Month: April 2021

From (near) perfect Pennmanship to Kamikaze chaos, Bilsky saw it all

  For Steve Bilsky, the night of April 5 brought back memories. And not all of them good ones.   That was the occasion when Gonzaga took its season-long undefeated streak into the national-championship basketball game against Baylor, and came out of it with its first defeat of the...

Golden anniversary: Harter’s hiring signaled a gilded era

  Tuesday marks a momentous anniversary in the history of University of Oregon athletics. It was on April 20, 1971 – fifty years ago — that the Eugene Register-Guard and the Portland newspapers revealed that a new men’s basketball coach was coming to the Ducks: A fellow named Dick...

Tommy Lloyd: The great ‘Zona gamble

  For a better grasp on what sort of ground Arizona broke Wednesday with the news that Tommy Lloyd will be the next Wildcat basketball coach, let’s play a game: Among the formidable-to-blueblood Power Six basketball schools, name one that’s hired an assistant coach from another program to its...