Northwest Conference women’s basketball play is winding down. Loose play full of turnovers and porous defense will no longer be tolerated by Puget Sound coach Loree Payne.
Anthony Gittens is 6-foot-9 with long arms and the springy hops of a bunny rabbit.
Natural-born leaders don’t worry about the sometimes-long odds of immediately fitting in with new college basketball teammates.
Facing long odds at the end of regulation and midway through overtime, Pacific Lutheran upended Whitworth, 87-83, in a Northwest Conference women’s basketball game Saturday in Spokane.
Cameron Schilling never gave a straight answer on why Friday was the night to wear his shiny, sky-blue basketball shoes for Pacific Lutheran University.
It is the putback basket that might be debated and replayed over and over – at least for the Pacific Lutheran men in the next 48 hours.
Teams are rarely going to beat the University of Puget Sound men’s basketball team on the inside.
The homestand for Pacific Lutheran University started with two last-second men’s basketball losses.
Apparently, the University of Puget Sound women’s basketball team enjoys the heat.
As a four-year starting point guard at Pacific Lutheran University, James Conti’s assist-to-turnover ratio is nearly 1.5-to-1.
No men’s college basketball conference championships are won the first weekend of January.
It is sometimes like pulling teeth for Pacific Lutheran men’s basketball coach Steve Dickerson to get junior shooting guard Andrew Earnest to, well, shoot.
The Saint Martin’s Saints, taller across the front line than a Pacific Lutheran team missing its best big man, jumped out early and withstood several spirited runs by the Lutes in a 69-52 nonconference win Monday night.
Although the Pacific Lutheran University women’s basketball team didn’t shoot particularly well from the field Saturday evening, Samantha Potter’s rebounding made up for the Lutes’ errant touch.
As soon as the scoreboard at Memorial Fieldhouse came on this week, a reminder of Puget Sound men’s basketball teams’ past came to light.
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