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Sweet sweep

TUCSON, Ariz. – Kyle Weaver wrapped his long arms around Daven Harmeling and whispered a word of thanks into his teammate's left ear.
Sports

WSU takes aim at rarity

In a season filled with history-making wins, Washington State will go for one more this evening. The Cougars open the second half of their Pac-10 season with a road game at Arizona, and if they should manage to deal the Wildcats a defeat it will represent WSU's first regular-season sweep of the conference power since 1983, the season before Lute Olson arrived in Tucson.
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Bennett’s deal draws attention

PULLMAN – Washington State University athletic director Jim Sterk indicated Tuesday that he would attempt to revise basketball coach Tony Bennett's contract following the season, calling the idea "a no-brainer." The 37-year-old coach, 17-4 in his first season at the helm, has enjoyed surprising successes while carrying home the lightest paycheck of any Pac-10 coach. As a result, speculation that Bennett's first season on the Palouse could be his last has been inevitable.
Sports

Koprivica lost to Cougars

PULLMAN – Some days are filled with good news and some days are filled with bad news. The Washington State men's basketball team got both Monday while taking the day off.
Sports

Cougs can’t close

PULLMAN – Since the Bennetts arrived on the Palouse, one streak after another has fallen by the wayside as the Cougars have taken care of their Pac-10 basketball opponents. But at least one remains – Washington State still can't find a way to beat the Ducks.
Sports

Marquee matchup in Pullman

PULLMAN – Oregon and Washington State played each other three times last season, growing familiar with one another as they played out the string on a season that ended in disappointment for both. They will meet this evening on Friel Court to complete the first half of the Pac-10 conference schedule, and things are a little different this time around. That's because they will meet also to determine which team heads into the second half of the season all alone in second place – or possibly even in a first-place tie should UCLA lose at Stanford on Sunday.
Sports

Cougs look for a few good men

PULLMAN – Not much time is left for Washington State to round out its football recruiting class before national letter of intent day on Feb. 7. And, fortunately for the Cougars, there aren't many spots left to fill.
Sports

Still good enough

PULLMAN – Six days ago, Washington State played its most complete game of the season and picked up a convincing win over Washington. Last night, the Cougars played anything but its best game – and yet the result against Oregon State was the same. "It was sloppy at times," Robbie Cowgill said of WSU's 70-55 victory Thursday night. "But in this league a win is a win. It doesn't matter who you're playing."
Sports

Last laugh is his

PULLMAN – Maybe it's easier to laugh when you're team is 16-3, but Daven Harmeling has donned a target on his back far longer than the Cougars have been winning games.
Sports

Cougars rethink goals

PULLMAN – It's not something that Washington State's basketball coaches and players would like to own up to all that quickly. But at 16-3, it's undeniable. Their expectations are not what they used to be.
Sports

Cougars cruise

PULLMAN – Five Washington State players were asked after Saturday's basketball game if they could have expected to beat Washington by such a wide margin. For more than a second, the question hung in the air unanswered. Then, all five burst into an easy laugh.
Sports

Apple Cup moved back one week

PULLMAN – Hello, bye. Farewell, turkey dinners. In announcing its football schedule for 2007, Washington State made a couple of significant changes, agreeing with Washington that this year's Apple Cup will be played on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 24, thus creating room for a bye week in midseason.
Sports

Cougs look to state their state case

PULLMAN – With a win over Gonzaga already in its back pocket, Washington State is the best team in the state if it beats Washington today, right? Kyle Weaver laughed.
Sports

Huskies look to grow up

This should sound pretty familiar to Cougars basketball fans. "We get so close to winning and then let it slip out of our hands," Justin Dentmon said. "I think we'll be real dangerous. We've got a lot of young guys who are talented. We just have to learn how to win."
Sports

Johnson lets it fly

MOSCOW, Idaho – Clyde Johnson yelled himself out of Thursday night's game. Fortunately for the Vandals, he shot his way out of it, too. Johnson, hoarse by game's end from all his exhortations to the crowd, had enough energy to knock down a game-winning 3-pointer with 0.9 seconds left to give Idaho a 76-75 win over Hawaii, its first Western Athletic Conference men's basketball victory of the season.
Sports

Low comes into his own as junior

PULLMAN – Derrick Low's maturation has mirrored that of the Cougars in his three years at Washington State. As a freshman, the guard had his moments, but for the most part wasn't up to full speed in Pac-10 play. Injured for a chunk of his sophomore year, Low returned but struggled badly down the stretch.
Sports

Huskies coming to town

PULLMAN – Freshman Nikola Koprivica is from Belgrade, Serbia, so it's no surprise that the 18-year-old knew nothing of the Washington State-Washington rivalry before arriving on campus in the fall. But it didn't take long for him to figure it out.
Sports

Cardinal deliver Goods

STANFORD, Calif. – Washington State proved once again on Saturday how tough it will be to beat this season, but on this day Stanford had the Goods.
Sports

Cougs hope to stay in new comfort zone

STANFORD, Calif. – Mike Montgomery dealt Washington State one of its most painful blows in the Bennett era three years ago, Tony Bennett told his team before practice Friday. Introducing the former Stanford coach, who will be providing analysis on the television broadcast of today's WSU-Stanford contest, Bennett told the Cougars about how Montgomery's 2003-04 Cardinal squad hit a pair of 3-pointers in the closing seconds to steal a victory in Pullman and maintain a No. 1 ranking.
Sports

Before their time

PULLMAN – Maybe it's unfair to serve up a history quiz shortly after a practice, but one had to wonder … just how much do the current Cougars know about the 1982-83 Washington State men's basketball team, which until this week had the distinction of being the last WSU team to be ranked? "Nothing," junior forward Robbie Cowgill admitted.
Sports

Doba looks to have dual role

PULLMAN – Multiple people in the Washington State football program have confirmed the hiring of Nevada assistant coach Marty Long, a move that indicates head coach Bill Doba has decided to assume the duties of defensive coordinator as well for the 2007 season. Long will coach the defensive ends, replacing one half the responsibilities that former WSU defensive coordinator Robb Akey held before he took Idaho's head coaching job in December.
Sports

Milestone: Cougars ranked

PULLMAN – A Monday afternoon practice is usually a quiet affair for the Washington State men's basketball team. Not so this time around.
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WSU makes first poll appearance since ‘83

PULLMAN – No one on the Washington State roster was alive the last time the Cougar men's basketball team cracked the national polls in 1983. That all changed on Monday, when WSU appeared in the Associated Press poll tied for 22nd and in the coaches poll at No. 23.
Sports

As wins go, this one ranks up there

PULLMAN – Not that everyone in the crowd wasn't already thinking it, but Washington State public address announcer Glenn Johnson felt the need to state the obvious on Saturday night. "Maybe now they'll be in the Top 25, huh?" he asked, and the fans who had already stormed Friel Court roared back with approval.
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Harmeling hit big 3-pointers

PULLMAN – On Thursday night, the Cougars cruised to a 20-point win over Arizona State. And yet Daven Harmeling couldn't sleep. "I was up until like 4, 4:30 in the morning," the redshirt sophomore said. "I was just thinking, we can beat Arizona. We can do it. I know how good they are; I know how talented they are. But it just kept me up. We can do this. From then on I just felt really confident about the game. I knew that we could get them."