Spokane’s Shadle Park grad, junior Tanner Groves becomes yet another Eastern Eagle to be named Big Sky Conference MVP announced March 8.
Groves becomes the second Eagle in a row to win and fourth in the last five seasons after Mason Peatling collected the honor a year ago.
Groves’ stats sheet seems most worthy of the nod with top-10 numbers in the conference in a variety of categories. He is fifth in scoring (16.5 points per-game), eighth in blocked shots (1.0 p/g) and eighth in free throw percentage (.798). Groves is currently second in rebounding (7.9 per game, just behind Aiken at 8.4) and field goal percentage (.570).
Groves was a first team All-Big Sky selection, joining junior Kim Aiken Jr. on that squad as EWU was the lone league school to have two players on the first team. Aiken was also selected as the Big Sky Conference Defensive Player of the Year, and sophomore Tyler Robertson was picked as the Top Reserve.
Big Sky Conference coaches selected the honors, and continued a recent trend within the Eagle basketball program. Groves and Peatling join Bogdan Bliznyuk (2018) and Jacob Wiley (2017) as MVP’s. EWU now has a total of six in school history.
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