Northwest Notes Jan. 17, 2023

Vandal football team adds four mid-year transfers

MOSCOW — Idaho football coach Jason Eck on Monday announced the addition of four transfers to the Vandal football team.

The group includes an offensive lineman (Tarrian Rainey, 6-4, 285), a defensive back (Dwayne McDougle, 6-0, 195) and two defensive tackles (Tylen Coleman, 6-0, 255 and Jahkari Larmond, 6-3, 330).

The group adds veteran support for the Vandals and will shore up the trenches that saw team captains on both sides of the ball graduate. Logan Floyd departed on the offensive side while the defensive line lost Post Falls High product Nate DeGraw.

All four of these players have already arrived in Moscow and will participate in winter conditioning and spring practice.

"We really wanted to address the line of scrimmage with Tarrian, Jakahri and Tylen to our offensive and defensive lines," Eck said. "They are proven players that have been very productive in college. Dwayne was a young man that we recruited last year out of high school, and we are excited to add him to the roster as someone we can develop."

Idaho plans to begin spring football in late March.

Rainey, a grad transfer and originally an FCS player at Stetson (Fla.), transferred to Olivet Nazarene in Illinois for the last four seasons where he was a three-time All-Conference honoree. In 2022, he was a consensus All-American and was named the Mid State Football Conference Offensive Lineman of the Year. He anchored an offensive that averaged nearly 400 total yards per game in 2022, the highest mark in the MSFA-Midwest league. He goes by the nickname of Biggs.

Coleman, a redshirt senior from Western New Mexico, brings three years of playing experience to Moscow. He has 25.5 tackles for loss and 18.5 sacks. He forced five forced fumbles and batted down four passes, including four in 2022. He led his league in sacks in 2021 with 12. He has 96 total tackles during his career, including 41 in 2022. Against FCS opponent Abilene Christian, he recorded five tackles, 2.0 sacks, and a QB hurry.

Larmond, a junior, played in eight games as a true fFreshman and started all 11 games as a sophomore at Lincoln University (Mo.). Larmond recorded 29 tackles last season. The Vandals say he will also provide a big presence in the middle of the defensive line with size and strength.

McDougle, a redshirt freshman, comes to Idaho after one season redshirting at Northern Arizona. He played in one game at NAU and recorded one tackle. He was high school teammates with current Vandal Tigana Cisse, winning a state title at McClymonds High in Oakland. In the state title game, he caught two TDs, intercepted a pass and recorded a sack.

Yeo joins Gonzaga men’s basketball roster

SPOKANE — Gonzaga men's basketball head coach Mark Few announced the addition of South Korean Jun Seok Yeo (pronounced JUNE Suh-k YO) to the roster.

Yeo will enroll in classes this semester and train with the Zags this season, but not play in a game until 2023-24 as a sophomore.

Yeo, a 6-8, 220-pound forward, is a transfer from Korea University in Seoul, South Korea. He attended the NBA Global Academy in Australia, before graduating from Yongsan High School in Seoul.

At the 2021 FIBA U-19 World Cup in Latvia, Yeo averaged a tournament-high 25.6 points per game, while grabbing 10.6 rebounds per outing, which ranked second in the event. Playing against former Bulldog Chet Holmgren and the United States, Yeo scored 21 points. In the final two games against Puerto Rico and Japan, Yeo racked up 31- and 36-point performances.

Zags' Maxwell named WCC women's Player of the Week

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Gonzaga's Brynna Maxwell was named West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Week.

Maxwell guided Gonzaga to a 73-66 victory at Portland in the Bulldogs' only game of the week. The senior guard connected on seven of her 10 field-goal attempts, including 6-of-7 from three-point distance, en route to a team-high 20 points. Maxwell also grabbed four rebounds and had two steals in 34 minutes of action.

Maxwell continues to lead all of college basketball in 3-point accuracy (54.4 percent on 56 for 103) and free-throw percentage (98.1 percent on 51 for 52).