Two Western Washington University players, junior guard Amanda Dunbar and senior center Jessica Summers, have been named West Region all-stars and are among 40 finalists for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association/NCAA Division II State Farm Coaches' All-America Team. Dunbar and Summers joined UC San Diego guard Chelsea Carlisle, Cal Poly Pomona guard Reyana Colson and Seattle Pacific guard Daesha Henderson on the five-member squad.

Three Western Washington University players have been named to the Great Northwest Athletic Conference All-Star Women's Basketball Team announced today. Selected to the first team were junior guard Amanda Dunbar and senior center Jessica Summers. Senior forward Willow Cabe was a second-team pick. Dunbar and Summers were both second-team choices last year.

Host and No.1 seed Western Washington University will play arch-rival and No.8 seed Central Washington in the final game of Friday's opening round at the West Regional of the NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Tournament being held on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium. The pairings were announced Tuesday morning. The Vikings, 25-5 overall, are 13-1 at home this season. Central is 16-10. The contest is scheduled for a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.

Two Western Washington University men's basketball players have been named first-team all-Great Northwest Athletic Conference all-stars. Guard Morris Anderson was a unanimous pick, and was joined on the first team by forward Derrick Webb. Western forward Zach Bruce received honorable mention. Bruce, Anderson and Webb all came to Western as transfers from Highline CC.

Western Washington University shortstop Caitlin Dotlich has been named Great Northwest Athletic Conference Softball Player of the Week for March 1-7. A junior from Sedro-Woolley (graduate of Burlington-Edison High School), Dotlich hit .643 (9-for-14), including a pair of doubles and a triple, in leading the Vikings to a four-game sweep at Northwest Nazarene.

The Western Washington University men's basketball team is the No.1 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Division II National Tournament to be held March 12-13 and 15 on Haggen Court at Sam Carver Gymnasium. The Vikings, 25-5 overall, placed second in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference standings at 12-4. Although the eight West Region teams are set, their seeding, and thus Western's opening-round opponent, will not be announced until Tuesday morning after Monday's BYU-Hawaii versus Hawaii Pacific game, which was postponed by tsunami warnings Feb. 27.

The Western Washington University women's basketball team is the No. 3 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Division II National Tournament and faces Chico State University in an opening-round game Friday at either 12:30 p.m. or 2:30 p.m. at Seattle Pacific University's Royal Brougham Pavilion. Western, which was ranked No.20 in last week's USA Today/ESPN/NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll, enters the tournament with a 23-4 record. It is the 10th appearance in 11 years as a full NCAA member for the Vikings, who missed the post-season only in 2008.

The roads to Springfield and St. Joseph will be paved on Sunday with the D-II Men's and Women's Tournament Selection Shows. Watch them both live on NCAA.com, starting at 6 p.m.PT! The respective West Regionals will be Mar. 12-13 and 15.