EAGLE MEN’S BASKETBALL 2020-21 Eagle Basketball Highlights . . . • NCAA Tournament berths in 2015 & 2004, NIT in 2003 & CBI in 2016, 2017 and 2018. • Big Sky Tournament champions in 2015 & 2004 (the end of the 2019-20 season was canceled during the league tournament because of the Covid-19 virus). • Big Sky regular season champions in 2020, 2015, 2004 and 2000 (outright in 2004 and 2020). • The summer of 2018 was the fourth-straight year an Eagle represented EWU in the NBA Summer League. • SHANTAY LEGANS was Big Sky Conference Coach of the Year in the 2019-20 season after leading EWU to the outright regular season championship in the Big Sky Conference and a school-record 16 league wins. He made history in 2017-18, as his team’s 20 wins were the most by a first-year Eastern coach in EWU’s NCAA Division I era. Among the victories was a 67-61 victory at Stanford to break EWU’s 21-game losing streak versus Pacific-12 Conference foes. Interestingly, he played for California for three seasons from 2000-03 and the Bears lost to the Cardinal in all five meetings. • MASON PEATLING was Big Sky Conference MVP in the 2019-20 season, and also earned first team Academic All-America honors. He closed his 118-game career (96 as a starter) with 1,250 points (12th in school history), 725 rebounds (sixth) and 112 blocked shots (second). • The Eagles from 2014-15 through 2019-20 have recorded win totals of 26, 18, 22, 20, 16 and 23, including the top two win totals in EWU’s 37-year history in NCAA Division I . The combined 125 victories in six seasons, 102 in five, 86 in four, 66 in three and 44 in two are also the most since EWU became a member of NCAA Division I in the 1983-84 season. The same can be said of EWU’s stretch of league victories -- 14, 10, 13, 13, 12, 16 -- in that six-year span. Eastern has had its first back-to-back-to-back national tournament postseason appearances at the Division I level with a stretch of four-straight from 2015-18, including its first-ever win (79-72 over Pepperdine in the CBI in 2016). • BOGDAN BLIZNYUK was the 2017-18 Big Sky Conference MVP and a unanimous first team all-league selection, and went on to earn first team All-NABC District 6 honors. He broke the Big Sky Conference and Eastern all-time career scoring records, with a final total of 2,169. He set a NCAA Division I single season record as a senior when he made 77 consecutive free throws, and finished with a total of 16 school records, three Big Sky marks and nine Big Sky Tournament records. He concluded his senior season with 741 points (sixth in Big Sky history), tying the record in the final minute of his career and then breaking it on his last career shot with 10 ticks left. He was the Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year in 2014-15. As a sophomore, he recorded the first triple-double in school history when he had 11 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists against Northern Arizona on Jan. 16, 2016. • JACOB WILEY, playing in his first and only season as an Eagle in 2016-17, made Big Sky Conference history by becoming just the second player in league history to score at least 639 points and have at least 303 rebounds in a single season in the league’s 54-year existence. The honorable mention All-American, Big Sky MVP and first team NABC All-District 6 selection finished with totals of 694 and 309, respectively, and no other player in league history has coupled that with at least 58 blocks (Wiley finished with 94 to come one shy of the league record) or a shooting percentage of at least .621 (Wiley finished at .643). Wiley finished the season ranked sixth in NCAA Division I in field goal percentage, eighth in blocked shots (2.76 per game), 29th in scoring (20.4), 48th in rebounds (9.1) and 112th in free throw percentage (.828). He signed a contract with the New Jersey Nets of the NBA.
2018/2017/2016 CBI TOURNAMENT • 2015/2004 NCAA TOURNAMENT • 2003 NIT • 2020/2015/2004/2000 BIG SKY CHAMPIONS
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