'It's been a remarkable year in a lot of ways' for EWU womens' hoops

Wendy Schuller likely sleeps a lot better than she did a year ago.

Sure, there might be the occasional flashback bad dream, reaction to the disappointment of her Eastern Eagles second consecutive 20-win season being overlooked for postseason play in 2016.

Eastern, of course, controlled its destiny after a second-place finish in the Big Sky Conference’s regular season but fell to Idaho, the eventual conference tournament champs, in the semifinals.

Still, things are in a better place than 10 months ago when Schuller was subject of arguably a hit piece that carefully identified the gripes of a nu...