Vandals men’s basketball announces graduate assistants
MOSCOW — Idaho men's basketball coach Alex Pribble announced Friday that Luke Chavez and Mark Moore will join the Vandal coaching staff as graduate assistants for the 2024-25 season.
Chavez played under Pribble at Saint Martin's for two seasons in 2017-2019. Quickly Chavez turned into one of the top players in the GNAC, earning NABC First Team West Region, NCAA West Region All-Tournament Team and GNAC unanimous First Team All-Conference following his senior season in 2019. He helped lead the Saints to a school-record 26 wins, the program's first Great Northwest Athletic Conference regular-season championship and a berth to the Sweet 16 at the NCAA Division II tournament.
Following his collegiate career, Chavez competed professionally for two seasons in Panama from 2021-2023. In his final season for the Centinelas, he averaged 18.8 points per game, 7.5 rebounds, and 6.6 assists.
Moore comes to the Palouse after playing basketball for four seasons at NCAA Division III Webster University in St. Louis. He was a two-sport student-athlete at Webster, playing varsity soccer for three seasons.
Outside of collegiate competition, the Hillsboro, Mo., native served as a men's basketball operations intern for one summer at Southeast Missouri State University and spent the 2023-24 season as a varsity assistant coach at his former high school. He is also the founder and head trainer of Moore Buckets, a startup basketball training outlet for all age groups.
WSU men book "neutral site" matchups with Iowa, Boise State
The Washington State men's basketball team announced a pair of nonconference matchups for the 2024-25 season, facing Iowa on Nov. 15 in the Quad Cities Hoops Showdown at Vibrant Arena in Moline, Ill., and Boise State on Dec. 7 at Idaho Central Arena in Boise.
WSU and Iowa have met just once previously in program history, Iowa winning 74-66 on Dec. 30, 1963, in Portland, Ore. at the Far West Classic.
WSU and Boise State will meet at Idaho Central Arena for the second time in three seasons. Last season, BSU traveled to Spokane with WSU snagging a 66-61 victory at Spokane Arena. The Broncos have won two of the last three meetings.
Broadcast information and game times will be announced closer to the start of the season.
WCC newbie Washington State picked to finish second in women's soccer
Washington State, an associate member of the West Coast Conference the next two seasons, was picked to finish second in the conference in women's soccer, the WCC announced Friday.
Gonzaga was picked to tie for fifth.
A pair of Lake City High products play for WSU — Georgia Whitehead, a sophomore defender, and Elliotte Kortus, a redshirt freshman forward. Whitehead played in 13 matches last season, starting three for the Cougars.
WSU opens next Thursday at Purdue.
Gonzaga opens Thursday at Utah.
2024 WCC Women’s Soccer Preseason Coaches Poll
1, Santa Clara, 98 points (9 first-place votes). 2, Washington State, 87 points (2). 3, Pepperdine, 86 points. 4, Portland, 68 points. 5 (tie), Gonzaga, Saint Mary's, 52 points. 7, San Francisco 49 points. 8 (tie), Oregon State, Pacific, 38 points. 10, Loyola Marymount, 23 points. 11, San Diego, 14 points.
EWU coach Monson adds three to round out men's basketball staff
CHENEY — Eastern Washington men's basketball coach Dan Monson announced the hiring of two assistant coaches and new director of player development to his 2024-25 staff.
Will Turgeon and MicGuire Monson are added as assistant coaches and Alex Hobbs as Director of Player Development.
MicGuire Monson, Dan's son, most recently served as a graduate assistant at Long Beach State, where his father coached the past 17 seasons. Previously, Monson was a student assistant at Boise State.
Hobbs was assistant coach at NAIA Carroll College in Carroll, Mont., where he served as head assistant coach for one season. Before his coaching career, Hobbs was a standout guard at Boise State, where he was a 1,000-point scorer. In 2018, he earned the Mountain West Conference's Sixth Man of the Year award, and in 2019, he was recognized as an All-Conference performer. Over his college career, Hobbs played in 120 games, starting 42, and contributed to two NIT appearances.
Following college, Hobbs played professionally for the Kordall Steelers in Luxembourg, Germany. In his sole season with the team, he led the league in scoring and was named First Team All-Import.
Turgeon was a graduate assistant at the University of Colorado for the past two seasons (2022-2024). He's the son of former Kansas player and former college head coach Mark Turgeon.