Student-athletes and coaches across the GNAC footprint garner excellent media coverage throughout the year, and we have always made it a daily priority to scour the Internet for those links so we can share them with our audience on gnacsports.com first thing every morning. Today was a special day in…

It all starts today across the West Region, with conference men’s and women’s hoops tournaments getting underway in Bellingham, Washington (GNAC), Turlock, California (CCAA) and Honolulu (PacWest). All six conference tournaments are six-team affairs, with the top two seeds in each gender earning byes to the semifinal rounds. Quarterfinal action takes place today, with the semifinals slated for Friday and the championship doubleheaders happening on Saturday.

Two weeks remain before DII men’s and women’s March Madness is upon us, so it’s time to check in on some things. Let’s get started. NCAA Regional Qualification. Two things you need to know: 1) any team in the West that wins its conference tournament championship on March 4 is…

Kevin Woodin isn’t exactly sure when “Pink Night” started at MSUB. “I think this is year 12 or 13, somewhere around there,” the longtime Yellowjackets women’s basketball coach told me of the annual event geared around raising awareness of breast cancer in women. …

Little has changed at the top of the men’s and women’s basketball standings across the GNAC, CCAA and PacWest since we last reported out two weeks ago. In fact, the six teams that led or shared the conference lead on Jan. 22 maintained their positions following play Feb. 4. Except…

A Statement from the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports “The NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports seeks to amplify the voices of student-athletes on mental health and offers the following information in support of the recent statement from the NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and NCAA Board of Governors Student-Athlete Engagement Committee: “CSMAS applauds the effort…

We crossed the midway point in the conference basketball seasons this past weekend, and that usually means at least one thing: it’s “ready time” for baseball and softball. So ready, in fact, that things open up later this week in both sports. In softball, Western Oregon gets things underway as…

It’s a topic front and center across all athletic departments, regardless of level or division, and the fact this message is delivered by current NCAA DI, DII and DIII student-athletes is all you need to know.

The 2023 GNAC baseball season gets underway next week — Western Oregon gets the curtain call when it plays at Fresno Pacific Feb. 3 — so we’re providing an officiating tutorial prepared by the NCAA that reviews this season’s rule changes and intepretations. The 30-minute video is narrated by George Drouches, the NCAA’s national coordinator of umpires.