WSU fall commencement to include about 800 students
December 4, 2018 from WSU Insider
PULLMAN – President Kirk Schulz will confer degrees to
805 Washington State University students expected to participate in the fall
commencement ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Beasley Coliseum.
The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not
required for the two‑hour event.
This year, there are 683 undergraduates, 72 masters and
MBA’s, and 50 Ph.D.’s scheduled to walk in the commencement ceremony.
The ceremony can be viewed live online on the Experience
WSU website. The video stream will be archived for later viewing at the same
website.
Guests are encouraged to park at the Lewis Alumni Centre.
A free shuttle between the centre and coliseum will operate approximately 8:30
a.m.–1:30 p.m. Decorated for the holidays, the centre offers photo
opportunities for graduates and families.
For parking details, including disability parking and a
parking map, see the WSU Transportation website.
Students and families are encouraged to share their
pictures and posts on social media using the hashtag #CougGrad.
Learn more at this commencement here:
https://commencement.wsu.edu/fall
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From WSU Sports Info
WSU MEN’S BASKETBALL
--Next game vs. Idaho 6pm on Wed Dec 5, 2018, on Friel
Court in Beasley Coliseum .
--After this game, WSU travels to the Tri-Cities (Kennewick)
to play host to Montana State at the Toyota Center, Sunday, Dec. 9. Tipoff at 4
p.m.
Cougars men’s basketball in NATIONAL RANKINGS:
• Scoring:
Robert Franks, 11th (24.8 ppg).
• A/TO
Ratio: Viont’e Daniels, 66th (2.89); Ahmed Ali, 68th (2.86).
• Defensive
Rebounds: Robert Franks, 43rd (6.80 drpg); CJ Elleby, 112th (5.83 drpg).
•
Rebounding: Robert Franks, 74th (9.6 rpg); CJ Elleby, 103rd (8.2 rpg).
• Assists:
Viont’e Daniels, 126th (4.3 apg).
•
Double-Doubles: Robert Franks, 38th (3); CJ Elleby, 80th (2).
• Fewest
Fouls: Team, 2nd (92).
• Fewest
Turnovers: Team, 30th (77).
•
Assist/Turnover Ratio: Team, 42nd (1.36).
• Assists:
Team, 24th (17.5 apg).
Cougs men basketball players APPROACHING RECORD BOOKS:
• With 890
points, Robert Franks needs 110 points to reach 1,000 career points.
• With 55
career blocks, Franks ranks tied for 19th in WSU’s career record books...one
more (56) will put him in a tie for 18th.
• With 115
3-pointers, Viont’e Daniels ranks 10th on WSU’s career list and needs just four
to move into a tie for 19th.
WSU HOSTS IDAHO IN BORDER RIVALRY:
The Washington State University men’s basketball team
(4-2) returns home to host border-rival Idaho (3-4) in the oldest continuous
rivalry west of the Mississippi River, Wednesday, Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. at Beasley
Coliseum.
• The game will be televised on the Pac-12 Network as Guy
Haberman (play-by-play) and Steve Lavin (analyst) have the call.
• All season long, Cougar basketball can be heard on the
Cougar IMG Sports Radio Network with the Voice of the Cougars, Matt Chazanow on
the call.
• Live game stats at www.wsucougars.com
COUGARS vs. VANDALS; OLDEST CONTINUOUS COLLEGIATE
BASKETBALL RIVALRY:
• Washington State and Idaho are meeting for the 114th-consecutive
men’s basketball season.
• The two schools have the oldest continuous rivalry west
of the Mississippi River.
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From WSU Sports Info:
WSU (4-4) WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Cougs at #24 Gonzaga (8-1) Sun., Dec. 9 at 2 p.m.
McCarthey Athletic Center on the GU campus in Spokane
Live Stats |
WSUCougars.com
Watch | TheW.tv
Listen | WSU IMG
Radio Network
OPENING FIVE
> WSU renews its regional rivalry with #24 Gonzaga for
the ninth-straight season and the 30th time in program history Sunday in
Spokane. The Cougars are 20-9 all-time but the Zags have won the last two
matchups.
> The Cougs are fresh off of back-to-back 90+ point
efforts for the first time in program history. The 95 points against Boise
State tied for the 10th most in a single game.
> Chanelle Molina, continues her ascent as one of the
top PG in the Pac-12 as she averaged 18.5 ppg, 9.0 apg, 5.0 rpg, 3.5 spg in the
two Cougar wins over the weekend. She dished out a career-best 11 assists
against Boise State, the first double-digit assist effort for WSU since Jessica
Perry’s 10 vs Gonzaga, Nov. 29, 2001.
> Borislava Hristova, a Cheryl Miller Watch List
nominee, sits third in the Pac-12 in scoring at 22.0 ppg having scored
double-figures in all eight games including two 30-point efforts.
> Alexys Swedlund, in her 100th career game came up
with a career scoring effort with 24 points against Boise State. She is 4th in
the Pac-12 at 2.88 3-ptFG per game.
GAME INFORMATION – vs.GONZAGA
In the regional rivalry against the Zags the Cougs have
been in control with an overall record of 20-9 heading into the 30th all-time
matchup.
However, Gonzaga has taken the last two meetings between
the two sides and six of the last nine dating back to 2010 when the rivalry was
renewed on a yearly basis. The Zags enter the game 8-1 on the year and are
fresh off of a 79-73 upset of #8 Stanford at the Kennell. Their lone loss on
the year came to #1 Notre Dame, 81-65, during the Thanksgiving break.
LAST TIME OUT
In one of its most complete offensive efforts in program
history, WSU ran away with a 95-71 win over Boise State last week at Beasley
Coliseum. From the opening tip the Cougars broke the Broncos, scoring the first
nine points of the contest and 17 of the first 20 to open up a double-digit
advantage. Burying BSU with an avalanche of three-pointers, the Cougars hit
five of their first six from deep in the first quarter while shooting a
scorching 75% from the floor to start the game. After the Broncs made a small
run to start the second quarter cutting the WSU lead to nine, the Cougars
responded with the knockout blow, rolling off a 20-0 run that put BSU away for
good.
In all, WSU hit 13 threes, tied for fourth most all-time,
while dishing out 26 assists, fourth-most in a single game.
COUGS SET A RECORD WITH BACK-TO-BACK 90-POINT
PERFORMANCES
In a first for WSU basketball, the Cougs put together two
of their most complete offensive performances against San Francisco and Boise
State, scoring 90+ points in back-to-back games for the first time in program
history. The two performances were bolstered by huge first halves as WSU scored
61 points against USF and followed with 56 points against Boise State.
The 61 points were the third-most all-time in a single
half while the 34 points scored in the second quarter against USF was a quarter
record for WSU. Against Boise State, the Cougs 95 points tied for the 10th most
in a single game for the Cougs and the most since a 107 point effort against
Oregon March 6, 2014, in the Pac-12 Tournament.
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WSU football
Two bye weeks, six road games on the docket for
Washington State football in 2019
Tue., Dec. 4, 2018, 11:05 a.m.
By Theo Lawson of Spokane S-R
2019 Washington State football schedule:
Aug. 31 – vs. New Mexico State
Sept. 7 – vs. Northern Colorado
Sept. 13 – vs. Houston (at Houston’s NRG Stadium)
Sept. 21 – vs. UCLA
Sept. 28 – at Utah
Oct. 5 – BYE
Oct. 12 – at Arizona State
Oct. 19 – vs. Colorado
Oct. 26 – at Oregon
Nov. 2 – BYE
Nov. 9 – at Cal
Nov. 16 – vs. Stanford
Nov. – vs. Oregon State
Nov. 29 – at Washington
PULLMAN – The college football season will span across 14
weeks next year, meaning Washington State and each of its 11 Pac-12 Conference
peers will have two bye weeks rather than one in 2019.
The Cougars are currently preparing for their fourth
consecutive bowl game under Mike Leach – the Dec. 28 Alamo Bowl against Iowa
State – but they got a glimpse of next season when the Pac-12 announced its
full 2019 schedule Tuesday morning.
The WSU slate is highlighted by the two bye weeks, which
fall on Oct. 5 and Nov. 2, a pair of Friday games and six road games for the
first time since 2015.
The Cougars will travel to Houston’s NRG Stadium to play
the University of Houston in an intriguing nonconference matchup on Friday
Sept. 13, as part of the AdvoCare Texas Kickoff. They’ll also play a
traditional Apple Cup date, on Black Friday (Nov. 29 in Seattle), as they try
to snap a six-game losing skid against the University of Washington.
WSU, which had won 13 straight home games at Martin
Stadium before the 2018 finale versus the Huskies, will open 2019 on the
Palouse against New Mexico State on Aug. 31. The Cougars will then welcome in a
Big Sky team to Martin Stadium for the 10th consecutive season when they host
Northern Colorado on Sept. 7.
After missing out on a chance to play UCLA in year one
under Chip Kelly, the former Oregon coach will take the Bruins to Pullman on
Sept. 21.
Then the Cougars will go nearly a month before playing
another game at Martin Stadium. They travel to Salt Lake City to play reigning
Pac-12 South champion Utah on Sept. 28 before the Oct. 5 bye. WSU follows with
a trip to Tempe to face Arizona State and first-year coach Herm Edwards on Oct.
12, before returning home to play Colorado on Oct. 19.
After that, it’ll be another long stretch without
football at Martin Stadium for WSU fans. The Cougars will gun for their fifth
straight win over Pac-12 North rival Oregon on Oct. 26 in Eugene before taking
their second bye week on Nov. 2. Out of the bye week, they’ll visit Cal on Nov.
9 and attempt to break a two-game losing streak in Berkeley.
A two-week home stretch against the Pac-12 North begins
with a Nov. 16 matchup with Stanford and continues with a Nov. 23 clash against
Oregon State. The Cardinal haven’t beat the Cougars in their last three tries
and the Beavers haven’t in their last five.
The regular season closes, as always, with the annual
rivalry game against the Huskies. The 112th Apple Cup will be played at Husky
Stadium and if it’s any consolation for WSU, for the first time in five years,
the Cougars won’t have to deal with the headache of containing running back
Myles Gaskin and quarterback Jake Browning, who formed the most productive
backfield in UW history.
The Cougars had opportunities to play for the Pac-12
title the last three years, but if they can get over the hump in 2019, the
conference championship game will be held on Dec. 6 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa
Clara, California.
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Taylor Comfort leads crew of Washington State footplayers
recognized by Pac-12 for academics
UPDATED: Mon., Dec. 3, 2018, 9:23 p.m.
By Theo Lawson
Spokesman-Review
PULLMAN – Taylor Comfort, the senior defensive lineman
who came to Washington State as a walk-on and earned a scholarship this spring
before winning the Cougars’ starting nose tackle job, was named to the Pac-12
All-Academic first team on Monday.
Comfort, a criminal justice and psychology graduate
student who carries a 3.33 GPA, was the lone WSU player to earn a spot on the
25-man first team. A fifth-year senior, Comfort has started in all 12 games for
the Cougars this season and has chipped in two sacks to WSU’s
conference-leading total of 35.
Four other Cougars were named to the second team: running
back Clay Markoff (3.76, undeclared), defensive lineman Nick Begg (3.20, public
relations), defensive lineman Karson Block (3.21, social studies) and
linebacker Peyton Pelluer (3.48, Master’s in teaching).
Seven more Cougars were named All-Academic honorable
mention: wide receiver Brandon Arconado, linebacker Tristan Brock, kicker Jack
Crane, linebacker Cole Dubots, wide receiver Travell Harris, offensive lineman
Liam Ryan and quarterback Trey Tinsley.
To earn recognition on the Pac-12 All-Academic teams, a
player must have a 3.0 GPA or higher and appear in at least 50 percent of his
team’s games.
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