Washington Huskies NCAA Basketball News

TEMPE, Ariz., March 19 -- Arizona State University issued the following press release: UP NEXT The 19th-ranked Arizona State women's basketball team opens play in the 2009 NCAA Tournament on Saturday when it faces the Georgia Lady Bulldogs out of the Southeastern Conference.

Kyla Evans, a sophomore on the Eastern Washington University women's basketball team, will participate in the NCAA National Student-Athlete Development Conference, which takes place from May 24-27 in Orlando, Fla.

TEMPE, Ariz., Feb. 25 -- Arizona State University issued the following press release: On exceeding expectations in just his third season at ASU: "If you would have said to me, we would have made this kind of rapid progress, when I first arrived; I would have signed up for it.

At PSU, Allen was involved with all aspects of coaching on the floor for the Vikings.

Kyla Evans, a sophomore on the Eastern Washington University women's basketball team, has had quite a busy spring following the conclusion of basketball season, from participating in the NCAA National Student-Athlete Development Conference to volunteering with a variety of events.

University issued the following news release: The Eastern Washington University men's cross country program was honored Wednesday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for a perfect multi-year Academic Progress Rate score of 1,000. Just 767 NCAA Division I sports teams were honored, including only two from the Big Sky Conference.

The Portland Trail Blazers have traded Sergio Rodriguez and draft pick Jon Brockman of Washington to the Sacramento Kings in exchange for forward Jeff Pendergraph out of Arizona State.

Terrence Williams' star track moved farther east, to the opposite coast. Austin Daye's bold move paid off.

University issued the following news release: Selected members of the University football and men's and women's basketball teams, along with the Crimson Girls, will be signing autographs at Spokane's 3-on-3 basketball tournament Hoopfest, Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28.

Players from the state who could be chosen in Thursday's NBA draft: Terrence Williams, 6-5, guard, Louisville : Williams could be the first player taken in the draft who spent four years in college.

PULLMAN, Wash., April 22 -- Washington State University issued the following news release: Jeff Hironaka has been named assistant men's basketball coach at Washington State University, Cougar Head Coach Ken Bone announced Wednesday, joining Curtis Allen and Ben Johnson on Bone's first coaching staff at WSU.

LOS ANGELES, March 11 -- Washington State University issued the following news release: Washington State University men's basketball senior Taylor Rochestie has been named the Pacific-10 Conference Men's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year, presented by Toyo Tires, league officials announced Wednesday at the opening round of the Pac-10 ...

Several officials of the Hampton Roads 7 Cities Basketball Pro-Am were talking marketing one afternoon when another employee walked into the room.

Instead, Alexander, a self professed "momma's boy," signed to play at George Washington .

Danielle Lawrie's star just keeps getting brighter. Lawrie, the University of Washington's ace softball pitcher from Langley, was named the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's female Sports Star of the Year at a banquet Tuesday in the Emerald City.

Here's the tantalizing news for Cal basketball fans: John Gage, a 6-foot-10 power forward prospect from Vashon Island, Wash., has shooting range from beyond the 3-point line, boasts a 3.95 grade-point average and is considering an engineering major in college.

He became a blue-collar player around the basket and an "energy" guy for the Huskies, averaging 12.1 points and 5.9 rebounds.

FINAL RECORD: 26-9, 14-4, 1st in the Pac-10. WHAT WENT RIGHT: and guard had excellent senior seasons, leading the Huskies to their first outright regular-season conference title since 1953.

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs SportsUnited office, in partnership with Global Sports Partners/Sport4Peace, the University of Tennessee and the National Basketball Association, is hosting a delegation of basketball -playing girls and their coaches from Iraq.

Former Huskies big man Joe Wolfinger will transfer to The Citadel, a source said.