Robert Franks to Declare for the NBA
Draft
The junior forwarded announced today he will declare for the NBA
Draft, but will not hire an agent at this time.
From WSU Sports Info 3/26/2018
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University junior
forward Robert Franks announced today that he will declare for the 2018 NBA
Draft, but won’t hire an agent at this time, in order to maintain his NCAA
eligibility.
“I’ve grown a lot in my three years at WSU,” Franks said. “I’m
excited at the thought of playing at the next level and want to test out the
process and see what opportunities lay ahead for me. I’m not going to hire an
agent just yet, I want to get some feedback and see what I can potentially do.”
Men’s basketball student-athletes are afforded the opportunity
to put their name into the draft process, but maintain their collegiate
eligibility as long as they don’t hire an agent, and declare by April 22.
The NBA Draft Combine runs May 16-20, and players who have not hired
agents have until June 11 to make a final decision to return to
school or remain in the draft. The NBA Draft will take place June 21.
Declaring for the draft allows Franks the chance to be invited to the combine
and/or to private workouts for NBA teams and to receive feedback from NBA
executives on those workouts.
“Robert has done a great job for us and has grown tremendously
in this system,” WSU head coach Ernie Kent said. “I wish him well as he goes
through the process of evaluating his potential to get drafted.”
Franks led WSU and ranked seventh in the Pac-12 with 17.4 points
per game, along with a team second-best and Pac-12 15th-best 6.6 rebounds per
game. A native of Vancouver, Wash., Franks shot .405 (66-for-163) from beyond
the 3-point arc. At the conclusion of the season he was named the Pac-12 Most
Improved Player of the Year and all-conference honorable mention after nearly
tripling his point total from his sophomore year in which he averaged 6.3
points and 3.3 rebounds per game in just 16.4 minutes per outing. His .854
(105-for-123) free throw percentage led the league and ranks 60th nationally
and he set the school single-game record with 10 3-pointers in WSU’s victory
over California, Jan. 13.
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WSU President Kick Schulz to deliver his annual State of the
University Address Tuesday
Based on info from Pullman Radio News
Washington State University President Kirk Schulz will deliver
his annual State of the University Address Tuesday 27 March 2018 afternoon. It’s at 3:10 inside Bryan Hall. People who plan to attend in person are asked
to pre-register here https://universityevents.wsu.edu/stateoftheuniversity.
It will be live streamed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxbEAQW-IVY&feature=youtu.be
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FOOTBALL
: Washington State, Idaho set date for 2025 football season;
Vandals to collect $625,000 payout
Mon., March 26, 2018, 4:20 p.m.
By Theo Lawson Spokane S-R
PULLMAN – Washington State and Idaho will meet for the 94th
time on a football field during the 2025 season, sources have confirmed to The
Spokesman-Review.
FBSchedules.com first reported the 2025 game, which will take
place on Aug. 30 at Martin Stadium in Pullman and presumably serve as the
season opener for both the Cougars and Vandals. WSU and Idaho have yet to make
an official announcement.
According to sources, Idaho, which is joining the Big Sky
Conference, will receive a guaranteed payout of $625,000 to play the Pac-12
Cougars. The payouts received by Football Championship Series (FCS) schools who
play Power Five opponents generally aren’t as substantial as those received by
“mid-major” Football Subdivision (FBS) schools. However, the $625,000 payout
Idaho is receiving for the 2025 game is larger than the pot of money the
Cougars offered up to host the Vandals in 2016 when UI was still an FBS member
playing in the Sun Belt Conference. Idaho collected $600,000 from that game.
The border rivals have another game on the docket before the
2025 meeting. Idaho will also visit WSU on Sept. 19, 2020. The schools
negotiated the terms of that contract in 2016 and settled on a $550,000 payout
for the Vandals.
Recently, the gridiron series has been kinder to the Cougars
than the one on the hardwood. WSU has won the last nine football games and
never by fewer than 12 points. The Cougars obtained their second-most emphatic
win in the rivalry’s history – one that dates back to 1894 – when they pummeled
the Vandals 56-6 in 2016.
The schools have played 92 times and 72 have resulted in WSU
victories. The Vandals have 17 wins in the series and there have been three
ties.
The Cougars own a 70-49 lead in the basketball series,
though they’ve conceded three of the last four games to Idaho and last December
gave the Vandals one of their most resounding wins in the rivalry, losing 91-64
at the Cowan Spectrum in Moscow.
Per FBSschedules, the Vandals also added three future home
games against NCAA Division II schools: Western New Mexico on Sept. 8, 2018,
Central Washington on Sept. 7, 2019 and Western Oregon on Sept. 5, 2020.
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Alaska Airlines pulling all its flights out of Lewiston
Lewiston Trib website posted about 5pm 3/26/2018
Alaska Airlines is withdrawing from the Lewiston-Nez Perce
County Regional Airport, leaving the transportation hub without direct flights
to Seattle or Boise.
The commercial passenger airline’s final day in Lewiston
will be Aug. 25, according to an email sent to Valley Vision, a not-for-profit
economic development group.
Alaska plans to add flights to its Pullman schedule the
following day to fill the gap. But direct Boise service from north central
Idaho or southeastern Washington will no longer exist. Passengers will have to
leave from Spokane or fly from Pullman to Seattle and then connect with Boise
flights, according to the email.
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