It’s game day for WSU
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It’s game day once more in the Palouse, and with the students back in town after spring break in, well, wherever, the crowd at Beasley Coliseum should be a little more energetic than the NIT opener against Long Beach State. A little. Though the 4,000 or so that were there last week did the best they could. Read on for more.
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• Washington State : We had an advance in today’s S-R focusing on the lone time these teams have met in the past. And what the NIT means to this team. Simple enough. … There is an Oklahoma State side of the story as well. … Otherwise, that’s it for hoop. With spring break over, the football team returned to campus last night for a team barbecue, then they’ll hit the practice field against starting Tuesday afternoon – my favorite Moody Blues’ song, by the way.
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• Around the Pac-10: We wrote a bit yesterday about one call making a huge difference in a game, oftentimes a call that hardly registers on the radar. Well, that wasn’t the case in Arizona’s hang-on victory over Texas yesterday. There was one key call. And everyone was talking about it afterward. And once again, it was a Pac-10 official, the best Pac-10 official in our eyes, in the middle of it. How fun. The Wildcats moved into a Sweet Sixteen showdown with Duke this weekend on the strength of a 70-69 win built, in large part, by Derrick William’s supporting cast. … The Huskies won’t be moving on. There has been more discussion of their come-from-ahead 86-83 loss to North Carolina in the past 24 hours than I want to relay, so we’ll stick with a couple game stories , a column or two , a notebook and a question . … One other Pac-10 team is playing tonight. The Oregon Ducks have another CBI game in Eugene, facing Duquesne.
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• That is it for this morning. We’ll be back before the game tonight as usual. Until then …
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