MOSCOW, Idaho – Olivia Nelson tied her career high of 29 points – a mark she has reached four times – while leading Idaho over Eastern Washington University 67-57 in Big Sky Conference play Saturday.
What Idaho is really angling after, however, is to recreate some of the success they enjoyed four decades ago – topped by a stellar 1981-82 season that saw them finish sixth in the nation with a 27-3 record.
Eastern Washington held Sacramento State to 15 points in the first half and cruised to a 65-54 victory Saturday in a men’s basketball game at The Nest in Sacramento, California.
Following its Big Sky Conference championship season last spring, the Eastern Washington women’s basketball team’s roster changed quite a bit heading into this season.
It was 10 minutes after the final buzzer, and most of the Eastern Washington men’s basketball team had made its way back out to Reese Court – except for Nic McClain.
For a relatively inexperienced Eastern Washington team, a senior-heavy Montana squad was hardly an ideal opponent for its Big Sky men’s basketball opener on Thursday.
At the beginning of the most recent offseason, when Eastern Washington’s men’s basketball roster and coaching staff were in flux, Emmett Marquardt wasn’t even dreaming of games like the one he had Monday night at Reese Court in Cheney.