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Morning links: Senior Day at WSU

Today Washington State will kinda, sorta say goodbye to three seniors players, all of whom have made major impacts this season.

There will be a short ceremony and then the Cougars will play their final home game – unless it isn't – against Colorado. Here is a feature I wrote this week on WSU's seniors.

Obviously DaVonté Lacy had the biggest impact of the three in his career: He will retire as one of WSU's top-five scorers ever and has already made four more 3-pointers than any other Cougar.

He's been the player-spokesman for two years and handled it well since he's a funny, insightful guy. His teams haven't had the success on the court he hoped for when he came to WSU, but he's had some big moments and some memorable victories.

WSU's other seniors, Dexter Kernich-Drew and Jordan Railey, have as well. Kernich-Drew was the key to at least two Pac-12 wins this season and will always this ridiculous fade-away against Arizona State to remember when thinking back on his career.

Railey? No matter what he did this year his career will always be most-fondly remembered for this:


He also led the team in scoring against Cal.

Before the seniors say goodbye we'll pass along a few links.

-- Yesterday we took a look back at WSU's close loss against Utah.

-- The WSU women suffered injuries to their best players and fell to ASU in the Pac-12 tournament.

-- I took in the WSU baseball game from the stands and watched the Cougars pad their stats against an overmatched Sacred Heart team.

-- Adam Lewis doesn't like the local teams' chances in the Pac-12 tournament.



Jacob Thorpe
Jacob Thorpe joined The Spokesman-Review in 2013. He currently is a reporter for the Sports Desk covering Washington State University athletics.

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