WSU men’s
basketball Game Notes vs. Stanford: Jan. 11, 2018, from WSU Sports Info
WASHINGTON
STATE SEEKS PAC-12 WIN AGAINST BAY AREA SCHOOLS:
• The
Washington State men’s basketball team (8-7, 0-3) continues its three-game
homestand as it welcomes the Bay Area schools to Pullman beginning with
Stanford (8-8, 2-1), Thursday, Jan. 11 at 6 p.m. at Beasley Coliseum.
• The
Cougars then host California (7-9, 1-2), Saturday, Jan. 13 at 1 p.m. at Beasley
Coliseum.
•
Thursday’s game can be seen on ESPNU as Steve Quis (play-by-play) and Adrian
Branch (analyst) have the call.
•
Saturday’s game can be seen on Pac-12 Network as Greg Heister (play-by-play) and
Dan Dickau (analyst) have the call.
• All
season long, Cougar basketball can be heard on the Cougar IMG Sports Radio
Network as the voice of the Cougars, Matt Chazanow will have the call.
• Please
see page one of today’s notes for the list of affiliates.
• Live
stats are also available at www.wsucougars.com.
COUGARS
VERSUS CARDINAL:
• WSU and
Stanford are meeting for the 137th time as Stanford holds a 76-60 advantage in
the all-time series against Washington State.
• The
Cougars and Cardinal meet twice this season after only meeting once each of the
last two seasons.
• Stanford
has won 9 of the last 12 meetings in the series, with WSU’s last win coming at
home, 89-88, Jan. 31, 2015.
• Since
the league became the Pac-12, the Cardinal has won all of the meetings when WSU
and Stanford have met just once in a season, including the last two, a 84-54
Stanford victory at Palo Alto last season and a 72-56 Cardinal win at Pullman
in 2015-16.
• The
Cougars lead the all-time series at home, 37-28, including a 1-0 WSU advantage
in Spokane.
COUGARS
VERSUS GOLDEN BEARS:
• Saturday
marks the 129th all-time meeting between Washington State and California, as
Cal holds the 79-49 advantage in the all-time series.
• WSU has lost four-straight and seven of the
last eight games to Cal.
• The
Golden Bears lead 31-29 in WSU home games as the two teams did not play at
Pullman last season, playing each other just once each of the last two seasons.
• WSU’s
last win at home against Cal came Jan. 12, 2012, a 77-75 win.
• Last season,
Cal defeated WSU, 58-54 at Berkeley.
• The
Cougars have won just three of their last 15 games against the Golden Bears,
with each of those wins coming by 4 or fewer points.
COUGS
FIRING FROM DOWNTOWN:
• WSU is
fourth in the nation and the Pac-12 with 11.8 made 3-pointers per game.
• The
Cougars have made 12 or more 3’s in 11 of their 15 games this season; 15 3’s in
the season opener, 12 against Seattle U, 15 again against Idaho State, 16
against Saint Joseph’s, 13 against San Diego State, 12 against UC Davis, 12 at
UTEP, 15 against Bethune-Cookman, 4 at UCLA and 13 at USC...WSU had 11 against
Kansas State.
• The WSU
record for 3’s made in a game by the team is 18 done three times, last, against
UTSA, Dec. 6, 2014.
• Last
season WSU made 10 or more 3-pointers in a single game just five times, and
only once made at least 12 in a game
• In
Washington State’s previous five seasons, the Cougars made 12 or more
3-pointers in a single game 9 times total, once last season, none in 2015-16,
once in 2014-15, five times in 2013-14 and twice in 2012-13.
• If WSU
were to continue to shoot at this clip, it would finish with at least 366
3-pointers made...the school record is 240 set during the Klay Thompson era,
the 2010-11 season.
• The
Cougars also rank first in the Pac-12 and 59th in the country with a .384
3-point field goal percentage.
• Three
Cougars rank individually in the top-10 of the Pac-12 for 3-pointers made per
game...Malachi Flynn is second in the league and 85th in the nation (2.73 3fg
per game), Carter Skaggs is third in the league and 100th nationally (2.67) and
Robert Franks is eighth in the Pac-12 and 222nd in the nation (2.27).
• Skaggs
leads the Pac-12 and ranks seventh nationally with a .500 3-point field goal
percentage, while Flynn is fifth in the league and 136th in the national with a
.347 clip.
• As a
team, 52 percent of WSU’s shots have come from 3-point range, while 46.7
percent of its points (531) are off 3-pointers...WSU opponents are getting 32.9
percent of their points off of 3-pointers.
•
Eighty-six percent of Carter Skaggs’ shots are 3-pointers, while 82.1 percent
of his points (120) have come off of 3-pointers.
•
Fifty-five percent of Malachi Flynn’s points (123) are off 3-pointers, while
76.8 percent (96) of Viont’e Daniels’ points are off 3-pointers.
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From WSU
Sports Info
Women's
Basketball Heads to the Bay Friday to Face Stanford
1/9/2018 |
Women's Basketball
WASHINGTON
ST. (8-8, 1-3) at STANFORD (9-7, 3-1)
6 p.m. |
Friday | Jan. 12, 2018
Palo Alto,
Calif. | Maples Pavilion (7,233)
MATCHUP
NOTES
The Cougs
head to California to take on Stanford and No. 24 Cal over the weekend. Last
season, the Cougs fell to Stanford at home in the lone regular season meeting.
Two months later, the Cougs faced Stanford once again in the Pac-12 tournament
with the Cardinal prevailing en route to taking the Pac-12 championship title.
WSU is looking for its first win over the Cardinal with Stanford holding a 63-0
record against the Cougs all-time.
LAST TIME
OUT
In a game
dominated by whistles it was no surprise that the contest would be decided at
the free throw line as Utah (12-3, 3-1 Pac-12) hit a pair of freebies with 0.5
seconds remaining in the game to steal a win on the road against the Cougars
(8-8, 1-3 Pac-12) Sunday afternoon at Beasley Coliseum. Dominating for most of
the game, the Cougs could never quite shake the hard-nosed Utes despite another
huge scoring effort out of Borislava Hristova who scored a game-high 29 points
and finished just one point shy of being the third Coug to ever record
back-to-back 30-point efforts. For three quarters, the Cougs shot the lights
out of Beasley, pushing their lead to as much as 13 points late in the third
before going cold in the game's final period. The Utes climbed back into the
game with a 14-2 run, initially sparked by the play of Daneesha Provo, between
the end of the third and the start of the fourth to turn a potential blowout
into a 69-69 tie with 7:37 to play. Provo would score 14 of her 22 points in
the second half before fouling out of the game 2:27 to go. With Provo out, the
Cougs would score five quick points to go up 77-72 with 2:03 to play only to be
outscored 9-2 in the final minutes. Alexys Swedlund would tie the game at 79-79
with the Cougs final points of the game from the line only to see the game slip
away in the final second thanks to the two free throws by Tilar Clark. Clark
was fouled after collecting a pair of offensive rebounds when the Cougs forced
an initial bad shot by the Utes with just :04 seconds to play.
ABOUT THE
CARDINAL
The
Cardinal enter the week sitting outside of the top-25 for the second time this
season after seeing their 17-year ranked streak come to an end two weeks ago.
Stanford enters the day just 9-7 on the year but 3-1 in Pac-12 play with its
lone loss in the conference coming last Sunday to No. 18 Arizona State. Playing
one of the nation's toughest schedules, the Cardinal are averaging 68.1 points
per game while allowing 64.0 points per game to their opponents. Leading the
attack (when healthy) is Brittany McPhee who has scored 18.1 ppg but has been
limited to just seven games on the year due to a foot injury. In the middle,
Alanna Smith has carried much of the load with 13.5 ppg and a team-best 8.0
rpg.
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WSU's
online business programs highlighted
Moscow
Pullman Daily News
Online MBA
and executive MBA programs from the Washington State University Carson College
of Business have received honors from the U.S. News & World Report, ranking
12th in a field of 267 online MBA programs in the nation.
USN&WR
also ranked the Carson College eighth for the best online MBA programs for
veterans.
The
rankings for Online Graduate MBA Programs were determined by student
engagement, admissions selectivity, peer reputation, faculty credentials and
training, and student services and technology.
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Tickets
for Brett Eldredge on Mom’s Weekend
JANUARY
10, 2018 WSU Announcements
Tickets go
on sale this Friday, January 12, at 10 a.m. for the Mom’s Weekend concert on
April 7. Tickets can be purchased online
at www.ticketswest.com, by phone at 800-325-SEAT or at the Beasley Coliseum
ticket office M-F 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
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Cougar
Women’s Basketball to Celebrate National Popcorn Day
JANUARY
10, 2018 WSU Announcements
On
Wednesday, January 17, at 7 p.m the Cougar Women’s Basketball team takes on
Apple Cup rival Washington at Beasley Coliseum.
We’ll be giving away free popcorn to the first 1000 fans in attendance
to celebrate National Popcorn Day. Don’t
forget WSU faculty and staff get $3 admission to every home Women’s Basketball
game this season. Come out and support
the Cougs!
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WSU SPLIT
SQUADS OPEN 2018 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD SEASON
From WSU
Sports Info 1/10/2018
Washington
State University’s indoor track and field teams open the 2018 indoor season at
two different meets...Jan. 12-13 there will be 21 men and 16 women sprinters,
hurdlers, horizontal jumpers and throwers from WSU scheduled to compete at the
Ed Jacoby Invitational/Multis hosted by Boise State at the Idaho
Center/Jacksons Indoor Facility in Nampa, Idaho...individual events begin
Friday at 4:30 p.m. MT and Saturday at 9 a.m. MT...meanwhile, 16 men and 16
women middle distance, distance, and vertical jumpers are scheduled to compete
at the University of Washington Indoor Preview Saturday, Jan. 13, at the
Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle...events begin at 9 a.m...links for Live
Results should be available the day before each meet...WSU results will be posted
at www.wsucougars.com, following completion of each meet.
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Cougars
promote Darcel McBath to assistant coach
Originally
published January 9, 2018 at 7:43 pm Updated January 9, 2018 at 9:45 pm Seattle
Times
McBath
spent the 2017 season working on the defensive side of the ball, specifically
with Alex Grinch and the defensive backs.
Darcel
McBath, who last season served as Washington State’s defensive quality control
assistant, has been elevated to assistant coach, head coach Mike Leach
announced Tuesday.
McBath’s
promotion comes on the same day NCAA programs are permitted to hire a 10th
assistant.
McBath,
who played for Leach at Texas Tech from 2004-08, spent the 2017 season working
on the defensive side of the ball, specifically with Alex Grinch and the
defensive backs. His role going forward has yet to be determined, but he will
work in the secondary.
Leach
filled Grinch’s spot by hiring ex-Minnesota head coach Tracy Claeys as WSU’s
new defensive coordinator.
In 2017,
the Cougar defense led the Pac-12 and was ninth nationally in passing yards
allowed, finished seventh in pass-efficiency defense and allowed just 11
touchdown passes, fifth-fewest nationally.
Prior to
beginning his coaching career, McBath spent five seasons in the NFL. A
second-round selection by Denver in the 2009 NFL draft, McBath spent two
seasons in Denver, one in Jacksonville and two in San Francisco. His career
totals included 52 games, making 45 tackles with two interceptions. He played
in Super Bowl XLVII with the 49ers.
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Former
Garfield High coach Ed Haskins learning new things (and enduring the losses)
with WSU | Pac-12 notebook
Originally
published January 9, 2018 at 4:17 pm Updated January 10, 2018 at 10:46 am
After nine
years (2009-17) at Garfield where he led the Seattle basketball powerhouse to a
pair of state championships, Haskins joined Ernie Kent’s staff at Washington
State.
By Percy
Allen Seattle Times
Ed Haskins
is loving his new job, but the transition from Garfield High boys basketball
coach to Washington State men’s assistant would be a little nicer if not for
his former players.
Last
month, ex-Bulldogs star Brayon Blake scored a game-high 26 points to lead Idaho
to a 91-64 win over the Cougars.
Last
Saturday, former Bulldogs standout Jaylen Nowell tallied 15 points, including
the final bucket to secure a 70-65 comeback win for Washington against its
in-state rivals.
Considering
Haskins is 0-2 in reunions with former players, he might be a little uneasy
about Thursday’s game against Stanford and ex-Garfield High sensation Daejon
Davis.
“It’s a
bittersweet feeling,” Haskins said. “I’m a competitor, so when we step inside
the lines it’s all about competing. But at the same time, I was the coach,
mentor, role model and whatever I was the last however many years for those
guys. So yeah, it’s tough. There’s two sides of the coin.
“But it’s
part of it. It’s the business of basketball, and that’s what I’m learning at
this level.”
Losing is
never fun, but Haskins admits a part of him continues to root for his former
players.
“It’s
funny because every time Jaylen made a basket, I’m used to thinking that’s my
guy — that’s Kobe,” Haskins said referring to Los Angeles Lakers great Kobe
Bryant. “That’s what we called him at Garfield. And then you quickly realize,
he’s wearing a different purple right now.
“But it
doesn’t really matter. You’re still extremely proud of him. And the huge jump
that he made from high school to major D-1 basketball. It’s been incredible.”
The same
can be said for Haskins.
After nine
years (2009-17) at Garfield, where he led the Seattle powerhouse to a 213-34 (.
862 winning percentage) record and a pair of state championships (2014 and
’15), Haskins accepted an offer to join Ernie Kent’s staff at Washington State.
“There was
a time that I wanted to make the jump to college coaching and probably I would
say the last 3-5 years, I just kind of settled in,” said Haskins, a
special-education instructor who served as Garfield’s athletic director from
2011-17. “I was going more the route of administration. But I was going to
resign from Garfield as the head coach. When you do something so long, enough
is enough.”
Following
a 68-51 defeat to Nathan Hale in the Class 3A boys state title game at the
Tacoma Dome last March, Haskins walked off the court knowing that was his last
game with the Bulldogs.
Then came
the call from Kent and Haskins, 45, jumped at the chance to coach at the school
where his older brother Aaron played and helped the Cougars to two NCAA
tournaments.
“This
place is special to me,” said Haskins, who attended Eastern Washington.
Haskins
said the biggest adjustment from preps to college is learning to recruit, which
he knows might fall upon deaf ears to many Garfield critics who suspect the
Bulldogs routinely skirt WIAA recruiting guidelines.
“People
think schools like Garfield and Rainier Beach recruit, but kids want to be
there,” Haskins said. “It doesn’t really matter what people think. I’ve never
recruited before, and I have to do that now. And I’m learning how to do that.
It’s really just building relationships.”
Haskins is
also getting used to relinquishing control and what is largely an advisory
role.
“I was in
the business of directing, and now I’m in the business of suggesting,” he said,
laughing.
Haskins is
also coping with an abundance of defeats for the first time in his career.
Washington State (8-7, 0-3 Pac-12) is the only conference team without a league
win.
“Losses
aren’t losses,” he said. “They’re learning opportunities. I’m not used to
losing, and I’m not going to get used to losing. That’s not something that we
as a staff and Coach Kent is going to accept, but we’re learning. We have a
young team and we’re growing.”
