NIC women to open conference

tournament on Saturday

The North Idaho College women's basketball team will open play in the Northwest Athletic Conference Championships against Peninsula on Saturday at 6 p.m. at Everett Community College.

NIC (14-10), the fourth seed from the East Region, will face the Pirates (22-3), the top seed from the North Region.

The teams did not meet during the regular season.

NIC's men were ineligible for the conference tournament due to NWAC sanctions.

The conference tournament was canceled in 2020 after the first day of the women's bracket and completely in 2021 due to the pandemic.

Mims named to NWAC

All-East Region first team

North Idaho College sophomore forward Julius Mims was named to the Northwest Athletic Conference All-East Region first team, the conference announced.

Sophomore Cooper DeWitt and freshman Taden King were named to the second team. Sophomore Daniel Santana was named to the all-defensive team.

Wenatchee Valley sophomore Isaac Jones was named the region’s Most Valuable Player and Knight coach Jeremy Harden was named Coach of the Year.

Blue Mountain freshman Jaelyn Brainard (Coeur d’Alene High) and Wenatchee Valley freshman Katie Fleming (Post Falls) were named to the women’s second team. Spokane sophomore Dejah Wilson (Lake City) and Blue Mountain sophomore McKeeley Tonkin (Timberlake) were named to the all-defensive team.

Walla Walla sophomore Brie Holecek was named the region’s Most Outstanding Player, with Bobbi Hazeltine of Walla Walla winning Coach of the Year.

High school baseball games, track meet rained out

Tuesday's local high school schedule — Coeur d'Alene at Gonzaga Prep baseball, Lakeland at Lake City baseball and Post Falls at Lake City track and field — were postponed due to rain.

No makeup dates were announced.

More honors for Zags Timme, Holmgren

Gonzaga’s Chet Holmgren and Drew Timme were named second-team Associated Press All-American on Tuesday.

Timme, a junior, led the AP second team for the second straight year and was joined by his freshman teammate Holmgren. Jaden Ivey of Purdue, Jabari Smith of Auburn and Benedict Mathurin of Arizona rounded out the second team.

Timme, a Preseason All-American and the 2022 West Coast Conference Player of the Year was named first-team all-conference the last two seasons, after being named All-Freshman in 2019-20. He is second in the West Coast Conference averaging 17.5 points per game, and first scoring 18.5 points per WCC outing. The junior is third in the conference shooting 58.8 percent from the field, which ranks 14th in the nation. He is 10th in the WCC grabbing 6.3 rebounds per game, and seventh blocking 0.86 shots per game. Timme won the Karl Malone Award last season and is a finalist for this season's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award.

Holmgren tied the WCC record averaging 3.7 blocks per league game, matching Hondre Brewer's mark in 2002. Holmgren is fourth in the nation with 104 blocks and fourth averaging 3.59 blocks per game. His 104 blocked shots are the third-most in a single season in WCC history. Former GU player Brandon Clarke owns the record at 117. Holmgren ranks sixth for most blocks in a career in program history. The Minneapolis native has more blocks (104) than missed shots from the field (98) so far this season. Holmgren leads the conference grabbing 9.6 rebounds per game, which is 22nd in the country. Holmgren is ninth in the WCC averaging 14.2 points per game. He is ninth in the country shooting 61 percent from the field, which leads the WCC. The freshman is fourth in the nation making 73.4 percent inside the arc. Holmgren was named the WCC Newcomer and Defensive Player of the Year and is a finalist for the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award.

See All-America teams in Scoreboard.

• Holmgren is one of four finalists for the 2022 Naismith Men's Defensive Player of the Year.

The others are sophomore forward Walker Kessler of Auburn, junior forward Oscar Tshiebwe of Kentucky and sophomore center Mark Williams of Duke.

• Holmgren and Timme were named to the NABC All-District 9 first team.

Others on the first team are Alex Barcello of BYU, Jamaree Bouyea of San Francisco and Collin Welp of UC Irvine.

On the second team is E.J. Anosike of Cal State Fullerton, Yauhen Massalski of San Francisco, Joel Murray of Long Beach State, Matthias Tass of Saint Mary's and Jalen Williams of Santa Clara.

The Coach of the Year is Randy Bennett of Saint Mary's.