Eagles' capture share of Big Sky title, earn spot in NCAA tourney
Last year's NCAA Tournament game for Eastern Washington against Georgetown proved to be Tyler Harvey's last as the Eagles' star headed for the NBA draft.
When Jim Hayford was introduced as the new head men's basketball coach at Eastern Washington University on March 29, 2011 he offered, "I think the future is bright."
That prediction took four years to initially come to fruition as Hayford guided a talented group to a share of the 2014-15 Big Sky regular season championship and the school's first berth in the NCAA tournament in a decade. The effort was selected as the Cheney Free Press's No. 1 sports story in 2015.
The Eagles would exit the tournament against No. 4 seed Georgetown in a round-one game in nearby Portland, 84-74. Still the 13-seed...
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