occasions; FT Attempts: 3, Stanford - 11/14/17.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #10 - Jacob Davison - G - 6-4 - 175 - So. - 1L* - Long Beach, Calif. / Cantwell-Sacred Heart HS ‘16 Shantay Legans Comments: “Jacob has the potential to be an All-Big Sky player if he stays on the trajectory he ended last season with. Though he had an up and down early start of the season, he greatly improved over the course of the year and ended up one of the best players on our team -- and even in the conference. His athleticism, matched with his scoring ability, is really going to make him a player to be reckoned with his sophomore season.” 2017-18: Davison made the first start of his career at Seattle (12/3/17) and started seven-straight games. He came off the bench in the last 21 and averaged 7.1 points on the season. His debut season ended with seven points, a career-high four steals and three rebounds in EWU’s loss to Utah Valley (3/13/18) in the College Basketball Invitational. He scored 41 points and had 14 rebounds in three Big Sky Tournament games, including 16 in both the semifinals and championship game. He scored in double figures seven times in his last 13 games, including 14 points in EWU’s regular season finale versus Northern Arizona (3/3/18) and 17 at Weber State (2/22/18). During Eastern’s eight-game winning streak from Feb. 15 to March 9, Davison averaged 11.3 points on 27-of-51 shooting from the field (52.9 percent) and 10-of-22 from the 3-point line (45.5 percent). He also made 26-of-27 free throws (96.3 percent). He had his best scoring game in more than two months in finishing with 12 against Sacramento State (2/1/18), then had another dozen (all in the second half) three games later against Montana (2/15/18). Those performances were his most since scoring 15 at Utah (11/24/17) when he had his third double-figure scoring performance in a four-game span. He came off the bench to score 20 against Georgia State (11/20/17), and had 11 one game earlier versus UNLV (11/17/17). 2016-17: Redshirted. High School: Graduated from Cantwell-Sacred Heart High School in 2016. He was the Whittier Daily News All-Area Player of the Year as a senior in the 2015-16 season. Davison averaged 24 points, eight rebounds and five assists per game. He was also the SoCal Prep Legend’s 2016 Fan’s Choice Boys Basketball Player of the Year. He led the Cardinals to a 16-13 record and helped his team advance to the CIF State regional playoffs. Cantwell-Sacred Heart was also the only area team to advance to the playoffs in the CIF Southern Section Open Division, losing to powerhouses Mater Dei and Compton. He scored 36 points on 12-of-16 shooting from the field in a 73-56 win over Serra on Dec. 9, 2015. One day earlier, he had 23 points, 13 rebounds, three blocked shots and a pair of steals in a 19-point win over Leuzinger (54-35). In his junior season he was a first team All-Del Rey League selection and his team’s offensive player of the year. He averaged nearly 14 points per game and was selected to the Whittier Daily News All-Area team. The Cardinals finished 17-14 and advanced to the regional semifinals of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division III Championships, losing to the eventual champions. He was also MVP at a Michael Jordan Flight School showcase camp in the Los Angeles area. He is an Eagle Scout and was on the honor roll all four years in high school. He also participated from 2005-11 in the St. Baldrick’s Cancer Research Foundation Shavee event. Personal: Major undecided but is considering history. His parents are Brad and Leslie Davison, and his has two brothers (Robbie Latimer and Taylor Latimer), and a sister (Brady Davison). Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts Avg 2017-18 34 7 544 16.0 77 160 .481 27 65 .415 61 73 .836 21 73 94 2.8 57 0 18 33 11 27 242 7.1 CAREER HIGHS – Points: 5, Great Falls - 12/8/16; Rebounds: 2, Southern Utah - 1/21/17; Steals: 1, Northern Arizona - 1/19/17; Blocks: 1, vs Sacramento State - 3/9/17; FG made: 1, Great Falls 12/8/16; FG attempts: 1, Northern Arizona - 1/19/17 & Great Falls - 12/8/16; FT made: 3, Great Falls - 12/8/16; FT attempts: 3, Great Falls - 12/8/16.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #42 - Joshua Thomas - G - 6-3 - 185 - So. - SQ* - Spokane, Wash. / Central Valley ’16

Shantay Legans Comments: “Josh brings tremendous energy and much needed toughness to our team. He does a lot of things that don’t necessary pack the stat books, but are just as important in establishing our team’s attitude, chemistry and confidence – he is the ultimate ‘glue guy.’ Josh is a very unselfish player, leads by example and makes every one of his teammates better every single day.” 2017-18: He played in seven games off the bench for the Eagles, including three Big Sky games. He scored two points versus the University of Providence (12/20/17) and sank a 3-pointer versus North Dakota (1/25/18). 2016-17: Redshirted. High School: Graduated from Central Valley High School in 2016. Earned second team All-Greater Spokane League honors as a senior after helping Central Valley advance to the State 4A Tournament. The Bears finished 20-7 and advanced to the round of eight after winning the regional title. He scored 15 points in an 82-75 overtime victory over Richland in the first round of the regional playoffs. Central Valley beat Kentridge 59-48 in the regional title game, then fell to Curtis 54-44 and Issaquah 54-46 at the WIAA 4A Hardwood Classic. He finished his senior season averaging 12.1 points on 55 percent shooting from the field, and also averaged 6.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists. Thomas was a team captain as a senior and the team’s defensive player of the year. He also earned a varsity letter in his junior season when the Bears won the district title. He was chosen as a Greater Spokane League Scholar-Athlete as a senior in 2016. Personal: Visual communication design major at EWU, and hopes to become an advertising executive at a major company. He had a 3.97 grade point average through his first two years at EWU. Born Feb. 23, 1998 in Jacksonville, Fla. Was a 3.9 student in high school. His parents are Devon and Melanie Thomas. Devon is currently EWU’s associate athletic director for external relations. His mother was the EWU athletic department’s academic coordinator and life skills coach from 2009-12. She now works as a retention & advising specialist at Eastern.

Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct 3FG 3FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts Avg 2017-18 7 0 11 1.6 2 7 .286 1 3 .333 0 0 .000 2 1 3 0.4 2 0 0 3 0 0 5 0.7 CAREER HIGHS – Points: 3, North Dakota - 1/25/18; Rebounds: 1, North Dakota - 1/25/18 & Walla Walla - 11/10/17 & Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17; FG Made: 1, North Dakota - 1/25/18 & Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17; FG Attempts: 2, Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17 & Southern Utah - 3/1/18; 3FG Made: 1, North Dakota - 1/25/18; 3FG Attempts: 1, North Dakota - 1/25/18 & Univ. of Providence - 12/20/17 & Southern Utah - 3/1/18

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #0 - Tyler Kidd - G - 5-9 - 180 - Jr. - JC* - West Seattle, Wash. / O’Dea HS ’14 / Skagit Valley CC

Shantay Legans Comments: “Tyler had a great two years at Skagit Valley College and we are excited to have him the next two seasons after a redshirt year last season. Tyler is lightning-quick and brings a different dynamic to our team that will allow us to change the pace and keep opposing defenses on their toes. We love the spark of energy Tyler adds to our team.” 2017-18: Redshirted. Skagit Valley CC: A two-year starter at Skagit Valley, Kidd earned Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) North Region All-Defensive honors in the 2016-17 season while guarding the opposing team’s best player. He averaged 14.1 points, 2.9 assists, 2.4 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game as a sophomore. He made 49 percent of his shots from the field overall and 37 percent from 3-point range (23-of-62), and sank 79 percent of his free throws (57-of-72). His top scoring game was 30 points against Olympic (2/8/17) when he made 12-of-16 shots from the floor with a trio of 3-pointers and 3-of-3 free throws. He had a season-high seven assists against Northwest College (1/7/17) and had four steals versus Blue Mountain (12/16/16). The Cardinals were 5-2 on the road in the North Region to finish league play 7-7, and were 14-11 overall. In his freshman season, Kidd averaged 10.5 points, 2.2 assists, 2.7 rebounds and 0.9 steals per game, with single game highs of 22 points, five assists and four steals. Skagit Valley finished 4-10 in the North Division in 2015-16, and were 11-16 overall. HS: Graduated from O’Dea HS in 2014. He averaged more than 10 points per game as a senior in leading the Fighting Irish to the State 3A Tournament. He earned third team All-Metro League honors after earning honorable mention as a junior. Personal: Interdisciplinary liberal arts major at Eastern. He had a 3.28 grade point average through his first year at EWU.

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ll Eastern Washington University men’s basketball games may be heard in the Spokane/Cheney area on 700-AM ESPN and 105.3-FM. Broadcasts may also be heard via www.tunein. com (https://tunein.com/radio/Eastern-Washington-Eagles-SportsNetwork-s273711/) and tunein’s mobile apps by searching for “Eastern Washington.” Larry Weir returns as the play-by-play announcer, and will also host weekly coaches shows live from Barrelhouse Pub & Pizza in Cheney. Weir, selected as the State of Washington Sportscaster of the Year in both 2015 and 2016, will return for his 26th season as the voice of the Eagles in men’s basketball, calling the action for the Eagles from 1991-2009 and again from 2012-present. Weir called his 1,000th Eagle men’s basketball or football game on Dec. 3, 2017, in EWU’s game at Seattle. Entering the 2018-19 school year, Weir has called 705 of 733 EWU basketball games on radio, for a total of 1,026 including football. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #12 - Steven Beo - G - 6-3 - 180 - So. - TR* - Richland, Wash. / Richland HS ’16 / BYU

Shantay Legans Comments: “We are extremely lucky to have Steven on our roster – he is a talented scorer and shooter who sat out last season after transferring from BYU. Steven fits right in with what we want to do offensively and brings great toughness on defense. He comes in this year as one of the top newcomers of the conference, and we can’t wait to see what he adds to our team.” 2017-18: Because of NCAA transfer rules, Beo sat out the 2017-18 season and still has three years of eligibility remaining. BYU: Beo played in 31 games as a collegiate freshman for BYU in the 2016-17 season. He had season highs of 12 points (twice), six rebounds (UT Arlington), four assists (UT Arlington), two steals (twice) and three 3-pointers (Santa Clara). He scored in double figures twice, including versus Santa Clara when he had 12 points on 4-of-4 shooting from the field with a trio of 3-pointers, as well as three assists. In a game at Portland, he made 5-of-11 shots with a pair of treys, and added three rebounds, two assists and a steal. In the final game of the season for the 22-12 Cougars, he had four points, six rebounds and four steals in a 105-89 loss to UT Arlington in the NIT. HS: Graduated from Richland HS in 2016. He averaged 27.7 points as a high school junior and 26.7 as a senior, and the Bombers won 82 percent of their games (80-18) in his four years at the school and made a trio of appearances in the State 4A Tournament. Beo was a four-year letterwinner for head coach Earl Streufert and earned first team All-State honors as both a junior and senior. Both seasons he was the Tri-City Herald All-Area Player of the Year and the Mid-Columbia Conference Player of the Year. He averaged 26.7 points, 6.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists as a senior, leading Richland to an 18-5 record, the Mid-Columbia Conference title and the district title. However, losses to Central Valley and Gonzaga Prep in the regional round kept the Bombers from a fourth-straight trip to the State 4A Tournament. Beo scored 48 points against Central Valley, and Gonzaga Prep went on to finish third in the state. Beo led the state in scoring at 27.7 points per game in his junior season, and he set a Richland single-game record with 49 points against Wenatchee. He earned first team all-tournament honors after leading the Bombers to the quarterfinals of the State 4A Tournament. He also started during his freshman and sophomore seasons in helping Richland to the state tournament each year. As a sophomore, the Bombers were 25-0 before losing in the State 4A Tournament championship game. He was a first team all-tournament selection after earning second team allconference accolades for the Bombers. Personal: Interested in majoring in business administration at Eastern. He had a 3.82 grade point average through his first year at EWU. His parents are Jill and Anthony Beo and he has two sisters. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #24 - Kim Aiken Jr. - G/F - 6-7 - 215 - Fr. - HS* - Redlands, Calif. / East Valley HS ’17 Shantay Legans Comments: “Kim has the unique ability to guard every position on the floor, and as he continues to get stronger, he can turn into a huge defensive asset for us. On the offensive end, he represents a mismatch at 6-7 with a guard-like skillset. This summer, Kim had one of the biggest jumps a redshirt could have, and his hard work and determination to get better was apparent every single day. He brings a unique skillset to our team and is anxious to make a positive impact on our team.” 2017-18: Redshirted. HS: Graduated from East Valley High School in Redlands, Calif., in 2017. In 94 career games, Aiken scored 1,730 points (18.4 per game) and had 1,038 rebounds (11.0) while making 54 percent of his shots overall, 34 percent from the 3-point stripe (132-of-384) and 72 percent from the free throw line. He averaged 25.3 points and 11.5 rebounds per game as a senior to earn San Bernardino Sun All-Area first team honors. The Southern California Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association also picked him as a second team All-Southern Section 1A selection. He was additionally honored on the All-Citrus Belt League first team for the second-straight season. He had 20 double-doubles as a senior, including highs of 36 points versus Eisenhower (18 rebounds) and 20 rebounds against Yucaipa (18 points). He also averaged 2.4 steals, 2.4 blocks and 1.8 assists per game in his final season, while making 48 percent overall, 34 percent from the 3-point line (87-of-259) and 82 percent from the line. As a junior, Aiken averaged 18.6 points and 12 rebounds to earn All-California Interscholastic Federation honors. He was the co-MVP of the Citrus Belt League. He had 17 double-doubles as he led his team to the quarterfinals of the CIF Southern Section Division 2A Playoffs. He scored 19 in the season-ending 63-50 loss to La Mirada, as the Wildcats finished with a 25-6 record. Formerly from Long Beach, Calif., he had a 3.3 grade point average in high school. He averaged 12.6 points and 9.9 rebounds per game as a sophomore when his team finished third in the Citrus Belt League. The team advanced all the way to the CIF-SS Division 2A championship game against Compton, where the Wildcats lots 63-48. He was coached in high school by William Berich. He also played varsity volleyball at East Valley, as well as football (quarterback) as a freshman in high school. Personal: Interested in majoring in political science at Eastern. He had a 3.66 grade point average through his first year at EWU. Born June 1, 1999, in Long Beach, Calif. Parents are Kim Aiken Sr. and Latisha Arthur.

#35 - Tanner Groves - F - 6-9 - 235 - Fr. - HS* - Spokane, Wash. / Shadle Park HS ’17 Shantay Legans Comments: “Tanner is a redshirt freshman who made huge strides during his first year in the program. Having taken his work ethic to the next level, he has changed his body by putting on a lot of muscle and has gotten himself in great shape as he looks forward to this season. Tanner is a 6-9 player who can play inside and out. Look for big things from him.” 2017-18: Redshirted. HS: Graduated from Shadle Park High School in 2017. As a senior, Groves earned All-State honors when he was picked to play in the WIBCA All-State Game on March 18, 2017, in Mountlake Terrace, Wash. He was a first team All-Greater Spokane League selection, including players at both the 4A and 3A levels. He averaged 18.2 points and 9.5 rebounds per game as a senior, as well as 1.9 assists, 1.8 blocked shots and nearly a steal. He made 62 percent of his shots from the field, including 10-of-26 3-point attempts for 38 percent, and shot at a 74 percent clip from the free throw line (88-of-121). The Highlanders finished 19-6 overall and 14-4 in the GSL, and advanced to the regional round of the State 3A Playoffs. As a junior, Groves was the Greater Spokane League MVP when he averaged 16.0 points, 11 rebounds, 1.5 blocked shots and 1.5 assists per game. He led Shadle Park to a 16-7 record in his junior season, with the season ending with a loss to Kennedy Catholic in the regional playoffs of the State 3A Tournament. He had 11 points and 22 rebounds before fouling out in the 40-32 setback. He scored 17 points and finished with 11 rebounds in a 7056 district title victory over Rogers. He was a four-year letterwinner and twice the team’s MVP, and was coached at Shadle Park by EWU graduate Tim Gaebe. An honor roll student, he was also ASB Vice President at Shadle Park and a member of the school’s National Honor Society. He was the school’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2016-17. Personal: Interested in majoring in education at Eastern. He had a 3.83 grade point average through his first year at EWU. Born May 22, 1999, in Spokane, Wash. Parents are Randy and Tara Groves. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #4 - Ralueke Orizu - F - 6-9 - 190 - So. - TR - Atlanta, Ga. / South Cobb HS ’17 / Savannah State (Ga.)

Shantay Legans Comments: “`Sticks’ should bring a valuable skillset to our team that we have not seen since the likes of former Eagle Martin Seiferth. His shot blocking ability and his length should be a great anchor to our defense in years to come and a great complement to the rest of the roster. He has enormous potential.” 2018-19: Because of NCAA transfer rules, Orizu will sit out the 2018-19 season and will still have three years of eligibility remaining. Savannah State: Orizu averaged 3.9 points and 3.1 rebounds as a freshman in 2017-18 at Savannah State, a NCAA Division I school in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. He played in 26 of the team’s 32 games and had one start, and sank 54.3 percent of his shots from the field. He had a season-high 19 points on 9-of-10 shooting from the field against Morgan State, and his other double figure scoring performance was 12 versus Carver College when he also had a season-high eight rebounds. He sank 9-of-13 free throws versus Louisiana and added seven boards in that game. HS: Graduated from South Cobb HS in 2018. He averaged 12.5 points and 9.2 rebounds as a senior while making 52 percent of his shots from the field. His team finished 23-8 in the 2016-17 season and advanced to the semifinals of the State AAAAAA Tournament in Georgia. Personal: He is interested in studying chemistry at EWU with hopes to become a pharmacist. Born Jan. 6, 1999, in Atlanta, Ga. His full name is Ralueke Joseph Orizu. His parents are Prince and Chichi Orizu. His name is pronounced “ray-LAY-kay or-EEzoo.” #1 - Austin Fadal - G - 6-4 - 175 - Fr. - HS - San Ramon, Calif. / Monte Vista HS ’17 / Hillcrest Prep (Ariz.)

Shantay Legans Comments: “Austin is a tremendously gifted scorer on the court, and an even better person and student off the court. He represents everything we look for in a student-athlete at Eastern Washington University. He fits into our tremendous culture perfectly, and we expect Austin to blend into our system seamlessly on the court.” Hillcrest Prep: Fadal was one of the eight finalists nationwide for the National Prep Hoops Offensive Post-Graduate/Prep School Player of the Year. While at Hillcrest, he scored 33 points against nationallyranked Cochise Junior College on Nov. 17, 2017. HS: Graduated from Monte Vista HS in 2017. A 3.5 student as a senior, Fadal averaged over 18 points and six assists per game in his high school career. However, he injured his knee in December of his senior season at Monte Vista, and the Mustangs finished just 12-14. He was the leading scorer on teams he played for since his sophomore season, and earned first team All-East Bay honors as a junior at Monte Vista. In his junior season at Monte Vista, Fadal helped his team finish 24-8 overall and 11-3 in the East Bay League to finish as the runner-up. The Mustangs advanced to the 2016 CIF Division I Championships, beating Oakland Tech 53-43 in the second round before falling to eventual runner-up Berkeley 64-52 in the quarterfinals. His coach at Monte Vista was Nick Jones. As a sophomore, Fadal played at Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, Calif., and helped the Wildcats to a 16-10 record as he averaged 18 points, four rebounds, and three assists. Personal: He is interested in studying business management at EWU, and since he was 15 has been involved in entrepreneurial endeavors. Born Oct. 27, 1999, in San Leandro, Calif. His parents are Marilyn and Sylvester Fadal, and he has two sisters, Lexy and Isi. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #22 - Elijah Jackson - G - 6-4 - 190 - Fr. - HS - Seattle, Wash. / Chief Sealth HS ‘18

Shantay Legans Comments: “Eastern fans will love Elijah’s mix of athleticism and play-making ability around the basket. He is undoubtedly one of the better athletes in the conference and is poised for a very promising career. Adding a recruit from our own backyard is not only special but critical to our program’s success. Some of our greatest players at Eastern have come from in-state, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring a great person and talent like Elijah to the program.” HS: Graduated from Chief Sealth HS in 2018. His senior year he earned third team All-Metro honors while leading his team to a 10-12 record. He averaged 16.4 points, 2.4 assists, 2.2 steals and 2.9 rebounds per game as a junior to earn honorable mention All-Metro accolades. He helped lead the Seahawks to the Metro League Playoffs in the 2016-17 season and was coached by Colin Slingsby at Chief Sealth. An exceptional jumper, he won the dunk contest at a Seattle versus Tacoma All-Star game and was also a state champion in track and field for Chief Sealth. As a senior in 2018, he won the long jump and triple jump at the 2018 State 3A Championships, and also placed third in the high jump. In the long jump he had a jump of 23-1, he set a personal best in the triple jump with a 46-4 3/4 mark and cleared 6-4 in the high jump. He finished third in the long jump at the 2017 State 3A Championships with a leap of 22-10 3/4. He was also sixth in the high jump with a jump of 6-2 and eighth in the triple jump with a mark of 43-8. His high school best in the high jump was 6-6, his best in the long jump was 23-6 and his personal record in the triple jump was 46-4 3/4. Personal: Interested in majoring in business management at Eastern. Born May 17, 2000, in Seattle, Wash. He accumulated over 400 hours of service in the community as well in high school, including working with children with severe disabilities and volunteering at the Hoops For Life basketball camps. His parents are Jennifer Bermudez and Diallo “Steven” Jackson.

#25 - Michael Meadows - G - 6-2 - 175 - Fr. - HS - Hollywood, Calif. / Campbell Hall HS ‘18

Shantay Legans Comments: “Mike is a tremendous addition to our Eastern family and will make a huge impact for years to come, both on and off the court. Mike comes in as a very accomplished high school player, and we expect him to have a similar career in college. His basketball ability combined with his commitment to the classroom will make him fit in perfectly with the kind of culture we are building here at EWU.” HS: Graduated from Campbell Hall HS in 2018. A four-year player at Campbell Hall, he earned all-league honors each season. In 2017-18 he helped the Vikings finish 20-10 and advance to the quarterfinals of the 2018 CIF Division 2AA Southern Section Playoffs. Earlier in the season, he helped his team win the Burbank Tournament with a perfect 5-0 record. Meadows scored 22 points in a 57-50 victory over Westlake for the title, and was selected to the all-tournament team. While at Campbell Hall, he was coached by Thomas Blunt. Meadows had an accumulative 3.2 grade point average and his volunteer service has included working at youth basketball camps. Personal: Interested in majoring in business administration at Eastern. Born Oct. 20, 1998 in Henderson, Ky. His mother is Berry Simpson and his father is Mike Meadows Sr. He has two siblings, Aubree and Eli. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 #5 - Casson Rouse - G - 6-2 - 180 - Fr. - HS - Lacey, Wash. / Timberline HS ‘18

Shantay Legans Comments: “Casson has a very outgoing personality and it shows on the court. He brings certain characteristics that we have not had on our team in years. He will make a huge impact on our team both in strengthening our culture, while also being a great communicator on the court. He comes from a very good high school program and understands what it takes to win. We are excited to see what he brings to our team.” HS: Graduated from Timberline HS in 2018. As a senior, he helped lead his team to a 22-7 record and fourth-place finish at the State 3A Championships, the best in school history. His high school coach was Allen Thomas. Personal: Interested in majoring in psychology at Eastern. Born Jan. 2, 2000, in Lacey, Wash. His mother is Cassie Rouse. His last name rhymes with “house” and his first name is pronounced “kuh-sahn.”

#23 - Jordan Veening - F - 6-6 - 205 - Fr. - HS - Sumas, Wash. / Nooksack Valley HS ‘18

Shantay Legans Comments: “Jordan is going to be a very good addition to our team. His ability to play different positions on the court will help our team.” HS: Graduated from Nooksack Valley HS in 2018. He averaged 15 points, nine rebounds and five assists as a senior to earn All-Northwest Athletic Conference honors. He was also team captain both in his junior and senior seasons, and in 2018 the team missed playing in the State 1A Tournament by one game. He played three years of varsity basketball at Nooksack Valley, including the last two for Rich Skillman. Besides playing basketball, he also played football. In his senior season he had 49 catches, eight touchdowns, and accumulated 892 yards in helping his teams to an appearance in the State 1A Playoffs. In track and field he competed at the State 1A Championships at Roos Field in Cheney in the 110-meter hurdles. Including soccer, he lettered in four total sports in high school. Personal: Interested in majoring in exercise science at Eastern in hopes to become a physical therapist. Born June 2, 2000, in Bellingham, Wash. Parents are Kelli and Theo Veening.

2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Syracuse University “ORANGE”

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay “PHOENIX”

University of Washington “HUSKIES”

Location: Syracuse, New York Enrollment: 14,847 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Atlantic Coast Conference Arena: Carrier Dome (35,446) Head Coach: Jim Boeheim SU Record: 926-371 / 42 Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 23-14 / 8-10 (t-10th)

Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin Enrollment: 6,815 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Horizon League Arena: Resch Center (9,877) Head Coach: Linc Darner UWGB Record: 54-47 / Three Seasons Career Record: 347-164 / 16 Seasons 2017-18: 13-20 / 7-11 (7th)

Location: Seattle, Washington Enrollment: 46,165 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Pac-12 Conference Arena: Alaska Airlines Arena (10,000) Head Coach: Mike Hopkins UW Record: 21-13 / One Season Career Record: 21-13 / One Season 2017-18: 21-13 / 10-8 (t-6th)

Top Returning Scorers: Tyus Battle (G, 6-6, Jr., 19.2ppg, 2.9rpg) Oshae Brissett (F, 6-8, So., 14.9ppg, 8.8rpg Frank Howard (G, 6-5, Sr., 14.4ppg, 4.7apg)

Top Returning Scorers: Sandy Cohen III (G, 6-6, R-Sr., 16.1ppg, 5.7rpg) Kameron Hankerson (G, 6-5, Jr., 10.7ppg, 3.1rpg) PJ Pipes (G, 6-2, So., 7.2ppg, 2.3rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Jaylen Nowell (G, 6-4, So., 16.0ppg, 4.0rpg) Noah Dickerson (F, 6-8, Sr., 15.5ppg, 8.4rpg) David Crisp (G, 6-0, Sr., 11.6ppg, 3.1apg)

SID: Pete Moore 315.443.2608 pimoore@syr.edu Website: www.cuse.com

SID: Joey Daniels 920.465.2498 danielsj@uwgb.edu Website: www.greenbayphoenix.com

SID: Ashley Walker 206.240.3899 awalker1@uw.edu Website: www.gohuskies.com

University of Oregon “DUCKS”

University of Missouri Kansas City “KANGAROOS”

Seattle University “REDHAWKS”

Location: Eugene, Oregon Enrollment: 24,500 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Pac-12 Conference Arena: Matthew Knight Arena (12,364) Head Coach: Dana Altman Oregon Record: 210-83 / Eight Seasons Career Record: 620-325 / 29 Seasons 2017-18: 23-13 / 10-8 (t-6th)

Location: Kansas City, Missouri Enrollment: 16,699 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Western Athletic Conference Arena: Municipal Auditorium Head Coach: Kareem Richardson UMKC Record: 64-97 / Five Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 10-22 / 5-9 (t-7th)

Location: Seattle, Washington Enrollment: 4,647 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Western Athletic Conference Arena: Redhawk Center (999) Head Coach: Jim Hayford SU Record: 20-14 / One Season Career Record: 380-189 / 19 Seasons 2017-18: 20-14 / 8-6 (4th)

Top Returning Scorers: Payton Pritchard (G, 6-2, Jr., 14.5ppg, 4.8apg) Paul White (F, 6-9, R-Sr., 9.4ppg, 3.5rpg) Victor Bailey Jr. (G, 6-4, So., 6.7ppg, 1.7rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Xavier Bishop (G, 5-8, Jr., 11.6ppg, 3.3apg) Jordan Giles (F, 6-7, Jr., 10.2ppg, 3.3rpg) Brandon McKissic (G, 6-3, So., 7.9ppg, 2.8rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Matej Kavas (G, 6-8, R-Jr., 15.2ppg, 5.1rpg) Morgan Means (G, 6-3, Jr., 8.6ppg, 3.6rpg) Aaron Nettles (G, 5-11, So., 2.6ppg, 0.7rpg)

SID: Greg Walker 541.346.2252 gswalker@uoregon.edu Website: www.goducks.com

SID: Nikolaus Busch 816.529.7694 buschns@umkc.edu Website: www.umkckangaroos.com

SID: Sarah Finney 206.296.5915 finneysa@seattleu.edu Website: www.goseattleu.com

Morehead State University “EAGLES”

Preliminary Games of the 2K Empire Classic benefitting the Wounded Warrior Project Reese Court • Cheney, Wash.

Nov. 16 – UMKC vs. Morehead State, 2:35 p.m. EWU vs. Green Bay – 4:45 p.m. (approx.) N 17 – Consolation or Championship, 1:05 p.m.

Consolation or Championship, 3:15 p.m. (approx.)

(EWU will play in this game regardless of outcomes on 11/16)

North Dakota State University “BISON”

Location: Morehead, Kentucky Enrollment: 10,500 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Ohio Valley Conference Arena: Ellis Johnson Arena (6,500) Head Coach: Preston Spradlin MSU Record: 20-30 / Two Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 8-21 / 4-14 (12th)

Location: Fargo, North Dakota Enrollment: 13,796 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Summit League Arena: Scheels Arena (5,644) Head Coach: David Richman NDSU Record: 77-51 / Four Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 15-17 / 5-9 (t-5th)

Top Returning Scorers: Jordan Walker (G, 6-0, Jr., 12.2ppg, 2.7apg) A.J. Hicks (G, 6-0, Sr., 11.0ppg, 4.2apg) Lamontray Harris (F, 6-7, Sr., 11.0ppg, 6.3rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Tyson Ward (G, 6-6, Jr., 11.8ppg, 5.9rpg) Cameron Hunter (G, 6-2, So., 9.2ppg, 3.0rpg) Deng Geu (F, 6-6, Jr., 6.6ppg, 3.3rpg)

SID: Matt Schabert 606.783.2556 m.schabert@moreheadstate.edu Website: www.msueagles.com

SID: Wes Offerman 701.231.8047 Wes.Offerman@ndsu.edu Website: www.gobison.com

2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 University of San Francisco “DONS”

Location: San Francisco, California Enrollment: 6,847 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: West Coast Conference Arena: War Memorial Gymnasium (5,300) Head Coach: Kyle Smith USF Record: 42-30 / Two Seasons Career Record: 143-112 / Eight Seasons 2017-18: 22-17 / 9-9 (t-4th)

Top Returning Scorers: Frankie Ferrari (G, 5-11, Jr., 11.4ppg, 4.5apg) Jordan Ratinho (G, 6-5, So., 10.7ppg, 3.3rpg) Matt McCarthy (F, 6-9, Sr., 8.2ppg, 5.8rpg) SID: Matt Fontenot 925.878.5701 mfontenot@usfca.edu Website: www.usfdons.com

Stanford University “CARDINALS”

Walla Walla University “WOLVES”

Location: Walla Walla, Washington Enrollment: 1,700 Affiliation: NAIA Conference: Cascade Collegiate Conference Arena: Windemuth Court Head Coach: James Hill / 10th Season 2017-18: 7-21 / 3-15 Top Returning Scorers: Roy Zavala (G, 5-10, So., 10.1ppg, 3.6apg) Michael Isotalo (G, 6-1, Sr., 9.0ppg, 2.7rpg) Dylan Browning (W, 6-3, Sr., 7.7ppg, 4.5rpg) SID: Logan Adams 509.527.2799 logan.adams@wallawalla.edu Website: www.uwolves.com

Weber State University “WILDCATS”

University of Idaho “VANDALS”

Location: Moscow, Idaho Enrollment: 12.072 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Cowan Spectrum (5,000) Head Coach: Don Verlin Idaho Record: 172-149 / 10 Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 22-9 / 14-4 (2nd)

Top Returning Scorers: Nate Sherwood (F, 6-8, Sr., 9.5ppg, 4.7rpg) Trevon Allen (G, 6-2, Jr., 4.2ppg, 1.9rpg) Geno West (G, 6-2, So., 1.2ppg, 0.4rpg) SID: Joe St. Pierre 603.475.8548 jstpierre@uidaho.edu Website: www.govandals.com

University of Northern Colorado “BEARS”

Location: Stanford, California Enrollment: 16,914 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Pac-12 Conference Arena: Stanford Maples Pavilion (7,233) Head Coach: Jerod Haase Stanford Record: 33-33 / Two Seasons Career Record: 113-86 / Six Seasons 2017-18: 19-16 / 11-7 (t-3rd)

Location: Ogden, Utah Enrollment: 27,949 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Dee Events Center (12,000) Head Coach: Randy Rahe WSU Record: 248-138 / 12 Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 20-11 / 13-5 (t-3rd)

Location: Greeley, Colorado Enrollment: 12,000 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Bank of Colorado Arena (2,734) Head Coach: Jeff Linder UNC Record: 37-30 / Two Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 26-12 / 11-7 (5th)

Top Returning Scorers: Daejon Davis (G, 6-3, So., 10.7ppg, 4.8apg) KZ Okpala (F, 6-9, So., 10.0ppg, 3.7rpg) Oscar Da Silva (F, 6-9, So., 6.2ppg, 4.7rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Jerrick Harding (G, 6-1, Jr., 22.0ppg, 3.4rpg) Zach Braxton (F / C, 6-9, Sr., 12.3ppg, 7.8rpg) Brekkott Chapman (F, 6-9, Sr., 10.8ppg, 5.9rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Jordan Davis (G, 6-2, Sr., 22,5ppg, 3.7apg) Jalen Sanders (G, 6-5, So., 9.5ppg, 5.8rpg) Jonah Radebaugh (G, 6-2, So., 7.9ppg, 6.0rpg)

SID: Doug Drabik 650.683.5528 ddrabik@stanford.edu Website: www.gostanford.com

SID: Paul Grua 801.626.7414 pgrua@weber.edu Website: www.weberstatesports.com

SID: Ryan Ronan 970.351.1065 ryan.ronan@unco.edu Website: www.uncbears.com

South Dakota State University “JACKRABBITS”

Idaho State University “BENGALS”

University of Montana “GRIZZLIES”

Location: Brookings, South Dakota Enrollment: 12,107 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: The Summit League Arena: Frost Arena (6,063) Head Coach: T.J. Otzelberger SDSU Record: 46-24 / Two Seasons Career Tenure: Same 2017-18: 28-7 / 13-1 (1st)

Location: Pocatello, Idaho Enrollment: 14,489 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Holt Arena (8,000) Head Coach: Bill Evans ISU Record: 59-122 / Six Seasons Career Record: 261-321 / 21 Seasons 2017-18: 14-16 / 9-9 (t-6th)

Location: Missoula, Montana Enrollment: 12,500 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Dahlberg Arena (7,322) Head Coach: Travis DeCuire UM Record: 83-49 / Four Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 26-8 / 16-2 (1st)

Top Returning Scorers: Mike Daum (F, 6-9, Sr., 23.9ppg, 10.3rpg) David Jenkins Jr. (G, 6-2, So., 16.1ppg, 3.2rpg) Tevin King (G, 6-2, Sr., 9.1ppg, 5.6rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Jared Stutzman (G / F, 6-6, Jr., 14.9ppg, 3.4rpg) Brandon Boyd (G, 6-0, Jr. 14.9ppg, 4.2rpg) Balint Mocsan (G, 6-3, Jr., 10.1ppg, 3.5rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Ahmaad Rorie (G, 6-1, R-Sr., 17.2ppg, 3.7apg) Michael Oguine (G, 6-0, Sr., 15.8ppg, 5.5rpg) Jamar Akoh (F, 6-8, R-Sr., 12.8ppg, 6.6rpg)

SID: Andrew Sogn 605.688.4822 andrew.sogn@sdstate.edu Website: www.gojacks.com

SID: Steve Schaack 208.282.2621 schaste4@isu.edu Website: www.isubengals.com

SID: Nic Hallisey 970.231.4789 nic.hallisey@umontana.edu Website: www.gogriz.com

2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Montana State University “BOBCATS”

Southern Utah University “THUNDERBIRDS”

Northern Arizona University “LUMBERJACKS”

Location: Bozeman, Montana Enrollment: 15,500 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Brick Breeden Fieldhouse (8,455) Head Coach: Brian Fish MSU Record: 50-75 / Four Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 13-19 / 6-12 (t-8th)

Location: Cedar City, Utah Enrollment: 11,060 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: America First Event Center (5,300) Head Coach: Todd Simon SUU Record: 19-46 / Two Seasons Career Record: 28-54 / Three Seasons 2017-18: 13-19 / 5-13 (10th)

Location: Flagstaff, Arizona Enrollment: 30,383 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Walkup Skydome (7,000) Head Coach: Jack Murphy NAU Record: 68-128 / Six Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 5-27 / 2-16 (12th)

Top Returning Scorers: Tyler Hall (G, 6-5, Sr., 17.5ppg, 3.7rpg) Harald Frey (G, 6-1, Jr., 13.1ppg, 3.1rpg) Keljin Blevins (F, 6-6, Sr., 9.7ppg, 5.8rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Brandon Better (G, 6-3, Sr., 12.8ppg, 2.4rpg) Dwayne Morgan (F, 6-8, R-Sr., 12.2ppg, 6.7rpg) Dre Marin (G, 6-0, So., 7.4ppg, 3.7rpg)

Top Returning Scorers: Karl Harris (G, 6-5, Sr., 8.2ppg, 2.2rpg) Chris Bowling (G / F, 6-7, Jr., 7.7ppg, 2.6rpg) Corey Brown (F, 6-8, Sr., 6.6ppg, 3.4rpg)

SID: Bill Lamberty 406.994.5133 blamberty@msubobcats.com Website: www.msubobcats.com

SID: Bryson Lester 801-860-8653 brysonlester@suu.edu Website: www.suutbirds.com

SID: Randy Press 303-908-0439 randy.press@nau.edu Website: www.nauathletics.com

Portland State University “VIKINGS”

2019 Big Sky Conference Championship Tournament

Location: Portland, Oregon Enrollment: 28,407 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: Viking Pavilion (3,094) Head Coach: Barret Perry PSU Record: 20-14 / One Season Career Record: Same 2017-18: 20-14 / 9-9 (t-6th)

Top Returning Scorers: Holland Woods (G, 6-0, So., 10.5ppg, 5.6apg) Michael Mayhew (G, 6-2, Sr., 8.1ppg, 2.5rpg) Deante Strickland (G, 5-10, So., 7.7ppg, 2.1rpg) SID: Mike Lund 503.725.5602 lundm@pdx.edu Website: www.goviks.com

Sacramento State “HORNETS”

Location: Sacramento, California Enrollment: 30,800 Affiliation: NCAA Division I Conference: Big Sky Conference Arena: The Nest (1,012) Head Coach: Brian Katz SS Record: 111-190 / Ten Seasons Career Record: Same 2017-18: 7-25 / 4-14 (11th)

CenturyLink Arena • Boise, Idaho • Times Pacific Wednesday, March 13 (First Round - 10am/12:30pm/3pm) Game 1 – No. 8 Seed vs. No. 9 Seed • Game 2 – No. 7 Seed vs. No. 10 Seed Game 3 – No. 6 Seed vs. No. 11 Seed Thursday, March 14, 2019 (Quarterfinals - 11am/1:30pm/4:30pm/7pm on Eleven Sports) Game 4 – No. 1 Seed vs. Game 1 Winner • Game 5 – No. 4 Seed vs. No. 5 Seed Game 6 – No. 2 Seed vs. Game 2 Winner • Game 7 – No. 3 Seed vs. Game 3 Winner Friday, March 15, 2019 (Semifinals - 4:30pm/7pm on Eleven Sports) Game 8 – Game 4 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner • Game 9 – Game 6 Winner vs. Game 7 Winner Saturday, March 16, 2019 (on ESPNU) Game 10 – Championship Game, 5 p.m.

Top Returning Scorers: Marcus Graves (G, 6-0, Sr., 13.9 ppg, 5.3 apg) Joshua Patton (C, 6-8, Jr., 10.9 ppg, 5.1 rpg) Izayah Mauriohooho-Le’afa (G, 6-2, Jr., 10.1 ppg, 3.6 apg) SID: Ryan Bjork 916.278.7426 rbjork@csus.edu Website: www.hornetsports.com

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Former Eagles in the Professional Ranks Below is a list of former Eagles in professional basketball, including 18 active within the last year. ***Indicates is currently active within the last year in the professional ranks. Most recent team is listed first. Name (Years Lettered at EWU) – Post-College Career (Country-League)

Bogdan Bliznyuk

Sir Washington

***Bogdan Bliznyuk (2015-16-17-18) – Bnei Hertzeliya (Israel-Winner League); LA Clippers (NBA) • After becoming the Big Sky Conference all-time leading scorer, Bliznuk agreed to terms with the Los Angeles Clippers and represented the team in the NBA’s Summer League in Las Vegas from July 6-13. He played in three games and averaged 8.3 minutes and had a total of three points (1-of-3 shooting) with three rebounds, an assist and a steal. He scored his lone basket against the Los Angeles Lakers on July 12. • Bliznyuk trained in Los Angeles and had workouts with the Pistons and the Sacramento Kings. Bypassed in the NBA draft on June 21, he also went through EWU commencement exercises on June 16 after receiving his bachelor’s degree in management. • Bliznyuk, an All-American who scored 2,169 points in his career, scored 11 points on 5-of-7 shooting in the Reese’s College All-Star Game on March 30. He was one of just 20 players in the nation invited to play in the prestigious game at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas – site of the NCAA Division I “Final Four.” Bliznyuk started and led his West squad to a 98-94 victory over the East in the game, which is presented annually by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. He also finished the game with three rebounds and a pair of steals, and made four of his last five shots. • He then averaged 15.3 points and made half his shots in three games at the prestigious Portsmouth Invitational Basketball Tournament on April 12-14. Although he wasn’t chosen to the all-tournament team, he sank 18-of-36 shots from the field and scored a total of 46 points to rank 11th in the tournament. He also sank all six of his free throws to lead the tourney, and averaged 2.0 steals (second), and 3.3 assists (15th). In addition, he contributed 4.3 rebounds and made 4-of-10 3-pointers among the 64 players who were invited. The team he played on (Roger Brown’s) was 1-2, and he had 15 points, six rebounds, five assists and two steals in a victory in the squad’s final game. In his first game he had 14/3/1/2, and his second outing he had 17/4/4/2 on 8-of-11 shooting from the field. ***Sir Washington (2015-16-17-18) – Team Phoenix (Eurobasket S. League) •. Washington and teammate Bogdan Bliznyuk ended their careers as EWU’s winningest players in EWU’s 35-year history as a member of NCAA Division I. They won 86 games overall and 50 in the Big Sky Conference, and led the Eagles to national postseason tournaments in each of those four seasons. Washington finished his career fourth in school history with 123 career games played (26 as a starter) while averaging 5.6 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.3 assists, as well as 66 total steals and 17 blocked shots.

Benas Griciunas

Four-Straight Years EWU Represented in NBA Summer League The summer of 2018 was the fourth-straight year an Eagle has represented EWU in the NBA Summer League. Tyler Harvey played for the Orlando Magic in 2015 and 2016 after getting drafted in the second round of the 2015 NBA Draft. In the summer of 2015 in the Orlando Summer League, Harvey averaged 10.6 points for the Magic’s “Blue” squad. In 2017 and 2018, Jacob Wiley played for the Brooklyn Nets and Dallas Mavericks, respectively, and in 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk made his summer league debut with the Los Angelse Clippers. Rodney Stuckey, who played 651 regular season games in the NBA from 2007-16, is the only other Eagle in school history to play in the NBA Summer League.

***Benas Griciunas (2018) – BC Siauliai (Lithuania-LKL) •.A graduate transfer who came to EWU with 59 games of NCAA Division I experience, Griciunas averaged 5.2 points, 3.0 rebounds and 0.7 blocked shots in 34 games as a senior in the 2017-18 season. ***Jacob Wiley (2017) – Adelaide 36ers (Australia-NBL); Brooklyn Nets (NBA) • This time for the Dallas Mavericks, Wiley played in the National Basketball Association Summer League for a second-straight year on July 6-13, 2018. He played in five games, averaging 16.2 minutes, 5.2 points and 3.2 rebounds per game, and also had five blocked shots, three steals and a pair of assists. He scored 12 points on July 9 versus Golden State. • Wiley originally signed a two-way contract for the Brooklyn Nets for the 2017-18 season, eventually playing five games with Brooklyn and then 16 (six as a starter) with the Long Island Nets of the NBA’s G-League until a foot injury sidelined him. He averaged 6.6 minutes per game in his five games with Brooklyn, scoring four points and grabbing 11 rebounds. He scored all four of the points and eight of the rebounds in 21 minutes of action against Denver on Nov. 7, 2017. He made his regular season NBA debut versus Denver on Oct. 29, 2017. He then averaged 7.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists for Long Island, including a season-high 20 in his first game on Nov. 16, 2017. Wiley scored in double figures five times, and had a season-high seven rebounds on Jan. 2, 2018. .• He played with the Nets during the 2017 NBA Summer League, averaging 15.6 minutes, 2.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 0.5 blocked shots in the team’s four games in Las Vegas. Prior to that, he played in the Portsmouth Invitational and averaged 27.2 minutes, 17.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in three games. ***Felix Von Hofe (2014-15-16-17) – Kilsyth Cobras (Australia-State League); Melbourne United (Australia-NBL); Dandenong Rangers (Australia-State League) • After his EWU career concluded, he played 12 games for Dandenong and averaged 8.5 points and 3.7 rebounds, making 25-of-64 3-point attempts for 39.1 percent. He then played four more games for Melbourne United. ***Michael Wearne (2017) – Dandenong Rangers (Australia-State League) • He departed EWU after his redshirt freshman season, then played four games for Dandenong as an amatuer in 2017 before playing for Saint Rose College in Albany, New York. ***Venky Jois (2013-14-15-16) – Rasta Vechta (Germany-BBL); Shiga Lakestars (Japan-B League); KK Vrijednosnice Osijek (Croatia-A1); Tartu Ulikool/ Rock (Estonia-Alexela KML); Dandenong Rangers (Australia-State League) • In four games with KK Vrijednosnice Osijek in the 2017-18 season, Jois averaged 16.0 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.8 blocked shots per game. He then played in 31 games for the Shiga Lakestars in Japan and averaged 12.1 points, 7.0 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.4 steals and 0.7 blocks. • In 31 games for Tartu Ulikool/Rock in Estonia in the 2016-17 season, Jois averaged 8.5 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 0.6 blocked shots per game. • After having tryouts with NBA teams in the spring of 2016, Jois returned to his native Australia and made an appearance with the Dandenong Rangers, the club he played with prior to becoming an Eagle. Dandenong beat the touring University of Washington 100-96 in overtime on Aug. 3, with Jois scoring 10 points and grabbing seven rebounds. Kyle Reid (2015-16) – Lokoko Bisons Loimaa (Finland-1st Division) ***Tyler Harvey (2013-14-15) – Sharks Antibes (France-ProA); Fiat Torino (Italy-Serie A)/Erie Bay Hawks (NBA D-League)/Orlando Magic (NBA) • He played in 32 games for Sharks Antibes in 2017-18 and averaged 11/3 points, 1.8 rebounds, 0.9 assists and 1.0 steals while making 77-of-196 3-point shots for 39.3 percent. • In 29 games for Fiat Torino in Italy in the 2016-17 season, Harvey averaged 11.3 points, 2.1 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.2 steals per game, and made 62-of-169 3-point shots for 36.7 percent. • He played the 2015-16 season for the Erie Bay Hawks in the NBA’s D-League and averaged 11.9 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game in 37 games. He

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 made 80-of-231 3-pointers for 34.6 percent, and 54-of-68 free throws for 79.4 percent. He led Erie to an improbable 125-120 victory over the Texas Legends on Dec. 29, 2015, when he made nine 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and two overtimes. He finished with 29 points as the Bay Hawks ralllied from a 22-point deficit entering the fourth quarter. • In the summer of 2015 in the Orlando Summer League, Harvey averaged 10.6 points, 2.0 assists and 1.4 rebounds for the Magic’s “Blue” summer squad. The following year, he averaged 7.0 points per game. He was drafted in the second round (51st overall) by Orlando in the 2015 NBA Draft.

Jacob Wiley

Felix Von Hofe

***Drew Brandon (2014-15) – AZS Koszalin (Poland-EBL); Kouvot Kouvola (Finland-Korisliiga); CS Phoenix Galati (Romania-Liga Nationala); Bayer Giants (Germany-ProA) • He avareged 9.4 points. 6.1 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.4 steals in 14 games for Kouvot Kouvola in Finland in 2017-18. • In 21 games for CS Phoenix Galati in 2016-17, Brandon averaged 8.8 points, 4.1 assists, 1.3 steals and 5.6 rebounds per game. • In 30 games as a rookie for Bayer in Germany, Brandon averaged 10.4 points, 5.8 rebounds, 4.3 assists and 2.4 steals per game. He was named to the Eurobasket.com All-German 2.Bundesliga Pro A squad as an honorable mention selection, and was on its All-Defensive Team. ***Martin Seiferth (2013-14) – Uni Baskets Paderborn (Germany-ProA); MLP Academics Heidelberg (Germany-ProA); BV Chemnitz (Germany-ProA); Alba (Germany-BBL/Federal Basketball League) • In 34 games with MLP Academics Heidelberg in Germany in 2017-18, Seiferth averaged 5.6 points, 2.8 rebounds and 0.3 blocked shots. • In 40 games in 2016-17 for BV Chemnitz in Germany, he averaged 5.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 0.7 blocked shots per game. The prevous season, he averaged 8.2 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.1 blocked shots in 32 games. • Played in just two games in the 2014-15 season for Alba. ***Thomas Reuter (2013-14) – En Baskets Schwelm (Germany-ProB); Noma Iserlohn Kangeroos (Germany-ProB) • In 24 games as a starter in 2017-18 for En Baskets Schwelm in Germany, he averaged 10.1 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game. • Averaged 11.4 points, 3.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists in 27 games for Iserlohn in the 2016-17 season. He played 26 games for them in 2015-16 and had averages of 8.0 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.9 assists, and averaged 8.7 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.5 assists in 28 games in 2014-15. Collin Chiverton (2012-13) – Al Maseerah (Saudi Arabia-Premier League)

Michael Wearne

Venky Jois

***Jordan Hickert (2012-13) – Perry Lakes Hawks (Australia-State League); Southwest Slammers (Australia-State League). • Averaged 8.5 points and 4.5 rebounds while making 30 3-pointers in 20 games in 2015-16 for the Perry Lakes Hawks. In the next season in 2016-17, he played 10 games and averaged 2.2 points and 1.7 rebounds. In 2018, with the same team, he averaged 3.5 points and 1.4 rebounds in 30 games. • Averaged 7.7 points and 4.2 rebounds while making 46 3-pointers in 27 games in 2014-15 for the Southwest Slammers. ***Cliff Colimon (2011-12) – IE-CTC Alliance Toulouse Basket-ATB (France-NM1); Djurgarden Basket Stockholm (Sweden-Superettan); Michelin Etha Engomis Nicosia (Cyprus-Division A); BK Levicki Patrioti (Slovakia-SBL); BK Barons Kvartals Riga (Latvia-LBL); Eco Orebro (Sweden-Basketligan); Kouvot Kouvola (Finland-Korisliiga); LF Basket (Sweden-Basketligan); A.G.O. Rethymno (Greece-A1); Aris Thessaloniki (Greece-A1) • In 26 games in Sweden in 2017-18, he averaged 18.2 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.5 steals per game. In five games the year before in Cyprus, he averaged 7.6 points, 3.0 rebounds and 3.2 assists. • After moving from Latvia to Slovakia, he averaged 7.6 points, 1.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.2 steals in five games for BK Levicki in 2015-16. Prior to that, he averaged 8.8 points, 2.2 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.0 steals for BK Barons. • Averaged 15.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.0 steals per game in 25 games in 2014-15 for Eco Orebro. Cliff Ederaine (2011-12) – SG Sechtem (Germany-Regionalliga) Laron Griffin (2010-11-12) – Delta (Georgia-Superleague); BBC Nitia Bettembourg (Luxembourg-Total League); Westfalen (Germany-Bezirksliga); North Dallas Vandals (USA-ABA); BSV Wulfen (Germany-Regionalliga); Hanau White Wings (Germany-ProB) • He played in nine games in 2016-17 for Delta, averaging 10.6 points, 20.0 rebounds and 2.1 blocked shots per game.

Tyler Harvey

***Tremayne Johnson (2011-12) – Metropolitanos De Mauricio Baez (Dominican Republic-TBS); Al Ittihad Jeddah (Saudi Arabia-SBL); Satria Muda Britama Jakarta (Indonesia-NBL); BC Timisoara (Romania-Liga Nationala); Al Manama (Bahrain-Premier League) • Averaged 20.5 points, 9.1 rebounds, 2.1 steals and 2.1 assists per game in 2013-14 for Satria Muda Britama Jakarta. Matt Brunell (2008-09-10) – FSU Selfoss (Iceland-D1); Icevic (Honduras). • Averaged 20.5 points per game for Icevic in his first season as a professional. Benny Valentine (2009-10) – Lapuan Korikobrat (Finland-1st Division) • Averaged 18.2 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 2.3 steals per game (33 games) in 2010-11 for Lapuan Korikobrat in Finland.

Drew Brandon

Martin Seiferth

Gary Gibson (2008-09-10) – Moncton Miracles (Canada-NBL Canada); Windsor Express (Canada-NBL Canada); UBC Hannover (Germany-Regionalliga); Hannover Korbjaeger (Germany-2.Regionalliga); San Diego Sol (USA-ABA) • Played in five games in 2015-16 for Moncton and averaged 2.0 points, 1.4 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.0 steals per game.

Thomas Reuter

Colin Chiverton

Jordan Hickert

Cliff Colimon

Cliff Ederaine

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 • Averaged 7.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.2 steals per game in 32 games in 2014-15 for Windsor. • Averaged 5.1 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game (13 games) in 20013-14 for UBC Hannover. Mark Dunn (2009-10) -- Indiana Diesels (USA-PBL) Jeff Christensen (2009) – Gimle BBK Bergen (Norway-BLNO); Team Geneva (Eurobasket S.League); HOP BBK Bergen (Norway-1Div.); Varden (Norway1Div); Ventura County Jets (USA-WCBL)

Laron Griffin

Tremayne Johnson

Matt Brunell

***Adris DeLeon (2008-09) – Adelaide 36ers (Australia-NBL); Las Fieras De La Villa (Dominican Republic-La Vega Leage); Metros De Santiago (Dominican Republic-LNB); Vaqueros de Bayamon (Puerto Rico-BSN); Wollongong Hawks (Australia-NBL); Faymasa Palencia Baloncesto (SpainLEB Gold); Indios De San Francisco (Dominican Republic-LNB); Gold Coast Blaze (Australia-NBL); CDP Domingo Paulino Santiago (Dominican Republic-SRT); Halifax Rainmen (USA/Canada-PBL). • In 29 games in 2016-17 for Metros De Santiago, he averaged 16.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.7 steals per game. • Averaged 8.8 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game (12 games) in 2013-14 for Pirates de Quebradillas. • Averaged 16.4 points, 3.6 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.3 steals per game in 2012-13 for Wollongong Hawks. • Averaged 9.2 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game in 2009-10 for Halifax Rainmen. Andy Genao (2009) – CDP Domingo Paulino Santiago (Dominican Republic-SRT); Fast Break (Columbia-Copa Federacion); Potros Itson (Mexico-LNBP); Team Zurich (Eurobasket S. League). • Averaged 7.8 points and 1.2 assists per game in 2009-10 for Potros Itson. ***Milan Stanojevic (2008-09) – BK Nova Hut Ostrava (Czech Republic-NBL); KK Teodo Tivat (Montenegro-Erste Liga); BC Prievidza (Slovakia-SBL); KK Spartak Subotica (Serbia-KLS); Fog Naestved (Denmark-Ligaen); KK Meridiana Novi Sad (Serbia-B League); Near East (Greece-A2) • In his first season playing in the Czech Republic in 2017-18, in 28 games he averaged 14.4 points, 4.0 assists, 1.6 steals and 2.3 rebounds per game while making 76-of-176 3-point attempts for 43.2 percent. • He played in 26 total games for Teodo Tivat in the 2016-17 season, averaging 11.3 points, 2.2 rebnounds, 5.3 assists and 2.0 steals, while making 36 percent of his 3-point attempts (72-of-198). • In 40 games in 2015-16 for BC Prievidza in Slovakia, he averaged 6.0 points, 1.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.1 steals per game, and made 60-of-159 3-point shots for 37.7 percent and 78-of-93 free throws for 83.9 percent. • Averaged 15.6 points, 4.5 assists, 2.4 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game in 35 games in 2014-15 for Fog Naestved in Denmark. • Averaged 16.9 points, 2.5 rebounds and 3.2 steals per game in 2012-13 for Meridiana Novi Sad. • Averaged 10.1 points, 1.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game (28 games) in 2010-11 for Near East in Greece Kellen Williams (2006-07-08) – RSV Eintracht Stahnsdorf (Germany-ProB); BC Energie Zwickau (Germany-Regionalliga) • Averaged 11.8 points and 8.8 rebounds in 17 games in 2014-15 for Stahnsdorf. • Averaged 14.0 points, 8.9 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 26 games in 2013-14 for Stahnsdorf. • Averaged 15.5 points, 10.2 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.0 steals per game (23 games) in 2011-12 for RSV Eintracht Stahnsdorf. • Averaged 12.8 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.0 assists and 0.5 blocked shots per game (20 games) in 2010-11 for RSV Eintracht Stahnsdorf in Germany

Benny Valentine

Gary Gibson

Paul Butorac (2004-05-06-07) – Kumamota Vorters (Japan-B League D2); Rayos De Hermosillo (Mexico-CIBACOPA); Saitama Broncos (Japan-BJ League); Wakayama Trians (Japan-NBL); TGI D-Rise Tochigi (Japan-NBDL); Tundja Yambol (Bulgaria-NBL); Toyota Tsusho Fighting Eagles Nagoya (Japan-NBDL); Yokohama B-Corsairs (Japan-BJ League); Takamatsu Five Arrows (Japan-BJ League); Akita (Japan-BJ League); Niigata Albirex (Japan-BJ League); Kaley Tallinn (Estonia-EMKL); Colorado 14ers (USA-D-League); SO Maritime Boulogne (France-N1) • In 60 games in 2016-17 for Kumamota, he averaged 6.3 points, 3.8 rebounds and 0.8 blocked shots per game. • Played in 59 games in 2016 for Rayos De Hermosillo in Mexico and averaged 11.0 points and 8.2 rebounds per game. Prior to that, he played in 14 games for Saitama in Japan and averaged 10.5 points and 6.8 rebounds. • Averaged 15.3 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.7 assists in 54 games in 2014-15 for Wakayama Trians. • Averaged 10.5 points and 4.6 rebounds per game in 2012-13 for Yokohama in Japan. • Averaged 14.1 points, 7.6 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 0.5 blocked shots per game (44 games) in 2010-11 for Akita in Japan. He was in Japan when a 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Japan’s main island of Honshu in mid-March 2011. He was traveling home from a game in Tokyo when the quake, which set off a series of strong aftershocks and a massive tsunami that killed more than 27,000, first hit. • Averaged 15.9 points, 8.7 rebounds and 0.9 blocked shots per game in 2009-10 for Niigata Albirex. Derek Risper (2006-07) – Licher Basket Baeren (Germany-Pro B); LTI Lich (Germany-Pro A) Rodney Stuckey (2006-07) – Indiana Pacers (USA-NBA); Detroit Pistons (USA-NBA) • Playing in his 10th NBA season and third with Indiana in 2016-17, Stuckey played in 39 games and averaged 17.7 minutes, 7.2 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game. He was waived by the Pacers on March 29, 2017. • In his ninth season in 2015-16, he averaged 8.9 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists in the regular season before playing in the playoffs for the first time in seven

Mark Dunn

Jeff Christensen

Adris DeLeon

Andy Genao

Milan Stanojevic

Kellen Williams

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Rodney Stuckey

Omar Krayem

Henry Bekkering

seasons. He averaged 6.3 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.0 assists in a seven-game playoff loss to Toronto. Stuckey, who missed 19 games in January and February with an ankle sprain, had season highs of 23 points (twice) and eight assists. • In 2014-15 – his eighth season as a pro and first with the Indiana Pacers – Stuckey averaged 12.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 0.8 steals per game in 71 games (36 starts). He made a career-best 39.0 percent of his 3-point attempts, sinking 55-of-141. Stuckey signed a new 3-year, $21 million contract with the Pacers on July 21, 2015. • In 2013-14 in his final season with the Detroit Pistons, Stuckey averaged 13.9 points, 2.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 0.7 steals in 73 games. He went over the 6,000-point mark in his career on Jan. 28, 2014. • Averaged 11.5 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.6 assists in 2012-13 for the Detroit Pistons. • Stuckey started 48 of 55 games and averaged 14.8 points, 2.6 rebounds, 0.8 steals and a 3.8 assists in 2011-12. • In Stuckey’s fourth season as a pro in the 2010-11 season he started 54 of 70 games and averaged 15.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, 1.1 steals and a career-high 5.2 assists. • In the 2009-10 season, he was a starter in all but six of the 73 games he played and averaged 34.2 minutes, 16.6 points, 4.8 assists, 1.4 steals and 3.8 rebounds. • In his second season in 2008-09, Stuckey started 65 of 79 games, averaging 31.9 minutes, 13.4 points, 4.9 assists, 1.0 steals and 3.5 rebounds. • He was impressive as a rookie in the 2007-08 season, earning second team NBA All-Rookie Team honors as selected by the league’s head coaches. He finished his first season with averages of 19.8 minutes, 7.8 points and 2.9 assists per game as the Pistons advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals where it lost to eventual NBA champion Boston. His minutes increased in the playoffs as he averaged 8.2 points and 3.4 assists, while making 87.9 percent of his free throws, in 17 playoff games. ***Omar Krayem (2007) – Jean D’Arc Vichy Clermont Metropole (France-ProB); STB Le Havre (France-ProB); BS Prievidza (Slovakia-SBL); Boras Basket (Sweden-Basketligan); Globalport Batang Pier (Philippines-PBA); Umea (Sweden-Basketligan); Tapiolan Honka (Finland-Korisliiga); Kfum Umea (Sweden-Basketettan); Siena (Eurobasket S. League); Sarriyet (First) Ramallah (Palestine-PBBA); Mjus-Fortress Kormend (Hungary-A Division); White Eagles Stockholm (Sweden-Basketligan); Zalakeramia-ZTE KK (Hungary-A Division); Boras Basket (Sweden-Basketligan); KSF Srbija Malmo (Sweden-Basketettan) • In 13 games playing for Jean D’Arc Vichy Clermont Metropole in France, he averaged 7.4 points, 1.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.5 steals in the 2017-18 season. • He played 15 games with BS Prievidza in 2016-17 and averaged 12.9 points, 3.8 rebounds, 5.9 assists and 1.3 steals. • In 27 games for Boris Basket in Sweden in 2015-16, he averaged 16.0 points, 4.4 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 1.6 steals. • Averaged 13.5 points, 3.2 Rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.4 steals in 12 games 2014-15 for Globalport. • Averaged 24.0 points, 5.1 rebounds and 7.9 assists per game (17 games) in 2013-14 for Umea Bskt. • Averaged 17.8 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 1.6 steals per game in 2012-13 for White Eagles Stockholm. • Averaged 10.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.3 steals per game in 2012-13 for Mjus-Fortress Kromend. Henry Bekkering (2005-06) – Matrixx Magixx Wijchen (Holland-Eredivisie); Gasterra Flames Groningen (Holland-Eredivisie); University of Calgary (Canada-CIS) • Averaged 10.6 points per game (35 games) in 2012-13 for Matrixx Magixx Wijchen. Deuce Smith (2005-06) – San Francisco Rumble (USA-ABA).

Deuce Smith

Marc Axton

Marc Axton (2002-03-04-05) – Wifibaleares Mallorca Basquet (Spain-1 Div.); Champagne Chalons-Reims Basket (France-ProB); Club Ourense Baloncesto Sad (Spain-LEB Gold); Mallorca (Spain-LEB Silver); Ourense Grupo Juanes (Spain-LEB Silver); Penas Huesca (Spain-LEB Gold); Pussihukat (Finland-Korisliiga); Joensuun Kataja (Finland-Korisliiga); Beirasar Rosalia (Spain-LEB Gold); Instituto Rosalia De Castro (SpainEBA). • In his final professional season, averaged 9.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 0.9 steals per game (42 games) in 2010-11 for Mallorca in Spain. • Axton was also selected to the Jersey Shore Invitational all-star team in April 2005. Jeremy McCulloch (2002-03-04-05) – CS Dinamo Bucuresti (Romania-Liga I); Thewphaingram Club (Thailand); CS Dinamo Bucuresti (RomaniaDiv.A); Forssan Koripojat (Finland-1st Division); BC Nokia (Finland-1st Division); TV Langen (Germany-ProA); BC Energie Zwickau (GermanyRegionalliga); BC Energie Zwickau (Germany-Regionalliga) • Averaged 13.8 points, 9.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 0.9 steals per game (25 games) in 2010-11 for Forssan Koripojat in Finland. • Averaged 15.5 points, 9.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game in 2009-10 for BC Nokia in Finland. Matt Nelson (2004-05) – WBC Raiffeisen Wels (Austria-A Budesliga); Aguas de Valencia-Gandia Basquet (Spain)

Jeremy McCulloch

Matt Nelson

Alvin Snow (2001-02-03-04) – Seattle Flight (USA-IBL); Sigal Prishtina (Kosovo-SuperLeague); Washington Rampage (ABA); Royal Hali Gaziantep Buyuksehir Belediye (Turkey-TBL); Kryvbasbasket-Lux Kryvyi RIH (Ukraine-Superleague); Trabzonspor Basketbol (Turkey-TBL); Helios Domzale (Slovenia-Liga UPC); New Jersey (USA-USBL); Apoel (Cyprus-A1); Elitzur Ashkelon (Israel-Premier League); Trier (Germany-1.Bundesliga); Pinar Karsiyaka (Turkey-TBL); Metros De Santiago (Dominican Rep.-LIDOBA); Skk Kotwica Kolobrzeg (Poland-DBE) • Averaged 10.5 points, 3.0 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game (27 games) in 2010-11 for Trabzonspor in Turkey. • Averaged 12.7 points, 2.2 assists and 1.5 steals per game in 2008-09 for Helios Domzale.

Alvin Snow

Brendon Merritt

Josh Barnard

Chris Hester

T.J. Williams

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 • Snow also attended mini-camps with the Portland Trailblazers and Atlanta Hawks, and was drafted by the Idaho Stampede in the second round (15th pick overall) of the Continental Basketball Association draft. He then was selected to play in the National Basketball Developmental League. Brendon Merritt (2003-04) – BBC Nyon (Switzerland-LNA); 08 Stockholm (Sweden-Basketettan) Josh Barnard (2004) – Tacoma Tide (USA-IBL)

Aaron Olson

Chris Hester (2002-03) – Kouvot Kouvola (Finland-Korisliiga); Karhu Kauhajoki (Finland-Korisliiga); Pyrinto Tampere (Finland-Korisliiga); Team Componenta Karkkila (Finland-Korisliiga); SG Braunschwieg (Germany-2.Bundesliga North); Porvoon Tarmo (Finland-Korisliiga); Rotterdam Challengers (Holland-Eredivisie) • Averaged 13.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game (42 games) in 2012-13 for Kouvot Kouvola. • Averaged 19.7 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game in 2009-10 for Pyrinto Tampere. T.J. Williams (2002-03) – Bellingham Slam (USA-ABA) Aaron Olson (2000-01) – New Zealand Breakers (Australia-ABA); Auckland Stars (New Zealand-NBL); Aanekosken Huima (Finland-1st Division); Harbour Heat (New Zealand-NBL) • In October 2006 he played in his 100th-straight game for the Breakers, scoring 40 points in one game during the 2004-05 season. Olson also represented New Zealand in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Chris White

Chris White (1998-99-00-01) – Prato (Italy-D13); Inchon ET (Korea-KBL); KCC Egis (Korea-KBL); Phoenix Flame (USA-IBL) • Played in the 2003 Korean KBL All-Star Game after averaging 13.9 points and 8.3 rebounds. Ryan Hansen (1999-00) -Tacoma Thunder (NABL) (USA-IBL) Deon Williams (1998-99-00) – Sporting Feytroun (Lebanon-Div.A); Al Maseerah (Saudi Arabia-D1); Paisas Caba San Lucas (Mexico-CIBACOPA); Al Shabab (United Arab Emirates-D1); Al Hurriya (Syria-D1); Sporting Feytroun (Lebanon-Div.A); Al Shabab (United Arab Emirates-D1). • Averaged 6.5 assists in both the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons in Lebanon. In 2002 he averaged 37.5 points (high of 66), eight rebounds, eight assists and two steals in Mexico. Will Levy (1999-00) – Oakland Showtime (USA-ABA); Oakland Slammers (USA-IBL); San Francisco Pilots (ABA); Adana Bilfen Koleji (Turkey-D2 Group B); Pennsylvania Valley Dawgs (USA-USBL).Paisas Caba San Lucas (Mexico-CIBACOPA); Oakland Slammers (USA-IBL)

Ryan Hansen

Deon Williams

Alex Carcamo (1999) – KB Besa Peja (Kosovo-D3); Club Deportes Las Animas (Chile-Liga Nacional); Nacional De Futbol Montevideo (UruguayMetropolitan); CD Sagrados Corazones (Chile-Liga Nacional); Hapoel Kiryat Tivon (Israel-National League); Ciudad De Bragado (Argentina-TNA); Asociacion Italiana (Argentina-TNA); Obera (Argentina-TNA); Sigal Pristina (Kosovo-SuperLeague); Ciclista Olimpico de la Banda (ArgentinaLingaA); San Martin Corrientes (Argentina-TNA); Reales De La Vega (Dom. Republic-LIDOBA); Maccabi Petah Tikva (Israel-National League); Rishon Le-Zion (Israel-National League); Anyang SBS Stars (Korea-KBL); 76ers spring workouts; U.S. Summer Pro Leagues; University of Belize; Hapoel Holon (Israel-National League); Maccabi Ashdod (Israel-National League); Guaros De Lara (Venezuela-LPB). • To conclude a 15-year professional career that included at least 20 stops, Carcamo averaged 15.0 points, 9.7 rebounds and 4.0 assists in three games in 201415 for KB Besa Peja. • Averaged 18.3 points, 7.7 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.2 steals in 2012-13 for Israel. • Also played for the Belize National Team and the Harlem Globetrotters. • Averaged 13.5 points, 6.3 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game in four games for Belize in July 2010. Shannon Taylor (1998-99) – Yakama Sun Kings (USA-CBA); Zonkeys de Tijuana (Mexico-Cibacopa); Sacramento Heatwave (USA-ABA); Jamestown Buffalo City Thunder (USA-MBA); New Jersey Shorecats (USA-USBL); Fresno Heat Wave (USA-ABA) Karim Scott (1997-98) – Kern County Vipers (USA-XBL); Lappeenranta NMKY (Finland-Korisliiga) ***Luke Egan (1994-95-96-97) – Hume City Broncos (Australia-State League); Ringwood Hawks (Australia-ABA); Eltham Wildcats (Australia-State League); Werribee Devils (Australia-State League); Hume City Broncos (Australia-State League); Melbourne Tigers (Australia-State League); Brisbane Bullets (Australia-NBL) • With 20 years as a professional in Australia, Egan averaged 11.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 22 games in the 2015 season (March-July) for Hume City, then averaged 9.9 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 2016. In 21 games in 2017 he upped those averages to 17.4 points, 6.9 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.1 steals.

Will Levy

Alex Carcamo

Ronn McMahon (1989-90) – Yakima Sun Kings (USA-CBA); Canadian National Team Greg Trygstad (1990) – VFL Astrostars Bochum (Germany-ProB); Bochum (Germany-Regionalliga)

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Karim Scott

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 “HOT ROD” PLAYS 3 SEASONS WITH PACERS AFTER 7 YEARS & 500 GAMES WITH PISTONS

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fter more than 500 games with the Detroit Pistons, Rodney Stuckey concluded his third year as an Indiana Pacer – 10th in the NBA overall – in the 2016-17 season. Making Eastern Washington University history every step of the way, Stuckey had his dream of playing professional basketball realized on June 28, 2007. That day, the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association selected Stuckey as the 15th pick overall in the NBA Draft at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He made his NBA debut in the 2007 Summer League in Las Vegas, Nev., helping the Pistons to a 4-1 record with averages of 30.6 minutes, 19.0 points, 4.0 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.2 steals per game. But he injured his hand during the preseason and missed the first 25 games of the regular season. He finally made his NBA debut on Dec. 21, 2007, and his first start in the NBA was on March 1, 2008, in a 103-73 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers. He was impressive as a rookie, earning second team NBA All-Rookie Team honors as selected by the league’s head coaches. He finished his first season with averages of 19.8 minutes, 7.8 points and 2.9 assists per game as the Pistons advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals where they lost to eventual NBA champion Boston. His minutes increased in the playoffs as he averaged 8.2 points and 3.4 assists, while making 87.9 percent of his free throws, in 17 playoff games. In his second season in 2008-09, Stuckey started 65 of 79 games, averaging 31.9 minutes, 13.4 points, 4.9 assists, 1.0 steals and 3.5 rebounds. In his third season, he was a starter in all but six of the 73 games he played and averaged 34.2 minutes, 16.6 points, 4.8 assists, 1.4 steals and 3.8 rebounds. In the 2010-11 season – his fourth – he started 54 of 70 games and averaged 15.5 points, 3.1 rebounds, 1.1 steals and a career-high 5.2 assists. In 2011-12 – his fifth season as a pro – Stuckey started 48 of 55 games and averaged 14.8 points, 2.6 rebounds, 0.8 steals and a 3.8 assists. His sixth NBA season in 2012-13 ended with him starting 24 of 76 games and averaging 11.5 points, 3.6 assists, 2.2 rebounds and 0.7 steals. In his seventh and final campaign with the Pistons, Stuckey averaged 13.9 points, 2.1 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 0.7 steals. In 2014-15 – his eighth season as a pro and first with the Indiana Pacers – Stuckey averaged 12.6 points, 3.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 0.8 steals per game in 71 games (36 starts). Stuckey signed a new 3-year, $21 million contract with the Pacers on July 21, 2015. In his ninth season in 2015-16, he averaged 8.9 points, 2.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists in the regular season before playing in the playoffs for the first time in seven seasons. He averaged 6.3 points, 2.1 rebounds and 2.0 assists in a seven-game playoff loss to Toronto. Stuckey, who missed 19 games in January and February with an ankle sprain, had season highs of 23 points (twice) and eight assists. Because of injuries, he played in only 39 games in 2016-17 -- his 10th season in the NBA -- and averaged 7.2 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists. A strained patellar tendon led to his being waived by the Pacers on March 29, 2017. Stuckey is EWU’s highest draft pick ever (three through 2015-16), and at the time was the second-highest selection in the now more than 50-year history of the Big Sky Conference Eastern’s only previous NBA draftee before Studkey was Ron Cox, a sixth-round draft choice by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1977. Although he never played a game in the NBA, Cox was EWU’s all-time leading scorer for nearly 40 years with 1,741 points, as Stuckey finished fourth in school history at the time with 1,438 points. Tyler Harvey was picked in the second round by Orlando in the 2015 draft (51st overall) after a three-year career in which he surpassed Stuckey with 1,564 points. The only other first-round draft choice in the history of the Big Sky Conference was Michael Ray Richardson from Montana. He was the fourth pick overall by the New York Knickerbockers in 1978. In 2012, Damian Lillard of Weber State was drafted as the sixth pick overall by Portland. A 2004 graduate of Kentwood High School in Kent, Wash., Stuckey was an All-American at Eastern – both athletically and academically – after averaging 24 points per game in each of his two seasons. He helped EWU win 30 games in two seasons and had a 3.34 grade point average.

Stuckey’s 2007-16 10-Year NBA Totals . . .

Regular Season

G GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG PPG 651 302 27.5 .423 .300 .824 2.9 3.6 0.9 12.6

Playoffs (2008 & 2009 & 2016)

G GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG PPG 28 6 22.6 .382 .280 .840 2.0 3.8 0.8 8.7

Career High Points: 40 Detroit vs. Chicago on Dec. 23, 2008. Career High Rebounds: 14 Indiana vs. Portland on Dec. 13, 2014. Career High Assists: 14 Detroit vs. Toronto on March 16, 2011 and Detroit vs. C leveland on April 11, 2011. Career High Steals: 5 Detroit at Cleveland on Dec. 23, 2013 and Detroit at Utah on Nov. 21, 2009. Career High Minutes Played: 50 Detroit at Houston on March 19, 2009.

STUCKEY’S EWU CAREER SUPERLATIVES, RECORDS & RANKINGS (at the time) Career Games: 59 Points: 1,438 (4th in EWU history . . . 23 from the 3rd position held by Dave Hayden) Scoring Average: 24.37 (3rd in Big Sky history; SCHOOL RECORD) Assists: 283 Assists Average: 4.80 (24th in BSC history; 4th at EWU) Steals: 137 (4th in EWU history)

Steals Average: 2.32 (11th in BSC history; 2nd at EWU)

Free Throws Made: 386 (SCHOOL RECORD)

Single Game Scoring & Rank (at the time) in EWU History (School-record total of 15 30-point games. The previous record was six set by David Peed from 1988-90) 1. - 45 - Northern Arizona (1-5-06) 5. - 38 - Portland State (3-4-06) 8. - 36 - Portland State (2-10-07) 8. - 36 - Montana (1-28-06) 16. - 34 - Weber State (2-7-07) 16. - 34 - Boise State (12-29-05) 23. - 33 - Lewis-Clark St. (11-18-06) 27. - 32 - CS Northridge (12-3-06) 31. - 31 - Sacramento State (1-25-07) 31. - 31 - Northern Colo. (1-20-07) 31. - 31 - Washington (11-24-06) 31. - 31 - Portland State (1-14-06) 37. - 30 - UC Santa Barbara (2-17-07) 37. - 30 - Eastern Oregon (11-29-06) 37. - 30 - UC Riverside (12-10-05)

Free Throws Attempted: 479 (2nd in EWU history) Free Throw Percentage: .806 (5th in EWU history) Games 10+ Scoring: 58 Games 20+ Scoring: 41 Games 30+ Scoring: 15 (SCHOOL RECORD) Games 5+ Assists: 33 Games 4+ Steals: 15 EWU Leader in Scoring: 52 games EWU Leader in Assists: 37 games EWU Leader in Steals: 35 games EWU Leader in Rebounds: 10 games EWU Leader in Blocked Shots: 4 games

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Rodney Stuckey’s Eagle Basketball & NBA Highlights • Former Eastern Washington University men’s basketball All-American and current Detroit Piston Rodney Stuckey had his EWU jersey retired in ceremonies that took place on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2008, at Reese Court in Cheney, Wash. The 2008-09 season would have been Stuckey’s senior season at EWU had he played all four seasons. • After being selected by the Detroit Pistons 15th overall in the 2009 NBA Draft, he became EWU’s highest draft pick ever and the second-highest in the history of the Big Sky Conference at the time. • All-American at Eastern – both athletically and academically – after averaging 24 points per game in his career. He helped EWU win 30 games. • As a sophomore, he ranked seventh in NCAA Division I in scoring with an average of 24.6 points per game. He was eighth as a freshman with a 24.2 average. • As both a freshman and sophomore, he was given honorable mention All-America honors by the Associated Press. • With a 3.34 cumulative grade point average, he was a third team selection on the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America team and twice received All-District VIII honors. • In just two seasons, he broke 10 school records and scored a total of 1,438 points. He had nine games with at least 30 points (out of 59 career games). • He was a preseason candidate for the John R. Wooden Award in the 2006-07 season. • In his freshman season, Collegeinsider. com voted Stuckey its National Freshman of the Year. • Big Sky Conference MVP and Freshman of the Year in 2005-06.

EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CAREER HIGHS & STATISTICS Points - 45 vs. Northern Ariz. 1/5/05. Rebounds - 9 vs Cal State Fullerton 2/18/06. Assists - 10 vs. Idaho St. 2/22/07, Weber State 1/27/07, Northern Colo. 1/4/07 & Pacific Lutheran 11/19/05. Steals - 7 vs. Idaho 12/21/06 & Cal Poly 12/23/05. Year GP GS Min Avg 2005-06 30 30 990 33.0 2006-07 29 29 965 33.3 TOTAL 59 59 1955 33.1

FG FGA Pct 250 510 .490 227 501 .453 477 1011 .472

FG FGA Pct 55 148 .372 43 161 .267 98 309 .317

FT FTA Pct 171 225 .760 215 254 .846 386 479 .806

Off Def Tot Avg 32 112 144 4.8 35 100 135 4.7 67 212 279 4.7

PF FO 75 1 68 0 143 1

Ast 123 160 283

TO Blk Stl Pts 107 8 66 726 98 9 71 712 205 17 137 1438

Avg 24.2 24.6 24.4

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Magician on the Court, Tyler Harvey Drafted in NBA by Orlando Former Eagle megastar is chosen in the second round as the 51st pick overall

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fter performing his magic act at Reese Court for three seasons, Tyler Harvey made the transition from Eagle to professional. Now playing professionally in France, the former Eagle sharpshooter was selected by the Orlando Magic in the second round as the 51st pick overall of the National Basketball Association Draft on June 25 in Brooklyn, N.Y. In his first taste of the NBA during the Orland Pro Summer League, Harvey led the Magic’s Blue summer squad with 24 points and five assists in his first start in their 9185 loss to the Indiana Pacers. He made 4-of-7 from three-point range in the game, and averaged 10.6 points, 2.0 assists and 1.4 rebounds in the five total games he played. He then played the 2015-16 season for the Erie Bay Hawks in the NBA Developmental League, and averaged 11.9 points, 2.4 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game in 37 games. He made 80-of-231 3-pointers for 34.6 percent, and 54-of-68 free throws for 79.4 percent. He led Erie to an improbable 125-120 victory over the Texas Legends on Dec. 29, 2015, when he made nine 3-pointers in the fourth quarter and two overtimes. He finished with 29 points as the Bay Hawks ralllied from a 22-point deficit entering the fourth quarter. Harvey elected to skip his senior season at Eastern for the chance to play in the NBA. After declaring for the draft on April 1, Harvey had workouts with many NBA teams, and also participated in the National Basketball Association Draft Combine in Chicago from May 12-17. Harvey was a walk-on to the Eastern program in the fall of 2011 EWU head coach Jim Hayford’s first year as head coach. After a redshirt season and playing sparingly in EWU’s first 13 games, he was a high-scoring mainstay for the Eagles in the final 71 games of his 84-game career (67 as a starter). He led NCAA Division I in scoring (23.1) and 3-pointers made per game (4.00) in the 2014-15 season. Rodney Stuckey, who spent 10 seasons in the NBA, was drafted 15th overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 2007 NBA Draft, where he spent his first seven seasons as a pro before moving to the Indiana Pacers for the 2014-15 season. Besides Stuckey, Ron Cox is the only previous NBA draftee from Eastern. He was a sixth-round draft choice by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1977, but did not play in a regular season NBA game because of reconstructive surgery on his left ankle.

Harvey was the first Big Sky Conference draft choice since Weber State’s Damian Lillard was selected sixth overall by the Portland Trailblazers in the first round in 2012. Because of Harvey’s early departure, Cox remained Eastern’s all-time leading scorer a bit longer. He had 1,741 points from 1974-77, with Harvey right behind with 1,564. Stuckey scored 1,438 in two seasons, including 726 in 2006 to set the school record broken by Harvey with 738 in the 2014-15 season. That was broken three seasons later by Bogdan Bliznyuk with 741. The career record fell in 2015-16 when Venky Jois finished with 1,803 points, and then Bliznyuk broke that with a Big Sky record of 2,169 points.

More About Harvey . . . • Tyler Harvey was selected by Associated Press as an honorable mention All-America selection after his record-breaking season as the leading scorer in NCAA Division I. He became the third player in EWU’s 32 seasons as a member of NCAA Division I to earn honorable mention All-America honors from Associated Press. Alvin Snow was the first in 2004, and Rodney Stuckey was chosen in 2006 and 2007. • He was also a repeat member of the National Association of Basketball Coaches AllDistrict 6 squad – earning first team accolades after second team honors as a sophomore. • Harvey was also one of 16 finalists for the Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year, and is also one of 31 finalists for the Lou Henson Award given to the nation’s top mid-major player. As a result, he was recognized on the Lou Henson All-America team. • In addition, Harvey was a first team selection on the All-Big Sky Conference team for the second-straight season. He helped the Eagles close the year 26-9 on the season after finishing 14-4 in the Big Sky Conference to share the regular season title with Montana. Eastern swept through three games in the Big Sky Conference Tournament to garner the school’s second NCAA Tournament appearance in school history. The Eagles finished with program bests for victories overall (26), in the Big Sky (14), on the road (11) and in non-conference play (9) in 32 seasons as a member of NCAA Division I. • Harvey was selected as a first team selection on the 2014-15 Academic All-America® team for NCAA Division I as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Harvey was one of five players to be named to the first team, and is EWU’s initial first team selection in school history. He had a 3.60 grade point average as a communications studies major. On Feb. 25, 2015, Harvey was the recipient of a “Keeper of the Dream” award from EWU’s Africana Studies department. • Harvey led NCAA Division I in scoring (23.1 points per game) and 3-pointers per game (4.00), and was 14th in 3-point shooting percentage (43.1 percent) and 44th in free throw percentage (.852). • Harvey closed the year with Big Sky and EWU single season records for season 3-pointers with 128. His 738 points were a school record and ranked fourth in league history at the time. • In addition, Harvey was selected as the MVP of the Big Sky Conference Tournament after averaging 23.0 points, 2.7 assists and 2.0 steals per game in three games while making 10-of24 3-point shots (41.7 percent) and 22-of-43 overall (51.2 percent). • In equaling the Big Sky Tournament record with 42 points against Idaho, Harvey had his fifth game of the season and 11th of his career with at least 30 points, and his 40th-straight game scoring in double figures (snapped when he scored nine versus Sacramento State the next night). His 42 at the time ranked third in school history behind the 45 of Rodney Stuckey (versus Northern Arizona on 1/5/06) and 44 of David Peed (versus UC Irvine on 12/13/88). His 42 points tied the tourney record of 42 set by Anthony Johnson of Montana in 2010, and passed the 38 Stuckey had versus Portland State in 2006.

EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CAREER HIGHS & STATISTICS Points - 42 Idaho 3/12/15 . Rebounds - 10 Idaho State 3/6/14. Assists - 8 Montana State 2/6/14, North Dakota 3/2/13 & Idaho State 3/6/14. Steals - 4 on four occasions. Blocks: 3 Sam Houston State 2/23/13. FG Made: 13 Northern Arizona 2/15/14 & Idaho 3/12/15. FG Attempts: 23 Weber State 3/7/15. 3FG Made: 10 Northern Colorado 2/1/14. 3FG attempts: 16 Northern Arizona 2/15/14. FT Made: 20 Southern Utah 1/23/14. FT Attempts: 20 Southern Utah 1/23/14. Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct FG FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk 2012-13 21 4 295 14.0 58 111 .523 23 53 .434 10 23 .435 8 40 48 2.3 31 1 31 21 3 2013-14 31 31 1158 37.4 206 465 .443 109 252 .433 156 174 .897 21 108 129 4.2 71 0 84 66 9 2014-15 32 32 1182 36.9 230 490 .469 128 297 .431 150 176 .852 20 96 116 3.6 60 1 82 64 4 TOTAL 84 67 2635 31.4 494 1066 .463 260 602 .432 316 373 .847 49 244 293 3.5 162 2 197 151 16

Stl Pts Avg 15 149 7.1 35 677 21.8 36 738 23.1 86 1564 18.6

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 A record more than two months in the making, Bogdan Bliznyuk set a new NCAA Division I single season record for consecutive free throws made on March 3, 2018, in EWU’s regular season finale against Northern Arizona at Reese Court. Bliznyuk made all six of his free throws, including a pressure-packed, recordbreaking pair with 3:46 left in the Senior Day game to give him 74 and break the NCAA Division I single season record of 73 set by Gary Buchanan from Villanova over a 21-game stretch in the 2000-01 season. His 74th is pictured. Bliznyuk sank his first three versus Portland State on March 8 before missing, ending the record at 77 in a span of 18 games dating back to EWU’s game at North Dakota on Dec. 31, The Big Sky Conference MVP finished 78-of-79 during conference play (98.7 percent), but came up short of the career record of 85-straight free throws between Feb. 15, 2001, and Jan. 18, 2003, by Darnell Archey from Butler during a 57-game stretch. Bliznyuk finished the year making a school-record 90.2 percent to rank second in the Big Sky and 12th in Division I, and his career mark of 84.0 percent ranked third at EWU all-time.

In 55 Years of the Big Sky Conference, 2,169 Points by Bogdan Bliznyuk is No. 1 BOGDAN BLIZNYUK was the 2017-18 Big Sky Conference MVP, a first team All-District 6 selection by the Natonal Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and an honorable mention All-America selection by Associated Press. He finished his career with 2,169 points, passing the record of 2,102 set by Orlando Lightfoot from Idaho in three seasons from 1991-94. Bliznyuk achieved the record on March 9 in a 32-point effort in the semifinals of the Big Sky Conference Tournament. Bliznyuk is just the fifth player in the 55-year history of the league to hit the 2,000-point mark and now he stands above them all. “It’s definitely an honor and there have been a lot of great players in this conference,” said Bliznyuk after the record fell. In his 138th and final game of his career, Bliznyuk tied EWU’s single season scoring record with 50 seconds left, then broke it with a 3-pointer on the last shot of his illustrious career with 20 ticks remaining. Bliznyuk, the Big Sky’s all-time leading scorer with 2,169 points, finished with 741 as a senior to rank sixth in league history and break the previous school record of 738 set three years earlier by Tyler Harvey. In setting a total of 16 school records, Bliznyuk scored 27 points in the 138th and final game of his career – the 44th time he scored at least 20 and his 100th double-digit performance. He closed his career with the NCAA Division I single season free throw record with 77-straight makes, three league marks, nine Big Sky Tournament records, 16 school records and the utmost respect from his head coach. “I love Tyler to death, but I wasn’t about to let Bogdan go without that record,” said SHANTAY LEGANS. “Bogdan is going to understand some day how much he accomplished. It was probably the best single season a player has had at Eastern Washington and probably the best career – he’s going to be in the record books a long time.” In his senior season, Bliznyuk made 52.8 percent of his field goals and 90.2 percent of his free throws (second in the Big Sky, 12th in NCAA Division I) to average 21.2 points (third, 23rd nationally) in 35 games. He also averaged 6.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists to rank as the only player in the league to be in the top 15 in scoring, rebounding and assists – he was actually in the top six in all three. Along with teammate Sir Washington, Bliznyuk finished as the winningest Eastern player in the school’s NCAA Division I history with 86 victories overall and 50 league wins in four seasons. He helped lead the Eagles to national postseason tournaments in each of his four seasons, including the NCAA Tournament in 2015 and the College Basketball Invitational in 2016, 2017 and 2018. Bliznyuk earned first team All-Big Sky honors in 2018, was a second team choice in 2017 and was the league’s Freshman of the Year in 2015. Bliznyuk had two games of at least 40 points and 13 with at least 30, including the school record scoring total of 45 set as a junior. He had 10 or more rebounds 20 times and double figures in assists on three occasions, with 21 total double-doubles (17-4 record). Plus, he had the lone triple-double in school history as a sophomore. On nine other occasions an Eastern player has flirted with a triple-double (within a combined total of three rebounds and/or assists), including four by Bliznyuk, three by Drew Brandon and one each by Rodney Stuckey and Justin Crosgile.

EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY CAREER HIGHS & STATISTICS Points: 45, Portland State - 2/4/17; Rebounds: 15, Idaho - 1/31/15 & Southern Utah 3/1/18; Assists: 11, Denver - 11/26/16; Steals: 5, Southern Utah - 1/21/17 & Portland State - 1/28/16 & George Fox - 11/15/15; Blocks: 4, Portland State - 1/28/16; FG made: 15, Sacramento State - 2/1/18; FG attempts: 29, Portland State - 2/4/17; 3FG made: 6, at Northern Arizona - 2/4/16; 3FG attempts: 10, at Northern Arizona - 2/4/16; FT made: 17, Portland State - 2/4/17; FT attempts: 20, Portland State - 2/4/17. Year GP GS Min Avg FG FGA Pct FG FGA Pct FT FTA Pct Off Def Tot Avg PF FO Ast TO Blk Stl Pts Avg 2014-15 35 0 665 19.0 112 191 .586 24 43 .558 57 72 .792 45 96 141 4.0 84 1 39 47 14 19 305 8.7 2015-16 34 32 1128 33.2 148 331 .447 43 121 .355 83 104 .798 55 175 230 6.8 105 5 102 85 24 42 422 12.4 2016-17 34 34 1251 36.8 251 529 .474 38 120 .317 161 196 .821 36 186 222 6.5 92 4 136 104 7 36 701 20.6 2017-18 35 35 1228 35.1 265 502 .528 45 113 .398 166 184 .902 33 205 238 6.8 83 1 137 119 10 29 741 21.2 TOTAL 138 101 4272 31.0 776 1553 .500 150 397 .378 467 556 .840 169 662 831 6.0 364 11 414 355 55 126 2169 15.7

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Honors Won By Eastern Players Players Drafted Into the NBA 1977 Ron Cox - Cleveland 6th round (121st) 2007 Rodney Stuckey - Detroit 1st round (15th) 2015 Tyler Harvey - Orlando 2nd (51st)

Selected to Play in Portsmouth Invitational Pre-NBA Draft Tournament

NCAA Division I

Collegeinsider.com All-America

NABC All-Star Game (held in conjunction with Final Four)

Collegeinsider.com Freshman of the Year

2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk

2006 Rodney Stuckey

Associated Press All-America

Fox Sports Mid-Major Freshman of the Year

2004 Alvin Snow (honorable mention) 2006 Rodney Stuckey (honorable mention) 2007 Rodney Stuckey (honorable mention) 2015 Tyler Harvey (honorable mention) 2017 Jacob Wiley (honorable mention) 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk (honorable mention)

2007 Rodney Stuckey

2006 Rodney Stuckey

College Sports Madness Mid-Major AllAmerica 2017 Jacob Wiley (honorable mention) 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk (third team)

2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk 2017 Jacob Wiley

Before Signing With the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA, Jacob Wiley Receives AP Honorable Mention All-America Honors in His Only Season as an Eagle JACOB WILEY was the best kind of a “one-and-done” college basketball player, and received a contract in the National Basketball Association to cap it. The graduate transfer concluded an incredible senior season when he was named by Associated Press as an honorable mention All-America selection in the 2016-17 season. He became just the fourth Eagle to earn that honor in 34 seasons as a member of NCAA Division I. Less than a month after the conclusion of the season, Wiley was married on April 8, then headed for Portsmouth, Va., for the 65th-Annual Portsmouth Invitational Tournament. The PIT featured 64 of the nation’s top college seniors competing in a four-day, 12-game event in front of team representatives throughout the National Basketball Association. The 2012 tournament took place April 12-15 at Churchland High School, and Wiley averaged 27.2 minutes, 17.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in three games. His performance in Portsmouth opened the door for numerous workouts with NBA teams in preparation for the NBA Draft. Although he was not chosen, he signed a two-way contract to play with the Brooklyn Nets and the team’s NBA G League affiliate, the Long Island Nets. He averaged 6.6 minutes per game in his five games with Brooklyn, scoring four points and grabbing 11 rebounds. He scored all four of the points and eight of the rebounds in 21 minutes of action against Denver on Nov. 7, 2017. He made his regular season NBA debut versus Denver on Oct. 29, 2017. He then averaged 7.8 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.1 assists for Long Island, including a season-high 20 in his first game on Nov. 16, 2017. Wiley scored in double figures five times, and had a season-high seven rebounds on Jan. 2, 2018. Wiley also played with the Nets during the 2017 NBA Summer League, averaging 15.6 minutes, 2.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 0.5 blocked shots in the team’s four games in Las Vegas. A foot injury ended his 2017-18 season and subsequently he was released, but he played in the 2018 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas for the Dallas Mavericks and now plays in Australia. Wiley was selected as the MVP of the Big Sky Conference in his lone season as an Eagle, and went on to earn first team All-District 6 honors from the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was a MidMajor All-American as a finalist for the Lou Henson Award presented by Collegeinsider.com. Wiley made Big Sky as a senior by becoming just the second player in league history to score at least 639 points and have at least 303 rebounds in a single season in the league’s 54-year existence. He finished with totals of 694 and 309, respectively, and no other player in league history has coupled that with at least 58 blocks (Wiley finished with 94 to come one shy of the league record) or a shooting percentage of at least .621 (Wiley finished at .643). Montana’s Larry Krystkowiak (now head coach at Utah) is the other player to have at least 639/303 in the same year, and he had 709 points and 364 rebounds in the 1985-86 season. Wiley finished the season ranked sixth in NCAA Division I in field goal percentage (.643), eighth in blocked shots (2.76 per game), 29th in scoring (20.4), 48th in rebounds (9.1) and 112th in free throw percentage (.828). En route to earning league MVP honors, he led the Big Sky in field goal percentage, rebounds and scoring, and was sixth in scoring. In league-only statistics, Wiley led in scoring (24.6), rebounding (10.3), blocked shots (2.5) and field goal percentage (.659).

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Collegeinsider.com Mid-Major All-America

Australian VENKY JOIS had a schoolrecord 1,803 points (13th in Big Sky Conference history) in his 122-game career, with 1,015 rebounds (third in school history, fifth in league history) and 240 blocked shots (school record and second all-time in the Big Sky behind the record of 247). He also broke school records his senior season (2015-16) for field goal accuracy (67.9 percent) and dunks (61), and also left as the school’s career leader in games started (120), dunks (159), blocked shots per game (2.0) and free throws attempted (660). Another school record – for a total of 10 – was set during his junior campaign when he had 69 blocked shots (record 2.2 per game).

2006 Rodney Stuckey 2007 Rodney Stuckey

Fox Sports Mid-Major AllAmerica

2006 Rodney Stuckey (2nd team) 2007 Rodney Stuckey (1st team)

Rivals.com Mid-Major AllAmerica

2006 Rodney Stuckey (2nd team) 2007 Rodney Stuckey (1st team)

NABC All-District

2006 Rodney Stuckey (1st team) 2007 Rodney Stuckey (1st team) 2014 Tyler Harvey (2nd team) 2015 Tyler Harvey (1st team) 2015 Venky Jois (1st team) 2016 Austin McBroom (1st team) 2016 Venky Jois (2nd team) 2017 Jacob Wiley (1st team) 2017 Bogdan Bliznyuk (2nd team)

USBWA All-District 9

2007 Rodney Stuckey (1st tm.)

Wooden Award Candidate 2007 Rodney Stuckey

-- One of 50 players selected nationally

Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Finalist 2015 Tyler Harvey

-- One of 16 players selected nationally

Lou Henson Award Finalist (top mid-major player) & Mid-Major All-America Team 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk

-- One of 40 players selected nationally

2017 Jacob Wiley

-- One of 30 players selected nationally

2015 Tyler Harvey

-- One of 31 players selected nationally

Inland Northwest Male Amateur Athlete of the Year

2007 Rodney Stuckey – Only the second time an EWU athlete earned the award (Scott Garske, football, 1973; Since then, J.C. Sherritt, football, won in 2010; Bo Levi Mitchell, football, won in 2011; Brandon Kaufrman, football, won in 2012; and Cooper Kupp, football, won in 2015.

USBWA Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week

Jois was only the third player in the 53-year history of the Big Sky Conference to have more than 1,600 points and 900 rebounds in his career. The only other players in league history to have more than 1,600 points and 900 rebounds are Larry Krystkowiak (Montana, 1983-86, 2,017 points, 1,105 rebounds, 3,122 total) and Steve Hayes (Idaho State, 1974-77, 1,933 points, 1,147 rebounds, 3,080 total). For total points/rebounds, Jois was fourth all-time with a total of 2,818. He earned All-Big Sky Conference honors all four years as an Eagle – first team as a junior and senior, and honorable mention as a sophomore and freshman. He was the league’s Freshman of the Year in the 2012-13 season. He was also honored twice on the National Association of Basketball Coaches Association All-District 6 squad, earning first team honors as a junior and second team as a senior. He was also an AllTournament choice at the the 2015 Big Sky Conference Tournament when Eastern won three games, including a come-from-behind victory over host Montana to advance to the school’s second NCAA Tournament.

2015 Tyler Harvey 2016 Austin McBroom 2017 Jacob Wiley

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Dick Vitale National Player of the Week 2017 Jacob Wiley

NCAA.com National Player of the Week 2017 Jacob Wiley

College Sports Madness National Mid-Major Player of the Week 2017 Jacob Wiley (2 times)

Rivals.com National Freshman of the Week 2006 Rodney Stuckey

CBS SportsLine National Freshman of the Week 2006 Rodney Stuckey

Compaq College Basketball Play of the Year Award 2000 Ryan Hansen

NABC District 13 Coach of the Year Award 2000 Steve Aggers

Collegeinsider.com Coach of the Year (Big Sky) 2001 Ray Giacoletti

2008 Kellen Williams 2009 Benny Valentine 2011 Glen Dean 2017 Bogdan Bliznyuk

All-Big Sky Conference First Team 1990 David Peed Ronn McMahon 1991 Brian Sullivan 1993 Brad Sebree 1998 Deon Williams Karim Scott 1999 ShannonTaylor 2000 Deon Williams Ryan Hansen 2001 Chris White Aaron Olson 2002 Alvin Snow Chris Hester 2003 Marc Axton Alvin Snow Chris Hester 2004 Marc Axton Alvin Snow Brendon Merritt 2005 Marc Axton 2006 Rodney Stuckey 2007 Rodney Stuckey Paul Butorac 2012 Cliff Colimon 2014 Tyler Harvey 2015 Tyler Harvey Venky Jois 2016 Venky Jois Austin McBroom 2017 Jacob Wiley 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk

Honorable Mention 1989 Ronn McMahon 1990 Brian Sullivan Greg Trygstad 1995 Melvin Lewis 1997 Travis King Karim Scott 1998 Shannon Taylor Michael Lewis 1999 Deon Williams 2000 Chris White 2001 Jamal Jones 2002 Jason Lewis 2003 Brendon Merritt 2006 Deuce Smith Paul Butorac 2010 Glen Dean 2012 Collin Chiverton 2013 Venky Jois 2014 Venky Jois 2015 Drew Brandon 2018 Mason Peatling Most Valuable Player 2004 Alvin Snow 2006 Rodney Stuckey 2017 Jacob Wiley 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk Defensive Player of the Year 2002 Alvin Snow Top Newcomer 1995 Melvin Lewis 2002 Chris Hester 2012 Collin Chiverton

Second Team 1989 David Peed

Freshman of the Year 2002 Marc Axton 2004 Matt Nelson 2006 Rodney Stuckey 2010 Glen Dean 2013 Venky Jois 2015 Bogdan Bliznyuk Coach of the Year 1998 Steve Aggers 2000 Steve Aggers 2004 Ray Giacoletti 2015 Jim Hayford

BSC Tournament MVP 2004 Brendon Merritt 2015 Tyler Harvey

BSC All-Tournament 1990 Brian Sullivan David Peed 2001 Chris White Jamal Jones 2002 Chris Hester Jason Lewis 2003 Marc Axton Alvin Snow Chris Hester 2004 Marc Axton Alvin Snow Brendon Merritt 2006 Rodney Stuckey 2012 Cliff Colimon 2015 Tyler Harvey Venky Jois 2017 Jacob Wiley 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk

With 115 3-pointers in his lone season as an Eagle, senior graduate transfer AUSTIN McBROOM finished No. 3 in Big Sky history at the time. McBroom had a 21.0 scoring average to rank as the fifth-best in school history at the time and his 692 total points were fourth. When including two previous collegiate stops, McBroom played in 130 games (76 as a starter) and had 257 career 3-pointers. McBroom came to EWU with 97 games and 45 starts worth of NCAA Division I experience at Saint Louis and Central Michigan. In his 130 career games, McBroom had per game averages of 23.6 minutes (3,062 total), 11.5 points (1,492), 2.4 assists (314), 2.0 rebounds (261), 0.8 steals (110) and 1.8 turnovers (238). His shooting overall, 40.0 percent from the 3-point arc (257-of-643), and 83.2 percent from the free throw line (313-of-376). 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 BSC Players of the Week

1990 Ronn McMahon David Peed Brian Sullivan 1991 Dana Adams Brian Sullivan 1992 Justin Paola 1993 Brad Sebree 1995 Melvin Lewis 1998 Shannon Taylor Karim Scott (2) 2000 Deon Williams 2001 Aaron Olson Chris White Jamal Jones 2002 Alvin Snow 2003 Marc Axton Alvin Snow (2) Brendon Merritt 2004 Marc Axton Alvin Snow Brendon Merritt 2006 Rodney Stuckey (4) 2007 Rodney Stuckey (3) 2008 Kellen Williams Adris DeLeon 2010 Brandon Moore 2012 Cliff Ederaine Cliff Colimon 2013 Venky Jois Martin Seiferth 2014 Tyler Harvey (2) Venky Jois 2015 Drew Brandon (3) Tyler Harvey (3) Venky Jois (2) 2016 Venky Jois Austin McBroom Felix Von Hofe 2017 Jacob Wiley (3) Bogdan Bliznyuk (2) 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk (5)

Academic Honors CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team 2015 Tyler Harvey Second Team 1982 Dave Henley Third Team 1981 Dave Henley 2007 Rodney Stuckey

CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII 2001 Aaron Olson 2002 Jason Humbert 2006 Rodney Stuckey 2007 Rodney Stuckey 2009 Benny Valentine 2015 Tyler Harvey 2016 Venky Jois

NABC Honors Court 2008-09 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18

Andy Genao Benny Valentine Jordan Hickert Kevin Winford Tyler Harvey Daniel Hill Martin Seiferth Tyler Harvey Daniel Hill Venky Jois Fred Jorg Julian Harrell Venky Jois Bogdan Bliznyuk Julian Harrell Mario Soto Cody Benzel Bogdan Bliznyuk Grant Gibb Ty Gibson Benas Gricinuas Jesse Hunt

V Foundation Comeback Award Finalist 2004 Brendon Merritt

NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Award 2000 Ryan Hansen

Big Sky All-Academic

1988 Jeff Curtis, Mike King, Brian Sullivan 1989 John Garrison, Brian Sullivan, Mike King 1990 Ronn McMahon, Brian Sullivan, John Garrison, Dan Dieffenbach 1991 Shawn DeLaittre, Kalu Dennis, John Garrison 1992 Shawn DeLaittre, Miguel Johnson, Justin Paola 1993 Troy LeBlanc, Donald Smith 1994 Carl Crider, Luke Egan, Joshua Lewis, Brett Thompson 1995 Carl Crider, Adam Dean, Luke Egan, Kevin Groves, Joshua Lewis 1996 Luke Egan, Kevin Groves 1997 Zac Claus, Karim Scott, Travis King 1998 Jason Humbert, Chris White, Zac Claus 1999 Alex Carcamo, Dennis Fitzgerald, Ryan Hansen, Marco Quinto, Darrell Walker 2000 Ryan Hansen, Aaron Olson 2001 Clint Hull, Jason Humbert, Jason Lewis, Aaron Olson, Chris White 2002 Marc Axton, Clint Hull, Jason Humbert, T.J. Williams 2003 Marc Axton, Danny Pariseau, T.J. Williams 2004 Eric Henkel, Matt Nelson, Danny Pariseau 2005 Jake Beitinger, Henry Bekkering,

RON COX, who earned All-America recognition all four seasons he played basketball for Eastern, had his No. 30 jersey retired in ceremonies taking place March 8, 2014, at Reese Court in Cheney, Wash. Current Detroit Piston Rodney Stuckey is the only other Eastern player to have his jersey retired, and Cox’s No. 30 now hangs next to No. 3. Formerly from nearby Coulee City, Wash., Cox played four seasons for the Eagles from 1973-77. He had record totals of 1,741 points and 1,273 rebounds in leading Eastern to a 77-30 record and three Evergreen Conference titles. In his first two years playing for head coach Jerry Krause, the Eagles played in Memorial Fieldhouse along the East side of Washington Street. But the Special Events Center opened across the street in fall of 1975, and his final two seasons were played in the new facility (later additionally named Reese Court). In his senior season in 1976-77, Cox helped Eastern start a school-record 31-game home winning streak, which would continue until Dec. 8, 1978. Cox received his bachelor’s degree at Eastern in 1978 and his master’s degree in 1995. Drafted in the sixth round of the 1977 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers, a foot injury ended his professional career before it even started. Cox went on to a highly-successful high school coaching career which included 388 victories in 26 seasons. He retired from coaching, but returned to Lakeside High School as head coach for the 2015-16 season. He was inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998, and the 1976-77 team which finished 25-4 was inducted in 2016. Cox was admitted to the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Hall of Fame in 2011. The 1976-77 team he played on was inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016. He was honored in 2017 as Eastern’s “Legend of the Game” as part of EWU’s participation in the annual Legends Classic Basketball Tournament.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Parker Kelly, Venky Jois, Frederik Jorg, Thomas Reuter, Kevin Winford 2014 Tyler Harvey, Daniel Hill, Venky Jois, Ognjen Miljkovic 2015 Bogdan Bliznyuk, Tyler Harvey, Venky Jois, Ognjen Miljkovic, Kyle Reid 2016 Bogdan Bliznyuk, Will Ferris, Ty Gibson, Julian Harrell, Jesse Hunt, Venky Jois 2017 Bogdan Bliznyuk, Ty Gibson, Jesse Hunt, Mason Peatling, Mario Soto, Luka Vulikic, Jacob Wiley 2018 Cody Benzel, Bogdan Bliznyuk, Ty Gibson, Benas Gricinuas, Jesse Hunt, Mason Peatling, Jack Perry

1952 Dale Stradling 1953 Don Minnich 1954 Earl Enos 1955 Dick Edwards 1956 Bill Grahlman 1957 Bob Burkhart 1958 Kent Matheson 1959 Kent Matheson 1960 Doug Cresswell 1961 Unknown 1962 Ted Paterson 1963 Unknown 1964 Unknown 1965 Jim Tutton

NAIA Honors NAIA All-America First Team 1946 Irv Leifer 1947 Irv Leifer 1977 Ron Cox

CHRIS WHITE earned first team All-Big Sky Conference honors as a senior in 2001 after helping Eastern to the championship game of the Big Sky Conference Tournament. He set a school record on Feb. 1, 2001, when he made all 10 of his field goal attempts against Montana State. He played 109 total games in his career, and made 55.1 percent of his shots. Eric Henkel, James Loe, Matt Nelson, Danny Pariseau, Tim Scheffler 2006 Henry Bekkering, Jake Beitinger, Matt Penoncello, Rhett Humphrey, Rodney Stuckey 2007 Rhett Humphrey, Brandon Moore, Matt Penoncello, Rodney Stuckey, Michael Taylor 2008 Gary Gibson 2009 Andy Genao, Gary Gibson, Jeff Christensen, Benny Valentine 2010 Matthew Brunell, Glen Dean, Jeffrey Forbes, Benny Valentine, Kevin Winford 2011 Geoffrey Allen, Glen Dean, Cliff Ederaine, Rashano McRae, Kevin Winford 2012 Jordan Hickert, Tremayne Johnson, Kevin Winford 2013 Ivan Dorsey, Tyler Harvey, Jordan Hickert, Daniel Hill,

Second Team 1943 Irv Leifer Third Team 1972 Randy Buss 1976 Ron Cox 1978 Paul Hungenberg Honorable Mention 1969 Dave Lofton 1971 Randy Buss 1973 Dave Hayden 1974 Bernie Hill 1975 Ron Cox 1978 Gene Glenn 1980 George Abrams

TEAM AWARDS Captains

1938 Leonard “Pink” West 1939 Leonard “Pink” West 1940 Unknown 1941 Bob Stoelt 1942 Bob Stoelt 1943 Wayne Oleson 1944 Dick McLaren Ron Miller 1945 Jack Perrault 1946 Jack Roffler 1947 Unknown 1948 Georege Hering 1949 Dick Luft 1950 Dick Luft 1951 Dick Eicher

Inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005, DICK EDWARDS averaged 19.00 points in the 1953-54 season for a school record that stood for 18 years. He finished his three-year career with 1,214 points and a 15.77 average, a school record for 17 years. He held the school’s career free throw percentage record (84.4 percent) for 60 years, and he owned the single season record (85.8 percent) for 47 years. Three times he was honored on the All-Evergreen Conference team. Named by the legendary Red Reese as one of the greatest basketball players he ever coached, Edwards was team MVP in both 1954 and 1955 and was team captain in 1955.

1966 Ralph Sharp 1967 Unknown 1968 Wayne Gilman 1969 Jim Boxley 1970 Joe Bullock Dave Pounds 1971 Steve Barnett Ray Maggard 1972 Randy Buss Darryl Harris 1973 Dave Hayden Steve Hook 1974 Bernie Hite 1975 Randy Harris Bernie Hite 1976 John Alaniva Jeff McAlister 1977 Ron Cox Ed Waters 1978 Gene Glenn Paul Hungenberg 1979 Terry Reed 1980 George Abrams Tony Barnett Terry Reed 1981 George Abrams 1982 Dave Henley John Wade 1983 John Bell Melvin Bradley Matt Piper 1984 Melvin Bradley Jeff Reinland 1985 Melvin Bradley Tony Chrisman 1986 Leroy Dean Rob Otis 1987 Greg Gaulding Dexter Griffen 1988 Kevin Sattler 1989 Nate Perkins Ronn McMahon 1990 David Peed Ronn McMahon Brian Sullivan 1991 Brian Sullivan John Garrison 1992 Kemo Patrick Miguel Johnson Dana Adams 1993 Austin Layton 1994 Brad Sebree 1995 Brett Thompson Carl Crider 1996 D’mitri Rideout 1997 Travis King 1998 Zac Claus 1999 Shannon Taylor 2000 Ryan Hansen Deon Williams Will Levy Dennis Fitzgerald 2001 Chris White Jamal Jones Aaron Olson 2002 Jason Lewis Jason Humbert

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 2003 Chris Hester Keith Browne T.J. Williams 2004 Alvin Snow Brendon Merritt Gregg Smith Josh Barnard 2005 Marc Axton Khary Nicholas Jeremy McCulloch Rachi Wortham 2006 Deuce Smith 2007 Paul Butorac Rodney Stuckey 2008 Kellen Williams 2009 Brandon Moore 2010 Brandon Moore Gary Gibson 2011 Kevin Winford Jeffrey Forbes 2012 Cliff Colimon Cliff Ederaine Laron Griffin Tremayne Johnson 2013 None 2014 Parker Kelly Venky Jois 2015 Parker Kelly Venky Jois Tyler Harvey 2016 Venky Jois Felix Von Hofe

RANDY BUSS was inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015. Buss was a NAIA All-American and set five school records, including a scoring average of 25.2 points per game in the 1971-72 season. He had 1,399 points and 849 rebounds in three seasons.

2017 Bogdan Bliznyuk Felix Von Hofe 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk Ty Gibson

Inducted into the Eastern Athetics Hall of Fame in 2011, JACK “Rabbit” ROFFLER was a point guard during three of the most successful basketball seasons in school history (1943-44 through 1945-46). The 31-4 team from 1945-46 was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2003.

Most Valuable Player

1953 Bill Ellis 1954 Dick Edwards 1955 Dick Edwards 1956 Bob Burkhart 1957 Bob Burkhart 1958 Kent Matheson 1959 Dick Koford 1960 Dick Koford 1961 Unknown 1962 Dave Danielson 1963 Unknown 1964 Unknown 1965 Vince Jarvis 1966 Unknown 1967 Unknown 1968 Unknown 1969 Dave Lofton 1970 Steve Barnett 1971 Randy Buss 1972 Randy Buss 1973 Dave Hayden 1974 Bernie Hite 1975 Ron Cox 1976 Ron Cox 1977 Ron Cox 1978 Paul Hugenberg 1979 Emir Hardy 1980 George Abrams 1981 George Abrams 82-90 No Award 1991 Brian Sullivan 1992 No Award 1993 No Award 1994 No Award 1995 Melvin Lewis 1996 D’mitri Rideout 1997 Travis King 1998 Karim Scott 1999 Shannon Taylor 2000 Ryan Hansen 2001 Chris White 2002 Chris Hester 2003 Chris Hester 2004 Alvin Snow Brendon Merritt 2005 Marc Axton 2006 Rodney Stuckey 2007 Rodney Stuckey 2008 Kellen Williams 2009 Benny Valentine 2010 Glen Dean 2011 Glen Dean 2012 Cliff Colimon 2013 No Award 2014 No Award 2015 Tyler Harvey 2015 Tyler Harvey (offensive) Venky Jois (defensive) 2016 Venky Jois 2017 Jacob Wiley 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk

Best Defender

1972 Mark Seil 1973 Dave Hayden 1974 Mark Seil 1975 John Alaniva 1976 John Alaniva 1977 Mike Heath 1978 Paul Hungenberg 1979 Terry Reed 1980 George Abrams 1981 Wayne Peterson 82-90 No Award 1991 Miguel Johnson 1992 Austin Layton 1993 Jason Steele 1994 Brad Sebree 1995 No Award 1996 No Award 1997 No Award 1998 Michael Lewis 1999 Tony McGee 2000 Deon Williams 2001 Jamal Jones 2002 Alvin Snow 2003 Alvin Snow 2004 Brendon Merritt 2005 Marc Axton 2006 Deuce Smith Matt Penoncello 2007 Paul Butorac 2008 Gary Gibson 2009 Matthew Brunell 2010 Jeffrey Forbes 2011 Cliff Ederaine 2012 Jeffrey Forbes 2013 No Award 2014 No Award 2015 No Award (MVP above) 2016 No Award 2017 Jacob Wiley 2018 Mason Peatling

Most Improved

1991 Kalu Dennis 1992 Troy LeBlanc 1993 Brad Sebree 1994 Carl Crider 1995 Luke Egan 1996 No Award 1997 No Award 1998 Chris White 1999 Chris Johnson 2000 Aaron Olson 2001 Marco Quinto 2002 T.J. Williams 2003 Jeremy McCulloch 2004 Matt Nelson 2005 Deuce Smith 2006 Derek Risper 2007 Marcus Hinton 2008 Brandon Moore 2009 Andy Genao 2010 Mark Dunn 2011 Cliff Colimon 2012 Laron Griffin 2013 No Award 2014 No Award 2015 Felix Von Hofe 2016 Jesse Hunt 2017 Ty Gibson 2018 Jacob Davison

Top Newcomer

2015 Bogdan Bliznyuk 2016 Austin McBroom 2017 Mason Peatling 2018 Jack Perry

Most Inspirational 1962 John Nugent 1969 Wayne Gilman 1970 Joe Bullock 1971 Darryl Harris

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 1972 Darryl Harris 1973 Bob Picard 1974 No Award 1975 No Award 1976 No Award 1977 Ron Cox 1978 Gene Glenn 1979 Joe Webb 1980 Dave Henley 1981 Matt Piper 82-90 No Award 1991 John Garrison 1992 Austin Layton 1993 Donald Smith 1994 Donald Smith 1995 No Award 1996 No Award 1997 No Award 1998 Zac Claus 1999 Will Levy 2000 Dennis Fitzgerald 2001 Aaron Olson 2002 Jason Lewis 2003 T.J. Williams 2004 Khary Nicholas 2005 Khary Nicholas 2006 Neal Zumwalt 2007 Brandon Moore 2008 Kellen Williams

2009 No Award 2010 No Award 2011 Laron Griffin 2012 Laron Griffin 2013 No Award 2014 No Award 2015 Frederik Jörg 2016 Bogdan Bliznyuk 2017 Grant Gibb 2018 Grant Gibb

1951 Gene Kelley 1952 Don Minnich 1953 Dean Roffler 1954 Bill Ellis 1955 Ed Hill 1956 Dan Sherwood 1957 Ron Baines 1958 Al Keeler 1959 Doug Cresswell 1960 Doug Cresswell 1961 Unknown 1962 Unknown 1963 Unknown 1964 Unknown 1965 Jim Tutton 1966 Unknown 1967 Jack Cleghorn 1968 Unknown

Scarlet Arrow

1935 Rolland Helton 1936 Ran Danekas 1937 Lawrence Kerns 1938 Leonard “Pink” West 1939 Milo Gorton 1940 Bob Smith 1941 Ed Ulowetz 1942 Dave Hipskind 1943 Bill Lothspeich 1944 Jack Perrault 1945 Jack Perrault 1946 Irv Leifer 1947 George Gablehouse 1948 John Lothspeich 1949 Dick Luft 1950 Gene Burke

SIR WASHINGTON joined BOGDAN BLIZNYUK as EWU’s winningest players in EWU’s 35-year history as a member of NCAA Division I. They won 86 games overall and 50 in the Big Sky Conference, and led the Eagles to national postseason tournaments in each of those four seasons.

EAGLES IN REESE COURT

Inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014, JACK PERRAULT scored 507 points in the 1944-45 season for Eastern to rank second nationally. He held the school’s single season scoring record for 26 years until it was broken by Randy Buss with 521 in 1970-71. Perrault lettered from 1942-45, and played in the NAIA Tournament three of those years (the tournament was not held in 1944). He helped lead Eastern to a 91-25 record (.784).

Year W L Pct. Att. Avg. 75-76 11 3 .786 76-77# 15 0 1.000 77-78# 15 0 1.000 78-79# 6 4 .600 79-80 13 3 .813 13,999 875 80-81 9 3 .750 10,550 879 81-82 10 2 .833 14,032 1,002 82-83 11 1 .917 11,232 936 83-84 2 7 .222 8,646 961 84-85 11 5 .688 9,915 620 85-86 15 1 .938 13,234 827 86-87 4 9 .308 7,387 568 87-88 4 8 .333 9,583 799 88-89 6 5 .545 16,422 1,493 89-90 9 2 .818 25,988 2,363 90-91 8 5 .615 17,058 1,312 91-92 4 8 .333 21,064 1,755 92-93 5 6 .455 18,016 1,638 93-94 5 8 .385 17,261 1,328 94-95 4 9 .308 18,431 1,418 95-96 2 10 .167 16,194 1,350 96-97 5 8 .385 17,149 1,319 97-98 11 1 .917 15,757 1,313 98-99 7 6 .538 18,650 1,435 99-00 10 2 .833 25,373 2,114 00-01 8 4 .667 29,116 2,426 01-02 8 3 .727 22,667 2,061 02-03 9 2 .818 29,098 2,645 03-04 11 1 .917 33,184 2,765 04-05 5 6 .455 23,105 2,100 05-06 10 2 .833 27,032 2,253 06-07 10 3 .769 31,152 2,397 07-08 8 5 .615 19,836 1,528 08-09 9 5 .643 26,321 1,880 09-10 7 6 .538 20,331 1,565 10-11 8 6 .571 15,410 1,101

11-12 9 4 .692 29,720 2,286 12-13 7 7 .500 15,968 1,141 13-14 10 4 .714 16,926 1,209 14-15 13 2 .867 28,867 1,924 15-16 7 2 .778 22,717 1,747 16-17 15 1 .938 24,945 1,559 17-18 11 1 .917 19,538 1,628 Totals 347 175 .665 #Indicates span of 31-game winning streak lasting from Dec. 1, 1976, to Nov. 27, 1978.

SINGLE GAME ATTENDANCE HIGHS Att. Opponent Date Result 5,621 Idaho 3/1/90 L, 54-72 5,426 Montana 3/4/00 L, 75-77 5,256 Gonzaga 11/17/00 L, 65-74 4,621 Montana 2/28/15 L, 76-77 4,615 Northern Ariz. 3/10/04 W, 71-59 4,247 Weber State 3/9/04 W, 72-53 4,240 Montana 2/8/03 W, 87-72 4,131 Weber State 2/27/03 L, 64-67 4,106 Weber State 2/4/00 W, 95-83 3,617 Montana State 1/28/12 W, 69-52 3,512 Montana 1/26/12 L, 60-74 3,388 Idaho 2/20/93 L, 80-82 3,385 Wash. St. 12/10/92 L, 59-80 3,381 Idaho State 2/29/03 L, 63-65 3,353 Montana St. 3/2/00 W, 84-69 Note: Although considered neutral site games, Eastern’s home games versus Gonzaga at the Spokane Arena had sell-out crowds of 11,000 (2002) and 12,000 (2004). Attendance figures prior to 1980 are incomplete.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Yearly Statistical Champions SCORING Year Name 1935 Phil Rebensdorf 1936 Leonard “Pink” West 1937 Ivan “Slim” Eustace 1938 Unknown 1939 Unknown 1940 Unknown 1941 Bob Stoelt 1942 Unknown 1943 Irv Leifer 1944 Jack Roffler 1945 Jack Perrault 1946 Irv Leifer 1947 Irv Leifer 1948 Unknown 1949 Dick Luft 1950 Dick Eicher 1951 Dick Eicher 1952 Unknown 1953 Unknown 1954 Dick Edwards 1955 Dick Edwards 1956 Bob Burkhart 1957 Bob Burkhart 1958 Kent Matheson 1959 Kent Matheson 1960 Dick Koford 1961 Unknown 1962 Unknown 1963 Unknown 1964 Unknown 1965 Unknown 1966 Jack State 1967 Wayne Gilman 1968 Jim Boxley 1969 Dave Lofton 1970 Steve Barnett 1971 Randy Buss 1972 Randy Buss 1973 Dave Hayden 1974 Ron Cox 1975 Ron Cox 1976 Ron Cox 1977 Ron Cox 1978 Paul Hungenberg 1979 Roger Boesel 1980 George Abrams 1981 George Abrams 1982 Don Garves 1983 Matt Piper 1984 Tony Chrisman 1985 Tony Chrisman 1986 Roosevelt Brown 1987 Dexter Griffen 1988 Kevin Sattler Gale Berry 1989 David Peed 1990 David Peed 1991 Brian Sullivan 1992 Miguel Johnson Carren Wilson 1993 Brad Sebree 1994 Brad Sebree 1995 Melvin Lewis 1996 D’mitri Rideout 1997 Travis King 1998 Karim Scott 1999 Shannon Taylor 2000 Ryan Hansen 2001 Chris White Aaron Olson 2002 Chris Hester 2003 Chris Hester 2004 Alvin Snow 2005 Marc Axton 2006 Rodney Stuckey 2007 Rodney Stuckey 2008 Kellen Williams 2009 Benny Valentine 2010 Glen Dean 2011 Glen Dean 2012 Cliff Colimon 2013 Venky Jois 2014 Tyler Harvey 2015 Tyler Harvey 2016 Austin McBroom 2017 Bogdan Bliznyuk 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk

REBOUNDING Points (Avg.) 155 (6.5) 138 (7.3) 217 (10.3)

208 (12.9) 383 (12.0) 288 (10.7) 507 (16.6)

276 (10.6) 423 (14.1) 454 (16.2) 475 (19.0) 444 (18.5) 328 (12.6) 384 (14.8) 396 (15.2) 315 (12.1) 447 (17.2)

397 (15.3) 271 (11.3) 305 (15.3) 375 (18.8) 313 (12.5) 521 (18.6) 595 (20.5) 400 (16.7) 308 (13.3) 394 (15.8) 554 (20.5) 485 (16.7) 560 (20.0) 353 (13.6) 355 (11.8) 376 (13.9) 382 (14.1) 373 (13.8) 459 (17.7) 398 (14.7) 425 (16.3) 352 (13.0) 405 (15.0) 404 (15.0) 626 (20.9) 498 (17.2) 434 (16.1) 344 (12.7) 135 (13.5) 363 (14.0) 307 (16.2) 310 (11.9) 285 (11.4) 322 (12.4) 469 (17.4) 453 (16.8) 334 (12.4) 364 (13.0) 275 (13.8) 404 (13.5) 435 (13.5) 442 (14.7) 454 (16.21) 726 (24.2) 712 (24.6***) 406 (13.5) 453 (15.1) 366 (12.2) 306 (13.3) 527 (16.5) 345 (12.3) 677 (21.8) 728 (23.1) 692 (21.0) 701 (20.6) 741*** (21.2)

Year Name 1951 Dick Eicher 1952 Unknown 1953 Unknown 1954 Unknown 1955 Unknown 1956 Unknown 1957 Bob Burkhart 1958 Unknown 1959 Kent Matheson 1960 Unknown 1961 Unknown 1962 Unknown 1963 Unknown 1964 Unknown 1965 Unknown 1966 Jack State 1967 Bill Bacon 1968 Dave Polk 1969 Al Gale 1970 Randy Buss 1971 Randy Buss 1972 Dave Hayden 1973 Dave Hayden 1974 Ron Cox 1975 Ron Cox 1976 Ron Cox 1977 Ron Cox 1978 Gene Glenn 1979 Emir Hardy 1980 Tony Barnett 1981 Matt Peppers 1982 Don Garves 1983 John Bell 1984 Paul Rutherford 1985 John Randa 1986 John Randa 1987 Nate Perkins 1988 Mike King 1989 Nate Perkins 1990 Greg Olson Greg Trygstad David Peed 1991 Kemo Patrick 1992 Austin Layton 1993 Rick Swanwick 1994 Craig Stinnett Rick Swanwick 1995 Melvin Lewis 1996 Adam Dean 1997 Karim Scott 1998 Karim Scott 1999 Chris White 2000 Chris White 2001 Chris White 2002 Chris Hester 2003 T.J. Williams 2004 Alvin Snow 2005 Matt Nelson 2006 Paul Butorac 2007 Paul Butorac 2008 Kellen Williams 2009 Brandon Moore 2010 Brandon Moore 2011 Cliff Ederaine 2012 Cliff Ederaine 2013 Venky Jois 2014 Venky Jois 2015 Venky Jois 2016 Venky Jois 2017 Jacob Wiley 2018 Bogdan Bliznyuk

Rebounds (Avg.) 436*** (16.1***)

221 (8.5) 246 (9.5)

361 (13.9) 327 (13.6) 195 (8.9) 206 (8.2) 215 (8.6) 324 (11.6) 364 (12.6) 318 (13.3) 270 (10.8) 319 (12.8) 328 (12.1) 356 (12.3) 218 (7.8) 204 (7.3) 214 (7.1) 143 (5.3) 171 (6.3) 231 (8.9) 141 (5.6) 213 (7.9) 258 (9.2) 168 (7.0) 154 (5.7) 174 (5.8) 178 (6.1) 171 (6.3) 177 (6.1) 187 (7.5) 208 (7.7) 163 (6.3) 158 (6.1) 152 (6.3) 229 (8.8) 124 (5.0) 163 (6.3) 190 (7.0) 170 (6.3) 169 (6.3) 202 (7.2) 137 (4.6) 137 (4.6) 152 (5.1) 137 (6.2) 157 (5.4) 187 (6.7) 248 (8.3) 204 (6.8) 217 (7.5) 223 (7.4) 235 (7.3) 252 (9.0) 247 (8.0) 238 (7.7) 278 (8.7) 309 (9.1) 288 (6.8)

ASSISTS Year 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978

Name Jim Boxley Dave Lofton Joe Bullock Darryl Harris Darryl Harris Dave Kalinowski John Alaniva Rocky Hautink Ed Waters Ed Waters Ed Waters Terry Reed

RYAN HANSEN (left) had the Compaq Play of the Year for his 55-foot gamewinning shot versus Idaho State on Jan. 6, 2000.

Assists (Avg.) 53 (2.7) 50 (2.5) 84 (3.5) 168 (6.0) 149 (5.1) 126 (5.0) 75 (3.0) 74 (3.0) 170 (8.1) 292*** (10.8) 231 (11.0***) 138 (5.0)

1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Terry Reed George Abrams George Abrams Dave Henley Dean Maye Scott McKie Melvin Bradley Leroy Dean Jerome Hall Gale Berry Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Brian Sullivan Dana Adams Brad Sebree Brad Sebree Carl Crider Travis King Travis King Deon Williams Deon Williams Deon Williams Jason Lewis Jason Lewis Alvin Snow Alvin Snow Brendon Merritt Danny Pariseau Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Adris DeLeon Benny Valentine Glen Dean Glen Dean Cliff Colimon Justin Crosgile Drew Brandon Drew Brandon Austin McBroom Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk

STEALS Year 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Name George Abrams George Abrams Wayne Petersen Dave Henley Dean Maye Scott McKie Rob Otis Roosevelt Brown Leroy Dean Jerome Hall Gale Berry Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Brian Sullivan Kemo Patrick Miguel Johnson Brad Sebree Craig Stinnett Brad Sebree D’mitri Rideout D’mitri Rideout Travis King Karim Scott Deon Williams

103 (4.0) 151 (5.0) 147 (5.4) 86 (3.2) 142 (5.3) 113 (4.3) 88 (3.3) 153 (5.5) 106 (3.8) 79 (3.0) 207 (6.9) 191 (6.6) 141 (5.2) 89 (3.3) 97 (3.7) 56 (2.9) 83 (3.2) 85 (3.3) 95 (3.7) 164 (6.1) 146 (5.4) 98 (3.8) 121 (4.3) 142 (4.7) 117 (3.8) 90 (3.0) 90 (3.0) 119 (4.3) 123 (4.1) 160 (5.5) 84 (3.1) 92 (3.1) 133 (4.4) 97 (4.2) 160 (5.0) 66 (5.5) 152 (5.1) 312 (4.7) 121 (3.7) 136 (4.0) 137 (3.9) Points (Avg.) 54 (1.8) 57 (2.1) 57 (2.1) 40 (1.5) 50 (1.9) 40 (1.5) 27 (1.0) 27 (1.2) 41 (1.5) 46 (1.6) 29 (1.1) 80 (2.7) 130*** (4.5***) 53 (2.0) 51 (2.0) 31 (1.1) 35 (1.3) 28 (1.1) 25 (1.3) 39 (1.6) 34 (1.4) 41 (1.6) 54 (2.0) 38 (1.4)

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

Jamal Jones Alvin Snow Alvin Snow Alvin Snow Alvin Snow Deuce Smith Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Gary Gibson Benny Valentine Alden Gibbs Cliff Ederaine Cliff Colimon Venky Jois Tyler Harvey Drew Brandon Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Mason Peatling

32 (1.2) 43 (1.5) 52 (1.8) 68 (2.2) 49 (1.6) 37 (1.3) 66 (2.2) 71 (2.4) 35 (1.2) 44 (1.5) 29 (1.3) 29 (1.0) 52 (1.6) 24 (0.9) 35 (1.1) 61 (1.8) 42 (1.2) 36 (1.1) 29 (0.8) 28 (0.9)

BLOCKED SHOTS Year Name 1980 Tony Barnett 1981 Matt Peppers 1982 John Wade 1983 John Bell 1984 Dave Thompson 1985 Roosevelt Brown 1986 Rob Otis 1987 Dexter Griffen 1988 Kevin Sattler Mike King Nate Perkins 1989 Nate Perkins 1990 David Peed 1991 Kemo Patrick 1992 Austin Layton 1993 Austin Layton 1994 Rick Swanwick 1995 Joshua Lewis 1996 Adam Dean 1997 Kevin Lewis 1998 Karim Scott 1999 Chris White 2000 Chris White 2001 Jason Humbert 2002 T.J. Williams 2003 Gregg Smith 2004 Paul Butorac 2005 Deuce Smith 2006 Paul Butorac 2007 Paul Butorac 2008 Brandon Moore 2009 Brandon Moore 2010 Brandon Moore 2011 Tremayne Johnson 2012 Cliff Ederaine 2013 Martin Seiferth 2013 Venky Jois 2014 Venky Jois 2015 Venky Jois 2016 Venky Jois 2017 Jacob Wiley 2018 Mason Peatling

Blocks (Avg). 9 (0.3) 37 (1.4) 23 (0.9) 14 (0.5) 7 (0.3) 10 (0.4) 18 (0.6) 34 (1.3) 8 (0.3) 8 (0.3) 7 (0.4) 12 (0.4) 27 (0.9) 18 (0.7) 31 (1.1) 28 (1.1) 26 (1.1) 13 (0.6) 14 (0.6) 23 (1.1) 18 (0.7) 23 (0.9) 34 (1.3) 21 (0.8) 26 (1.0) 18 (0.6) 12 (0.4) 12 (0.4) 51 (1.8) 29 (1.0) 20 (0.7) 19 (0.6) 26 (0.9) 35 (1.2) 41 (1.3) 68 (2.2) 66 (2.4) 49 (1.6) 69 (2.2) 56 (1.8) 94*** (2.8***) 37 (1.2)

***School Record

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Year-by-Year/Coaches Records Season W L Coach 1903‑04................ 0 2 Unknown 1904‑05................ 0 1 Unknown 1905‑06................ 3

6

N.E. Hinch

1906‑07................ 4 3 Paul Lienau 1907‑08................ 5 2 Paul Lienau 1908‑09................ 7 5 Paul Lienau 3 Seasons.......... 16 10 .615 1911‑12................. 1 1 Unknown 1912‑13................ 1 0 Albert Fertsch 1913‑14................ 2 0 Albert Fertsch 1914‑15................ 6 1 Albert Fertsch 1915‑16................ 2 1 Albert Fertsch 4 Seasons.......... 11 2 .846 1919‑20................ 9 2 Vin Eustis 1920‑21.............. 10 6 Vin Eustis 1921‑22.............. 18 4 Vin Eustis 1922‑23.............. 14 8 Vin Eustis 1923‑24.............. 16 5 Vin Eustis 1924‑25.............. 12 7 Vin Eustis 1925‑26.............. 13 5 Vin Eustis 1926‑27.............. 16 6 Vin Eustis 8 Seasons........ 108 43 .715

Former Eastern Washington head coaches (clockwise from upper left): W.B. “RED” REESE, JERRY KRAUSE, STEVE AGGERS, JOHN WADE, BOB BRUMBLAY and BOB HOFMAN.

1927‑28.............. 14 6 A.C. Woodward 1928‑29................ 6 9 A.C. Woodward 1929‑30................ 6 14 A.C. Woodward 3 Seasons.......... 26 29 .473 1930‑31.............. 13 1931‑32.............. 12 1932‑33.............. 15 1933‑34.............. 18 1934‑35.............. 20 1935‑36.............. 16 1936‑37.............. 16 1937‑38.............. 16 1938‑39.............. 13 1939‑40................ 8 1940‑41.............. 16 1941‑42.............. 20

4 9 3 3 4 3 5 4 7 17 8 7

Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese

1942‑43.............. 27 5 Bob Brumblay 1943‑44.............. 21 7 Bob Brumblay 1944‑45.............. 27 5 Bob Brumblay 3 Seasons.......... 75 17 .815 1945‑46.............. 31 1946‑47.............. 22 1947‑48.............. 16 1948‑49.............. 16 1949‑50.............. 23 1950‑51.............. 22 1951‑52................ 8 1952‑53.............. 23 1953‑54................ 9 1954‑55................ 9 1955‑56.............. 12 1956‑57................ 9 1957‑58.............. 12

4 9 12 9 7 6 18 5 16 15 14 17 14

Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese

1958‑59.............. 17 9 1959‑60.............. 11 15 1960‑61.............. 16 11 1961‑62.............. 15 12 1962‑63................ 9 15 1963‑64................ 7 19 31 Seasons...... 470 301

Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese Red Reese .610

1965‑65................ 9 16 Ernie McKie 1965‑66................ 8 18 Ernie McKie 1966‑67................ 6 18 Ernie McKie 3 Seasons.......... 23 52 .307 1967‑68................ 8 1968‑69.............. 14 1969‑70................ 8 1970‑71.............. 16 1971‑72.............. 22 1972‑73.............. 15 1973‑74.............. 14 1974‑75.............. 17

17 11 18 12 7 10 11 8

Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause

1975‑76.............. 21 1976‑77.............. 25 1977‑78.............. 20 1978‑79.............. 10 1979‑80.............. 18 1980‑81.............. 18 1981‑82.............. 19

7 4 8 18 12 9 8

Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause Jerry Krause

1982‑83.............. 17

11

Joe Folda

NCAA Division I . . . 1983‑84................ 4 22 Jerry Krause 1984‑85.............. 12 15 Jerry Krause 17 Seasons...... 261 197 .570 1985‑86.............. 20 8 Joe Folda 1986-87................ 5 23 Joe Folda 3 Seasons.......... 42 42 .500

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 EWU MEN’S BASKETBALL PROGRAM TOTALS 110 Seasons Overall - 2,648 games, 1,428 wins, 1,220 losses, .539 35 Seasons in NCAA Division I - 1,018 games, 433 wins, 585 losses, .425 31 Seasons in Big Sky - 494 games, 225 wins, 269 losses, .455 EWU as a Member of the Big Sky Conference . . .

Former Eastern head coaches MIKE BURNS (left) and RAY GIACOLETTI, with NCAA coaching legends Don Monson (back left; Idaho/Oregon) and the late Jud Heathcote (back right; Michigan State) looking on.

JIM HAYFORD after EWU won the 2015 Big Sky Conference Tournament title to help EWU advance to the NCAA Tournament for the second time.

All Games 1987-88.......................6 21 1988-89.......................8 22 1989-90.....................18 11 3 Seasons.................32 54

Big Sky 2 14 5 11 11 5 18 30

Coach Bob Hofman Bob Hofman Bob Hofman .372 (.375 BSC)

1990-91.....................11 1991-92.......................6 1992-93.......................6 1993-94.......................5 1994-95.......................6 5 Seasons.................34

16 21 20 21 20 98

5 3 3 0 2 13

11 13 11 14 12 61

John Wade John Wade John Wade John Wade John Wade .258 (.176 BSC)

1995-96.......................3 1996-97.......................7 1997-98.....................16 1998-99.....................10 1999-00.....................15 5 Seasons................ 51

23 19 11 17 12 82

0 3 10 7 12 32

14 13 6 9 4 46

Steve Aggers Steve Aggers Steve Aggers Steve Aggers Steve Aggers .383 (.410 BSC)

2000-01.....................17 2001-02.....................17 2002-03.....................18 2003-04.....................17 4 Seasons.................69

11 13 13 13 50

11 10 9 11 41

5 4 5 3 17

Ray Giacoletti BSC Tourn. CG Ray Giacoletti BSC Tourn. CG Ray Giacoletti NIT/BSC Tourn. CG Ray Giacoletti NCAA Tourn./BSC CHAMPION .580 (.707 BSC)

2004-05.......................8 2005-06.....................15 2006-07.....................15 3 Seasons................ 38

20 15 14 49

5 9 8 22

9 5 8 22

Mike Burns Mike Burns Mike Burns .437 (.500 BSC)

2007-08.....................11 2008-09.....................12 2009-10.......................9 2010-11......................10 4 Seasons.................42

19 18 21 20 78

6 6 5 7 24

10 10 11 9 40

Kirk Earlywine Kirk Earlywine Kirk Earlywine Kirk Earlywine .350 (.375 BSC)

2011-12......................15 2012-13.....................10 2013-14.....................15 2014-15.....................26 2015-16.....................18 2016-17.....................22 6 Seasons...............106

17 21 16 9 16 12 91

8 7 10 14 10 13 62

8 13 10 4 8 5 48

Jim Hayford BSC Tourn. SF Jim Hayford Jim Hayford Jim Hayford NCAA Tourn./BSC CHAMPION Jim Hayford CBI/BSC Tourn. QF Jim Hayford CBI/BSC Tourn. SF .538 (.564 BSC)

2017-18.....................20 1 Season...................20

15 15

13 13

5 5

Shantay Legans .571 (.722 BSC)

Postseason BSC Tourn. CG

BSC Tourn. QF BSC Tourn. QF BSC Tourn. SF

BSC Tourn. QF BSC Tourn. SF

BSC Tourn. QF

CBI/BSC Tourn. CG

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Team Records ***Also Big Sky Conference record.

Games Played S: 35, 2017 & 2015 & 1946 Games Won S: 31, 1946 Consecutive: 27, 1946 Games Lost S: 23, 1996 (2nd time) Consecutive: 11, 1997 Home Games Won S: 15, 2017 (4th time) Consecutive: 31, 1976-1978 Overtime Periods S: 10, 2017 Points Scored G: ***130, 2/4/17 (Portland State) S: 2,820, 2015 Combined Points Scored G: ***254, 2/4/17 (EWU 130, Portland State 124 - 3 OT) Points Per Game S: 90.0, 1972 Field Goals Attempted G: 92, 2/2/91 (U.S. International) S: 2,275, 1972 Field Goals Made G: 50, 11/15/15 (George Fox) S: 1,027, 1972

Senior JACOB WILEY (left) and BOGDAN BLIZNYUK combined for 90 points in EWU’s 130-124 triple-overtime win over Portland State on Feb. 4, 2017, to easily set school and Big Sky Conference records. Their performance came just two points from the NCAA Division I mark of 92 set by Kevin Bradshaw (72) & Isaac Brown (20) for U.S. International (now Alliant International) vs. Loyala Marymount on Jan. 5, 1991. Interestingly, they combined for 68 (Bradshaw 37, Brown 31) in a 118-83 loss to Eastern on Feb. 2, 1991, and 39 the year before (Bradshaw 30, Brown 9) in a 102-93 victory over EWU on Dec. 21, 1989. When Bliznyuk and Wiley both scored 45 versus PSU, it was the first time in NCAA history two players have scored at least 45 points in the same game. Notre Dame had two players also score 90 on Feb. 23, 1970, in a 121-114 non-overtime win over Butler (Austin Carr with 50 and Collis James with 40). Loyola Marymount’s Bo Kimble and the late Hank Gathers each scored 40 against Gonzaga in 1989, and the Bulldogs also had a 40-point scorer in that game, Doug Spradley. On Feb. 20, 1971, Idaho State’s Willie Humes scored 58 points and MSU’s Bill Brickhouse and Willie Weeks each scored 38 in a 105-92 Bobcat win, also in regulation.

Field Goal Percentage G: .725, 37‑51, 11/19/14 (Walla Walla) S: .526, 983‑1,869, 1977 3-Point Goals Attempted G: 44, 1/31/15 (Idaho) S: 924, 2016

Rebounds G: 64, 12/20/91 (Delaware St.) S: 1,532, 1967

3-Point Goals Made G: 20, 1/28/16 (Portland State) S: 356, 2016

Assists G: 33, 12/29/99 (Cascade) 33, 2/2/91 (U.S. International) S: 726, 1976

3-Point Goal Percentage G: .692, 9-13, 2/21/98 (Montana) S: .400, 344-860, 2015

Turnovers G: 31, 11/28/95 (Washington) S: 537, 1987

Free Throws Attempted G: 49, 1/23/14 (Southern Utah) S: 791, 1972

Steals G: 23, 11/15/15 (George Fox) S: 476, 1977

Free Throws Made G: 38, 1/23/14 (Southern Utah) S: 561, 2007

Personal Fouls S: 723, 2012

Free Throw Percentage (minimum 20 attempts) G: .952, 20-21, 1/8/09 (Idaho State) .952, 20‑21, 12/10/94 (Portland) S: .779, 448‑575, 1980

Blocked Shots G: ***16, 2/23/13 (Sam Houston State) S: 176, 2013

Individual Records Games Played C: 138 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2015-18 Games Started C: 120 Venky Jois, 2013-16 Minutes Played G: 53 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2/4/17 (Portland State) 53 Jacob Wiley, 2/4/17 (Portland State) 53 Shannon Taylor, 1/16/99 (Weber State) S: 1,235 Austin McBroom, 2016 C: 4,271 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2015-18 Triple-Double G: 11 points/14 rebounds/10 assists Bogdan Bliznyuk, 1/16/16 (Northern Arizona) Points Scored G: 45 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2/4/17 (Portland State) 45 Jacob Wiley, 2/4/17 (Portland State) 45 Rodney Stuckey, 1/5/06 (Northern Arizona) S: 741 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2018 C: ***2,169 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2015-18

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 3-Point Field Goals Attempted G: 23 Kevin Winford, 12/4/10 (New Hope) S: 297 Tyler Harvey, 2015 C: 657 Felix Von Hofe, 2014-17 3-Point Field Goals Made G: 10 Tyler Harvey, 2/1/14 (Northern Colorado) 10 Kevin Winford, 12/4/10 (New Hope) S: ***128 Tyler Harvey, 2015 C: 262 Felix Von Hofe, 2014-17 3-Point Field Goal Percentage G: 1.000, 6-6, Marcus Hinton, 2/22/07 (Idaho State) S: .567, 17-30, Jeff Reinland, 1983 C: .503, 75-149, Marco Quinto, 1999-02

Personal Fouls S: 130 Laron Griffin, 2012 C: 364 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2015-18 Blocked Shots G: 8 Martin Seiferth, 2/23/13 (Sam Houston St.) S: 94 Jacob Wiley, 2017 (record 2.8 per game) C: 240, Venky Jois, 2013-16 (record 2.0 pg) Dunks S: 61 Venky Jois, 2016 C: 159 Venky Jois, 2013-16

Free Throws Attempted G: 21 Matt Piper, 12/28/82 (Humboldt State) S: 254 Rodney Stuckey, 2007 C: 660 Venky Jois, 2013-16 Free Throws Made G: 20 Tyler Harvey, 1/23/14 (Southern Utah) S: 215 Rodney Stuckey, 2007 C: 467 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2015-18 Free Throw Percentage G: 1.000, 20-20, Tyler Harvey, 1/23/14 (So. Utah) 1.000, 16‑16, Jason Lewis, 1/27/01 (Weber State) S: .902, 166-of-184, Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2018 C: .847, 316-373 Tyler Harvey 2013-15

DAVID PEED Combined Points Scored G: ***90 - 45 Bogdan Bliznyuk & Jacob Wiley, 2/4/17 (Portland State) S: 1,395 - 701 Bogdan Bliznyuk & 694 Jacob Wiley, 2017 Points Scored in Back-to-Back Games G: ***83 - Jacob Wiley 38, 2/2/17 (Sacramento State) & 45, 2/4/17 (Portland State) Points Per Game S: 24.6 Rodney Stuckey, 2007 C: 24.4 Rodney Stuckey, 2006-07 Field Goals Attempted G: 29 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2/4/17 (Portland State) S: 529 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2017 C: 1,553 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2015-18 Field Goals Made G: 18 Jacob Wiley, 2/4/17 (Portland State) 18 David Peed, 12/13/88 (UC-Irvine) S: 265 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2018 265 Jacob Wiley 2017 C: 776 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2015-18 Field Goal Percentage G: 1.000, 10-10, Chris White, 2/1/01 (Mont. State) S: .679, 220‑324, Venky Jois, 2016 C: .644, 203-315, Martin Seiferth, 2013-14

Consecutive Free Throws Made S: ***77 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 12/31/17 to 3/8/18 (also broke NCAA single season record) Rebounds G: 28 Dave Hayden, 1/15/72 (Oregon Tech) S: 436 Dick Eicher, 1951 C: 1,273 Ron Cox, 1974‑77 Rebounds Per Game S: 16.1 Dick Eicher, 1951 C: 12.0 Ron Cox, 1974‑77 Assists G: 18 Ronn McMahon, 12/13/89 (UC-Irvine) S: 292 Ed Waters, 1976 C: 763 Ed Waters, 1974‑77 Assists Per Game S: 11.0 Ed Waters, 1977 C: 8.4 Ed Waters, 1974‑77 Turnovers G: 10 Rodney Stuckey, 12/29/05 (Boise State) 10 Jason Lewis, 11/24/01 (Minnesota) 10 Jerome Hall, 11/28/86 (Idaho) S: 145 Jerome Hall, 1987 C: 355 Bogdan Bliznyuk, 2015-18 Steals G: 9 Ronn McMahon, 12/15/89 (Portland) S: 130 Ronn McMahon, 1990 C: 225 Ronn McMahon, 1988-90

FELIX VON HOFE set the school record for games played and broke EWU’s 3-pointers made record in the final game of his career. Von Hofe moved up to sixth in career 3-pointers in the Big Sky Conference with 262, and broke the previous school record of 260 set by his former teammate Tyler Harvey from 2013-15. Von Hofe also holds the school record with 657 attempts (breaking Harvey’s record of 602), and his percentage of .399 was 12th. Von Hofe was the 21st Eagle to join the 1,000-point club, and finished his career ranked 18th with 1,058 career points. Von Hofe came to Eastern from Melbourne, Australia, and attended Wesley College and the Australian Institute of Sport prior to coming to the United States.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 SINGLE SEASON TEAM & OPPONENT HIGHS & LOWS Note: Statistical records are incomplete prior to the 1983-84 season when EWU moved to NCAA Division I. In some instances, statistics in some categories were not kept prior to that time. If different than the NCAA Division I marks, all-time records from available statistics are listed in ( ) below the NCAA Division I record. Category

EWU High

EWU Low

Opponent High

Points

2,820 – 2015

1,695 – 1993

2,616 – 2016

Points Per Game

84.2 – 2007 65.2 – 1993 82.6 – 2007 (90.0 – 1972)

Scoring Margin

+6.6 – 2015 (+17.9 – 1977)

-12.5 – 1987

Field Goals Made

977 – 2015 (1027 – 1972)

611 – 2005 953 – 2016 (336 – 1949)

Field Goal Attempts

2045 – 2015 1,385 – 1988 (2275 – 1972)

2031 – 2017

Opponent Low­­­ 1,893 – 2005 65.8 – 1986 (63.9 – 1982)

647 – 2005 (634 – 1969) 1,358 – 2001

Field Goal Percentage .495/846x1,708 – 2007 .406/652x1,604 – 2008 .514/796x1,550 – 1984 (.526/983x1,869 – 1977) (.351/602x1,717 – 1967)

.430/818x1901 – 2013 .432/712x1,647 – 2003 (.330/532x1,610 – 1954)

3-Point FG Made

356 – 2016

74 – 1987

279 – 2015

102 – 1987

3-Point FG Attempted

924 – 2016

192 – 1987

731 – 2017

254 – 1987

3-Point FG Percentage

.400/344x860 – 2015

.308/102x331 – 1996

.420/144x343 – 1989

.333/113x339 – 1995

Free Throws Made

561 – 2007

306 – 1984

639 – 2012

381 – 1986

Free Throws Attempted

762 – 2007 415 – 1984 925 – 2012 (791 – 1972)

559 – 1986 (455 – 1975)

Free Throw Percentage

.770/520x675 – 2017 .590/359x609 – 1987 (.779/448x575 – 1980)

.736/497x675 – 1989 (.739/439x594 – 1979)

.654/384x587 – 1997

Rebounds

1,196 – 2017 729 – 1984 (1,532 – 1967)

1,242 – 2013 (1,242 – 1972)

827 – 1996

Rebounds Per Game

38.2 – 1998 28.0 – 1984 (59.7 – 1967)

42.8 – 1991 (53.5 – 1969)

29.8 – 2001

Offensive Rebounds

429 – 1990

241 -2002

420 – 2013

234 -1996

Off. Reb. Per Game

14.8 -1990

8.3 -2002

14.0 -1991

9.0 -1996

Rebounding Margin

+4.6 – 1986 (+10.8 – 1970)

-5.4 – 1987 (-11.4 – 1968)

Assists

514 – 2007 (726 – 1977)

299 – 1993 (273 – 1970)

Assists Per Game

17.7 – 2007 11.5 – 2008 (26.9 – 1976)

Steals

336 – 1990 129 – 1993 260 – 2003 (476 – 1977)

516 – 2015 (521 – 1980)

343 – 2005 (215 – 1971)

17.4 – 1997 (18.1 – 1979)

11.1 – 2003 (7.7 – 1971) 160 – 1993 (141 – 1980)

Steals Per Game 11.5 – 1990 4.6 – 2017 8.4 – 2003

5.5 – 2018 & 2015 (5.2 – 1982)

Blocked Shots 176 – 2013 34 – 1988 137 – 2010

55 – 1990 (35 – 1980)

Blocked Shots Per Game 5.7 – 2013 1.3 – 1988 4.6 – 2010

1.9 – 1990 (1.2 – 1980)

Turnovers 537 – 1987 365 – 2000

341 – 2013

542 – 1990 (568 – 1977)

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Turnovers Per Game 19.2 – 1987 10.7 – 2015

18.6 – 1990 (19.6 – 1977)

10.6 – 2017

Turnover Margin

+4.14 – 1990

-4.9 – 1988

Fouls

723 – 2012

499 – 1996

665 – 2002

431 – 1996

Fouls Per Game

24.4 – 1992 (25.4 – 1966)

17.8 – 2015

22.1 – 2002

16.6 – 1996

Disqualifications

42 – 1992

8 – 2009

29 – 1990

5 – 2009

EAGLES CENTURY CLUB (Total of 74 Games With 100+ Points . . . 2015-16 and 2006-07 are the only seasons in 33 years as a member of NCAA Division I that Eastern has scored at least 100 points in four games. The overall record for 100-point performances is eight set in the 1970-71 season)

BOGDAN BLIZNYUK had the first triple-double in school history with 11 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists in a 96-73 victory over Northern Arizona on Jan. 16, 2016. He made 4-of-12 shots from the field and both of his free throws, and also had three blocked shots. Not even Rodney Stuckey, now of the Indiana Pacers, or former All-Big Sky point guard Drew Brandon, were able to register the rare feat. On nine occasions an Eastern player has flirted with a triple-double (within a combined total of three rebounds and/or assists), including four by Bliznyuk, three by Brandon and one each by Stuckey and Justin Crosgile.

1. 2/4/17 Portland State.................................................................. 130-124 2. 11/15/15 George Fox....................................................................... 126-64 3. 1/20/69 Eastern Montana............................................................... 124-94 4. 2/27/72 St. Martin’s........................................................................ 120-77 12/22/71 Metropolitan State............................................................. 120-70 6. 2/2/91 U.S. International................................................................118-83 7. 2/8/86 U.S. International................................................................116-82 8. 12/5/75 Montana Tech.....................................................................115-58 12/6/76 Montana Tech.....................................................................115-58 10. 12/30/80 Eastern Oregon..................................................................114-91 1/28/72 Alaska-Fairbanks................................................................114-84 12. 1/28/16 Portland State.....................................................................112-83 12/4/10 New Hope...........................................................................112-41 12/29/99 Cascade College................................................................112-86 15. 1/12/76 Eastern Oregon..................................................................111-75 12/4/71 Carroll.................................................................................111-79 17. 11/27/06 Cal State Fullerton............................................................110-100 12/4/70 St. Martin’s.......................................................................110-113 12/22/67 Alaska-Fairbanks................................................................110-72 20. 1/15/72 Oregon Tech...................................................................... 108-84 21. 12/8/67 Carroll...............................................................................107-118 22. 1/14/16 Southern Utah................................................................... 106-80 11/21/06 The Evergreen State......................................................... 106-65 1/12/89 Nevada (Reno).................................................................106-115 2/15/80 Lewis Clark State.............................................................. 106-91 12/1/76 Whitworth.......................................................................... 106-83 2/19/71 Oregon Tech...................................................................... 106-77 28. 2/14/76 Oregon Tech...................................................................... 105-70 1/16/76 Southern Oregon............................................................... 105-84 2/2/73 Southern Oregon............................................................... 105-69 1/14/72 Southern Oregon............................................................... 105-86 2/20/71 Southern Oregon............................................................... 105-85 12/18/61 Lewis Clark State.............................................................. 105-69 34. Five Occasions....................................................................... 104 39. Eight Occasions..................................................................... 103 47. Six Occasions......................................................................... 102 53. Eight Occasions..................................................................... 101 61. 14 Occasions.......................................................................... 100

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Single Game Leaders POINTS SCORED 1. 45 Bogdan Bliznyuk Jacob Wiley Rodney Stuckey 4. 44 David Peed 5. 42 Tyler Harvey Adris DeLeon 7. 40 Bogdan Bliznyuk 40 Kevin Sattler 9. 39 Tyler Harvey Kevin Winford 11. 38 Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Venky Jois Venky Jois Tyler Harvey Rodney Stuckey 17. 37 Austin McBroom Tyler Harvey David Peed David Peed 21. 36 Jacob Wiley Austin McBroom Tyler Harvey Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Marc Axton Aaron Olson Karim Scott Randy Buss 30. 35 Bogdan Bliznyuk Austin McBroom Tyler Harvey Tony Chrisman Jeff Reinland 35. 34 Jacob Wiley Bogdan Bliznyuk Tyler Harvey Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey David Peed David Peed Dick Eicher Randy Buss Walt Hartman 45. 33 Jacob Wiley Austin McBroom Benny Valentine Marc Axton Shannon Taylor Dick Edwards 51. 32 Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Ognjen Miljkovic Dick Edwards Dick Edwards Dick Edwards David Peed 62. 31 Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Tyler Harvey Tyler Harvey Glen Dean Benny Valentine Rodney Stuckey Chris Hester Shannon Taylor Dave Hayden Kevin Sattler

Portland State (2-4-17) Portland State (2-4-17) Northern Arizona (1-5-06) UC Irvine (12-13-88) Idaho (3-12-15) Northern Colorado (1-17-08) Sacramento State (2-1-18) Idaho State (2-11-88) Weber State (1-1-15) New Hope (12-14-10) Idaho State (2-25-17) Sacramento State (2-2-17) Seattle 12-6-14 Eastern Oregon 11-30-14 Northern Colorado (2-1-14) Portland State (3-4-06) Northern Colorado (2-13-16) Northern Arizona (2-15-14) Nevada-Reno (1-12-89) Nevada-Reno (1-20-90) Weber State (1-14.17) Portland State (2-20-16) Southern Utah (1-23-14) Portland State (2-10-07) Montana (1-28-06) Cascade (12-1-04) Cascade (12-29-99) Cal Poly, SLO (11-25-97) Metropolitan State (12-22-71) Portland State (3-8-18) North Dakota (2-11-16) Northern Colorado (1-22-15) Central Washington (2-26-85) Seattle Pacific (2-10-83) Montana State (1-28-17) Morehead State (12-13-16) Lewis-Clark State (12-22-14) Weber State (2-7-07) Boise State (12-29-05) Northern Arizona (1-14-89) Old Dominion (12-23-88) Colorado State (1951) Western Montana (1-2-71) North Dakota (2-9-17) Davidson (12-9-15) Sacramento State (1-4-09) Gonzaga (12-21-04) Idaho State (2-25-98) Seattle Pacific (1-8-54) Southern Utah (3-9-18) Southern Utah (3-1-18) Weber State (3-10-17) Southern Utah (3-2-17) San Francisco (11-27-16) Bryant (11-21-16) Portland State (1-27-14) Puget Sound (2-20-54) Central Washington (2-6-54) Puget Sound (2-21-59) Idaho (2-5-89) San Francisco (12--17) Seattle (12-4-16) California (12-19-15) Northern Colorado (2-27-14) Northern Arizona (2-16-11) Northern Colorado (1-15-09) Portland State (1-14-06) Idaho State (1-26-02) Valparaiso (12-12-98) Western Oregon (2-6-71) Western Baptist (12-15-87)

12. 14

Bogdan Bliznyuk Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Kevin Winford Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Adris DeLeon Tony Chrisman Dick Edwards Rodney Stuckey

Portland State (2-4-17) [29] Sacramento State (2-2-17) [23] Montana State (1-28-17) [18] Northern Arizona (1-19-17) [16] New Hope (12-4-10) [27] Portland State (2-10-07) [22] Montana (1-28-06) [21] Northern Colorado (1-17-08) [28] Central Wash. (2-26-85) [19] Puget Sound (2-20-54) Portland State (3-4-06) [20]

FIELD GOALS ATTEMPTED 1. 29 Bogdan Bliznyuk Portland State (2-4-17) [14] 2. 28 Adris DeLeon Northern Colorado (1-17-08) [14] 3. 27 Kevin Winford New Hope (12-14-10) [14] David Peed UC-Irvine (12-13-88) [18] 5. 25 Bogdan Bliznyuk Seattle (12-4-16) [12] Rodney Stuckey UC Santa Barbara (2-17-07) [11] Rodney Stuckey Cal St. Fullerton (11-27-06) [11] Rodney Stuckey Washington (11-24-06) [11] Deon Williams Weber State (1-16-99) [10] 10. 24 Bogdan Bliznyuk Northern Arizona (3-4-17) [9] Justin Crosgile Washington State (11-10-12) [9] Collin Chiverton Gonzaga (11-11-11) [8] Roosevelt Brown Seattle (11-22-85) [10] David Peed Nevada-Reno (1-12-89) [15] 15. 23 Jacob Wiley Portland State (2-4-17) [18] Jacob Wiley Sacramento State (2-2-17) [14] Bogdan Bliznyuk Montana (1-7-17) [9] Tyler Harvey Weber State (3-7-15) [9] Collin Chiverton CS Fullerton (12-11-11) [11] Rodney Stuckey Montana (3-7-06) [10] Roosevelt Brown Montana (12-30-85) [10] David Peed Northern Ariz. (1-14-89) [12] David Peed Brigham Young (11-25-89) [10] David Peed Montana (2-8-90) [10]

MARC AXTON 73. 30

Bogdan Bliznyuk Jacob Wiley Austin McBroom Rodney Stuckey Chris White Bob Burkhart Dick Koford Jim Boxley Dave Lofton Randy Buss Mark Seil Steve Hook Bernie Hite

FIELD GOALS MADE 1. 18 Jacob Wiley 18 David Peed 3. 16 Karim Scott 4. 15 Bogdan Bliznyuk Jacob Wiley Venky Jois Rodney Stuckey Aaron Olson Kevin Sattler David Peed David Peed

Wyoming (12-12-17) Northern Arizona (1-19-17) Weber State (3-5-16) UC Riverside (12-10-05) Cal State Northridge (3-1-01) Carroll (12-15-56) College of Idaho (1-2-60) Lewis Clark State (2-24-68) Eastern Montana (1-20-69) Simon Fraser (2-16-70) Oregon Tech (1-15-72) Eastern Oregon (1-6-73) St. Martin’s (12-18-74) Portland State (2-4-17) [29] UC-Irvine (12-13-88) [27] Cal Poly, SLO (11-25-97) [20] Sacramento State (2-1-18) [18] Weber State (1-14-17) [20] Eastern Oregon (11-30-14) [21] Northern Arizona (1-5-05) [21] Cascade (12-29-99) [18] Idaho State (2-11-88) [19] Nevada-Reno (1-12-89) [24] Nevada-Reno (1-20-90) [21]

3-POINT FIELD GOALS MADE 1. 10 Tyler Harvey Northern Colorado (2-1-14) [15] Kevin Winford New Hope (12-4-10) [23] 3. 9 Tyler Harvey Northern Arizona (2-15-14) [16] 4. 8 Felix Von Hofe Denver (12-20-15) [14] Tyler Harvey Idaho (3-12-15) [12] Tyler Harvey Lewis-Clark State (12-22-14) [10] Justin Crosgile Idaho (12-6-12) [16] Kevin Winford Idaho (11-27-10) [16] 3-POINT FIELD GOALS ATTEMPTED 1. 23 Kevin Winford New Hope (12-4-10) [10] 2. 17 Justin Crosgile Washington State (11-10-12) [7] 3. 16 Tyler Harvey Northern Arizona (2-15-14) [9] Justin Crosgile Idaho (12-6-12) [8] Kevin Winford Idaho (11-27-10) [8] 6. 15 Tyler Harvey Northern Colorado (2-1-14) [10] FREE THROWS MADE 1. 20 Tyler Harvey 2. 17 Bogdan Bliznyuk Matt Piper 4. 16 Bogdan Bliznyuk Jason Lewis 6. 15 Bogdan Bliznyuk Rodney Stuckey 8. 14 Chris White Ryan Hansen Kevin Groves Kevin Groves 12. 13 Bogdan Bliznyuk Austin McBroom Tyler Harvey Tyler Harvey

Southern Utah (1-23-14) [20] Portland State (2-4-17) [20] Humboldt State (12-28-82) [21] Northern Arizona (1-18-18) [16] Weber State (1-27-01) [16] Southern Utah (3-2-17) [16] Sacramento State (1-25-07) [16] CS Northridge (3-1-01) [15] Weber State (1-22-00) [15] Cal Poly, SLO (12-30-94) [16] Sacramento St. (1-19-95) [16] Portland State (1-4-18) [13] Sacramento St. (2-18-16) [18] Southern Utah (2-22-14) [15] Northern Arizona (1-16-14) [13]

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 FREE THROWS ATTEMPTED 1. 21 Matt Piper Humboldt State (12-28-82) [17] 2. 20 Bogdan Bliznyuk Portland State (2-4-17) [17] Tyler Harvey Southern Utah (1-23-14) [20] 4. 18 Austin McBroom Sacramento St. (2-18-16) [13] 5. 17 Brian Sullivan Drake (12-7-90) [11] Jerome Hall U.S. International (2-14-87) [8] 7. 16 Bogdan Bliznyuk Southern Utah (3-2-17) [16] Bogdan Bliznyuk Southern Utah (3-2-17) [15] Rodney Stuckey Sacramento State (1-25-07) [15] Venky Jois Southern Utah (2-22-14) [9] Martin Seiferth CS Northridge (11-12-12) [11] Adris DeLeon Northern Colorado (1-17-08) [11] Jason Lewis Weber State (1-27-01) [16] Kevin Groves Cal Poly, SLO (12-30-94) [14] Kevin Groves Sacramento State (1-19-95) [14] REBOUNDS 1. 28 Dave Hayden Oregon Tech (1-15-72) 2. 22 Paul Butorac Lewis-Clark State (11-18-06) 3. 21 Martin Seiferth Northern Colorado (2-28-13) 4. 19 Brandon Moore Whitman (11-17-09) 5. 18 Martin Seiferth Walla Walla (11-19-13) Cliff Ederaine Sacramento State (2-4-12) John Randa Idaho State (1-20-86) 8. 17 Jacob Wiley Portland State (2-4-17) Martin Seiferth CS Northridge (11-12-12) Cliff Ederaine New Hope (12-4-10) Andy Genao UC Irvine (11-19-08) Kevin Lewis Montana State (2-19-98) Melvin Lewis Cornell (12-3-94) Rick Swanwick Northern Arizona (1-27-94) John Randa Boise State (11-27-85) 16. 16 Venky Jois Denver (12-20-15) Venky Jois Weber State (3-7-15) Laron Griffin Northwest Univ. (11-18-10) Melvin Lewis Boise State (2-11-95) Kemo Patrick Valparaiso (11-24-90) Nate Perkins Nevado-Reno (1-12-89) John Randa Western Washington (2-21-85) 23. 15 Bogdan Bliznyuk Southern Utah (3-1-18) Mason Peatling Northern Colorado (1-27-18) Jacob Wiley Idaho State (2-25-17) Bogdan Bliznyuk Idaho (1-16-16) Martin Seiferth North Dakota (3-1-14) Venky Jois Northern Arizona (1-16-14) Laron Griffin Montana State (2-24-11) Alden Gibbs Walla Walla (12-1-09) Will Levy Evergreen State (12-22-98) On six other occasions ASSISTS 1. 18 Ronn McMahon 2. 17 Ed Waters Darryl Harris 4. 14 Jamal Jones Ronn McMahon 6. 13 Drew Brandon 7. 12 Drew Brandon Jason Lewis Brian Sullivan Ronn McMahon 11. 11 Bogdan Bliznyuk Drew Brandon Drew Brandon Cliff Colimon Deon Williams Deon Williams Rodrick McClure Melvin Bradley Leroy Dean Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon

UC-Irvine (12-13-88) Oregon Tech (2-14-76) Oregon Tech (2-19-71) Cascade (12-29-99) Miami-Ohio (12-30-89) North Dakota (1-24-15) Northern Colorado (2-1-14) Cal State Northridge (1-20-01) Northern Ariz. (2-16-91) Idaho State (1-4-90) Denver (11-26-16) Lewis-Clark State (12-22-14) Seattle (12-6-14) Linfield (12-8-11) Portland State (2-4-99) Cal State Northridge (1-5-98) Santa Clara (12-17-96) U.S. International (3-2-85) U.S. International (2-8-86) Nevada-Reno (1-12-89) Northern Arizona (2-24-90)

Pictured from left at the 2015 NCAA Tournament are TYLER HARVEY, VENKY JOIS & PARKER KELLY. 22. 10

Bogdan Bliznyuk Northern Arizona (3-3-18) #Bogdan Bliznyuk Northern Arizona (3-8-16) Austin McBroom George Fox (11-15-15) Drew Brandon Idaho (1-31-15) Drew Brandon Montana State (1-11-14) Drew Brandon Walla Walla (11-19-13) Justin Crosgile USC Upstate (11-21-12) Glen Dean Portland State (1-30-10) Glen Dean Nevada (12-17-09) Rodney Stuckey Idaho State (2-22-07) Rodney Stuckey Weber State (1-27-07) Rodney Stuckey Northern Colorado (1-4-07) Rodney Stuckey Pacific Lutheran (11-19-05) Jason Lewis Sacramento State (2-2-02) Brian Sullivan Valparaiso (11-24-90) Ronn McMahon Central Washington (12-10-87) Ronn McMahon Drexel (12-17-88) Ronn McMahon Central Washington (11-29-89) Leroy Dean Montana (12-2-85)

BLOCKED SHOTS 1. 8 Martin Seiferth 2. 7 Venky Jois Martin Seiferth Venky Jois Martin Seiferth 6. 6 Jacob Wiley Venky Jois Venky Jois Venky Jois Martin Seiferth Dexter Griffen 12. 5 Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Jacob Wiley Venky Jois Venky Jois Garrett Moon Venky Jois Venky Jois

Sam Houston State (2-23-13) Idaho State (1-3-15) North Dakota (3-2-13) Northern Colorado (1-19-13) Cal State Northridge (11-12-12) San Francisco (11-27-16) Idaho (1-10-15) Idaho State (3-6-14) Sacramento State (1-12-13) Utah Valley (11-20-12) Idaho State (1-2-87) Idaho (2-17-17) Idaho (12-30-16) Xavier (12-20-16) Seattle (12-4-16) Denver (11-26-16) Seattle (11-22-16) Linfield (11-11-16) Seattle (11-23-15) Montana (2-28-15) Sacramento State (2-12-15) Weber State (1-1-15) Indiana (11-24-14)

Frederik Jörg Venky Jois Cliff Ederaine Brandon Moore Brandon Moore Paul Butorac Paul Butorac Jake Beitinger T.J. Williams T.J. Williams Joshua Lewis Rick Swanwick David Peed

Walla Walla (11-19-14) Southern Utah (2-16-13) Sacramento State (12-29-10) Whitman (11-17-090 Portland State (2-28-09) Lewis-Clark State (11-18-06) UC Riverside (12-10-05) Cal State Northridge (12-4-05) Weber State (2-23-02) Montana (1-11-02) Montana (2-4-95) Southern Utah (12-28-93) Miami-Ohio (12-30-89)

STEALS 1. 9 2. 8 6. 7 13. 6

Ronn McMahon Brian Sullivan Ronn McMahon Jim Boxley Darryl Harris Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Alvin Snow Karim Scott Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Drew Brandon Cliff Colimon Rodney Stuckey Alvin Snow Jamal Jones Karim Scott Jerome Hall Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon

Portland (12-15-89) Nevada (1-8-91) Brigham Young (11-25-89) Carroll (12-2-67) Whitman (12-9-70) Idaho (12-21-06) Cal Poly (12-23-05) Washington (12-14-02) Cal Poly, SLO (11-25-97) Idaho State (3-2-89) Central Washington (11-29-89) Washington (12-13-89) Montana State (2-7-15) Washington State (12-3-11) Eastern Oregon (11-29-06) Montana State (1-11-03) Texas A&M CC (11-22-99) San Diego State (11-22-97) UT-Arlington (2-19-87) Youngstown State (12-29-87) Whitman (12-3-88) Montana (1-7-89) Miami-Ohio (12-30-89) Idaho State (1-4-90) Northern Arizona (1-18-90) Idaho (3-1-90)

#Part of the first triple-double in school history (11 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists)

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Season Statistical Leaders Scoring 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

741 738 726 712 701 694 692 677 626 595 560 554 527 525 521 518 507 498 485

Bogdan Bliznyuk Tyler Harvey Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Bogdan Bliznyuk Jacob Wiley Austin McBroom Tyler Harvey David Peed Randy Buss Paul Hungenberg Ron Cox Cliff Colimon Venky Jois Randy Buss Venky Jois Jack Perrault David Peed Ron Cox

Scoring Average 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

24.55 24.20 23.06 21.84 21.17 20.96 20.87 20.62 20.52 20.52 20.41 20.00 19.00 18.75 18.61 18.50 17.65

Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Tyler Harvey Tyler Harvey Bogdan Bliznyuk Austin McBroom David Peed Bogdan Bliznyuk Ron Cox Randy Buss Jacob Wiley Paul Hungenberg Dick Edwards Dave Lofton Randy Buss Dick Edwards Tony Chrisman

Field Goals Made 1.

3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 10.

265 265 251 250 246 237 230 227 227 220 220

Bogdan Bliznyuk Jacob Wiley Bogdan Bliznyuk Rodney Stuckey David Peed Ron Cox Tyler Harvey Rodney Stuckey Randy Buss Venky Jois Paul Hungenberg

Field Goals Attempted 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 0. 10.

529 510 502 501 500 490 488 465 455 430 430

Bogdan Bliznyuk Rodney Stuckey Bogdan Bliznyuk Rodney Stuckey David Peed Tyler Harvey Austin McBroom Tyler Harvey Dave Hayden Cliff Colimon David Peed

2018 2015 2006 2007 2017 2017 2016 2014 1989 1972 1978 1976 2012 2016 1971 2015 1945 1990 1977 2007 2006 2015 2014 2018 2016 1989 2017 1976 1972 2017 1978 1954 1969 1971 1955 1984

RONN McMAHON is one of the newest former men’s basketball players to be inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame. Honored in 2017, McMahon was one of the top point guards in NCAA Division I as a senior in the 198990 season when he helped Eastern to an 18-11 record and runner-up finishes in the Big Sky Conference regular season and tournament. His school records of 130 steals and 4.48 average in 1990, as well as his 3.52 career average, all still rank among the top eight performances in NCAA history.

Field Goal Percentage (Min. 5 Attempts Per Game) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

67.90 66.01 64.32 64.00 63.37 62.35 61.96 61.83 61.32 61.05 60.48

Venky Jois Ron Cox Jacob Wiley Paul Butorac Ron Cox Martin Seiferth Laron Griffin Jeff McAlister Ron Cox Venky Jois Mike Cranston

3-Point Field Goals Made 2018 2017 2017 2006 1989 1976 2015 2007 1972 2016 1978 2017 2006 2018 2007 1989 2015 2016 2014 1972 2012 1990

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 14. 15. 16.

128 115 109 105 103 96 88 77 76 73 67 66 66 65 64 61

Tyler Harvey Austin McBroom Tyler Harvey Felix Von Hofe Shannon Taylor Felix Von Hofe Collin Chiverton Justin Paola Shannon Taylor Marc Axton Cody Benzel Cliff Colimon Kevin Winford Parker Kelly Milan Stanojevic Ty Gibson

3-Point Field Goals Attempts 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

297 286 264 252 250 248 217

Tyler Harvey Austin McBroom Shannon Taylor Tyler Harvey Felix Von Hofe Felix Von Hofe Collin Chiverton

2016 1977 2017 2007 1976 2013 2012 1976 1974 2015 1980 2015 2016 2014 2016 1999 2017 2012 1991 1998 2005 2018 2012 2011 2015 2008 2018 2015 2016 1999 2014 2017 2016 2012

8. 9. 10.

206 196 187 187

Marc Axton Justin Paola Kevin Winford Shannon Taylor

3-Point Field Goal Percentage (Min. 1 Attempt Per Game) 1. 2. 3.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

56.7 55.8 50.0 50.0 50.0 48.5 46.3 45.9 45.8 44.9 44.8 44.0

Jeff Reinland Bogdan Bliznyuk Marco Quinto Marco Quinto Carl Crider Ty Gibson Josh Barnard Carren Wilson Aaron Olson Parker Kelly Cody Benzel Aaron Olson

Free Throws Made 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

215 171 166 161 159 156 153 150 145 141 137 133

Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Bogdan Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk Jacob Wiley Tyler Harvey Austin McBroom Tyler Harvey Matt Piper Randy Buss George Abrams Dick Edwards

Free Throws Attempted 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

254 225 196 192 190

Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Bogdan Bliznyuk Jacob Wiley Dick Koford

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2005 1991 2011 1998

1983 2015 2002 2001 1994 2017 2004 1992 2001 2012 2017 2000 2007 2006 2018 2017 2017 2014 2016 2015 1983 1972 1980 1954 2007 2006 2017 2017 1960


EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 6.

8. 9. 10. 11.

184 184 183 181 180 176 176

Bogdan Bliznyuk Austin McBroom Randy Buss Venky Jois Matt Piper Venky Jois Tyler Harvey

Free Throw Percentage (Min. 2 Attempts Per Game) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

90.22 90.00 89.87 89.66 89.47 86.25 85.81 85.71 85.45 85.44 85.22 84.71 84.65

Rebounds 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

10.

436 364 361 356 328 327 324 319 319 318

2018 2016 1972 2016 1983 2015 2015

Bogdan Bliznyuk Jeffrey Forbes Darren Cooper Tyler Harvey Parker Kelly Aaron Olson Dick Edwards Paul Hungenberg Tony Chrisman Emerson Gordon Tyler Harvey Paul Hungenberg Rodney Stuckey

2018 2011 2002 2014 2014 2001 1954 1978 1985 1976 2015 1977 2007

Dick Eicher Dave Hayden Jack State Ron Cox Ron Cox Bill Bacon Randy Buss Randy Buss Ron Cox Dave Hayden

1951 1972 1966 1977 1976 1967 1971 1972 1975 1973

Rebounding Average 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

16.1 13.9 13.6 13.3 12.8 12.6 12.3 12.1 11.6 11.1

Assists 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

292 231 207 191 170 168 164 160 160 160

Dick Eicher Jack State Bill Bacon Dave Hayden Ron Cox Dave Hayden Ron Cox Ron Cox Randy Buss Dave Hayden

1951 1966 1967 1973 1975 1972 1977 1976 1971 1971

Ed Waters Ed Waters Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Ed Waters Darryl Harris Deon Williams Drew Brandon Cliff Colimon Rodney Stuckey

1976 1977 1989 1990 1975 1971 1998 2015 2012 2007

Assists Per Game

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

11.0 10.8 8.1 6.9 6.6 6.1 6.0 5.5 5.4 5.4

Ed Waters Ed Waters Ed Waters Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Deon Williams Darryl Harris Rodney Stuckey Deon Williams George Abrams

1977 1976 1975 1989 1990 1998 1971 2007 1999 1981

Turnovers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

145 136 128 119 113 108 107 107 107 105

10.

Jerome Hall Ronn McMahon Jacob Wiley Bogdan Bliznyuk George Abrams Ed Waters Cliff Ederaine Rodney Stuckey Darryl Harris Cliff Colimon

Blocked Shots 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 12. 13.

94 69 68 66 56 51 49 44 41 37 37 35 34 34 34

Steals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

10.

130 80 71 68 66 63 61 57 57 54 54

Jacob Wiley Venky Jois Martin Seiferth Venky Jois Venky Jois Paul Butorac Venky Jois Martin Seiferth Cliff Ederaine Mason Peatling Matt Peppers Tremayne Johnson Cliff Ederaine Chris White Dexter Griffen

2017 2015 2013 2013 2016 2006 2014 2014 2012 2018 1981 2011 2011 2000 1987

Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Rodney Stuckey Alvin Snow Rodney Stuckey David Peed Drew Brandon George Abrams Wayne Peterson Karim Scott George Abrams

1990 1989 2007 2003 2006 1989 2015 1981 1981 1998 1980

Steals Per Game 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

8. 9. 10.

Head coach JIM HAYFORD was 106-91 in six seasons as EWU’s head coach, becoming the fastest to get to 100 victories in school history. He guided the Eagles to national postseason tournaments in his final three seasons at the helm. He is pictured at the 2015 NCAA Tournament press conference.

4.48 2.67 2.45 2.20 2.19 2.11 2.11 2.10 2.04 2.00

Ronn McMahon Ronn McMahon Rodney Stuckey Rodney Stuckey Alvin Snow George Abrams Wayne Petersen David Peed Kemo Patrick Karim Scott

Personal Fouls 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

(right) The opening tip of Eastern’s 2004 NCAA Tournament appearance against Oklahoma State.

130 114 112 105 104 102 101 100 100 100

Laron Griffin Laron Griffin T.J. Williams Bogdan Bliznyuk Mason Peatling Jacob Wiley Chris White Matt Nelson Austin Layton Dave Hayden

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1987 1989 2017 2018 1980 1976 2012 2006 1971 2012

1990 1989 2007 2006 2003 1981 1981 1989 1991 1998 2012 2011 2003 2016 2018 2017 1999 2004 1992 1971


EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Career Statistical Leaders Games Played 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 13. 14. 16. 17. 18. 19.

138 128 126 123 122 121 119 118 116 113 113 113 111 109 109 108 106 104 100

Bogdan Bliznyuk Felix Von Hofe Parker Kelly Sir Washington Venky Jois Jeffrey Forbes Marc Axton Alvin Snow Brandon Moore Kevin Winford Paul Butorac John Garrison Brian Sullivan Chris White Dave Henley Melvin Bradley Ron Cox Terry Reed Dave Hayden

Scoring (1000-Point Club) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21.

2,169 1,803 1,741 1,564 1,550 1,461 1,438 1,399 1,396 1,338 1,319 1,214 1,191 1,154 1,138 1,091 1,084 1,028 1,022 1,006 1,002

Bogdan Bliznyuk Venky Jois Ron Cox Tyler Harvey Irv Leifer Dave Hayden Rodney Stuckey Randy Buss Alvin Snow Dick Koford Marc Axton Dick Edwards Paul Hungenberg David Peed Brian Sullivan Tony Chrisman Dick Eicher Felix Von Hofe Jeffrey Forbes Parker Kelly Dave Henley

Scoring Average (Min. 45 Games) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

24.37 18.62 18.32 17.06 16.42 15.83 15.77 15.72 15.24 14.90 14.78 14.57 14.53 13.89 13.75 13.74 12.87 12.83 12.82

Rodney Stuckey Tyler Harvey David Peed Randy Buss Ron Cox Shannon Taylor Dick Edwards Bogdan Bliznyuk Roosevelt Brown Brad Sebree Venky Jois Dave Hayden Karim Scott Steve Hook Chris Hester Cliff Colimon Dick Koford Steve Barnett George Abrams

2015-18 2014-17 2012-15 2015-18 2013-16 2010-12 2002-05 2001-04 2007-10 2010-12 2004-07 1987-91 1988-91 1998-01 1979‑82 1982‑85 1974‑77 1977‑80 1970‑73

2015-18 2013-16 1974‑77 2013-15 1942‑47 1970‑73 2006-07 1970‑72 2001-04 1957‑60 2002-05 1953‑55 1975‑78 1988-90 1988-91 1982‑85 1949‑51 2014-17 2010-13 2012-15 1979-82

2006-07 2013-15 1988-90 1970-72 1974-77 1998-99 1953-55 2015-18 1985-86 1993-94 2013-16 1970-73 1997-98 1972-73 2002-03 2011-12 1957-60 1970-71 1980-81

Field Goals Attempted 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

1,553 1,286 1,232 1,159 1,118 1,066 1,017 1,011 1,010 960

Bogdan Bliznyuk Dave Hayden Venky Jois Ron Cox Alvin Snow Tyler Harvey Randy Buss Rodney Stuckey Marc Axton David Peed

Field Goals Made 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

776 729 718 588 541 537 494 477 476 444

Bogdan Bliznyuk Ron Cox Venky Jois Dave Hayden Randy Buss Alvin Snow Tyler Harvey Rodney Stuckey Paul Hungenberg Tony Chrisman

Field Goal Percentage (Min. 5 Attempts Per Game) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 11.

64.4 62.9 59.3 58.3 58.2 57.0 55.1 55.0 54.8 54.8 54.3

Martin Seiferth Ron Cox Paul Butorac Venky Jois Adam Dean Chris Hester Chris White Gene Glenn Nate Perkins Tony Chrisman Jeff McAlister

3-Point Field Goals Made 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

262 260 210 184 179 171 164 150 145 138 133 119

Felix Von Hofe Tyler Harvey Parker Kelly Marc Axton Shannon Taylor Jeffrey Forbes Justin Paola Bogdan Bliznyuk Cody Benzel Kevin Winford Collin Chiverton Ty Gibson

3-Point Field Goals Attempted 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9 10. 11. 12. NR

657 602 515 499 465 451 436 409 284 352 346 311 311 296

Felix Von Hofe Tyler Harvey Parker Kelly Marc Axton Jeffrey Forbes Shannon Taylor Justin Paola Kevin Winford Bogdan Bliznyuk Collin Chiverton Cody Benzel Cliff Colimon Alvin Snow Ty Gibson

2015-18 1970-73 2013-16 1974-77 2001-04 2013-15 1970-72 2006-07 2002-05 1988-90

2015-18 1974‑77 2013-16 1970‑73 1970‑72 2001-04 2013-15 2006-07 1975‑78 1982‑85

2013-14 1974‑77 2004-07 2013-present 1995-96 2002-03 1998-01 1977-78 1986-89 1982-85 1973-76

2014-17 2013-15 2012-15 2002-05 1998-99 2010-13 1990-92 2015-18 2016-18 2010-13 2012-13 2016-18

2014-17 2013-15 2012-15 2002-05 2010-13 1998-99 1990-92 2010-13 2015-18 2012-13 2016-18 2011-12 2001-04 2016-18

3-Point Field Goal Percentage (Min. 1 Attempt Per Game) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.

50.3 44.8 43.9 43.6 43.2 42.9 42.4 42.2 42.1 41.9 40.8 40.8 40.2 39.9 39.7 39.2

Marco Quinto Aaron Olson Rhett Humphrey Greg Gaulding Tyler Harvey Marcus Hinton Jake Beitinger Glen Dean Dennis Fitzgerald Cody Benzel Parker Kelly Kevin Sattler Ty Gibson Felix Von Hofe Shannon Taylor Carren Wilson

Free Throws Made 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

467 386 363 317 316 283 281 263 256 245

Bogdan Bliznyuk Rodney Stuckey Venky Jois Randy Buss Tyler Harvey Ron Cox Dave Hayden Marc Axton Dick Koford George Abrams

Free Throws Attempted 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

660 556 499 479 445 421 409 406 373 371

Venky Jois Bogdan Bliznyuk Dave Hayden Rodney Stuckey Randy Buss Dick Eicher Dick Koford Ron Cox Tyler Harvey Brandon Moore

Free Throw Percentage (Min. 2 Attempts Per Game) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

10. 11.

84.7 84.4 84.0 83.6 82.4 82.2 80.6 79.6 79.5 79.4 79.1 79.1

Tyler Harvey Dick Edwards Bogdan Bliznyuk Aaron Olson Paul Hungenberg Jamal Jones Rodney Stuckey Tony Chrisman Marcus Hinton Leroy Dean Glen Dean Danny Pariseau

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1999-02 2000-01 2006-07 1986-87 2013-15 2007-08 2005-06 2010-11 1999-00 2016-18 2012-15 1987-88 2016-18 2014-17 1998-99 1992-93

2015-18 2006-07 2013-16 1970‑72 2013-15 1974‑77 1970‑73 2002-05 1957‑60 1980‑81

2013-16 2015-18 1970‑73 2006-07 1970‑72 1948‑51 1957‑60 1974‑77 2013-15 2007-10

2013-15 1953-55 2015-18 2000-01 1975-78 2000-01 2006-07 1982-85 2007-08 1985-86 2010-11 2003-05


EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Rebounds 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

1273 1139 1015 858 831 690 620 540 527 526 510 495 488

Ron Cox Dave Hayden Venky Jois Randy Buss Bogdan Bliznyuk Brandon Moore Chris White Laron Griffin Kellen Williams Dave Pounds Dick Koford Paul Butorac Marc Axton

Rebounding Average 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

12.0 11.4 10.4 9.8 9.8 8.7 8.6 8.3 7.9 7.4 7.1 7.0

Blocked Shots 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

240 112 99 94 87 79 75 70 59 57 45 54

Steals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

11.

1974-77 1970-73 1970-72 1966-67 1957-60 1959-62 1985-86 2013-present 1977-78 2011-12 1995-96 1992-93

Venky Jois Martin Seiferth Paul Butorac Jacob Wiley Brandon Moore Chris White Cliff Ederaine Laron Griffin Austin Layton Tremayne Johnson Bogdan Bliznyuk John Wade

2013-16 2013-14 2004-07 2017 2007-10 1998-01 2011-12 2010-12 1992-93 2011-12 2015-18 1981-82

763 431 277 408 356 340 338 318 314 312 298

Ed Waters Ronn McMahon Bogdan Bliznyuk Deon Williams Terry Reed Brian Sullivan Melvin Bradley Alvin Snow Darryl Harris Drew Brandon George Abrams

1974‑77 1988-90 2015-18 1998-00 1977‑80 1988-91 1982‑85 2001-04 1971‑72 2014-15 1980‑81

225 212 146 137 97 121 120 119 117 117 111

Ronn McMahon Alvin Snow Brian Sullivan Rodney Stuckey Bogdan Bliznyuk Venky Jois Dave Henley Jeffrey Forbes David Peed Melvin Bradley George Abrams

1988-90 2001-04 1988-91 2006-07 2015-18 2013-16 1980-82 2010-13 1988-90 1982-85 1980-81

Assists 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

Ron Cox Dave Hayden Randy Buss Bill Bacon Dick Koford Dave Danielson John Randa Venky Jois Gene Glenn Cliff Ederaine Melvin Lewis Austin Layton

1974‑77 1970‑73 2013-16 1970‑72 2015-18 2007-10 1998-01 2010-12 2006-08 1967‑70 1957‑60 2004-07 2002-04

Legans Has Most Wins for a Rookie Head Coach at Eastern in 75 Years First-year head coach Shantay Legans is the 18th coach in Eastern history, and has made history of his own. His 20 wins are the most by a first-year Eastern coach in EWU’s NCAA Division I era, besting Ray Giacoletti with 17 in the 2000-01 season. Joe Folda also won 17 games in 198283 as an interim head coach during Eastern’s rise from NAIA to NCAA Division I. Thus, you have to go back to the 1942-43 season when Bob Brumblay won 27 games in his debut season to find a rookie Eastern coach with more than 18 victories, which is also the only time it’s happened. Among the victories was a 67-61 triumph at Stanford to break EWU’s 21-game losing streak versus Pacific-12 Conference foes. Interestingly, he played for California for three seasons from 2000-03 and the Bears lost to the Cardinal in all five meetings. Legans was an Eastern assistant for eight years before becoming EWU’s 10th coach at the NCAA Division I level. Legans spent six years on the staff of Jim Hayford (now head coach at Seattle), and two previous seasons under former head coach Kirk Earlywine (now an assistant at Idaho). Legans was associate head coach under Hayford for the final three of those eight seasons. He has been a part of Eastern teams from the 2013-14 through 2017-18 seasons which have win totals of 15, 26, 18, 22 and 20 games. The three 20-victory seasons are among the top four win totals in EWU’s 35-year history in NCAA Division I. The combined 101 wins in five seasons, 86 victories in four seasons, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the most since EWU became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. The same can be said of EWU’s stretch of league victories -- 10, 14, 10, 13, 13 -- in that five-year span. A former player at Cal and Fresno State, Legans is married to former Eastern women’s basketball player Tatjana Sparavalo. Their daughter, Zola Lee, was born June 16, 2016, and their son, Maksim (Mak) Lee, was born March 23, 2018.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 RECORD VERSUS OPPONENTS NCAA Division I All-Time Opponent W L Streak Home Away Neutral W L Last Meeting

Air Force 1 1 L1 Akron 0 1 L1 Alaska Anchorage 1 0 W1 Austin Peay 0 1 L1 Arizona 0 1 L1 Baylor 0 2 L2 Boise State 5 28 L5 Boston University 1 0 W1 Bradley 1 0 W1 Brigham Young 0 3 L3 Bryant 1 0 W1 Butler 1 0 W1 Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) 4 4 L1 Cal State Fullerton 2 4 W1 Cal State Northridge 11 9 W1 California 0 3 L3 Carroll 1 0 W1 Cascade 4 0 W4 Central Washington 5 2 W3 Chicago State 1 2 L2 Colorado 0 3 L3 Colorado State 0 2 L2 Columbia 1 0 W1 Concordia (Oregon) 2 0 W2 Connecticut 0 1 L1 Cornell 0 1 L1 Davidson 0 1 L1 Delaware 0 1 L1 Delaware State 1 0 W1 Denver 3 3 W2 DePaul 0 1 L1 Drake 1 0 W1 Drexel 0 1 L1 Eastern Illinois 1 1 W1 Eastern Kentucky 1 0 W1 Eastern Michigan 0 1 L1 Eastern Oregon 3 0 W3 Evergreen State 4 0 W4 Florida A&M 0 1 L1 Fresno State 0 1 L1 George Fox 1 0 W1 Georgetown 0 1 L1 Georgia State 0 1 L1 Gonzaga 5 34 L24 Grambling 1 0 W1 Hardin-Simmons 1 0 W1 Hawaii 1 1 W1 Hawaii Hilo 0 1 L1 Hofstra 0 1 L1 Idaho 17 35 L2 Idaho State 43 28 W3 Illinois 0 1 L1 Illinois-Chicago 0 1 L1 Indiana 1 1 W1 Iowa 0 1 L1 Jackson State 0 1 L1 Kansas 0 1 L1 Kansas State 0 3 L3 La Salle 0 1 L1 Lewis-Clark State 2 0 W2 Linfield 2 0 W2 LIU Brooklyn 1 0 W1 Louisiana-Monroe (NE La.) 0 2 L2 Long Beach State 0 1 L1 Marist 1 0 W1 Marquette 0 1 L1 Miami (Ohio) 1 1 L1 Michigan 0 1 L1 Michigan State 0 1 L1 Minnesota 0 2 L2 Mississippi State 0 1 L1 Missouri 0 1 L1 Missouri-Kansas City 1 1 L1 Montana 22 51 L1 Montana State 32 36 W1

1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-2 2-13 3-15 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-3 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 3-1 1-3 0-0 2-2 0-2 0-0 6-3 4-5 1-1 0-0 0-3 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 4-0 0-0 0-0 5-2 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 2-1 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 3-0 0-0 0-0 4-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 2-12 2-17 1-5 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 9-15 7-16 1-4 27-8 15-19 1-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 2-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-0 12-21 10-27 0-3 22-12 10-24 0-0

1 1 12/12/86 0 1 12/8/90 3 3 11/24/07 0 1 12/28/02 0 1 12/28/04 0 2 11/20/99 6 31 11/24/10 1 0 11/22/13 1 0 11/24/00 0 3 12/19/09 1 0 11/21/16 1 0 12/30/04 4 4 12/14/16 2 4 11/30/12 11 9 12/17/17 0 3 12/19/14 14 4 12/16/95 4 0 12/14/07 75 93 12/30/97 1 2 12/22/09 0 3 12/22/16 0 5 12/6/97 1 0 12/5/97 4 1 12/3/02 0 1 12/28/13 0 1 12/3/94 0 1 12/9/15 0 1 12/27/02 1 0 12/20/91 3 3 11/26/16 0 1 1/21/85 1 0 12/7/90 0 1 12/17/88 1 1 11/26/84 1 0 11/22/17 0 2 12/31/93 20 3 11/30/14 4 0 12/22/08 0 1 2/7/87 0 1 11/29/85 1 0 11/15/15 0 1 3/19/15 0 1 11/20/17 52 81 11/11/11 1 0 11/22/96 1 0 2/14/84 1 4 11/19/11 0 1 1/7/87 0 1 12/2/95 29 56 2/9/18 46 29 2/24/18 0 1 11/14/08 0 1 12/6/03 1 1 11/24/14 0 1 12/5/03 0 1 12/23/09 0 1 12/5/07 0 3 12/16/00 0 1 12/11/98 47 5 12/22/14 2 0 11/11/16 1 0 11/23/13 0 2 12/27/92 0 1 12/29/92 1 0 12/7/91 0 1 11/23/05 1 1 12/10/90 0 1 11/23/07 0 1 11/25/00 0 2 11/26/08 0 1 11/13/15 0 1 12/16/88 1 1 12/18/08 43 68 3/10/18 40 45 2/17/18

Montana Tech 1 0 W1 Morehead State 1 0 W1 Murray State 0 1 L1 Navy 0 1 L1 Nebraska 0 4 L4 Nevada (Reno) 2 10 L5 New Hope 1 0 W1 New Mexico 0 4 L4 North Dakota 4 6 W2 North Texas 0 1 L1 Northern Arizona 33 36 W2 Northern Colorado 11 11 W1 Northern Kentucky 1 1 L1 Northwest 5 0 W5 Northwestern 0 1 L1 Northwestern State 0 1 L1 Oklahoma 0 1 L1 Oklahoma State 0 1 L1 Old Dominion 1 0 W1 Oregon 0 2 L2 Oregon State 0 2 L2 Pacific (OR) 1 0 W1 Pacific Lutheran 3 0 W3 Pacific University 2 0 W2 Pan American 0 1 L1 Pepperdine 1 0 W1 Pitt 0 1 L1 Portland 7 9 L1 Portland State 23 23 W1 U. of Providence (formerly Great Falls) 3 0 W3 Puget Sound 0 1 L1 Sacramento State 35 14 W8 Saint Joseph’s 1 0 W1 Saint Louis 1 1 W1 Saint Martin’s 2 0 W2 Saint Mary’s 2 6 L4 Saint Peter’s 0 1 L1 Sam Houston State 3 1 L1 Samford 1 0 W1 San Diego 2 4 L4 San Diego State 3 3 L1 San Francisco 3 2 L1 San Jose State 1 4 L2 Santa Clara 2 5 L3 Seattle 8 7 L1 Seattle Pacific 0 1 L1 Seton Hall 0 1 L1 Southern Methodist 0 1 L1 South Carolina State 1 1 L1 South Dakota 1 3 L2 Southern California 0 1 L1 Southern Illinois 0 1 L1 Southern Utah 11 5 W2 Southwestern Louisiana 0 1 L1 Stanford 1 0 W1 Stephen F. Austin 0 1 L1 Texas 0 1 L1 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 0 2 L2 Texas Arlington 3 0 W3 Texas Southern 1 0 W1 Texas-San Antonio 0 1 L1 UC Davis 1 1 L1 UC Irvine 3 6 L3 UC Riverside 2 1 W2 UC Santa Barbara 3 3 L1 UCLA 0 1 L1 UNLV 0 2 L2 US International 4 2 W1 USC Upstate 1 0 W1 Utah 0 1 L1 Utah Valley 1 2 L1 Valparaiso 2 0 W2 Virginia Tech 0 1 L1 Walla Walla 4 0 W4 Warner Pacific 1 0 W1 Washington 1 14 L10 Washington State 1 14 L5 Weber State 24 47 W1 Western Baptist 1 0 W1

1-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-4 0-0 1-4 1-5 0-1 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-4 0-0 3-2 1-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 21-12 10-23 2-1 8-3 3-8 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 5-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 3-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 4-3 3-5 0-1 15-8 7-14 1-1 3-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 21-3 12-11 2-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 2-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 0-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 2-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 1-2 1-2 0-0 1-0 1-3 1-0 1-0 2-2 0-0 1-1 0-3 0-0 0-2 2-3 0-0 6-2 2-5 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 6-1 4-4 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 2-0 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 2-1 1-5 0-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-2 2-1 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 4-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 4-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-13 0-0 0-3 0-9 1-2 16-17 6-29 2-1 1-0 0-0 0-0

4 1 12/1/87 1 0 12/13/16 0 1 12/18/87 0 1 12/30/92 0 5 12/18/10 2 11 3/21/16 1 0 12/4/10 0 5 11/12/07 5 7 1/25/18 0 1 12/4/93 33 37 3/3/18 12 11 1/27/18 1 1 12/18/16 5 0 11/18/10 0 1 11/14/16 0 1 12/19/87 0 1 11/21/03 0 1 3/19/04 1 0 12/23/88 0 2 11/17/11 0 3 12/19/00 6 1 11/28/15 37 41 12/16/11 2 0 11/10/13 0 1 2/16/84 1 1 3/16/16 0 1 12/11/15 7 10 11/14/09 24 26 3/8/18 3 0 12/20/17 33 36 12/9/93 35 14 2/1/18 1 0 11/15/01 1 1 12/25/88 41 13 12/8/94 2 6 12/8/13 0 1 12/6/91 3 1 12/16/14 1 0 12/29/01 2 4 1/1/06 3 3 12/20/03 3 2 12/7/17 1 4 12/12/10 2 5 11/23/12 15 10 12/3/17 19 17 1/28/87 0 1 12/22/13 0 1 11/22/14 1 1 11/22/03 1 3 12/10/17 0 1 11/25/05 0 1 11/26/05 11 5 3/9/18 0 1 12/16/83 1 0 11/14/17 0 1 12/4/92 0 1 11/17/16 0 2 12/4/99 3 0 11/29/09 1 0 11/14/14 0 1 2/18/84 1 1 12/17/12 3 6 12/15/13 2 1 11/15/07 3 3 12/29/07 0 1 12/14/11 0 2 11/17/17 4 3 2/2/91 1 0 11/21/12 0 1 11/24/17 1 2 3/13/18 3 0 12/12/98 0 1 11/21/07 4 0 11/10/17 2 0 11/25/83 1 14 11/12/17 11 55 11/10/12 24 48 2/22/18 2 0 12/15/87

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Western Carolina Western Illinois Western Montana Western Washington Whitman Whitworth Wichita State

0 1 L1 1 1 W1 2 0 W2 2 0 W2 3 0 W3 6 1 W1 0 1 L1

0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 3-0 0-0 0-0 6-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0

0 1 12/14/15 1 1 1/6/86 18 11 11/26/96 99 60 2/19/86 29 7 11/17/09 68 43 12/30/95 0 1 11/20/04

Winthrop Wisconsin Wisconsin Green Bay Wyoming Xavier Youngstown State

1 0 W1 0 1 L1 1 2 W1 0 3 L3 0 1 L1 0 1 L1

0-0 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-3 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0-0

1 0 11/16/02 0 1 11/15/02 1 2 11/23/85 0 7 12/12/17 0 1 12/20/16 0 1 12/29/87

The 1976-77 “Screamin’ Eagles” Men’s Basketball team was inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016. Under head coach JERRY KRAUSE, Eastern outscored opponents by an average of nearly 18 points per game on its way to a 25-4 record. Eastern came one victory from a berth to the NAIA Tournament after finishing as the NAIA District 1 Tournament runner-up for the second-straight season. Front Row (left to right): Program Assistant Dave Stocker, Tom Rife, Wayne Robinson, Paul Hungenberg, Vic White, Terry Pepple, Robert Gatlin, Ed Waters, Terry Reed, Coach Larry Hinshaw. Back Row: Head Coach Jerry Krause, Mike Heath, Ray Palmer, Ron Cox, Martin Harpole, Jeff Miller, Rick Piper, Jim Savage, Eugene Glenn, Coach Ron Raver. their chance at a first-round bye and had to face the Eagles again. In the rematch, WSU outscored EWU 46-25 in the second half as the Wildcats overcame a 12-point EWU halftime lead and a 15-point deficit early in the second half. In 2013-14, the Eagles were 15-16 overall and missed the Big Sky Conference Tournament with a 10-10 league mark. Interestingly, Sacramento State was also 10-10, but secured the final bid because of a tiebreaker advantage over EWU, which dropped its final game of the season to Weber State 82-78.

Eagles in the Big Sky Tournament • Eastern has made 16 Big Sky Conference Tournament appearance in 31 years as a member of the league, and has a record of 15-14 in its 29 games. The Eagles are 1-0 in the first round, 5-5 in the quarterfinals, 7-4 in the semifinals and 2-5 in the championship. Before winning the 2015 title, Eastern hadn’t appeared since the 2011-12 and 2010-11 seasons, which were EWU’s first since 2006. The Eagles qualified for each tournament from 1998-2006. • Eastern won Big Sky Conference Tournament championships and appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2015 & 2004. The Eagles have also advanced to the National Invitation Tournament in 2003 and the College Basketball Invitational in 2016 and 2017. Eastern registered the school’s first NCAA Division I postseason win with a 79-72 victory over Pepperdine in the first round of the CBI in 2016. • Eastern’s 2014-15 squad won the title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament with a trio of victories in Missoula, Montana. Included was a come-from-behind 69-65 over the host Grizzlies in the championship game. • Before beating Montana for the 2015 title, Eastern had ended its season with losses to the Grizzlies in appearances in 2012, 2006 and 2005. But the year before, in 2004, EWU won the title with a 71-59 championship game victory over Northern Arizona to advance to the school’s first-ever NCAA Tournament (EWU made its first-ever NIT appearance in 2003). • Although its streak of Big Sky tournament berths came to an end in the 2006-07 season, at the time Eastern was just the fifth school in league history to make nine-straight appearances in the Big Sky Conference Tournament. Eastern started the streak back in 1998 after making just one trip to the tourney in their first 10 seasons as a member of the conference. Interestingly, Montana’s 77-69 victory over the Lumberjacks on Feb. 28, 2005, extended Eastern’s streak and ended NAU’s eight-season streak. Eastern’s streak started in 1998 with an end-of-year victory at Montana. That “winner advance, loser eliminated” game ended Montana’s 21-year streak. • In 2011, Eastern’s season came to an end with a 79-70 loss at Weber State in the quarterfinal round of the tournament. That came just three days after the Eagles stunned WSU on their home court 75-59 to end the regular season. Because of the upset, the Wildcats lost

Here is a list of Eastern’s all-time games in the Big Sky Tournament . . . 2018 -- Championship (Reno, Nevada) #3 seed vs. #1 Montana - L, 65-82 2018 -- Semifinal (Reno, Nevada) #3 seed vs. #10 Southern Utah - W, 82-70 2018 -- Quarterfinal (Reno, Nevada) #3 seed vs. #6 Portland State - W, 78-72 2017 -- Semifinal (Reno, Nevada) #2 seed vs. #3 Weber State - L, 72-80 2017 -- Quarterfinal (Reno, Nevada) #2 seed vs. #7 Sacramento State - W, 89-70 2016 -- Quarterfinal (Reno, Nevada) #6 seed vs. #3 Idaho - L, 73-77 2016 -- First Round (Reno, Nevada) #6 seed vs. #11 Northern Arizona - W, 74-52 2015 – Championship (Missoula, Mont.) #2 seed vs. #1 Montana - W, 69-65 2015 – Semifinal (Missoula, Mont.) #2 seed vs. #3 Sacramento State - W, 91-83 2015 – Quarterfinal (Missoula, Mont.) #2 seed vs. #7 Idaho - W, 91-83 2012 – Semifinal (Missoula, Mont.) #4 seed vs. #1 Montana – L, 66-74 2012 – Quarterfinal (Cheney, Wash.) #4 seed vs. #5 Idaho State – W, 81-75 2011 - Quarterfinal (Ogden, Utah) - #6 seed vs. #3 Weber State - L, 70-79 2006 - Semifinal (Flagstaff, Ariz.) - #3 seed vs. #2 Montana - L, 71-73 (ot) 2006 - Quarterfinal (Cheney, Wash.) - #3 seed vs. #6 Portland State - W, 81-75 2005 - Quarterfinal (Missoula, Mont.) - #6 seed vs. #3 Montana - L, 48-58 2004 - Championship (Cheney, Wash.) - #1 seed vs. #2 Northern Ariz. - W, 71-59 2004 - Semifinals (Cheney, Wash.) - #1 seed vs. #5 Weber State - W, 72-53 2003 - Championship (Ogden, Utah) - #2 seed vs. #1 Weber State - L, 57-60 2003 - Semifinals (Ogden, Utah) - #2 seed vs. #4 Idaho State - W, 76-67 2002 - Championship (Bozeman, Mont.) - #2 seed vs. #5 Montana - L, 66-70 2002 - Semifinals (Bozeman, Mont.) - #2 seed vs. #3 Weber State - W, 62-57 2001 - Championship (Northridge, Calif.) - #2 seed vs. #1 CS Northridge - L, 58-73 2001 - Semifinals (Northridge, Calif.) - #2 seed vs. #5 Northern Arizona - W, 58-53 2000 - Semifinals (Missoula, Mont.) - #2 seed vs. #3 Northern Arizona - L, 65-82 1999 - Quarterfinals (Ogden, Utah) - #6 seed vs. #3 Portland State - L, 74-80 1998 - Quarterfinals (Flagstaff, Ariz.) - #3 seed vs. #6 CS Northridge - L, 98-104 (ot) 1990 - Championship (Boise, Idaho) - #2 seed vs. #1 Idaho - L, 62-65 1990 - Semifinals (Boise, Idaho) - #2 seed vs. #5 Weber State - W, 83-67

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 RECORD VERSUS OPPONENTS (Pre-Division I) Opponent Alaska Fairbanks Almira HS BIOLA Black Hills State British Columbia Brooks Coffee Shop (AAU) Brownson Motors UC San Diego Cal Poly Ponoma Cal State Los Angeles California Baptist Centrailia CC Chemawa Indian School Cheney AC (AAU) Cheney Firemen Chico State Claremont Mudd Colfax AC (AAU) College of Idaho Colorado Mines Concordia (MN) Culver-Stockton Dakota Wesleyan Davenport HS Desserts, The (AAU) Doane Eastern Montana Ellensburg AC (AAU) Ephrata Bombers (AAU) EWU Alumni Fairchild AFB Farragut Fort Lewis Fort Wright Hospital Fresno State Garfield AC (AAU) Garfield HS Green American Club (AAU) Harley Davidson (AAU) Hastings Hat Freeman (AAU) House of David Humboldt State Inland Empire Oilers (AAU) Jamestown Jolly Roger Pirates Lamont AC (AAU) Leavenworth (AAU) Levitcch Sparklers (AAU) Lewis and Clark Louisiana Tech Loyola-Marymount Lynden AC (AAU) Macalester Mankato State Manlowe Freight (AAU) Marshall McCaw Hospital McGavins Medical Lake AC (AAU) Medical Lake HS Memphis State Metropolitan State Minneapolis Globe Trotters Minnesota-Morris Monitor AC (AAU) Moorhead State Moses Lake AFB Mount Angel National Pole (AAU) North Idaho North Pacific Dental School Northern Michigan Northwest Nazarene Northwestern Business Oregon Tech Pasadena Pasco Naval Flyers Pendleton AFB Phib Pacific Point Loma Potlatch AC (AAU) Prosser Pedagogues Quincy AC (AAU) Reardon AC (AAU) Redlands

W L 16 4 1 0 1 0 1 0 9 3 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 1 1 0 1 7 9 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 4 0 0 1 6 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 4 0 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 4 0 2 0 1 0 5 3 1 0 11 5 0 2 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1

The 1945-46 (top) and 1949-50 men’s basketball teams have been inducted into the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame (in 2003 and 2011, respectively). The ‘45-46 team was coached by RED REESE and led by IRV LEIFER, and both were inaugural members of the Hall. Eastern advanced to the quarterfinals of the NAIA Tournament and had a school-recod 31 wins (31-4). The ‘49-50 team finished 23-7 and was also coached by Reese, who called the team “my best basketball club” despite just missing a berth in the NAIA Tournament. Ritzville HS Rocky Mountain Roslyn AC (AAU) St. Cloud State St. John AC (AAU) St. John’s (MN) Sandpoint Alumni Scalers, The (AAU) Seattle All-Stars (AAU) Second Air Force Silver Loaf (AAU) Simon Fraser Southeast Missouri State Southeastern State Southern Oregon Spokane AC (AAU) Spokane College Spokane De Molay Spokane Elks (AAU)

2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 2 13 0 1 16 6 13 1 2

0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 5 1 1 2 5 0 0 0

Spokane HS Spokane University Spokane YMCA (AAU) Tacoma YMCA (AAU) Thomas & Price Sparks Utah Utah State Victoria Washington Wood Preservers Wenatchee Chiefs (AAU) Western Fruit Express (AAU) Western Oregon Westmont White Salmon AC (AAU) Whittier Willamette Wisconsin-River Falls Yakima American Legion (AAU) Yakima Motocrats (AAU) Yakima Veterans

2 1 16 4 16 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 3 0 4 0 15 1 2 1 3 0 2 0 1 3 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Eagles in National Postseason Tournaments In the 2017-18 season, Eastern made its sixth appearance in a national postseason tournament in school history and fourth-in-a-row. Eastern advanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2004 and 2015, were in the NIT in 2003 and have played in the last three College Basketball Invitational (CBI) tournaments in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In the 2016 CBI, Eastern recorded its first win in a national postseason tournament as a member of Division I with a 79-72 home win over Pepperdine. The Eagles are now 1-5 in postseason national tournaments as a member of NCAA Division I, and 7-10 overall. Eastern also played in the NAIA Championships (then known as NAIB) on five occasions, with a 6-5 record in appearances in 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946 and 1947. Before beating Pepperdine in 2016, Eastern’s previous national tournament victory came on March 12, 1947, when Eastern – then known as the Eastern Washington College of Education Savages – beat Dakota Wesleyan 62-48. One year earlier, Eastern lost to Pepperdine before meeting the Waves again for the second time in school history nearly 70 years to the day later in the CIT. Here is a list of Eastern’s all-time games in National Postseason Tournaments as a member of NCAA Division I (1-6) . . . 3/13/18 – College Basketball Invitational - at Utah Valley (Orem, Utah) - L, 65-87 3/15/17 – College Basketball Invitational - at Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.) - L, 81-91

3/21/16 – College Basketball Invitational - at Nevada (Reno, Nev.) - L, 70-85 3/16/16 – College Basketball Invitational - Pepperdine (Cheney, Wash.) - W, 79-72 3/19/15 – NCAA Tournament - #22 rank/#4 seed Georgetown (Portland, Ore.) - L, 74-84 3/19/04 – NCAA Tournament - #3 rank/#2 seed Oklahoma St. (Kansas City, Mo.) - L, 56-75 3/20/03 – National Invitation Tournament - at Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.) - L, 71-78

Here is a list of Eastern’s all-time games in the NAIA Tournament, which was then known as the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball Tournament (6-5) . . . 3/13/47 – NAIBTournament - Marshall (Kansas City, Mo.) - L, 48-56 3/12/47 – NAIB Tournament - Dakota Wesleyan (Kansas City, Mo.) - W, 62-48 3/11/47 – NAIB Tournament - Culver-Stockton (Kansas City, Mo.) - W, 51-48 3/14/46 – NAIB Tournament - Pepperdine (Kansas City, Mo.) - L, 42-46 3/13/46 – NAIB Tournament - Southeastern Oklahoma (Kansas City, Mo.) - W, 45-37 3/12/46 – NAIB Tournament - Louisiana Tech (Kansas City, Mo.) - W, 66-44 3/13/45 – NAIB Tournament - Doane - (Kansas City, Mo.) - L, 51-54 3/11/43 – NAIB Tournament - Southeast Missouri (Kansas City, Mo.) - L, 51-57 (ot) 3/10/43 – NAIB Tournament - St. Cloud State (Kansas City, Mo.) - W, 54-51 3/09/43 – NAIB Tournament - Valparaiso (Kansas City, Mo.) - W, 54-52 3/10/42 – NAIB Tournament - Southeastern State (Kansas City, Mo.) - L, 33-43

EWU’s NCAA TOURNAMENT TEAMS The 2003-04 and 2014-15 men’s basketball teams both advanced to the NCAA Tournament. After a 3-9 start in 2004, Eastern won the Big Sky regular season title and hosted the tournament at Reese Court. The Eagles, coached by RAY GIACOLETTI, rolled past Weber State and Northern Arizona before falling to Oklahoma State 75-56 in the Big Dance. Eleven years later under JIM HAYFORD, Eastern was 26-9 and won the Big Sky Conference Tournament title by winning three games on back-to-back-to-back nights in Missoula Mont. In the title game, Eastern rallied from 11 points down with six minutes to play to stun host Montana 69-65. The Eagles, who earlier in the season snapped the nation’s thirdlongest non-conference home court winning streak at 43 by beating Indiana, fell to Georgetown 84-79 in the NCAA Tourney.

Front Row (left to right): Brett Weisner, Eric Henkel, Josh Barnard, Alvin Snow, Brendon Merritt, Marc Axton, Danny Pariseau, Henry Bekkering. Back Row: Head Coach Ray Giacoletti, Administrative Assistant Denny Humphrey, Assistant Coach Brandon Rinta, Josh Love, Matt Nelson, Paul Butorac, Gregg Smith, Jeremy McCulloch, Khary Nicholas, Assistant Coach Mike Score, Assistant Coach Carl Howell, Administrative Assistant Andy Hill.

Front Row (left to right): Daniel Hill, Nate Galgalo, Parker Kelly, Tyler Harvey, Bear Henderson, Will Ferris, Garrett Moon, Sir Washington, Drew Brandon, Cody Benzel. Back Row: Student Manager Thomas Moore, Athletic Trainer Kristin Barnett, Graduate Assistant Manager Chase Grabau, Assistant Coach David Riley, Assistant Coach Alex Pribble, Bogdan Bliznyuk, Kyle Reid, Venky Jois, Head Coach Jim Hayford, Frederik Jorg, Ognjen Miljkovic, Felix Von Hofe, Assistant Coach Shantay Legans, Director for Athletic Performance Amir Owens, Graduate Assistant Manager Adam Bennett, Graduate Student Manager Tyler Goldman, Student Manager R.J. Salib.

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 All-Time Letterwinners Brandon, Drew 2014, 15 22 G 6-4 Corona, Calif. Santiago HS ’10/Sierra Col. Ca. Brewer, Holt 1948 Brite, Bill 1964, 65, 66, 67 55 P 6-5 Fairchild, Wash. Broderick, BIll 1969, 70 32 F 6-2 Missoula, Mont. North Idaho JC Brodie, Connie 1950 25 F 6-0 Renton, Wash. Brooks, Kevin 1972 50 C 6-8 Cheney, Wash. Brown, Chris 1974, 75 34 F 6-4 Colo. Springs, Colo. Hood River Valley HS Brown, Rocky 2011 2 F 6-6 Fresno, Calif. Central HS ‘10 Brown, Roosevelt 1985, 86 10 G 6-4 Phoenix, Ariz. N. Phoenix HS ’81/Scottsdale JC Brown, Wayne 1924 Browne, Keith 2002, 03 4 F 6-5 Kent, Wash. Kent-Meridian HS ’99/Tacoma CC Brunell, Matthew 2008, 09, 10 32 F 6-8 Cheney, Wash. Cheney HS ’06/Big Bend CC Bryan, Jay 1983, 84 32 F 6-6 Buffalo Lane, Minn. Buffalo Lake HS Bullock, Joe 1969, 70 12 G 5-11 White Plains, N.Y. Northeastern Colo. JC Burke, Gene 1948, 49, 50 12 C 6-4 Longview, Wash. Burkhart, Bob 1954, 55, 56, 57 24 F 6-2 Spokane, Wash. Burnham, Elmer 1946 Burns, Jack 1970 52 F 6-8 Longview, Wash. University of Wash. Burpee, Lloyd 1924, 25 Burton, Lincoln 1981, 82, 83, 84 54 F 6-7 Othello, Wash. Othello HS Busch, Chris 2009 1 F 6-6 Oakland, Calif. San Leandro HS ’05/Merritt Col., Calif./Santa Rosa JC, Calif. Buss, Randy 1970, 71, 72 42 F 6-5 Shannon, Ill. Butorac, Paul 2004, 05, 06, 07 43 C/F 6-10 Medical Lake, Wash. Medical Lake HS ‘02 Byers, Arthur 1924, 25, 26

List with Jersey Number, Position, Hometown, Previous Schools

Key to School Abbreviations: UW = University of Washington WSU = Washington State University CCS = Community Colleges of Spokane NIC = North Idaho College CCSF = City College of San Francisco EUJC = Eastern Utah Junior College LIP = Laurinburg Institute Prep CSI = College of Southern Idaho COS = College of the Sequoias LASW = Los Angeles Southwest College WWCC = Walla Walla Community College SICC = Southeastern Iowa CC WVCC = Wenatchee Valley CC LCCC = Lower Columbia CC DVCC = Diablo Valley CC SOCC = Southwestern Oregon CC GWJC = Golden West JC MPS = Monterey Peninsula College CAC = Central Arizona College LATT = Los Angeles Trade Tech SCC = Saddleback CC NDSU = North Dakota State AIS = Australian Institute of Sport UM = University of Montana LCSC = Lewis-Clark State College

WAYNE GILMAN

Name Years Lettered N P H Abrams, George 1980, 81 12 G 6-3 Adams, Dana 1991, 92 24 G 6-5 Affholter, Andy 1982, 83 22 G 6-2 Alaniva, John 1974, 75, 76 44 F 6-5 Albrecht, Jeff 1989 20 G 6-0 Allbaugh, Jack 1928, 29 Allen, Dave 1976 52 C 6-9 Allen, Geoffrey 2011 21 G/F 6-5 Allen, Joe 1962, 63, 64 44 C 6-6 Allen, Randy 1974 24 G 5-11 Anderson, Bertle 1935, 36, 37, 38 Anderson, Chris 1971 14 G 5-11 Anderson, Dick 1957 42 C 6-5 Anderson, George 1968, 69 10 G 6-0 Andrews, Damon 1990 44 F 6-5 Arlington, Jerry 1969 34 F 6-4 Artis, Chris 1993, 94 32 G/F 6-4 Ashley, Verne 1925 Averill, Rich 1968 55 F 6-4 Axton, Marc 2002, 03, 04, 05 24 F 6-7

Hometown White Plains, N.Y. Detroit, Mich. Toppenish, Wash. Colo. Springs, Colo. Snohomish, Wash.

High School/Previous College Woodlands HS Finney HS ’88/Eastern Utah JC Toppenish HS Mitchell HS/Colorado State Univ. Juanita HS ‘88

Bacon, Bill 1966, 67 43 P 6-6 Baines, Ron 1955, 56, 57 14 G 6-1 Banks, David 1986 30 F 6-6 Bardwell, Chester 1930 Barnard, Josh 2004 23 G 6-5 Barnett, Steve 1970, 71 4 F 6-5 Barnett, Tony 1980 32 F 6-6 Barnette, Duane 1967, 70, 71 34 G 6-1 Bartroff, Jack 1930 Bayless, Bill 1966 54 P 6-3 Beiber, Larry 1967, 68 Beitinger, Jake 2005, 06 32 F 6-8 Bekkering, Henry 2005, 06 11 F 6-7 Bell, John 1983 24 F 6-6 Belsby, Arne 1968 13 G 6-2 Benner, Harry 1927, 28 Benzel, Cody 2016, 17, 18 20 G 6-4 Berger, Jon 1997, 98 24 F 6-8 Berry, Gale 1988 22 G 6-6 Biel, Bob 1957 20 G 6-0 Bliznyuk, Brandon 2015, 16, 17, 18 32 G/F 6-6 Blood 1937 Boersma, Bob 1955 24 F 6-3 Boesel, Roger 1978, 79 22 G 6-2 Boxley, Jim 1968, 69 22 G 6-0 Bozeman, Marion 1967 Bradley, Melvin 1982, 83, 84, 85 12 G 6-1

Longview, Wash. Omak, Wash. Reseda, Calif.

Reseda HS ’83/Sheridan JC

Tacoma, Wash. Westminster, Colo. Westminster, Colo. Middletown, Ohio

Bethel HS ’99/Tacoma CC/UW Northwestern JC University of Wyoming Green River CC

Scapoose, Ore. Idaho State Univ. Los Angeles, Calif. Pacific Hills HS ‘10 Spokane, Wash. Oak Harbor, Wash. Chula Vista, Calif. Zillah, Wash. Chula Vista, Calif. Cerritos, Calif. Carey, Ohio East Chicago, Ind.

Southwestern JC Southwestern JC Cerritos HS ‘85/Cerritos JC Columbia Basin CC Andrean HS ‘92

Walla Walla, Wash. Federal Way, Wash. Foss HS ‘01

Mansfield, Wash. Port Orchard, Wash. South Kitsap HS ‘04 Taber, Alberta W.R. Myers HS ‘03 Portland, Ore. Roosevelt HS Amber, Wash. Cheney HS Spokane, Wash. Stockton, Calif. Great Falls, Mont. Spokane, Wash. Lutsk, Ukraine

Ferris HS ‘14 Lincoln HS ’93/Delta Col., Calif. Great Falls HS ’85/NIC Todd Beamer HS ‘14

Quincy, Wash. Brewster, Wash. Brewster HS Charleston, W. Va. Santa Ana CC Chicago, Ill.

Westinghouse Vocational HS

Campbell, Carlos Campbell, Kevin Carcamo, Alex Carlson, Carl Carter, Bryant Cartmell, Dan Charles, Dan Chase, Dale Childress, Aaron Chiverton, Collin Chrisman, Tony Christensen, Jeff Clark, James Clark, Quentin Claus, Zac Cleghorn, Jack Clifford, Joe Clift, Donald Coffman, Dave Colbert, Brian Colimon, Cliff Cooper, Darren Coulter, Vern Cox, Ron Coyle Cramer, Roger Cranston, Mike Crawford, Vern Cresswell, Doug Crider, Carl Crisp, Clair Curtis, Jeff

1994 23 G/F 6-4 1976 40 F 6-5 1999 30 F 6-7 1934 1996 5 G 6-2 1972 24 G 5-11 1972 1968 15 F 6-3 1993 33 G 6-4 2012, 13 24 F 6-6 1982, 83, 84, 85 50 C 6-9 2009 12 F 6-5 1946 1946, 49 1997, 98 21 G 6-2 1967, 68 35 G 5-10 1934, 35, 36 1927, 28, 29 1981, 82 30 G 6-2 1979 32 G 6-0 2011, 12 11 G 6-0 2002 22 G 6-3 1956 24 G 5-11 1974, 75, 76, 77 30 F 6-6 1929 1967 1980, 81 42 C 6-8 1956, 57, 58 22 G 5-8 1959, 60 1994, 95 12 PG 6-1 1922 1988 12 G 6-1

Danekas, Ray Danielson, Dave Darnall, Ray Davis, Eric Davis, Hank Davis, Harold Davis, James Davison, Jacob Day, Kenneth Dean, Adam Dean, Glen Dean, Leroy DeBoer, Roland DeJuan, Darcy DeLaittre, Shawn DeLeon, Adris Demissie, Abebe Demith, Tom Dennis, Kalu Dennis, Mike

1933, 34, 35, 36 1959, 60, 61, 62 C 6-6 1934 1971, 72 32 F 6-3 1934 1931, 32, 33 1925, 26, 27 2018 10 G 6-4 1932 1995, 96 44 F 6-8 2010, 11 1 G 5-10 1985, 86 24 G 6-2 1959, 60 1939 1991, 92 32 G 6-5 2008, 2009 10 G 5-11 2010 24 F 6-5 1981 40 F 6-5 1991, 92 12 PG 5-11 1945 F 5-8

Colon, Panama City Sweet Water HS ’90/Southwestern JC Spokane, Wash. Shadle Park HS Los Angeles, Calif. Hamilton HS ’95/Santa Monica JC Milwaukee, Wisc. Richland, Wash. North Platte, Neb. Spokane, Wash. San Jose, Calif. Wallowa, Ore. Portland, Ore.

Dominican HS ’93/Cloud County CC

Shadle Park HS ’90/CCS Archbishop Mitty HS ’08/CCSF Wallowa HS Wilson HS ’04/Lewis & Clark

Lincoln, Neb. Bellflower, Calif.

Southeast HS ’93/Nebraska

Broomfield, Colo. Zion, Ill. Brooklyn, N.Y. Portland, Ore. Kalama, Wash. Coulee City, Wash.

Regis Jesuit HS Zion-Benton HS Elizabeth HS, N.J. ’07EUJC Benson HS ‘01

Longview, Wash. Corvallis, Ore.

R.A. Long HS

Oakesdale, Wash.

Tekoa-Oakesdale HS ’93

Deming, Wash.

Mount Baker HS ‘87

Coulee City HS

Rosalia, Wash. Spokane, Wash.

Montebello, Calif.

Cantwell-Sacred Heart HS ‘16

Kent, Wash. Seattle, Wash. Phoenix, Ariz.

Kentwood HS ’92/Green River CC Roosevelt HS ’08/LIP East HS ’82/Mesa JC

Simi Valley, Calif. Bronx, N.Y. Seattle, Wash. Chicago Heights, Ill. Seattle, Wash. Omak, Wash.

Simi Valley HS ’88/L.A. Val. JC Brandeis HS ’04/CSI Rainier Beach HS ‘08 Bloom HS Chief Sealth HS ‘90

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Dickson, Robin 1932, 33, 34 Dieffenbach, Dan 1989, 90 Dietrich, Dan 1957 Dix, Mal 1948, 49, 50 Dodge, John 1952, 53 Doe, Duwayne (Dewey) 1948 Dormaier 1937 Dorsey, Ivan 2013 Drayton, Ron 1966 Dreschel, Elmer 1939, 42 Dunn, Eddie 1948 Dunn, Mark 2009, 10 Duvall, Garland 1927, 28 Dyer, Randy 1976

22 G 24 G 14 G 20 G

6-2 6-2 5-9 5-10

Edmonds, Wash. Meadowdale HS ‘86/Edmonds CC Battle Ground, Wash. Spokane, Wash Lewis & Clark HS Chelan, Wash.

JOHN LOTHSPEICH

20 G 6-0 San Francisco, Calif. Arch. Riordan HS ’10/CCSF 11 G 5-10 Seattle, Wash. 42 F 6-8 Trafalgar, Ind.

Indian Crk. HS ’06/Danville Area CC

42 F 6-4 Eaton, Colo.

Northeastern JC, Colo.

Ederaine, Cliff 2011, 12 42 F 6-7 Moreno Valley, Calif. Canyon Springs HS ’08/COS Edwards, Dick 1953, 54, 55 27 F 6-1 Spokane, Wash. Egan, Luke 1994, 95, 96, 97 22 F 6-7 Melbourne, Australia Parade Col. HS ’92/La Trobe U. Eicher, Dick 1948, 49, 50, 51 33 F 6-5 Palouse, Wash. Eickerman, Ken 1975 Eilmes, Ken 1961 Eller, Bob 1953, 54, 55, 56 22 G 6-0 Twisp, Wash. Elliott, Homer 1931, 32 Ellis, Bill 1952, 53, 54 32 P 6-5 Malden, Mass. Enos, Earl 1953, 54 21 G 6-1 Portland, Ore. Erickson, Harry 1940, 41 3 G 5-8 Longview, Wash. Erickson, Walter 1925, 26 Ervin, Ivan 1936, 37, 38, 39 Eustace, Ivan (Slim) 1935, 36, 37, 38 Evers, Stan 1946 Evertsbusch, Fred 1941 Farrell, Mike 1972 20 G Ferris, Will 2016 15 G Fiker, Art 1946 C Fishback, John 1928 Fitzgerald, Dennis 1999, 00 32 F Folger, Lonny 1967 13 G Forbes, Jeffrey 2010, 11, 12, 13 22 G Forney, Randy 1972 22 F Fowler, Bill 1929 Frazier, Fletcher 1954 36 P Frick, Bob 1963 F Fullerton, Roy 1966 50 P

5-11 Healdsburg, Calif. 6-1 Bellevue, Wash. 6-3 Poulsbo, Wash. 6-8 5-10 5-10 6-4

Newport HS ‘14

Castro Valley, Calif. Castro Valley HS ’96/Chabot JC Bremerton, Wash. Federal Way, Wash. Federal Way HS ‘09 Wenatchee, Wash.

6-5 Vancouver, Wash. 6-1 Richland, Wash. 6-6 Mountlake Terrace, Wash.

Gablehouse, George 1943, 46, 47, 48 Gale, Al 1969, 70 44 F 6-4 Denver, Colo. Northeastern JC Gamble, George 1970, 71 20 G 6-3 Oak Harbor, Wash. Spokane Community College Garcille, Trevor 1997 10 C/F 6-10 Lake Charles, La. DeSoto County ‘93/Blinn Col. Garrison, John 1988, 89, 90, 91 30 F 6-8 Mill Creek, Wash. Cascade HS ‘86 Garves, Don 1980, 81, 82 32 F 6-6 Spokane, Wash. Shadle Park HS Gatlin, Robert 1977 Gaulding, Greg 1986, 87 14 G 5-9 Dayton, Ohio Patterson Co-op HS ’82/NIC Genao, Andy 2009 22 G/F 6-3 Bronx, N.Y. Columbus HS ’03/Prairie View A&M Gibb, Grant 2017, 18 12 G 6-5 Longview, Wash. Mark Morris HS ‘15 Gibbs, Alden 2010 10 G 6-3 Brooklyn, N.Y. Canarsie HS ’07/COS Gibson, Gary 2008, 09, 10 14 G 6-1 Windsor, Ontario Washington HS ’ 05/Miami Dade C. Gibson, Ty 2016, 17, 18 2 G 6-3 Issaquah, Wash. Issaquah HS ‘15 Giffen, Dan 1963 Giffen, Larry 1966 31 P 6-6 Yakima, Wash. Giles, Fred 1935, 36, 37 Gilman, Ed 1934 Gilman, Wayne 1966, 67, 68, 69 32 G 6-0 Springdale, Wash. Mary Walker Glanton, Anthony 1988 32 F 6-6 San Francisco, Calif. Washington HS ‘86 Glasgow, Gary 1965 33 G 5-11 Medical Lake, Wash. Glendenning, Pat 1946 Glenn, Gene 1977, 78 40 F 6-5 Tacoma, Wash. Goldwire, Alphonso 1986 12 G 6-1 Seattle, Wash. Chief Sealth HS ‘85 Gordon, Emerson 1976 14 G 6-0 Denver, Colo. Gordon, John 1966 35 G 6-2 Winthrop, Wash. Gorton, Milo 1938, 39 Graffis, Kevin 1975 40 F 6-6 Oakesdale, Wash. Oakesdale HS Grahlman, Bill 1951, 52, 53, 56 26 C 6-6 Newport, Ore. Griciunas, Benas 2018 15 C 7-0 Silute, Lithuania Findlay Prep ‘13/UNC Charlotte Griffen, Dexter 1986, 87 22 G 6-6 Longview, Wash. R.A. Long HS ’84/Spokane CC Griffin, Laron 2010, 11, 12 15 F 6-8 Los Angeles, Calif. Manual Arts HS ’07/LASW Gross, Trey 2008 21 G 6-2 Stockton, Calif. Edison HS ‘07 Groves, Kevin 1995, 96 33 F 6-5 Suisan, Calif. De La Salle HS ’93/Mt. Hood CC Gruber, Joe 1945, 48 F 5-11 Spokane, Wash. Gunn, Larry 1963

JOHN LOTHSPEICH (above) and CLINT HULL (right). Hackney, Hadley 1925, 26, 29 Hall, Jerome 1987 24 G 6-3 Hall, Vernon 1991 21 G 6-7 Hallett, Bill 1948, 49, 50, 51 20 G 5-10 Hames, Ted 1926, 27, 28 Hancock, Bernie 1953, 57 28 6-3 Hancuff, Bob 1957 10 G 5-11 Hannan, Dick 1961, 62 G 6-0 Hansen, Bob 1963 Hansen, Dave 1964, 65 12 G 6-1 Hansen, Ryan 1999, 00 14 G 6-2 Hardy, Emir 1978, 79 44 C 6-6 Harper, Keith 1974 10 G 5-10 Harpole, Marty 1977, 78, 79 54 F 6-10 Harrell, Julian 2016 0 G/F 6-5 Harris, Daryl 1971, 72 14 G 6-2 Harris, Randy 1974, 75 32 G/F 6-1 Hartman, Bob 1943 Hartman, Walt 1958, 59, 61, 62 G 5-9 Harvey, Tyler 2013, 14, 15 1 G 6-4 Hayden, Dave 1970, 71, 72, 73 30 C 6-9 Hayden, Mo 1985 30 W 6-6 Hayes, Ed 1955 28 C 6-6 Heath, Mike 1977 Helton, Ron 1934, 35 Henderson, Bear 2016 11 F 6-6 Hendricks, Gary 1948, 49 Hendrickson, Paul 1964 14 G 5-10 Henkel, Eric 2004, 05 3 G 6-4 Henley, Dave 1979, 80, 81, 82 20 G 6-2 Hering, George 1942, 47, 48 Henry, Jaylen 2011, 12 34 F 6-7 Hester, Chris 2002, 03 5 F/G 6-3 Heutink, Rocky 1973, 74 14 G 6-0 Hickert, Jordan 2012, 13 25 F 6-9 Hill, Daniel 2013, 14, 15 2 G 5-9 Hill, Ed 1953, 54, 55 32 C 6-7 Hinton, Marcus 2007, 08 1 G 6-3 Hipskind, Dave 1939, 40, 41, 42 7 C 6-6 Hite, Bernie 1973, 74, 75 42 F 6-4 Hoban, Wilfred 1929, 30 Hoeft, Kermit 1945 C 6-4 Hollines, Harry 1990 Holloway, Homer 1930 Holloway, Tom 1933, 34 Hook, Steve 1972, 73 42 F 6-4 Hopley, Mike 1972 40 G 6-2 Howe, Fred 1921, 22 Hudgens, Ken 1986, 87 20 G 6-3 Huffman 1929 Hull, Clint 2001, 02 3 g 6-2 Hunt, Jesse 2016, 17, 18 34 F 6-7 Hunter, Kareem 2000, 01 24 F 6-6 Huizinga, Tim 1987 34 F 6-8 Humbert, Jason 1998, 99, 01, 02 52 C 6-9 Humphrey, Rhett 2006, 07 20 G 5-11 Hungenberg, Paul 1976, 77, 78 32 G 6-3 Jarms, Dan Jarvis, Vince

1987, 88 1963, 64, 65

Cerritos, Calif. Oakland, Calif. Colfax, Wash. Pasco, Wash. Toppenish, Wash. Spokane, Wash

Cerritos HS ’84/Cerritos JC Alameda HS ‘90

North Central HS

Spokane, Wash. Leavenworth, Wash. Cascade HS ’96/WWCC Chicago, Ill. Bloom Township HS Port Townsend, Wash. Moses Lake, Wash. Moses Lake HS Los Angeles, Calif. Loyola HS ’12/Penn/CCSF Hackensack, N.J. Walla Walla, Wash. Walla Walla CC, Wash. Coulee City, Wash. Torrance, Calif. Bishop Montgomery HS ‘11 Denver, Colo. University City, Mo. University City/Weatherford St. John, Wash. Missions Hills, Calif. Village Christian HS ‘14 Anatone, Wash. Missoula, Mont. Spokane, Wash. Las Vegas, Nev. Fort Madison, Iowa Everson, Wash. Bunbury, Australia Sydney, Australia Mile City, Mont. Tacoma, Wash. Wenatchee, Wash. Kailua, Hawaii

Sentinel HS ‘03 Shadle Park HS Cheyenne HS ‘10 Fort Madison HS ’98/SICC Nooksack Valley Bunbury HS ’07/Neosho County CC Newington College HS ‘11 Wilson HS ’04/Centralia CC Kamehameha HS

Vancouver, Wash.

Vancouver, Wash. Burlington, Wash.

Clark CC

Elgin, Ill.

Elgin HS ’83/Sheridan JC, Wyo.

Pateros, Wash. Geraldton, Australia Seattle, Wash. Bellevue, Wash. Salem, Ore. Cheney, Wash. Greeley, Colo.

Pateros HS ‘00 Sir Francis Drake HS ‘15 Rainier Beach HS ’97/Modesto JC Sammamish HS ‘85 N. Salem HS ’96/Chemeketa JC Cheney HS ’03/WVCC University HS

50 C/F 6-8 Cheney, Wash. 54 F 6-5 Fruitvale, B.C.

Cheney HS ‘86

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Jayne, Clarence 1923 Johnson 1930 Johnson, Chris 1999, 01 54 C Johnson, Miguel 1991, 92 44 G Johnson, Tremayne 2011, 12 20 F Jois, Venky 2013, 14, 15, 16 55 F Jones, Leonard 1943 Jones, Jamal 2000, 01 23 G Jones, Robert 1935, 36, 37, 38 Jörg, Frederik 2013, 15 21 C Kalinowski, Dave Karstetter, Jerry Kautz, Dave Keeler, Al Kelly, Gene Kelly, Lamont Kelly, Parker Kenney, Jim Kerns, Lawrence King, Mike King, Travis Kirstein, Ken Koford, Dick Kramer, John Krayem, Omar Langdon, Joe Lanier, Stan Lawrence, Ernest Layton, Austin Leach, Noble LeBlanc, Troy Lee, Don Lees, Whitney Lefevre, Quim Leifer, Bob Leifer, Irv Levy, Will Lewis, Jason Lewis, Joshua Lewis, Kevin Lewis, Melvin Lewis, Michael Lincoln, Eddie Lindow, Jim Loe, James Lofton, Dave Logue, Bob Loofburrow, Jack Lothspeich, Bill Lothspeich, John Luft, Dick Lundeby, Doug Lynch, Bob

6-10 6-4 6-7 6-8

Colo. Springs, Colo. Richmond, Calif. Los Angeles, Calif. Boronia, Australia

6-0 Richmond, Calif.

Thomas Doherty HS ‘98 Richmond HS ’88/Contra Costa CC Artesia HS ’07/LASW Box Hill HS ‘11 El Cerrito HS ’97/Santa Rosa JC

7-1 Korschenbroich, Germ. Gymnasium Eversten HS ‘12

1973 10 G 6-0 1981 52 F 6-7 1972, 73 12 G 5-8 1957, 58, 59, 60 12 G 5-9 1948, 49, 50, 51 29 G 5-8 1985 14 G 6-1 2012, 13, 14, 15 10 G 6-4 1966 53 G 6-3 1935, 36, 37 1988, 89 34 C 6-7 1996, 97 20 G 5-11 1966, 67 44 G 5-11 1957, 58, 59, 60 52 F 6-4 1956, 57 34 C 6-4 2007 2 G 6-0 1922 1979 40 F 6-5 1976 34 G 6-4 1992, 93 00 F/C 6-6 1921 1992, 93 44 F 6-6 1939 1931, 32, 33 1922, 23, 24 1943 1942, 43, 46, 47 1999, 00 3 F 6-8 2001, 02 14 G 6-3 1994, 95 44 G/F 6-6 1997, 98 34 C/F 6-10 1995, 96 4 C/F 6-8 1997, 98 30 G/F 6-6 2001, 02 4 G/F 6-4 1966 41 G 6-3 2005 25 G 5-10 1969 20 G 6-0 1950 25 G 6-0 2008 24 F 6-6 1943 1942, 43, 47, 48 1947, 48, 49, 50 17 G 6-2 1968 51 C 6-7 1967

Pasco, Wash. Spokane, Wash. Merino, Colo. Entiat, Wash. Chelan, Wash. Oakland, Calif. Spokane, Wash. Otis Orchard, Wash.

Columbia Basin College Central Valley HS

St. Elizabeth HS Gonzaga Prep HS ‘11

Turlock, Calif. Hughson HS ’82/Modesto JC Ephrata, Wash. Ephrata HS ’93/WWCC Odessa, Wash. Corvallis, Ore. Coeur d’Alene, Ida. Modesto, Calif. Modesto HS ’04/LCCC Federal Way, Wash. Federal Way HS Cleveland, Miss. Howard County CC, Texas San Francisco, Calif. O’Connel HS ’89/CCSF San Francisco, Calif. Riordan HS ’88/Skyline CC

Oakland, Calif. Eugene, Ore. Temecula Val., Calif. Midwest City, Okla. Chicago, Ill. Berkeley, Calif. Seattle, Wash. Spokane, Wash. Hillsboro, Ore. Argo, Ill. Renton, Wash. Yakima, Wash.

McClymonds HS ’96/DVCC Churchill HS ’98/SOCC Temecula Val. HS ’91/GWJC Carl Albert HS ’92/Kansas St. Martin Luther King HS ’91/COS Berkeley HS ’93/MPC O’Dea HS ‘00 Hillsboro HS ‘04 Northeastern Oklahoma JC Eisenhower HS ‘06

Colfax, Wash. Walla Walla, Wash.

Maggard, Ray 1970, 71 40 G/F 6-3 Lexington, Kentucky Henry Clay HS/Southeastern JC Magnus, Wilbur 1939 Maloney, Mike 1969 14 G 6-3 Spokane, Wash. Shadle Park HS Manigo, Dorian 1993 23 G 6-1 San Francisco, Calif. Riordan HS ’90/Santa Monica JC Manske, Rich 1964 24 G 6-2 Selah, Wash. Marcum, Orville 1949 Masterman, Bob 1950, 51 32 C 6-5 Yakima, Wash. Matheson, Kent 1957, 58, 59 50 F 6-4 Corvallis, Ore. Maye, Dean 1983 20 G 5-11 San Francisco, Calif. Balboa HS ‘78 McAlister, Jeff 1974, 75, 76 22 G 6-1 Spokane, Wash. McBane, John 1937 McBroom, Austin 2016 5 G 6-0 Los Angeles, Calif. Campbell HS ’11/ Central Michigan/Saint Louis McClure, Rodrick 1997 15 G 5-10 Las Vegas, Nev. Cimmaron Mem. HS ‘94/CAC McCulloch, Jeremy 2002, 03, 04, 05 15 F/C 6-11 Ladysmith, B.C. Ladysmith HS ‘00 McCurdy, Paul 1926 McDougall, Don 1956, 57 34 G 6-2 Highline, Wash. McFarland, John 1959 C 6-4 Dayton, Wash. McGee, Tony 1998, 99 10 G 6-2 Moreno Valley, Calif. Valley View HS ’96/Naval Acad. Prep McGillivray, Willard 1953, 54, 55, 56 30 F 6-4 Granite Falls, Wash. McGuire, Mike 1964, 65 42 F 6-3 Weippe, Idaho McIntyre, Bob 1954 30 P 6-4 Spokane, Wash. McKay, Geremy 2017 40 F 6-7 Melbourne, Australia Caulfield Grammar ’13/Albany McKie, Alex 2000 33 G/F 6-4 Rancho Cucamonga, Ca. Alta Loma HS ’97/Chaffey JC McKie, Scott 1984 20 G 6-3 West Linn, Ore. West Linn HS ‘80

GREGG SMITH (above) & ED WATERS (right) McLaren, Dick 1944, 47, 48 McMahon, Ronn 1989, 90 10 G 5-9 McRae, Rashano 2011 12 F 6-7 Meeks, Larry 1972, 73 44 F 6-4 Meinke 1957 Mendham, Bob 1941, 42 8 G 6-1 Merritt, Brendon 2003, 04 2 G 6-4 Miljkovic, Ognjen 2014, 15 0 F 6-7 Miller, Jeff 1977 Miller, Ron 1944 Miller, Theo 1922, 23 Minnich, Don 1950, 51, 52, 53 24 G 6-0 Monasmith, Darwin 1963, 64 22 G 6-1 Moon, Garrett 2014, 15 33 F 6-5 Moore, Brandon 2007, 08, 09, 10 45 C/F 6-9 Moore, Clive 1926, 27, 28 Moore, Rich 1961 F 6-4 Moore, Wade 1923, 24, 28 Moss-Kelley, Stephen 1997 3 F 6-5 Mulligan, Rich 1972 52 F 6-3 Naslund, Sis Nelson, Don Nelson, Gene Nelson, Matt Newman, Sean Nicholas, Khary Nicolai, Bob Niles, Wally Nixon, Will Nugent, John Nuno, Rico Odell, Jim Oja, Vernon Oleson, Wayne Olson, Don Olson, Aaron Olson, Greg Otis, Rob

1939 1957, 58, 59 44 G 1964, 65 2004, 05 22 F 1989, 90 2004, 05 44 F 1939, 40, 41, 42 13 F 1968, 69 24 F 1983 44 F 1959, 60, 61, 62 C 2016 22 F 1949 1930 1940, 41, 42, 43 5 F 1950 28 G 2000, 01 22 G 1989, 90 30 F 1985, 86 32 F

Upland, Calif. Bronx, N.Y. Hackensack, N.J.

Upland HS ‘88/Utah Tech Western HS ’07/Highland JC Northeastern JC

Central Valley, Wash. Tacoma, Wash. Bellarmine Prep HS ’99/Tacoma CC Belgrade, Serbia Bishop Montgomery HS ‘13

Sunnyside, Wash. Kennewick, Wash. San Francisco, Calif. Wallenberg HS ’10/CCSF Graham, Wash. Bethel HS ‘05 Priest River, Idaho Oakland, Calif. Los Altos, Calif.

Brophy Prep HS ’96, Ariz.

5-11 Lamont, Wash. 6-8 Issaquah, Wash.

Skyline HS ‘03

6-7 6-3 6-3 6-7 6-5 6-8

Tacoma, Wash. Foss HS ’00/Tacoma Wash CC Garfield, Wash Newark, Ill. Joliet JC Chicago, Ill. Westinghouse Vocational HS Spokane, Wash. Rogers HS Half Moon Bay, Calif. Half Moon Bay HS ’14/DVC

5-9 5-11 6-5 6-4 6-6

Hoquiam, Wash. Highline, Wash. Brentwood Bay, B.C. Stallys HS ’96/Univ. of Victoria Oak Harbor, Wash. Oak Harbor HS ’86/Skagit Val.CC Gresham, Ore. Barlow HS ’81/Mt. Hood CC

Palmer, Ray 1977 54 C/F 6-5 Palmer, Roy 1988 20 G 6-1 Paola, Justin 1990, 91, 92 22 G 6-6 Pariseau, Danny 2003, 04, 05 12 G 5-11 Paski, Urho 1930 Paterson, Ted 1959, 60, 61, 62 G 6-3 Patrick, Kemo 1991, 92 42 F 6-6 Patterson, Eric 1985, 86 42 F 6-5 Patterson, George 1935, 36

Los Angeles, Calif. West Los Angeles JC San Francisco, Calif. Washington HS ‘86 Portland, Ore. Lake Oswego HS ‘89 Spokane, Wash. Shadle Park HS ‘02 Moses Lake, Wash. Los Angeles, Calif. Crenshaw HS ’87/Santa Monica JC Pleasanton, Calif. Amador Valley HS ’82/Chabot JC

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Payne 1959 Peatling, Mason 2017, 2018 14 F 6-8 Peck, Harry 1930 Peed, David 1989, 90 24 f 6-4 Peek, Scott 1990, 91 55 F 6-10 Penoncello, Matt 2006, 07 5 G/F 6-5 Peppers, Matt 1981 22 F 6-5 Pepple, Terry 1977 24 F 6-4 Perfect, Les 1946, 50 10 F 6-3 Perkins, Nate 1986, 87, 88, 89 52 F 6-6 Perrault, Jack 1942, 43, 44, 45 F 6-2 Perry, Jack 2018 11 G 6-2 Petersen, Wayne (Scooter) 1981, 82 14 G 6-2 Peterson, Tom 1985 22 W 6-6 Picard, Bob 1973 52 F 6-3 Pickering, Jack 1924 Pierson, William 1930 Piper, Matt 1981, 82, 83, 85 34 F 6-6 Polanco, Richard 2018 5 F 6-8 Polk, Dave 1967, 68, 69 40 C 6-8 Porter, Curtis 1995, 96 32 G/F 6-3 Porter, Gene 1935, 37 Pounds, Dave 1966, 67, 69, 70 50 F 6-8 Quinto, Marco

Melbourne, Australia Beaconhills College HS ‘16 San Francisco, Calif. Riordan HS ’85/Skyline JC Elma, Wash. Elma HS ‘88 Moscow, Idaho Moscow HS ‘04 Chicago, Ill. Cregier Vocational HS Mercer Island, Wash. Twisp, Wash. Hayward, Calif. Hayward HS ‘84 Toppenish, Wash. Melbourne, Australia Camberwell Grammar Sch. ‘16 Richmond, Calif. El Cerrito HS Spokane, Wash. Shadle Park HS Omak, Wash. Roy, Wash. Dominican Rep. Vancouver, Wash. Richmond, Calif.

Bethel HS Army-Navy Academy ‘17 Hudson’s Bay El Cerrito HS ’92/Dixie JC

Seattle, Wash.

Cleveland HS

1999, 00, 01, 02 13 F 6-6 Bellevue, Wash.

Raappana, Roy (Rip) 1948 Randa, John 1985, 86 54 C 6-8 Rapp, Ben 1930 Ray, Cleodis 1969 54 C 6-7 Rebensdorf, Phil 1934, 35, 36 Reed 1927 Reed, Terry 1977, 78, 79, 80 14 G 5-10 Reid, Kyle 2015, 16 23 F 6-8 Reinland, Jeff 1983, 84 14 G 6-2 Reuter, Thomas 2013, 14 13 F 6-6 Revak, Tony 1980 30 G 6-1 Reynolds, Bobby 1978 12 PG 5-11 Reynolds, Ed 1941 9 F 6-4 Richardson, Ed 1994, 95 4 F 6-7 Richmond, Anthony 1990, 91, 92 34 F 6-7 Rideout, D’mitri 1995, 96 3 G 6-3 Ridnour, Rob 1975, 76 10 G 6-1 Risper, Derek 2006, 07 41 F 6-8 Roberts, Gary 1958, 59, 60, 61 Roberts, Vic 1959, 60 Roffler, Dean 1950, 51, 52, 53 27 G 6-1 Roffler, Jack 1944, 45, 46 F 5-8 Rutherford, Paul 1983, 84 42 C 6-8 Sale, Clyde (Chic) 1946, 48 Sattler, Kevin 1987, 88 42 C/F 6-8 Savage, Jim 1977, 78, 79 30 F 6-6 Scheffler, Tim 2005 1 G 6-4 Schereer, G. 1936 Schmidt, Wayne 1945 5-8 Schorzman, Herman 1937 Schreck, Carl 1939, 40 Schuter, Randy 1973 40 G 6-2 Scott, Karim 1997, 98 42 F 6-6 Sebree, Brad 1993, 94 12 PG 6-0 Seiferth, Martin 2013, 14 12 F 6-10 Seil, Mark 1972, 74 34 G/F 6-3 Sharp, Ralph 1964, 65, 66 13 G 5-11 Sherwood, Dan 1954, 55, 56 28 G 6-0 Sims, Al 1968, 69 30 F 6-1 Sims, Mike 1996, 97, 98 23 F 6-8 Sledz, Uli 1979, 80 50 C 7-0 Small, William 1978 42 G 6-5 Smith, Adolphe 1926, 27 Smith, Allen 1989 12 G 6-0 Smith, Deuce 2005, 06 10 G 6-3 Smith, Donald 1993, 94 22 G 6-2 Smith, Gerald 1922 Smith, Gregg 2002, 03, 04 42 C 6-10 Smith, Robert 1937, 38, 39, 40 Smith, Tom 1943, 45 G 6-3 Snow, Alvin 2001, 02, 03, 04 52 G/F 6-2 Snyder, Roy 1923 Soto, Mario 2017 42 G 6-6 Speer, Jim 1955 23 G 6-0

Interlake HS ‘98

Surrey, B.C.

North Surrey HS ’81/NIC

Argo, Ill.

Casper Wyoming JC

Tacoma, Wash. Wilson HS Los Angeles, Calif. Bishop Montgomery HS ’11/LATT Pomeroy, Wash. Pomeroy HS ‘80 Breckerfeld, Germ. Theodor-Heuss Gym. HS ‘11 Hines, Ore. University of Wyoming Colo. Springs, Colo. Wasson HS Spokane, Wash. Chicago, Ill. Simeon Voc. HS ’91/Lon Morris JC Seattle, Wash. Roosevelt HS ‘88 Los Angeles, Calif. Narbonne HS ’91/Ventura Col. Spokane, Wash. Shadle Park HS/Spokane CC Moreno Valley, Calif. Canyon Springs HS ’03/SCC Pine City, Wash. Pine City, Minn. Reno, Nev.

Wooster HS ‘80

Spokane, Wash. Gonzaga Prep ’83/Spokane CC Port Orchard, Wash. South Kitsap HS Lovell, Wyo. Lovell HS ’03/Northwest JC Twisp, Wash. Chula Vista, Calif. Southwestern JC Fresno, Calif. Westmoor HS ’94/CCSF Kokomo, Ind. Kokomo HS ’90/Northwest Wyo. CC Berlin, Germany Max Taut School ’10/Oregon Issaquah, Wash. Issaquah HS St. John, Wash. Coulee Dam, Wash. Bryan, Texas Columbia Basin, Big Bend CC Federal Way, Wash. Federal Way HS ‘94 Gelsenkirchen, Germ.Univ. of Washington Chicago Heights, Ill. Denver, Colo. Washington HS ‘88 Oakland, Calif. Oakland Tech ’02/Tyler JC Los Angeles, Calif. Crenshaw HS ’89/Santa Monica JC Cottage Grove, Ore. Cottage Grove HS ’99/NDSU Selah, Wash. Seattle, Wash. Irvine, Calif. Henderson, Colo.

Franklin HS ‘00 Saddleback Val. Chr. HS ’14/Concordia

Stahl, David 1990, 91 33 G 6-7 Oregon City, Ore. Stannard, Gerald 1930 Stanojevic, Milan 2008, 09 30 G 6-2 Subotica, Serbia State, Jack 1965, 66 45 G/P 6-8 Spokane, Wash. Stautz, Al 1973, 74 20 G/F 6-0 Bremerton, Wash. Steele, Jason 1992, 93 4 F 6-7 Los Angeles, Calif. Stinnett, Craig 1994, 95 33 F 6-7 Roseburg, Ore. Stoelt, Bob (Bottle) 1939, 40, 41, 42 6 F 5-7 Bothell, Wash. Stradling, Dale 1950, 51, 52 22 G 6-0 Prosser, Wash. Strathy, Dave 1981 34 G 6-4 Seattle, Wash. Stromer, Bob 1968 43 F 6-4 Pasco, Wash.Smith Stuckey, Rodney 2006, 07 3 G 6-5 Kent, Wash. Sullivan, Brian 1988, 89, 90, 91 14 G 6-4 Concord, Calif. Sutphin, Dan 1960, 61 C 6-4 Sunnyside, Wash. Swank, Forest 1921 Swanwick, Rick 1993, 94 42 C 6-10 Mission Viejo, Calif.

Canby HS ’87/Clackamas CC HS of Econ. ’05/Northwest Col. East Bremerton El Camino Real ’89/COS Sutherlin HS ’91/Umpqua CC Shorecrest HS Kentwood HS ‘04 Clayton Valley HS ’87 Trabuco Hills HS ’89/ Rancho Santiago JC, Calif.

Tarabochia, Jim Taylor, Jerry Taylor, Michael Taylor, Shannon Thacker, Mike Thompson, Brett Thompson, David Thorington, Gene Tritle, Vern Trygstad, Greg Turner III, Eddie Tutton, Jim Tyrell, Tom

1966 1984 2007 1998, 99 1980 1994, 95, 96 1984, 85, 86 1939 1950, 51 1990 1997 1963, 64, 65 1948

Ulowetz, Ed Urquhart, Ron

1938, 39, 40, 41 4 C 6-0 Otis Orchards, Wash. 1951 21 G 5-11 Hoquiam, Wash.

Valentine, Benny Veach, Dale Von Hofe, Felix Vulikic, Luka

2009, 10 5 G 5-7 Omaha, Neb. Omaha Central ’05/Texas Tech 1948 2014, 15, 16, 17 44 F 6-5 Melbourne, Australia Wesley College ’12/AIS 2017 13 G 6-5 Belgrade, Serbia Svetozar Markovic Jagodina HS

51 G/P 6-3 22 G 6-5 44 G 6-4 22 G 6-3 10 G 6-0 22 G 6-1 40 C 6-10

2006, 07

Phoenix HS ‘80 Brewster HS ‘06 Bullard HS ’95/Ventura JC Central Valley HS Bettendorf HS ’91/Black Hawk CC LeSalle HS ‘83

23 C 6-4 Leavenworth, Wash. 53 C/F 6-8 Pomona, Calif. 10 G 6-0 Spokane, Wash.

Wade, John 1981, 82 24 F 6-6 Walker 1937 Walker, Darrell 1999 20 G 6-0 Washington, Sir 2015, 16, 17, 18 4 G 6-3 Wasmund, Carl 1931, 32, 33 Wasmund, Richard 1931, 32, 33 Waters, Ed 1974, 75, 76, 77 12 G 6-2 Watson, Rob 1973, 75 24 G/F 6-3 Wearne, Michael 2017 5 G 6-2 Webb, Joe 1978, 79 10 G 6-1 Werner, Frank 1957 30 C 6-6 West, Harold 1927, 28 West, Leonard (Pink) 1936, 37, 38, 39 West, Mell 1935, 36 Westrick, Vern 1953, 60 White, Chris 1998, 99, 00, 01 21 F 6-9 White, Vic 1978, 79 34 F 6-4 Whitehill, Pat 1948, 49, 50, 51 30 F 6-2 Widman, Ben 1980, 81, 82 44 C 6-8 Winford, Kevin 2010, 11, 12, 13 23 G 5-11 Wiese, Mark 1986, 87 44 G 6-5 Wiley, Jacob 2017 24 F 6-7 Williams 1955 Williams, Deon 1998, 99, 00 5 G 6-2 Williams, George 1966, 67 42 G 6-2 Williams, Joe 1968 53 G 6-3 Williams, Kellen 2006, 07, 08 34 F 6-4 Williams, T.J. 2002, 03 30 F 6-8 Wilson, Carren 1992, 93 3 G 6-2 Womach, Raymond 1930 Wood, Dave 1967 Woods, Alex 1963, 64 52 G 6-4 Woods, Lowell 1963 Woodward, Bob Woodworth, Jim 1943 Wortham, Rachi 2004, 05 20 G 5-10 Wright, Walter 1953 Wynstra, Henry 1921 Wynstra, Stanley 1922, 23, 24 Zumwalt, Neal

Seattle, Wash. Phoenix, Ariz. Brewster, Wash. Fresno, Calif. Spokane, Wash. Davenport, Iowa Milwaukie, Ore.

Claremont HS ‘96

San Francisco, Calif. Woodrow Wilson HS Marysville, Wash. Marys-Pilchuck HS ’94/Everett CC Las Vegas, Nevada Clark HS ‘13 Los Angeles, Calif. Spokane, Wash Lewis & Clark HS Croydon, Australia Box Hill HS ‘15 Federal Way, Wash. Federal Way HS Spokane, Wash.

Phoenix, Ariz. Brophy Prep HS ‘97 Colorado Springs, Colo. Harrison HS Goldendale, Wash. Rosalia, WA Rosalia HS Anchorage, Alaska Bartlett HS ‘08 Anaheim, Calif. Magnolia HS ‘84 Newport, Wash. Newport HS ’12/UM/LCSC Los Angeles, Calif. Reardan, Wash. Waukon, Iowa Seattle, Wash. Lake Stevens, Wa. Portland, Ore.

Verbum Dei HS ‘96 Franklin HS ’03/Highline CC L. Stevens HS ’98/Edmonds CC Jefferson HS ’90/Colorado State

Spokane, Wash.

Tacoma, Wash.

23 G 6-3 Portland, Ore.

Foss HS ’00/Tacoma Wash CC

Lincoln HS ’03/Northeastern JC

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EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19 Alvin Snow Becomes Newest Legend Voted Into Hall of Fame Groundbreaking former Eagle men’s basketball player ALVIN SNOW became a member of the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame in ceremonies which took place on Sept. 22, 2018, at EWU. He was Eastern’s first basketball All-American at the NCAA Division I level – and the school’s first Big Sky Conference MVP in the sport. “Alvin was the first guy to buy into what we were doing here,” said former EWU head caoch RAY GIACOLETTI of the four seasons they spent together at EWU from 2000-2004. “He was a mainstay here, and was kind of the heart and soul of our team. His versatility and all the things he contributed is what separated him from other players and earned him the honors he received.” Bringing an incredible competitive fire and drive with him from Franklin High School in Seattle, Wash., Snow helped Eastern win 69 games with a NIT appearance in 2003 followed by the school’s first Big Sky Conference Tournament title and NCAA Tournament berth in 2004. He had 1,396 points, 212 steals and 318 assists in 118 games as an Eagle and was one of just 17 players in league history (now 20) to win first team All-Big Sky honors three seasons. He was the league’s MVP in 2004 when he earned honorable mention All-America honors, and was also the Big Sky 2002 Defensive Player of the Year. “My time at Eastern was amazing,” Snow said “On an individual, personal level, I had to learn to play the game a little differently than where I came from. So that prepared me for the professional level. And I’m grateful for that.” He played professionally for more than 10 years, and he works in Seattle is a player representative for Worldwide Sports Management. His mission is to carry out the tradition of his hometown and home state, while finding unique ways to help kids and adults alike to push for greatness and elevate themselves and each other. He currently represents several former Big Sky players, including former Eagle Jacob Wiley, who played for the Brooklyn Nets of the NBA and the Long Island Nets of the NBA G League in 2017-18. Snow credits his mother, Sherri Charleston, for being his inspiration throughout his life on and off the basketball court. Plus, he calls his 4-year-old son, Christian Snow, his motivation to “work daily towards becoming the greatest version of myself that I can.”

Former Eastern Players and Coaches in the Eastern Athletics Hall of Fame Randy Buss (Athlete/Basketball) . . . Inducted Oct. 10, 2015. Holt Brewer (Athlete/Track-Basketball) . . . Inducted Oct. 1, 2011. Ron Cox (Athlete/Basketball) . . . Inducted Feb. 21, 1998. He was presented for induction by Ron Raver (former Eastern assistant basketball coach). Dick Edwards (Athlete/Basketball) . . . Inducted Oct. 1, 2005. Dick Eicher (Athlete/Basketball) . . . Inducted Feb. 21, 1998. He was presented for induction by Pat Whitehill (Eastern teammate of Eicher). George Gablehouse (Athlete/Basketball and Contributor) . . . Inducted Oct. 10, 2009. Wayne Gilman (Contributor and Athlete/Basketball) . . . Inducted Sept. 27, 2003. He was presented posthumously for induction by Don Van Lierop (former assistant under Gilman), and his wife Susan accepted on his behalf. Gary Glasgow (Athlete/Baseball-Basketball & Contributor) . . . Inducted Oct. 10, 2015. Jerry Krause (Contributor and Coach) . . . Inducted Oct. 1, 2005. Irv Leifer (Athlete/Basketball) . . . Inducted in inaugural class on Oct. 5, 1996. He was presented for induction by Jack “Rabbit” Roffler (Eastern teammate of Leifer), and his brother, Clyde Leifer, accepted on his behalf. Ronn McMahon (Athlete/Basketball) . . . Inducted Sept. 30, 2017 Jack Perrault (Athlete/Basketball) . . . Inducted Oct. 4, 2014 Ron Raver (Contributor and Coach/Tennis-Basketball Assistant) . . . Inducted Sept. 22, 2001. He was presented for induction by H. George Frederickson (former EWU president). Red Reese (Coach/Basketball-Football-Track) . . . Inducted posthumously in the inaugural class on Oct. 5, 1996. He was presented for induction by John Lothspeich (Eastern player under Reese), and his son, John Reese, accepted on his behalf. Jack “Rabbit” Roffler (Athlete/Basketball & Contributor) . . . Inducted Oct. 1, 2011. Alvin Snow (Athlete/Basketball) . . . To be inducted Sept. 22, 2018. Ed Waters (Athlete/Basketball and Contributor) . . . Inducted Oct. 1, 2016. Pat Whitehill (Athlete/Basketball-Track and Contributor) . . . Inducted Sept. 22, 2001. He was presented for induction by Ray Conrad (his Eastern roommate and teammate). 1945-46 Men’s Basketball (Coach Red Reese) . . . The team finished 31-4, including a school record 27-game winning streak versus collegiate competition as Eastern won two games in the NAIA Tournament before falling to Pepperdine 46-42 in the quarterfinals. The team was presented for induction in 2003 by team member Jack “Rabbit” Roffler. 1949-50 Men’s Basketball (Coach Red Reese) . . . When he retired, Red Reese called his 1949-50 team “my best basketball club.” Eastern won its first Evergreen Conference title in the second year of the league’s existence, finishing with a 13-1 record and 23-7 overall mark. The team was inducted on Oct. 1, 2011. 1976-77 Men’s Basketball (Coach Jerry Krause) . . . The “Screamin’ Eagles” had a historic 25-4 season under Hall of Fame Coach Jerry Krause and Hall of Fame players Ron Cox and Ed Waters, winning the Evergreen Conference title and coming a win away from a berth in the NAIA Tournament. The team was inducted on Oct. 1, 2016. Also, John Lothspeich was honored on Sept. 29, 2007, with the first-ever EWU Athletics Hall of Fame Service and Contribution Award. Dick Hannan will be honored in 2018.

2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS

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