EAGLE MEN’S 2018-19

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2018-19 Roster...... Page 1 Meet the Eagles...... 2 Eagle Basketball Highlights...... 3-5 2017-18 Review...... 6-10 & 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 WWW.GOEAGS.COM

No. Name Pos Ht Wt Yr Exp Hometown / Previous School 0 %Tyler Kidd G 5-9 180 Jr. JC* West Seattle, Wash. / O’Dea HS ’14 / Skagit Valley CC Eastern Games Via Webcast, Radio, 1 Austin Fadal G 6-4 175 Fr. HS San Ramon, Calif. / Monte Vista HS ’17 / Hillcrest Prep (Ariz.) Mobile & Live Stats 2 Ty Gibson G 6-3 190 Sr. 3L Issaquah, Wash. / Issaquah HS ‘15 5 Casson Rouse G 6-2 180 Fr. HS Lacey, Wash. / Timberline HS ‘18 Webcast: 10 Jacob Davison G 6-4 175 So. 1L* Long Beach, Calif. / Cantwell-Sacred Heart HS ‘16 www.watchbigsky.com or via PlutoTV 11 Jack Perry G 6-2 175 So. 1L Melbourne, Australia / Camberwell Grammar School ’16 12 %Steven Beo G 6-3 180 So. TR* Richland, Wash. / Richland HS ’16 / BYU Radio: 700-AM ESPN 13 %Luka Vulikic G 6-6 190 So. 1L* Belgrade, Serbia / Svetozar Markovic Jagodina HS & 105.3-FM (also via https://tunein. 14 ^Mason Peatling F 6-8 220 Jr. 2L Melbourne, Australia / Beaconhills College HS ‘16 com/radio/Eastern- 20 Cody Benzel G 6-4 175 Sr. 3L* Spokane, Wash. / Ferris HS ‘14 Washington-Eagles-Sports- 22 Elijah Jackson G 6-4 190 Fr. HS Seattle, Wash. / Chief Sealth HS ‘18 Network-s273711/) 23 Jordan Veening F 6-6 205 Fr. HS Sumas, Wash. / Nooksack Valley HS ‘18 TuneIn’s Mobile Apps: Search 24 %Kim Aiken Jr. G/F 6-7 215 Fr. HS* Redlands, Calif. / East Valley HS ’17 for “Eastern Washington” 25 Michael Meadows G 6-2 175 Fr. HS Hollywood, Calif. / Campbell Hall HS ‘18 Broadcasts feature veteran play- 35 % F 6-9 235 Fr. HS* Spokane, Wash. / Shadle Park HS ’17 by-play announcer Larry Weir 34 Jesse Hunt F 6-7 210 Sr. 3L Geraldton, Australia / Sir Francis Drake (Calif.) HS ‘15 42 Joshua Thomas G 6-3 185 So. SQ* Spokane, Wash. / Central Valley ’16 Live Stats: ewustats.com 4 #Ralueke Orizu F 6-9 190 So. TR Atlanta, Ga. / South Cobb HS ’17 / Savannah State (Ga.) *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: Shantay Legans (Second Season as Head Coach & 10th Season Overall at EWU; Fresno State ’04; 20-15/13-5 in one season) Associate Head Coach Nick Booker (Second Season; Davidson ‘04) Assistants: (Fifth Season as assistant; previously Director of BB Operations; Whitworth ‘11) Bobby Suarez (Second Season; Florida Gulf Coast ’12) Dir. of BB Operations: Zachary Byrne (Third Season; East Carolina ’16) Asst. Dir. of BB Oper.: T.J. Lipold (Second Season: Westmont Col., Calif., ’12) Dir. for Ath. Performance: Nate Barry (First Season; ‘11) Athletic Trainer: Ryan Moreau (Third Season; Central Michigan ’13)

Pronunciations Ralueke Orizu. . . . .Ray-LAY-kay Or-EE-zoo Shantay Legans. . . . Shawn-tay Leg-uhns Luka Vulikic...... Lou-kah Vool-ih-kich 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS 1 EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19

MEET THE EAGLES

#24 Kim Aiken #20 Cody Benzel #25 Steven Beo #10 Jacob Davison Shantay Legans - Head Coach Fr.RS - Redlands, Calif. Sr - Spokane, Wash. So. - Richland, Wash. So. - Long Beach, Calif.

Nick Booker Associate Head Coach

David Riley #2 Ty Gibson #35 Tanner Groves #34 Jesse Hunt #0 Tyler Kidd Assistant Sr. - Issaquah, Wash. Fr.RS - Spokane, Wash. Sr. - Geraldton, Australia Jr. - Seattle, Wash. Coach

Bobby Suarez Assistant Coach

Zachary Byrne #14 #11 Jack Perry #42 Joshua Thomas #13 Luka Vulikic Dir. of BB Jr. - Melbourne, Australia So. - Melbourne, Australia So. - Spokane, Wash So. - Belgrade, Serbia 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.

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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-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 CBI in 2016). • was the 2017-18 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 SkyTournament 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. • , 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 percentage, eighth in blocked shots (2.76 per game), 29th in scoring (20.4), 48th in rebounds (9.1) and 112th in 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 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 BigTen 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.

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FOUR YEARS OF MEMORIES . . . The most successful back-to-back- to-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

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2017-18 REVIEW: Eagles 20-15 For Third 20-Win Season in Four Years

Following the head coaching debut After beating Portland State 78-72 and sweep in two years in late February, includ- for Shantay Legans, Eastern looks Southern Utah 82-70 in the Big Sky Confer- ing a win over Weber State to give EWU a ence Tournament, the Eagles fell to regular to the future after Bogdan Bliznyuk tiebreaker advantage in the league. Eastern season champion Montana 82-65 in the snapped the nine-game winning streak of era ends with 86 victories in four championship game. the Wildcats, and one game earlier handed seasons Eastern, which had a 41-29 halftime lead regular season champion Montana its first against the Grizzlies, then fell 87-65 at Utah league loss after 13 victories. here is no denying the great Valley in the first round of the College Bas- “They competed every game and I’m success the Eastern Washington ketball Invitational. After playing sensational proud of this team,” he continued. “I like TUniversity men’s basketball team basketball for 8 1/2 games and capturing everybody we have coming back and coming had in the 2017-18 season, but the final two third-place in the regular season conference in. I think we have the best shooters in the losses were a lesson for the future. standings, Legans vows the Eagles will use league, and I believe Mason Peatling is The Eagles had a highly-competitive and the last three halves of the season to also going to be the best big man in the league. highly-successful season in the first year at build upon. It was a good season, but to me, if you don’t the helm for Eastern head coach Shantay “They did achieve a lot, but you can’t win it and get to the NCAA Tournament, it’s Legans. His squad went on a late-season settle and say a third-place finish and just kind of a loss.” eight-game winning streak that was the best getting to the championship game is a good Besides its 20-15 record, the Eagles in 14 years, and the Eagles were among a season,” he said. “That’s a losing mentality, were 13-5 in the Big Sky, and won 17 of their record six Big Sky teams who won at least 20 and I don’t want our team to think that’s okay. last 24 games after a 3-8 start. The Eagles games in the 2017-18 season. I know they’ll get patted on the back and it’s finished 11-1 at home, 6-12 on opponent At 20-15 on the year, Eastern had 20 vic- a great accomplishment to win 20 games and home courts and 3-2 at neutral sites in the tories for the second-straight season and the play without guys who were injured, but you 2017-18 season, and were 5-4 on the road in third time in the last four, with EWU achieving can’t have that mentality. You have to think the league season and 8-1 at home. Eastern that mark just one other time in the school’s you want to win the league championship equaled a school-record with 35 games 35 seasons as a member of NCAA Division I. and go to the NCAA Tournament.” played in the 2017-18 season. The Eagles played 11 opponents who The Eagles beat every Big Sky team Eastern made its sixth appearance in a advanced to national postseason tourna- other than regular season league runner-up national postseason tournament in school ments, with the Eagles winning five of the Idaho in the 2017-18 season, and finished history and fourth-in-a-row. Eastern ad- 15 meetings against those teams. Among third after being predicted to finish sixth by vanced to the NCAA Tournament in 2004 EWU’s non-conference victories was a 67-61 the media and seventh by the coaches in and 2015, were in the NIT in 2003 and have win at Stanford to break EWU’s 21-game los- the league’s preseason polls. Included in the played in the last three College Basketball ing streak versus Pacific-12 Conference foes. league triumphs was the school’s first road 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.

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2017-18 Honors Bogdan Bliznyuk 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 and 2018. (selected by hoopshd.com) More Team Notes Big Sky All-Tournament (selected by media/staff) A big part of that success was Bogdan Eagles Achieve Second Consecutive 20-Win Sea- Nominated for CoSIDA Academic All-America Bliznyuk, who joined Sir Washington and son, With Four-Straight Years of 18+ Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (March 5 by BSC) graduate transfer Benas Griciunas as At 20-15 on the season, the Eastern basketball EWU’s three departed seniors. program has hit a threshold that has occurred just four Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 26 times now in Eastern’s 35-year history in NCAA Division by BSC and College Sports Madness) In his 138th and final game of his career, I. Since 1983-84, the only other times EWU has won 20 Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (Feb. 19 Bliznyuk tied EWU’s single season scoring games came in 1985-86 (20-8), 2014-15 (26-9) and in by BSC) record with 50 seconds left, then broke it with 2016-17 (22-12). The 2017-18 team is just one of six in Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (Jan. 29 a 3-pointer on the last shot of his illustrious the school’s 35-year NCAA Division I history to have at by BSC) least 18, including the last four seasons in a row. career with 20 ticks remaining. Bliznyuk, the Mid-Season All-Big Sky (Jan. 1 by HoopsHD. com; 5 players selected) Big Sky’s all-time leading scorer with 2,169 Eastern has been in the Big Sky Conference for 31 seasons now, with a high of 14 league wins in 2014-15. Big Sky Conference Player of the Week (Dec. 19 points, finished with 741 as a senior to rank Finishing 13-5 in league play in both 2017-18 and 2016- by BSC) sixth in league history and break the previous 17, only one other time has EWU exceeded 11 league EWU Scholar-Athlete of the Month (December) school record of 738 set three years ago by wins, that coming in 1999-00 when EWU had 12 to Lou Henson Award Watch List (Nov. 8 by Tyler Harvey. share the regular season league title with Montana. Collegeinsider.com) From 2013-14 through 2017-18, Eastern has had Preseason First Team All-Big Sky (league office) In setting a total of 16 school records, win totals of 15, 26, 18, 22 and 20 games. The two Preseason First Team All-Big Sky (College Sports Bliznyuk scored 27 points in his finale – the 20-victory seasons are the top two win totals in EWU’s Madness) 44th time he’s scored at least 20 and his 35-year history in NCAA Division I. The combined 101 100th double-digit performance. He also wins in five seasons, 86 victories in four seasons, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the most since EWU Mason Peatling closed his career with a variety of Big Sky became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 Honorable Mention All-Big Sky (selected by Conference Tournament marks, a NCAA Divi- season. The same can be said of EWU’s stretch of coaches) sion I single season free throw record with league victories – 10, 14, 10, 13, 13 – in that five-year 77-straight makes and the utmost respect span. Cody Benzel from his head coach. EWU Scholar-Athlete of the Month (January) “I love Tyler to death, but I wasn’t about to Legans, Bliznyuk & Washington Were Tourney Tested let Bogdan go without that record,” said Le- Fourth-year seniors Bogdan Bliznyuk and Sir 2017-18 Big Sky Conference gans. “I want to make sure our team knows Washington both played in EWU’s 2015 NCAA Tourna- All-Academic Selections how important everything is, and Bogdan is ment game versus Georgetown, as well as four other Cody Benzel going to understand some day how much he games in national postseason tournaments. Bliznyuk Bogdan Bliznyuk averaged 19.6 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists in accomplished. It was probably the best single Ty Gibson season a player has had at Eastern Wash- those five games, while making 33-of-69 shots overall (47.8 percent), 7-of-17 from the 3-point stripe (41.2 Benas Griciunas ington and probably the best career – he’s percent) and 25-of-29 free throws (92.6 percent). Jesse Hunt going to be in the record books a long time.” Washington averaged 4.8 points, 3.4 rebounds and 0.4 Mason Peatling assists. In four games, Ty Gibson has scored 11 points Jack Perry with two rebounds and an , and Cody Benzel has

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seven points, five rebounds and a pair of assists. Jesse Head coach Shantay Legans has coached in Legans Has Most Coaching Wins for a Rookie in 75 Hunt did not play in 2018 versus Utah Valley in the three Big Sky Conference Tournament games as a Years College Basketball Invitational, but has played in three head coach and 10 as an assistant, with a record of First-year head coach Shantay Legans is the other postseason games and has seven points and 8-5 in five appearances. Eastern’s 2014-15 squad won 18th coach in Eastern history, and has made history eight rebounds. Mason Peatling played as a freshman the title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament with a of his own. His 20 wins are the most by a first-year in the 2015-16 season against Wyoming in the CBI and trio of victories in Missoula, Montana. Included was a Eastern coach in EWU’s NCAA Division I era, besting scored four points, then had five points, five rebounds come-from-behind 69-65 over the host Grizzlies in the with 17 in the 2000-01 season. Joe and a pair of assists versus UVU. championship game. Folda also won 17 games in 1982-83 as an interim Bliznyuk finished with a record 10 games of Big Now in its 31st year as a member of the league, head coach during Eastern’s rise from NAIA to NCAA Sky Tournament experience, and Eastern was 7-3 in his Eastern made its 16th appearance in the Big Sky Division I. Thus, you have to go back to the 1942-43 four seasons as an Eagle. Washington played in seven Conference Tournament in 2018. The Eagles have a season when Bob Brumblay won 27 games in his debut games, but was injured and didn’t play in 2015. In those record of 15-14 in its 28 games – 1-0 in the first round, season to find a rookie Eastern coach with more than 10 games, Bliznyuk averaged 19.3 points, 5.5 rebounds 5-5 in the quarterfinals, 7-4 in the semifinals and 2-5 18 victories, which is also the only time it’s happened. and 2.2 assists per game in the league tournament. in the championship. The Eagles advanced to the title Among the victories was a 67-61 triumph at Stanford to Besides his 32 points against Southern Utah and 35 game in 1990, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2015 and 2018, break EWU’s 21-game losing streak versus Pacific-12 points against Portland State in 2018, he scored 32 and won the title in 2004 and 2015. Before winning the Conference foes. Interestingly, he played for California points with eight rebounds in the 2017 semifinals versus 2015 title, Eastern hadn’t appeared in the tournament at for three seasons from 2000-03 and the Bears lost to Weber State, and had 18 points, nine rebounds and six all since the 2011-12 and 2010-11 seasons, which were the Cardinal in all five meetings. assists in the quarterfinals against Sac State. EWU’s first since 2006. The Eagles qualified for each Bliznyuk scored 82 points in three 2018 tournament tournament from 1998-2006. 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 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. Washington averaged 4.6 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists in the seven tourney games he played, in- cluding 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 Tourna- ment 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 8 EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19

Records Broken by Bogdan Bliznyuk 2017-18 BIG SKY STANDINGS (16 individual school records set, tied or established, plus one NCAA, Big Sky Overall three Big Sky and nine Big Sky Tournament marks) Team W L Pct. W L Pct. #Montana 16 2 .889 26 8 .765 Records by Bliznyuk during the 2017-18 season . . . Idaho 14 4 .778 22 9 .688 %Eastern Wash. 13 5 .722 20 15 .571 NCAA, Big Sky & EWU – 77 Consecutive Free Throws Made in a Single Season (previous record 73 by Gary Buchanan Weber State 13 5 .722 20 11 .708 from Villanova over a 21-game stretch in the 2000-01 season). &Northern Colo. 11 7 .611 26 12 .684 Big Sky & EWU – 2,169 Career Points (previous BSC record of 2,102 by Idaho’s from 1991-94 & EWU &Portland State 9 9 .500 20 14 .588 record of 1,803 by Venky Jois from 2013-16) Idaho State 9 9 .500 14 16 .467 Big Sky Tournament – Career records for games (10), minutes (333), points (193), field goals (72), field goal attempts North Dakota 6 12 .333 12 20 .375 (126), fouls (24) & turnovers (30) Montana State 6 12 .333 13 19 .406 Big Sky Tournament – Single tournament records for points (82) & field goals (31) Southern Utah 5 13 .278 13 19 .406 EWU – 741 Season Points (previous record of 738 by Tyler Harvey in 2014-15 season) Sacramento St. 4 14 .222 7 25 .219 Northern Arizona 2 16 .111 5 27 .156 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) #NCAA Tournament. %College Basketball Invitational. &College Insider Tournament (UNC won the title). EWU – 138 Career Games Played (previous record of 128 by Felix Von Hofe from 2014-17) 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 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) College Basketball Invitational 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) Tournament 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) March 13: Utah Valley 87, Eastern Washington 65 EWU – 1,395 Season Combined Points, Bogdan Bliznyuk (701) and Jacob Wiley (694) 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)

MPIONSH More Milestones from EWU’s 130-124 Victory Over Portland State on 2/4/17 . . . BASKETBALL CHA IPS

* The combined 90 points by Bliznyuk and Wiley was easily a school and Big Sky Conference record, and came just two points ROAD TO from the NCAA Division I mark of 92 set by Kevin Bradshaw (72) & Isaac Brown (20) for U.S. International (now Alliant RENO 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 Big Sky Conference Tournament 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). Reno Events • Reno, Nevada * 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 March 6 - First Round (seeds #5-12) Butler (Austin Carr with 50 and Collis James with 40). Loyola Marymount’s Bo Kimble and the late Hank Gathers each scored #8 North Dakota 76, #9 Montana State 74 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 #5 Northern Colorado 82, #12 Northern Arizona 59 win, also in regulation. #10 Southern Utah 76, #7 Idaho State 68 * On Big Sky Conference lists, the 45 points both Bliznyuk and Wiley scored equaled the 12th-most in the 54-year history of the #6 Portland State 71, #11 Sacramento State 67 league. March 8 - Quarterfinals BIG SKY CAREER SCORING LEADERS #1 Montana 84, #8 North Dakota 76 #5 Northern Colorado 82, #4 Weber State 55 1. Bogdan Bliznyuk, Eastern Wash. (4) 2014-18 138 2,169 2. Orlando Lightfoot, Idaho (3) 1991-94 91 2,102 Note: Eastern’s women’s player #10 Southern Utah 92, #2 Idaho 78 3. Jeremy Senglin, Weber State (4) 2013-17 124 2,078 Delaney Hodgins finished here #3 Eastern Wash. 78, #6 Portland State 72 4. Bruce Collins, Weber State (4) 1976-80 120 2,019 career with a school-record total of 5. Larry Krystkowiak, Montana (4) 1982-85 120 2,017 2,120 to rank third in Big Sky his- 6. Tanoka Beard, Boise State (4) 1989-93 110 1,944 tory. Just five men’s players in the March 9 - Semifinals 7. , Weber State (3) 2008-12 103 1,934 55-year history of the league and 8. Steve Hayes, Idaho State (4) 1973-77 110 1,933 only four women in 29 years have #1 Montana 91, #5 Northern Colorado 89 (ot) 8. Steve Connor, Boise State (4) 1974-78 108 1,927 gone over the 2,000-point mark. #3 Eastern Wash. 82, #10 Southern Utah 70 10. Nate Holmstadt, Montana State (4) 1995-99 119 1,864 11. , Montana State (4) 1984-88 118 1,841 12. M.R.Richardson, Montana (4) 1974-78 107 1,827 March 10 - Championship 13. Donn Holston, Idaho State (4) 1983-87 121 1,819 14. Jim Potter, Idaho State (4) 1992-95 112 1,810 #1 Montana 82, #3 Eastern Wash. 65 15. Venky Jois, Eastern Washington (4) 2012-16 122 1,803

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FINAL 2017-2018 STATISTICS – COLLEGE BASKETBALL INVIT. (CBI) PARTICIPANT 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, Bogdan35 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, Benas34 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, Richard27 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: 1st 2nd OT OT2 OT3 Total Statistical Game Leaders Eastern Washington 1261 1340 18 – – 2619 Opponents 1118 1375 27 – – 2520 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 Date Opponent Score J 20 at Southern Utah* L, 62-66 (ot) 1 (1 in career). O 29 at Portland% W, 76-70 J 25 North Dakota* W, 95-71 REBOUNDS – Bogdan Bliznyuk 16 (39 in career), Jesse Hunt 8 N 10 Walla Walla Univ. W, 82-61 J 27 Northern Colorado*! W, 67-65 (9 in career), Mason Peatling 8 (9 in career), Jacob Davison N 12 at Washington^ L, 69-79 F 1 at Sacramento State* W, 74-54 3 (3 in career), Sir Washington 2 (5 in career), Benas N 14 at Stanford^ W, 67-61 F 3 at Portland State* L, 81-94 Griciunas 2 (2 in career), Jack Perry 1 (1 in career), Luka N 17 at UNLV L, 76-91 F 9 at Idaho*=~ L, 64-66 Vulikic 0 (1 in career). N 20 Georgia State& L, 50-68 F 15 Montana* W, 74-65 ASSISTS – Bogdan Bilznyuk 24 (57 in career), Jack Perry 7 (7 N 22 Eastern Kentucky& W, 83-62 F 17 Montana State*! W, 84-79 in career), Ty Gibson 4 (5 in career), Luka Vulikic 3 (3 in N 24 at Utah^ L, 69-85 F 22 at Weber State* W, 75-70 career), Sir Washington 2 (8 in career), Richard Polanco 1 D 3 at Seattle L, 65-84 F 24 at Idaho State* W, 74-69 (1 in career). D 7 at San Francisco L, 71-81 M 1 Southern Utah* W, 74-51 STEALS – Bogdan Bliznyuk 10 (41 in career), Mason Peatling 12 D 10 at South Dakota L, 73-75 M 3 Northern Arizona* W, 85-68 (17 in career), Ty Gibson 10 (17 in career), Jacob Davison D 12 at Wyoming L, 88-93 (ot) M 8 Portland State! (BSC Tourn. QFinals) W, 78-71 10 (10 in career), Sir Washington 8 (18 in career), Cody D 17 CSUN W, 86-58 M 9 Southern Utah! (BSC Tourn. SFinals) W, 82-70 Benzel 7 (13 in career), Jack Perry 5 (5 in career), Luka D 20 Univ. of Providence~ W, 94-66 M 10 Montana+ (BSC Tourn. Championship) L, 65-82 Vulikic 4 (11 in career), Jesse Hunt 3 (7 in career), Benas D 29 at Northern Colorado* L, 75-88 M 13 at Utah Valley (CBI First Round) L, 65-87 Griciunas 2 (2 in career), Richard Polanco 2 (2 in career). BLOCKED SHOTS – Mason Peatling 20 (23 in career), Benas D 31 at North Dakota* W, 77-64 All Times Pacific. %Exhibition Game. *Big Sky Conference Game. J 4 Portland State*~ W, 81-74 Griciunas 8 (8 in career), Jacob Davison 5 (5 in career), &MGM Resorts Main Event. ^Televised by the Pac-12 Networks. Bogdan Bliznyuk 4 (20 in career), Jesse Hunt 4 (8 in J 6 Sacramento State* W, 82-67 !Televised by Eleven Sports. ~Televised regionally by SWX. J 12 Idaho*=~ L, 51-58 career), Luka Vulikic 2 (3 in career), Cody Benzel 2 (3 in =Doubleheader with EWU women’s team. +Televised by ESPNU. career), Richard Polanco 2 (2 in career), Grant Gibb 1 (1 in J 18 at Northern Arizona* W, 81-76 career), Sir Washington 0 (6 in career). 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS 10 EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2018-19

Head Coach ship game in his debut season. He was an Eastern SHANTAY assistant for eight years before becoming EWU’s 10th coach at the NCAA Division I level. Legans LEGANS spent six years on the staff of (now Second Season head coach at Seattle), and two previous seasons (10th Overall at EWU) under former head coach (now an Fresno State ‘04 assistant at Idaho). Legans was associate head coach ike the strides the Eastern under Hayford for the Washington University Basketball program has made since he final three of those eight Larrived as an assistant in 2009, Shantay Legans made some history seasons. as a head coach too in the 2017-18 season when he led the Eagles to a fourth- Legans has been a part straight national postseason tournament berth. of Eastern teams from the His 20 wins are the most by a first-year Eastern coach in EWU’s NCAA 2013-14 through 2017-18 seasons which have win totals of 15, 26, 18, 22 and Division I era, besting Ray Giacoletti with 17 in the 2000-01 season. Joe Folda 20 games. The three 20-victory seasons are the top three win totals in EWU’s also won 17 games in 1982-83 as an interim head coach during Eastern’s 34-year history in NCAA Division I. The combined 101 wins in five seasons, rise from NAIA to NCAA Division I. Thus, you have to go back to the 1942-43 86 victories in four seasons, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the most since season when Bob Brumblay won 27 games in his debut season to find a EWU became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. The rookie Eastern coach with more than 18 victories, which is also the only time same can be said of EWU’s stretch of league victories ­– 10, 14, 10, 13, 13 – in it’s happened. that five-year span. Among the victories was a 67-61 triumph at Stanford to break EWU’s Legans has coached in 13 Big Sky Conference Tournament games, with 21-game losing streak versus Pacific-12 Conference foes. Interestingly, he a record of 8-5 in five appearances. Eastern’s 2014-15 squad won the title played for California for three seasons from 2000-03 and the Bears lost to the and advanced to the NCAA Tournament with a trio of victories in Missoula, Cardinal in all five meetings. Montana. Included was a come-from-behind 69-65 win over the host Grizzlies He also was instrumental in the development of of Big Sky Conference in the championship game. all-time leading scorer Bogdan Bliznyuk, who left EWU in 2018 as the Big A former player at Cal and Fresno State, Legans assisted Hayford in re- Sky Conference Player of the Year and an honorable mention All-America cruiting, scouting and game preparation for the Eagles, as well as on-the-floor selection. Bliznyuk played in the NABC All-Star game at the “Final Four” after coaching and the development of EWU’s backcourt players. finishing with 2,169 career points and breaking a total of 16 school records Eastern has had its first back-to-back-to-back national tournament along the way. postseason appearances at the Division I level with a current stretch of Entering his 10th season on the EWU coaching staff, Legans was an- four-straight, including its first-ever win (79-72 over Pepperdine in the College nounced as EWU’s new head basketball coach on March 29, 2017. Legans is Basketball Invitational in 2016). He helped coach Eastern to a 26-9 record the 18th coach in Eastern history, and directed the Eagles to a 13-5 record in overall, Big Sky Conference regular season and tournament titles and a the Big Sky Conference and appearance in the BSC Tournament champion- 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 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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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 basketball in Europe. Legans also has experience coaching various AAU Kirk Earlywine, and was retained by Jim Hayford when he took over as head teams in California. coach in the 2011-12 season. He played at California for three seasons from 1999-2002, helping lead Prior to coming to Eastern, Legans was as an assistant coach for two the Golden Bears to a collective record of 61-35 (.635). He then spent his seasons at Laguna Blanca High School in Santa Barbara, Calif. Previously, he senior season (2003-04) at Fresno State, which finished with a 14-15 record was a student assistant coach for Ray Lopes at Fresno State for two seasons overall and a 10-8 mark in the Western Athletic Conference. He averaged 15.0 before embarking upon a more than three-year career playing professional 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 Shantay Legans Coaching Career at EWU and received his bachelor’s degree in African American studies in 2004. Year Head Coach Overall Pct. Conference 2017-2018=== Shantay Legans 20-15 .571 13-5/t-3rd Formerly from Goleta, Calif., and Dos Pueblos High School,

Year Head Coach Overall Pct. Conference 2016-17+++ Jim Hayford 22-12 .647 13-5/2nd 2015-16!!! Jim Hayford 18-16 .529 10-8/t-5th 2014-15### Jim Hayford 26-9 .743 14-4/t-1st 2013-14 Jim Hayford 15-16 .484 10-10/t-6th 2012-13 Jim Hayford 10-21 .323 7-13/8th 2011-2012^^^ Jim Hayford 15-17 .469 8-8/4th 2010-2011^^^ Kirk Earlywine 10-21 .333 7-13/t-5th 2009-2010 Kirk Earlywine 9-21 .300 5-11/7th Totals (8 seasons as an assistant) 125-133 .484 74-72 .507 Totals at Eastern (9 seasons) 145-148 .495 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 back- to-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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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 basket- ball court, Legans was part of the third class of inductees into the Santa Bar- bara Court of Champions on June 5, 2016, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Among the other previous inductees are basketball legends Jerry West, Jamaal Wilkes, , 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 moni- toring, recruiting, on-court coaching (defensive emphasis), and summer camps. Booker NICK 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. Second Season Booker also played a vital role in the performance of Anteater players in the class- Davidson ‘04 room 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 With eight years of NCAA Division I basketball eligibility, of arguably the best recruiting classes in UC Irvine history. experience, Nick Booker enters his second season In the 2015-16 season, the Anteaters registered a school-record 28 wins and also as the associate head coach on the staff of Eastern set new UCI marks for non-conference victories (15) and road wins (13). The team men’s basketball head coach Shantay Legans. advanced to the championship game of the CollegeInsider.com (CIT) postseason His responsibilities at EWU include player skill tournament and the Anteaters had an RPI as high as 41 (best in school history) during development with emphasis on post players, and the regular season and a final RPI of 68. on-court coaching with defensive emphasis. He also oversees academic monitoring, Booker was also involved in the school’s historic 2014-15 season when the Anteaters recruiting, practice planning, in-season opponent scouting and summer camps. won the Big West Conference Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for Before coming to Eastern for the debut season of Legans, Booker spent the 2016-17 the first time. The Anteaters fell to three-time national champion Louisville by just two season at his alma mater, Davidson College, as director of basketball operations. The points in an NCAA Second-Round game at Seattle, Wash. previous six seasons he was at UC Irvine in California, including the last five as an as- The 2013-14 team advanced to the NIT and the 2012-13 squad played in the CIT sistant coach. where is recorded the first national postseason win in school history. That started a four- As a player and coach, he has been a part of teams to advance to the NCAA Tourna- year stretch in which the Anteaters were a collective 93-51 (21-16, 23-12, 21-13, 28-10), ment twice, as well as the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) once, the College Insider with a pair of Big West titles. Tournament (CIT) on two occasions and the College Basketball Invitational while at Booker’s efforts helped the Anteaters become one of the most feared defensive EWU in 2017-18. He was also an assistant on Saddleback College teams which won the teams in the nation. In four of his seasons on the staff, UC Irvine ranked in the top 25 in California Community College Athletic Association title one season and was runner-up field goal percentage defense, including third in 2014-15. the year prior. Prior to joining the Anteater staff, Booker served as an assistant coach at power- “Coach Booker has a great basketball mind, and is well-respected among basket- house community college, Saddleback College. Booker was instrumental in helping ball coaches around the country and internationally,” said Legans. “His desire to help recruit and develop several All-State players, while the team captured the California student-athletes succeed both on and off the court is an extremely important quality for Community College State Championship in 2009. our program. He graduated from Davidson College in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in history. In his lone season on the staff at Davidson, the Wildcats finished 17-15 overall and He was a member of the Wildcats’ team under current Davidson College head coach 8-10 in the Atlantic 10 Conference. While on the bench for the Anteaters the previous Bob McKillop. Booker was a starter for the 2002 Southern Conference championship six years, UC Irvine was 118-90 overall, 60-38 in Big West play and advanced to the team that competed in the NCAA Tournament against Ohio State. As a senior, he led postseason four times, including the 2015 NCAA Tournament. Davidson in blocked shots and steals. “Nick understands what we look for in student-athletes, and knows what It takes to Booker went on to receive his master’s degree in physical education from Azusa be a successful coach,” added Legans. “He has won at every level, first, as a player at Pacific in 2010. Davidson, but also at the junior college and NCAA Division I levels as a coach.” A native of San Diego, Calif., where he earned four varsity letters at The Bishop’s The 2016-17 season was Booker’s seventh year overall as a member of the UC Irvine School, Booker has three children, Philip, Kaleb, and Ella. 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

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Assistant Coach 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 DAVID RILEY 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. Fifth Season In his first three seasons in the program, Riley was the team’s video and analytics Whitworth ‘11 coordinator, managed the team’s recruiting database and handled facility scheduling. He David Riley begins his fifth season on the coaching also assisted with player academics and summer camps. staff in the 2017-18 school year after being elevated Riley earned first team All-NWC honors his final three seasons as a Pirate after start- to an assistant men’s coaching position at EWU in ing 112 of 114 games in his career. He finished with 1,664 points (14.6 per game) to rank May of 2014. He was previously Eastern’s director of fourth in Whitworth history and made 43.1 percent of his three-point attempts (300-of- basketball operations. 696). Riley’s main responsibilities are for payer develop- He averaged 16.5 points and 3.8 rebounds per game as a senior when he earned third ment with emphasis on wing players, and on-court team All-Region (D3hoops.com) honors. He made 45.6 percent of his shots from the field coaching with offensive emphasis. He also helps with academic monitoring, recruiting, and 41.6 percent from three-point range (82-of-197). Riley drained a school-record 10 practice planning, in-season scouting of opponents and summer camps. three-pointers and finished with 33 points in a 115-69 triumph over Willamette on Feb. 11, In April of 2017, Riley was selected by the National Association of Basketball Coaches 2011. The Pirates finished 28-2 and advanced to the Elite Eight of the D-III Tournament for (NABC) on its 2016-17 Under Armour 30-under-30 squad. The honor recognized Riley the first time in school history. among a group of up and coming young coaches in men’s college basketball. In his junior season, he averaged 13.4 points and 3.8 rebounds per game and made “What a great honor for coach Riley to be recognized as one of the best young coaches 40.9 percent of his 3-point shots (65-of-159). Riley scored 34 points in a win over Whit- in Division I men’s college basketball,” said Eastern head coach Shantay Legans. “There man on January 19, 2010. He helped Whitworth to a 26-3 record that included a perfect is no doubt in my mind that David will continue to climb the ladder in the basketball coach- 16-0 mark in the NWC and a trip to the Sweet 16 of the D-III Tournament. ing ranks.” He averaged 16.4 points and 4.1 rebounds as a sophomore while making 84-of-180 “David is a very intelligent, hard-working individual who comes from a family of great 3-pointers (46.7 percent). He scored a career-high 37 points in a win over PLU on Jan. coaches,” Legans added. “Being a coach is in his genes, and he has taken the next step 17, 2009. Whitworth finished second in the NWC during the regular season, but upset to assume more responsibility with recruiting. He is proving he can identify the right talent Puget Sound in the conference tournament and advanced to the D-III second round. The and create relationships with potential players and their families.” Pirates finished 23-6. Riley played for former EWU head coach Jim Hayford at Whitworth University in He averaged 11.9 points and 69-of-160 3-pointers (43.1) in his freshman campaign. Spokane, Wash., from the 2007-08 season through 2010-11, earning All-Northwest He scored 29 points in a win over Caltech on Nov. 24, 2007, in just the second game of his Conference accolades all four years. Whitworth teams were a collective 98-18 while Riley Pirate career. He helped the Pirates finish 21-7, win the NWC regular season champion- was there, with three NWC titles (55-9 in league play) and four appearances in the NCAA ship and advance to the D-III Sweet 16 for the first time in school history. Division III Tournament. Riley is formerly from Palo Alto, Calif., and graduated from Gunn High School in 2007. He graduated in 2011 from Whitworth, then joined Hayford at EWU the following sea- He earned All-Central Coast Section honors as a senior at Gunn. son. Riley helped as a manager and team operations assistant three previous seasons, He was born Nov. 28, 1988, in Seattle Washington. He and his wife, Emily, were mar- including the first two as a graduate assistant. He received his master of science degree in ried on May 19, 2018. physical education from EWU in 2013. His father, Edward Riley, is a Whitworth graduate and a physician and professor at Riley has played a key role in EWU recording three 20-victory seasons – the top three the Stanford University School of Medicine. Edward’s brother, , grew up in win totals in EWU’s 34-year history in NCAA Division I. From the 2013-14 through 2017-18 Wallace, Idaho, and began his coaching career in 1976 at Whitworth. He received his seasons the Eagles have win totals of 15, 26, 18, 22 and 20 games. The combined 101 master’s degree in 1977 and has since gone on to head coaching positions at Nebraska wins in five seasons, 86 victories in four seasons, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the (2015-2017), Oregon State (1997-98, 2003-2014), the San Diego Chargers (1999-2001) most since EWU became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. The same and the of the (1987-1990). Mike and can be said of EWU’s stretch of league victories ­– 10, 14, 10, 13, 13 – in that five-year Edward’s father, Bud Riley, was an assistant football coach at Idaho (1962-65), Oregon span. State (1965-72) and the head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1974-77). Eastern has had its first back-to-back-to-back national tournament postseason 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, in- season scouting of opponents, on-court coaching and summer camps coordination. 2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS 14 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 responsibili- ties 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 Asst. Dir. of BB Oper./Video Coordinator 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 Di- T.J. LIPOLD ego State, becoming the first No. 15 seed to advance to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. Second Season Suarez worked with four all-conference players during his time at Florida Gulf Coast: Westmont College ‘12 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 T.J. Lipold began working for the EWU Basketball all-time program leader for rebounds, blocked shots and field goals made) and Sherwood program in June of 2018 in an assistant director of Brown (2013 All-America Honorable Mention selection and the 2013 Atlantic Sun Player basketball operations/video coordinator role. His re- of the Year). sponsibilities include film breakdown, scouting reports In 2014, Suarez worked for Orlando Antigua (now the head coach at USF) and preparation, opponent player tendencies evaluation assisted with day to day operations of the Dominican Republic National team. In 2017, and day-to-day team operations. Suarez worked with the Team USA Junior National team with day-to-day operations and He played two years (2010-2012) under John Moore at Westmont College, where he on court development. was a part of back-to-back 25-win seasons and earned his bachelor’s degree. Before Suarez earned his bachelor’s degree in business management from Florida Gulf Coast Westmont, T.J played his first two years of college basketball for Saddleback College University in 2012. (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 Sad- dleback 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 ZACH BYRNE included recruiting, practice planning, scouting, skill development and academic planning. Fourth Season “I am just grateful for the opportunity to be a part of something special and learn from East Carolina ‘12 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 Entering his third season as EWU’s director of watching my dad coach at Long Beach City College.” basketball operations and fourth overall, Zach Byrne entered the Eastern Basketball program in 2015 after completing his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology at Assistant Athletic Director of Athletic Performance East Carolina University. His first year with the program in 2015-16 was as NATE BARRY the video coordinator, and his responsibilities included film breakdown, in-game scout preparation, analytics and summer camps. Since then his First Season • Idaho ‘11 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 Athletic Trainer 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.” RYAN MOREAU Byrne comes from a family with a strong coaching background, as his mom, Mary Third Season • Central Michigan ‘13 Byrne, was a Division I head volleyball coach for 15 years at South Dakota State and North Carolina State.

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