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M Basketball
6-29-09
Grand Canyon men's basketball team will open the 2009-10 season at the Disney West Coast Tip-Off Classic Friday October 30 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Southern California.
GCU will open the tournament against Western Washington at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 30. The Antelopes will play San Francisco State on Saturday, Oct. 31 at 2:30 p.m.
The Lopes meet Kentucky Wesleyan Sunday, Nov. 1 at 4 p.m.
All-Sports Directors Cup
6-23-09
Grand Canyon University finished 174th in the Learfield Sports Director's Cup NCAA Division II standings.
The Director's Cup is an all-sports compilation based on athletic success of colleges throughout the nation. It is a representation of where a university's athletic program ranks as a whole nationwide. A university athletic program's finish in national postseason competition goes a long way in determining the Cup standings.
Grand Canyon had 85 points. Grand Valley State University in Michigan won its sixth straight championship with 1014.50 points.
Director's Cup Standings
PacWest Academics
6-18-09
Grand Canyon University's student-athletes posted the fourth highest grade point average in the Pacific West Conference in 2008-09. 
GCU's student-athletes had a combined GPA of 2.967 for the conference's 11 sports this academic year.
BYU-Hawaii reported a 3.154 GPA, which ranked tops in the PacWest. Notre Dame de Namur was second at 3.139. Neither school fields a baseball team.
Grand Canyon boasted the most PacWest All-Academic student-athletes in the conference. Athletes who've competed at the school for at least two years and have a cumulative GPA of 3.3 were eligible for PacWest Academic honors. GCU had 33 student-athletes named to the conference all-academic list.
6-17-09
Grand Canyon University had the most student athletes on the 2009 PacWest Academic All-Conference team, announced Tuesday by the league's media relations office.
GCU had a league-best 34 selections on the 146 member student-athlete list that included programs from Dixie State, Notre Dame de Namur, BYU-Hawai'i, Chaminade, Hawai'i Pacific and Hawai'i Hilo.
Student-athletes had to have a 3.3 or higher cumulative GPA and be in their second year of competition at the school. NDNU was second with 22 members.
PACWEST ALL-ACADEMIC
M Basketball
6-10-09
Former Grand Canyon men's basketball coach Paul Westphal was hired by the Sacramento Kings as the NBA team's new head coach. 
Westphal, who has been a head coach for the Phoenix Suns and Seattle SuperSonics, was an assistant coach with the Dallas Mavericks in 2007-08. He served as the Mavericks executive vice president of basketball operations last season.
Westphal also was the head coach at Pepperdine from 2001-06.
While at Grand Canyon from 1986-88, Westphal coached the Antelopes to a 63-18 record and NAIA National Championship in 1988.
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