Northwest Notes

Signups underway for men’s

spring basketball league

COEUR d’ALENE — The Coeur d’Alene Recreation Department is taking team registration for the men’s spring basketball league that begins the week of Feb. 27.

Games are held weekdays. Team entry fee is $395. Entry deadline is Feb. 22; teams will play a seven-game schedule.

Players must be 18 years of age to participate.

EWU basketball standout

Wiley earns more honors

Eastern Washington senior graduate transfer Jacob Wiley was selected by the United States Basketball Writers Association as the winner of the Oscar Robertson Player of the Week Award given to the nation’s top NCAA Division I basketball performance. He scored 83 points and had 29 rebounds in a pair of victories last week.

He joins Tyler Harvey (2015) and Austin McBroom (2016) in winning the award in back-to-back-to-back years under head coach Jim Hayford. Harvey scored 55 points in January Big Sky Conference victories over Weber State (39) and Idaho State (16) two seasons ago, and McBroom had 72 points in league wins in February over Northern Colorado (37) and North Dakota (35) last year. Like Wiley, McBroom was a graduate transfer.

Originally from Newport, Wash., Wiley was honored one day earlier by NCAA.com as the National Player of the Week in NCAA Division I for his epic performances last week in victories over Sacramento State 77-72 and Portland State 130-124 in three overtimes. In addition, ESPN analyst Dick Vitale named him as his National Player of the Week as well. Plus, Wiley was the Mid-Major Player of the Week for the second time this season as selected by College Sports Madness, and was Big Sky Conference Player of the Week for the third time.