Jacob Thorpe

California's Richard Solomon had 12 points and nine rebounds to offset 17 and 11 from Washington State's D.J. Shelton as the Golden Bears defeated the Cougars 76-55.

Although the Washington State has won just two of its last seven games, coach Ken Bone refuses to be hard on his team.

PALO ALTO, Calif. – For more than 10 minutes Wednesday, the Washington State men’s basketball team showed it is ready to play and compete with a good basketball team on the road. For the rest of the game, Stanford proved just how far the Cougars have to go in an 80-48 shellacking.

On January 5, at Arizona State, DaVonte Lacy returned to the court for the first time since undergoing an appendectomy just eight days previously. It was a remarkably quick recovery, but it lasted just over ten minutes before once again Lacy was rushed to the hospital with what the team is calling a “rib injury.” The team got some bad news on Monday when they found out that the injury could keep Lacy – who leads the team in scoring with 17.7 points per game – out of the lineup most of the Pac-12 season.

For the first time in Pac-12 play the Washington State men’s basketball team will be trying to start, not end, a streak on Wednesday at Stanford. Wins have been hard to come by of late for the Cougars.

On January 5, at Arizona State, DaVonte Lacy returned to the court for the first time since undergoing an appendectomy just eight days previously. It was a remarkably quick recovery, but it lasted just over ten minutes before once again Lacy was rushed to the hospital with what the team is calling a “rib injury.”

Several incoming WSU football players are taking advantage of an NCAA rule that allows high school seniors who graduate early to matriculate in the spring without using a year of eligibility.