LAS VEGAS – As with most visitors to this gambling mecca, the Washington Huskies left town as losers. It remains to be seen if their next opportunity to be winners comes next week or next season. The Huskies find themselves begging for a shot at the NIT – the ugly stepchild of college basketball –
Author: Howie Stalwick
Steep climbs face Huskies, Cougars in Pac-12 Conference hoops tourney Wednesday. But hey, it’s Las Vegas. Long shots do come in . . . don’t they?
The USC Trojans, playing their fourth game in as many days Sunday, appeared to be running on fumes as they struggled to keep up with the Oregon State Beavers in the first half of the championship game at the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament. Cynthia Cooper, the hyper-intense coach of the Trojans, decided the best way
Women’s basketball fans laughed at June Daugherty when she predicted prior to the season that her long-suffering Washington State Cougars would play in the post-season this year. Not only had the Cougars not advanced to the post-season since 1991, but they had not finished with a winning record since 1995-96.
Washington State stunned plenty of women’s basketball followers with a victory over 20th-ranked California Friday night, but the least surprised person in KeyArena seemed to be Bears coach Lindsay Gottlieb. “Washington State earned every bit of that win,” Gottlieb said after the seventh-seeded Cougars knocked off the second-seeded, 20th-ranked Bears 91-83 in the quarterfinals of the
It was basketball on Red Bull. A track meet in high tops. A jailbreak with ponytails. Say what you will about women’s basketball – and a great many sports fans will never have much good to say about it, unfortunately – but the Washington State-Oregon score-a-thon Thursday night ranks among the most entertaining events to
Thr breakout season of Tia Presley, a junior from Spokane, has lit up the dormant Cougars, who join the Huskies in opening the Pac-12 hoops tourney at the Key Thursday.
On the floor, on the recruiting trail and in the stands, Cougars basketball hasn’t been working well under Seattle native Ken Bone. He’s all but done in Pullman.
PULLMAN – The Washington Huskies came to the Palouse to bury the Bone. Instead, they granted Ken Bone a stay of execution. The Washington State Cougars quieted – however temporarily — the increasing clamor of fans calling for Bone’s head by giving Cougars fans what they cherish most: A win over the Huskies.
With some critics calling for Ken Bone’s ouster, Bone’s players are solidly in his corner despite the team’s poor record, especially in league play (1-7).