EWU basketball team shares spotlight

For the longest time athletics at Eastern Washington University, and before that Eastern Washington State College, and in any number of renditions of the school's name throughout history, have resided largely in the shadows on the collegiate landscape.

Be it from down south in Pullman, or on Boone Avenue in Spokane, the Savages and Eagles were often athletics afterthoughts.

No longer is that the case and the most recent example was the Eagles stealing a little of that March Madness love that, for the last 17 years at least, has been largely the sole property of the Gonzaga Bulldogs.

Eastern fo...