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WSU’s Pac-10 home season opens with winnable game

Posted by Vince

Jan. 4, 2007 8:39 a.m. • 0 comments

COUGARS

One reason Washington State has built a 12-2 record (1-1 in conference) is the Cougars haven’t loss to teams they should defeat. Their two losses came at Utah – a team that steamrolled Virginia recently – and at UCLA. No losses to the Hamptons or the Buena Vistas of the world.

But the conference season is a different beast. Everyone who comes into Pullman comes in unintimidated, knowing full well every loss is step closer to the NIT, every win another rung up the ladder to the NCAA.

Such is the case with ASU tonight (7; 920-AM). The Sun Devils come in 6-7 (the only Pac-10 team with a losing record), having lost to Stanford and Cal at home last weekend.

Glenn Kasses, besides his usual informative posts on his blog also has an interview with Daven Harmeling in today’s paper and a look at the upcoming week with WSU (second item). He’ll be at tonight’s game of course, and we’ll post a link here to a WSU game story as soon as it is available. There is also this Pac-10 notebook from Glenn.

The Cougs’ success has led to coverage, with this Seattle Times’ story wondering if Tony Bennett is going to stick around. Let’s see, Wisconsin doesn’t need a coach so, ya, for a while.

There’s also this feature about Wisconsin-born Kyle Weaver in the News Tribune.

From the Valley of the Sun, the Arizona Republic has this piece about the Sun Devils having a long way to go, and we don’t mean just to Pullman. There is also this East Valley Tribune story on the Cougs’ improvement.