SEATTLE – Seattle University men’s basketball (1-1) remains home for a third consecutive game to open the 2025-26 season, hosting the Eastern Washington Eagles (0-3) on Wednesday, Nov. 12. Tip off from the Redhawk Center is scheduled for 7 p.m. The game will air live on ESPN+.
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- Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM PT
- Seattle U (1-1, 0-0 WCC) vs. Eastern Washington (0-3, 0-0 Big Sky)
- Redhawk Center, Seattle, WA
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QUICK HITS
- Wednesday’s meeting with Eastern Washington marks the first of four home games for the Redhawks against all four remaining Division I programs in the state of Washington.
- The Redhawks enter the meeting with the Eagles with a 1-1 record after Cal Poly played Homecoming spoiler, earning a 73-71 win over Seattle U on Saturday, Nov. 8.
- Seattle U led by as many as 10 points in the second half, but a late Cal Poly rally was capped by a buzzer-beating three for the win.
- Will Heimbrodt scored 20 points to lead Seattle U. The redshirt sophomore hit the 20-point mark for the second time in as many games.
- Heimbrodt also collected a career-high five blocks, the most in a game by a Redhawk since Nov. 8, 2023 when Kobe Williamson and Brandton Chatfield each tallied five swats against Prairie View A&M.
- Brayden Maldonado joined Heimbrodt in double figures for a second straight game, finishing with 17 points. Jojo Murphy added nine points off the bench.
- Seattle U shot better than 45% from the field for a second straight outing, but struggled from three (8-29, 27.6%) and from the charity stripe (5-14, 35.7%).
ABOUT THE SERIES VS EASTERN WASHINGTON
- Seattle U is 10-17 all-time against the Eagles, dating back to the 1945-46 season.
- In the Redhawks’ modern-day Division I era, the teams are 8-9 in a very back-and-forth series.
- Four games have gone into overtime, including two in 2009 and two in 2016.
- The teams last met in the 2024-25 season opener in Cheney, Wash. The Eagles won on their home court, 93-86.
- In that last meeting, graduate transfer Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe collected a 20-point, 11-rebound double-double in his Redhawk debut and was joined in double figures by John Christofilis (17 points) and Paris Dawson (14 points).
- Prior to last season, the teams had not faced off in five years – a Nov. 9, 2019 meeting in Seattle with the Eagles claiming a 74-66 win.
- Previous to that, the Redhawks had won two straight and three of the last five.
Seattle U won the first meeting in its return to DI, 63-59, in overtime at EWU during the 2008-09 season. The teams would go on to split a home-and-home series the next two years, each winning on their home courts. Seattle U won the lone meeting in 2011-12 and EWU won four straight before the Redhawks prevailed for a 58-52 win at KeyArena on Nov. 23, 2015. Both meetings in 2016-17 were thrilling double overtime contests, each that went the way of the Eagles.
EASTERN TIES
- Prior to Seattle U, Head Coach Chris Victor served as an assistant coach at Eastern Washington for two seasons. His first season on the Eagle coaching staff was punctuated by Eastern’s first-ever victory in a national postseason tournament as a member of NCAA Division I when the Eagles beat Pepperdine, 79-72, in the College Basketball Invitational. The Eagles went 22-12 and returned to the CBI in 2016-17.
- Current Seattle U Associate Head Coach Grant Leep also spent time with the Eagles’ program. Leep joined the EWU staff beginning with the 2005-06 season, spending four total years as an assistant coach with the Eagles.
SEATTLE STORYLINES
- 2025-26 marks the Redhawks’ return the West Coast Conference. Seattle U was a one time member of the then West Coast Athletic Conference from 1971-1980, before dropping from NCAA Division I. The university was accepted into the West Coast Conference on May 10, 2024 and began its return to competition in the WCC in fall 2025.
- Seattle U has three international players hailing from Asia Pacific countries, including senior Junseok Yeo (South Korea), sophomore Houran Dan (China) and redshirt-freshman Yuto Kawashima (Japan).
- Based on roster data provided to the NCAA by member institutions, Yeo is the lone player from Korea on a Division I roster, Dan is one of just five players from China on a DI roster and Kawashima is one of seven players from Japan on a DI roster.
- Seattle U will host all four other Division I programs in the state of Washington during the 2025-26 season. The Redhawks host Eastern Washington on Nov. 12, Washington on Dec. 19, Washington State on Dec. 30 and Gonzaga on Jan. 17.
- John Christofilis has poured in 115 threes in two-plus seasons at SU, putting him in striking distance of entering the SU all-time top-10 list this year. Sitting tied for 10th are Mack Junior (95-99) and Arne Klubberud (95-99), each with 144 career threes.
- Maleek Arington enters Saturday’s match-up against Cal Poly with 816 career points and will eye becoming a third member of the 2025-26 squad to surpass 1,000 career points. He would join Jojo Murphy (1,380 career points) and Brayden Maldonado (1,057 career points).
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UP NEXT
Seattle U caps its season-opening, four-game homestand on Saturday, Nov. 15 with 7 p.m. tilt against Idaho State.
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