WSU needs to defeat USC to ensure two seed

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

One post before I head to the Tacoma Dome for a full day of watching the prep basketball. Well, I am coming back to the hotel to watch and blog on the WSU game with USC (you can read Glenn Kasses’ advance of that game, his feature on Ivory Clark and you can get more from Glenn’s blog ).

The Cougars will finish at least second in the Pac-10, but if USC wins and ties the Cougs, the Trojans will earn the second seed.

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The Whitworth Pirates won their first NCAA Division III playoff game ever Fridaay, thanks to Bryan Williams’ 3-pointer as time ran out in overtime, defeating DePauw 62-59 in St. Louis. The Pirates will play host Washington U. tonight at 5 (1230-AM) in the second round.

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Gonzaga University’s women play USF today at noon in the semifinals of the West Coast Conference tournament. Here’s a story about GU’s woes at the tournament recently.

No matter what, the Zags have found their point guard for the next four years in Kentwood’s Courtney Vandersloot, the second-best player at the State 4A girls tournament. I predict she will start the first game of her freshman year.

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The WCC mens’ tournament is going on as well and both USD and USF won their games.

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Former EWU coach Ray Giacoletti is done after three years at Utah.