Northwest Notes: Thursday, January 29

| January 29, 2015 8:00 PM

Washington State football

staff announces changes

PULLMAN - Washington State football coach Mike Leach announced that Eric Mele has been named special teams coordinator and Brian Odom has been added in a defensive quality control position.

Mele was elevated to interim special teams coordinator midway through the 2014 season after serving in an offensive quality control position.

Odom arrives at WSU following three seasons at Houston where he served as co-Director of Sports Performance. Prior to Houston, he spent seven seasons at Arizona in a similar position, focusing on the development of the Wildcat football team. His coaching career began as a graduate assistant at Missouri, where he worked with current Cougar defensive coordinator Alex Grinch.

Cardinal basketball to host

Snow College tonight

COEUR d'ALENE - The North Idaho College men's and women's basketball teams return to action tonight at Rolly Williams Court with Scenic West Athletic Conference games against the Snow College Badgers starting with the women's game at 5:30 p.m.

The NIC men (17-5, 4-4 SWAC) lost 72-65 to Snow (17-4, 5-3) on Jan. 10 in Ephraim, Utah. Snow is currently third, two games behind Southern Idaho (23-0, 8-0). CSI hosts Salt Lake (19-3, 7-1) in other SWAC play tonight.

NIC's women (15-7, 4-4 SWAC) beat Snow (17-4, 5-3) 76-74 in overtime on Jan. 10 in Ephraim. Snow is second in the conference, two games behind Salt Lake (19-4, 7-1), which faces CSI (14-9, 5-3) tonight in Twin Falls.

Eastern guard Harvey named

co-Big Sky Player of the Week

After a 61-point weekend for the Eastern Washington men's basketball team, junior guard Tyler Harvey was selected as the co-Big Sky Conference Player of the Week for the third time this season and fifth time in his career.

He shares the honor with Sacramento State's Mikh McKinney.

On the watch list for the Lou Henson Award given to the nation's top mid-major player, Harvey also earned Big Sky Player of the Week honors from CollegeInsider.com.

The nation's leader in scoring (24.1 points per game) and 3-pointers (4.40 per game), Harvey made 16-of-27 (59 percent) shots overall last week. He made 7-of-15 (47 percent) from the 3-point line and 22-of-25 (88 percent) from the charity stripe.

His performances included a 35-point outing Northern Colorado, which was his fourth of at least 30 and 10th of his career. He added 26 points two days later against North Dakota.