(Photos from WSU Pullman by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services; photos from NCAA game in Sacramento by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services.) Trailing most of the first half, the WSU Cougars revved up their engines in the last three seconds of that period to come within two points of Oral Roberts. But once the second […]
Thursday’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship first round game between Washington State University and Oral Roberts has been moved up 10 minutes and is now scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m., Pacific, it was announced today by the NCAA. The game will be televised on CBS. If you don’t have a television handy, and would like […]
WSU Cougar basketball team arrived in Sacramento Tuesday afternoon to begin preparing for it’s first appearance in the NCAA playoffs in 13 years. The Cougs — ranked No. 13 by Associated Press and ESPN/USA Today — will face Oral Roberts in the first round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament beginning at 11:40 a.m., to be […]
Three decades ago, a large black man stood alongside Friel Court in Pullman, arms upraised, hands fluttering, a human antenna channeling noise from capacity crowds. He dressed in the bold manner of the day — plaid suits, bell bottoms with half-boots. George Raveling, the first Washington State coach in a building now 34 years old, […]
PULLMAN – For the first time since 1994, the Washington State Cougars will be participating in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. The Cougars were selected as the No. 3 seed in the East Region and will play No. 14 seed Oral Roberts in a first round game at Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, March 15. Tip time […]
Tony Bennett is taking Washington State where the Cougars have never been before, right into the Pac-10 tournament semifinals. Taylor Rochestie scored 20 points, including 11 over the final 6 1/2 minutes, and No. 11 Washington State pulled away to a 74-64 victory over Washington on Thursday night. The Cougars will play tonight against third-seeded […]
The No. 13 Washington State Cougars beat the No. 23 University of Southern California Trojans, 88-86, in a double overtime game on Saturday to clinch the title of second place in the Pac-10 Conference. The Cougar’s Pac-10 second place finish tied the 1982-83 team for the best finish ever. The Cougars have never won a league […]
The Cougars lost to the No. 2 UCLA Bruins, 53-45, on Thursday evening at Friel Court in Beasley Coliseum. For UCLA, the victory cinched their second consecutive Pac-10 title. Kyle Weaver led scoring for Washington State with 14 points. More than 11,000 people were in attendance at the game. Many fans arrived at the game […]
Despite the freezing cold weather, many die-hard WSU basketball enthusiasts camped out in front of Beasley Coliseum last night, waiting to nab tickets to the UCLA and USC games. Washington State University’s 13th-ranked Cougars men’s basketball team (23-5) will host the No. 2 UCLA (25-3) tonight, aiming to close to within a game of the Bruins in the Pac-10 and add some shine […]
This season marks the 90th anniversary of the 1917 Washington State College national champion basketball team. The team won 25 of 26 games and captured the first Pacific Coast Conference championship. Several decades later, the team received its greatest honor, and in the process would forever go down in history, when it was declared the […]