Zags' Holmgren sweeps conference weekly honors

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Gonzaga’s Chet Holmgren swept the West Coast Conference weekly honors, garnering Player of the Week and Freshman of the Week accolades.

This marks the second time this season a men’s basketball player swept the weekly awards (BYU's Fousseyni Traore on Dec. 27).

Holmgren posted back-to-back 20-point performances in the Gonzaga wins this past week — 23 points at San Diego and 20 points during Gonzaga’s 90-57 win at BYU. Also, against the Cougars, he notched a career-best 17 rebounds, along with a season-high tying six assists and five blocks, becoming the fifth Division I player since 2010 to assemble at least 20 points, 15 rebounds, five assists and five blocks in a game. He posted 12 boards at USD, giving him double-doubles in each contest.

This is Holmgren’s first Player of the Week honor this season, and his ninth WCC weekly award. This is also the Zag’s fourth Player of the Week honor this season.

This is Holmgren’s eighth Freshman of the Week accolade, and also the second time this season he has earned the honor four consecutive weeks.

Two WSU men's basketball games rescheduled

In coordination with the Pac-12 Conference office, Washington State's men's basketball team has rescheduled its final two postponed games with Pacific Northwest rivals Washington and Oregon State.

WSU will play Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. at Beasley Coliseum. The final rescheduled game at Oregon State will take place Monday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. at Gill Coliseum.

Both games for the Cougs will be broadcast live on ESPNU.

All tickets purchased for the originally scheduled contest against Washington on Dec. 29 will be accepted for the game on Feb. 23.

WSU's Gueye earns third Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honors

SAN FRANCISCO — For the third time in his young career, Washington State's Mouhamed Gueye was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week, earning the award for the week ending Feb. 16.

Gueye had eight points and nine rebounds vs. Stanford, and 10 points, five boards, three blocks and two steals vs. California in the Cougs' first road sweep of the Bay Area schools since 1993.

WSU plays host to No. 4 Arizona and reigning Pac-12 Player of the Week Azuolas Tubelis on Thursday (6 p.m., FS1).

Kibbie Dome track named in Lauren McCluskey's honor after $1 million donation

MOSCOW — Matt and Jill McCluskey have donated $1 million to the University of Idaho track and field program in honor of their daughter Lauren, a former University of Utah track and field student-athlete who was murdered in 2018 by a man she briefly dated.

The money will be used to resurface the Kibbie Dome indoor track, which will be named in her honor.

Lauren trained at the dome extensively while growing up eight miles away in Pullman. She was a Washington high school state champion in the high jump and set the Pullman High School 100-meter hurdles record.

The track will feature a Mondotrack Super X surface. Mondo produced the track surface for the last six Summer Olympic games and over 290 world records have been set on Mondo products. The track will be installed by Idaho-based Wall 2 Wall Commercial Flooring.

Included in the infield for the 300-meter track large University of Idaho branding and lettering that include Lauren's name will be integrated into the track design. It will be the largest logo ever integrated into a track and field system.

The south side of the dome floor, inside of the track, where Vandal basketball played for decades, will now become the home of Idaho tennis. Four competition courts will take the spot of the former Cowan Spectrum.

The new surface will provide a permanent home for the Vandals tennis to train and compete and give unprecedented access for fans and spectators to watch duals. With 8,000 seats on the south side of the Kibbie Dome, it will immediately have one of the largest seating capacities of any collegiate tennis facility in the country.

The McCluskeys received settlement funds from the University of Utah and its insurers, who acknowledged that they should have done more to protect Lauren. The family has pledged to donate the entire settlement to support the missions of the Lauren McCluskey Foundation, which include improving campus safety, supporting amateur athletics and animal welfare. The donation to the University of Idaho is directly from the McCluskeys and not from the Lauren McCluskey Foundation.