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COLLEGE PLACE, Wash. -- The No. 10 Eastern Oregon University men's basketball team opens its regular season Saturday at Walla Walla University. The weekly notes are now available.

* Game 1: No. 10 Eastern Oregon (0-0) at Walla Walla University (0-0)
* When: Saturday, Oct. 29, 8 p.m.
* Where: Winter Educational Complex, College Place, Wash.
* Live Stats: No Live Stats                   
* Live Video: No Live Video       
* Live Radio: KUBQ 98.7 FM                   
* Live Audio: EOUSports.com
* Series: The Mountaineers have won 24 of the 26 all-time meetings.

GAME TIME
Tipoff on Saturday is scheduled for 8 p.m. There will be no live video of the game, but there is a live audio stream on EOUSports.com. Live radio will be available locally on KUBQ 98.7 FM.

THE SERIES
* EOU is 24-2 all-time versus Walla Walla University.
* The last Wolves' victory over Eastern Oregon was on Feb. 1, 2005, 73-67, in College Place.
* Walla Walla has never beat EOU in Quinn Coliseum.
* The Mountaineers are 5-0 against WWU under Isaac Williams.

QUICK HITS
• Isaac Williams can reach 50 wins faster than any coach in EOU men's basketball history with one more victory.
• Williams is seven wins away from fifth on the most wins by a coach list in EOU history.
• The Mountaineers' season ended at the national tournament for the fourth straight season and had a fourth trip to the national round of 16.
• Eastern Oregon broke 17 school records, including most wins in school history.
• Eastern ended the year ranked No. 10.
• Eastern played in its first conference tournament title game in 2011.
• EOU student-athletes Jamar Johnson and Thomas McCarthy were named All-Cascade Collegiate Conference performers. JC Cook was named to the honorable mention list.
• Jared Heitzman and Josh Cottle, were named 2011 Daktronics-NAIA Div. 2 Scholar-Athletes.
• Eastern Oregon has had six consecutive winning seasons, and has appeared in 22 straight national Top 25 polls.
• Before the five-year streak of 20-plus wins, the Mountaineers had four 20-win seasons in the 81-year history of men's basketball, with the last coming in 1965-66.
• The EOU men have won 63 of its last 70 games on its home court, Quinn Coliseum.

ABOUT THE WOLVES
Walla Walla University welcomes back a solid core from its 2010-11 team this season. First-year head coach Jimmy Hill takes over after serving as Associate Head Coach last year. The Wolves bring back four starters, but lose leading scorer Tristan Greenidge to graduation. WWU should be led by scoring threat Mark Moore. The senior averaged 14.39 points per game in the 2009-10 season. Walla Walla finished last year 6-24.

THEY'RE GOING STREAKING
The Eastern Oregon University men's basketball team cracked the Top 10 in the NAIA Div. 2 Top 25 in the last poll of the 2010-11 season. The Mountaineers climbed from No. 11 to No. 10 in the final edition of the poll for the season. EOU rode a nine-game win streak into the Cascade Collegiate Conference championships before falling at Oregon Tech. EOU returned to the top 10 for the 15th time in school history, and third time last season. Eastern last appeared in the top 10 in the second rating of the season. Eastern Oregon appeared in the Top 25 for a school-record 22nd straight time. The Mountaineers have been in the Top 25 in 27 of the last 28 polls. EOU has been in the Top 25 in every poll dating back to the 2009-10 preseason poll when it received votes.

QUICK LOOK AT THE ROSTER
Eastern Oregon returns nine players from last year's squad which went 26-7 overall and 14-4 in conference play. Returners include: seniors Jeff Ranstrom, Travares Peterson, Jamar Johnson and Jason Mumm. The returning juniors include: Anthony Brown, Cody Thurmond, and Robert Barrington. Returning sophomores are Kyllian Wood and Jared Heitzman. EOU has nine newcomers, adding five transfers and four prep standouts. Transfers include: Trent Roos (Chemeketa CC), John Buhler (Big Bend CC), JaMier Morris (Pima CC), Ervin Felder (Pima CC) and Mason Jones (Saddleback College). The freshmen class includes: Kalvin Johanson (Pullman, Wash.), Page Beeler (Allen, Texas), Darius Howard (Seattle, Wash.) and Derek Maloney (Kimberly, Idaho).

THE TWENTY WIN CLUB
Eastern had its fifth straight 20-win season in 2010-11. Before the five-year streak, the Mountaineers had four 20-win seasons in the 81-year history of men's basketball, with the last coming in 1965-66. Last season's squad became the 20th team to reach 16 wins in school history. The 2007-08 team had the school's best record at 26-6. That team was 17-3 after 20 games, and started 25-4.

LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARIES
Eastern Oregon is one of four teams to have made it to the past four second rounds at the NAIA Div. 2 National Tournament. Two programs in those four, Oregon Tech and EOU, are from the Cascade Collegiate Conference. There are only 10 teams that have made the national tournament in each of the past four seasons, including Eastern Oregon.

EASTERN TABBED SECOND IN CCC
The Eastern Oregon University men's basketball team was tabbed second in the Cascade Collegiate Conference coaches' preseason poll. Three-time defending champion Oregon Tech is favored to hold on to its Cascade Collegiate Conference crown in men's basketball, according to a preseason poll of the league's 10 head coaches. Tech received seven first-place votes and 97 points total in earning the favorites' tag for the 2011-12 season. Eastern Oregon picked up two first place votes and 88 points to place second. College of Idaho, which earned one first-place vote, totaled 77 points and placed third. The Yotes were followed by Concordia (55 points), Corban (51), Northwest (51), Southern Oregon (50), Warner Pacific (50), Evergreen (20) and Northwest Christian (11).

EOU LANDS DUO ON CCC LIST
Eastern Oregon University men's basketball student-athletes, Anthony Brown and Jamar Johnson, were named to the Cascade Collegiate Conference preseason team Tuesday. College of Idaho's Matt Ballenger, an honorable mention NAIA All-American as a junior last season, was voted the Player of the Year. Balloting was by the CCC's 10 head coaches. College of Idaho was one of five programs with multiple players on the all-star team.

EASTERN BEGINS SEASON IN TOP 10
The Eastern Oregon University men's basketball team was ranked No. 10 in the NAIA Div. 2 National Top 25 Preseason Poll Monday. Eastern finished last season after its fourth consecutive second round trip at the national tournament in Point Lookout, Mo. EOU was ranked No. 10 in the final poll of 2010-11 after going 26-7. Eastern Oregon has been ranked in 23 straight Top 25 polls, the longest streak in school history. The Mountaineers had their best preseason ranking in the 2008-09 season when they started at No. 6. EOU climbed to No. 3 in the national poll that season, the highest in school history, before ending the season in the national quarterfinals.

BASKETBALL HAS WEEKLY SHOW
The Eastern Oregon University basketball programs will have their own radio talk show on Monday's 12-1 p.m. on KUBQ 98.7 FM. Mountaineer fans can tune into 98.7 FM and listen to EOU basketball analysis, game recaps, game previews, and interviews with coaches and players. The whole hour is devoted to Eastern Oregon women's and men's basketball. EOU Assistant Athletic Director, Barrett Henderson, and John Mallory, host of the Johnny Ballgame Show, will co-host each broadcast each week. Not only will Mountaineer basketball be discussed each Monday, but the Cascade Collegiate Conference as a whole will be broken down by the show's hosts. The show will be available through podcast on each Tuesday morning.

EOU HOOPS ON RADIO
Eastern Oregon University women's and men's basketball returns to the radio this season on KUBQ 98.7 FM. KUBQ helps welcome Eastern basketball to the Grande Ronde Valley through FM transmission. Games will also be available worldwide through internet streaming on EOUSports.com. The KUBQ broadcast will also be the audio on the video stream on EOUSports.com. Fans will be able to watch and listen to every home game this season. A select number of non-conference away games and many Cascade Collegiate Conference road games will be available with an EOU broadcast calling the action on KUBQ. Every conference game will be broadcast on 98.7 FM either through an opponent's feed or an EOU broadcast.