WSU men’s basketball Game Notes vs. Oregon: March 6, 2019
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QUICK HITS
• NATIONAL
RANKINGS:
• Scoring: Robert Franks, 21st (21.8).
• Double-Doubles: Robert Franks, 109th (7); CJ Elleby 178th (5).
• Rebounding: Robert Franks, 170th (7.3 rpg); CJ Elleby 219th (6.9).
• Free Throw Pct: Marvin Cannon, 33rd (.866); Robert Franks, 120th (.817).
• Field Goal Pct: Robert Franks, 9104h (.507); CJ Elleby, 248th (.444)
• Assists: Team, 68th (14.9 apg).
• Scoring: Team, 90th (76.0 ppg).
• 3-Ptrs Per Game: Team, 31st (9.5 3fgpg).
• APPROACHING
RECORD BOOKS:
• With 22 points against San Diego, Dec. 22, Robert Franks became the 37th
Cougar to reach the 1,000-point plateau...he now has 1,288 career points and is
tied for 16th with Derrick Low.
• With 68 career blocks, Franks ranks 17th in WSU’s career record books...six
more (74) will put him in a tie for 16th.
• Freshman CJ Elleby is just 8 poitns from the WSU freshman record...he has 426
points, Steve Puidokas had 454 in 1974.
COUGARS RETURN HOME
FOR FINAL REGULAR SEASON GAMES: Washington State men’s basketball (11-18, 4-12)
looks to bounce back as it returns home for its final two games of the regular
season as it hosts Oregon (17-12, 8-8), Wednesday, March 6 at 8 p.m. at Beasley
Coliseum.
• The game will be
televised on the FS1 as Aaron Goldsmith (play-by-play), and Matt Muehlebach
(analyst) have the call.
•The Cougars will
then host Oregon State (17-11, 9-7), Saturday, March 9 at noon at Beasley
Coliseum.
• 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.
• Please see page
one of today’s notes for the list of affiliates.
• Live stats are
also available at www.wsucougars.com.
COUGARS VERSUS
DUCKS:
• Wednesday marks
the 296th all-time meeting between Washington State and Oregon, as the Ducks
hold a 170-125 advantage in the series.
• Oregon won the
first meeting of the season, 78-58, Jan. 27 at Eugene.
• The two teams
split the regular season series last year with each winning at home, then
Oregon defeated WSU, 64-62 in overtime at the Pac-12 Tournament.
• WSU holds a 76-62
advantage in the series in home games, having won two of the last three at
Pullman.
• Last season, WSU
won 78-76 at Pullman, March 1.
• In that game, Malachi Flynn led the Cougars with 28 points, while Robert
Franks and Viont’e Daniels added 19 and 13 points respectively.
• Oregon has won 13
of the last 15 meetings in the series.
• Ernie Kent
coached at Oregon for 13 seasons, but he holds a 2-8 record against the Ducks
from his time as head coach at Saint Mary’s and WSU.
• In the series
between WSU and Oregon, Kent holds a 24-11 record, as he defeated the Cougars
22 times in his time as head coach for the Ducks and defeated the Ducks twice
as head coach of the Cougars.
WSU ENDS
DESERT/WEEKEND SWEEP DROUGHTS:
• With wins at
Arizona State (91-70, Feb. 7) and Arizona (69-55, Feb. 9), WSU got just its
third road sweep of the Arizona schools since the league became the Pac-12 in
1978-89.
• It marked its
first sweep at the desert since 2006-07 (also swept in 1981-82) and its first
road sweep since 2008-09.
• The sweep was
also the last WSU conference weekend sweep since 2011-12, which was at Pullman.
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ON THE RECORD under REAL ESTATE SALES in the Feb. 28, 2019,
Whitman County (Colfax, Wash.) Gazette newspaper on page 9 includes that Mike
and June Daugherty of Boise sold on Feb. 20, 2019, o two people (they are named
in the newspaper, but not here) their (Daughtery-owned) home on Southwest Itani
Drive in Pullman for $510,000. If memory serves correct. This home was built
for Dick Bennett, former WSU men’s head basketball coach. And, Coach Bennett
and his wife lived in the home before moving back to Wisconsin.
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Cougars Change Game Times For Series With CSUN
From WSU Sports Info
PULLMAN March 4, 2019 – Washington State Baseball announced
Monday it has changed game times for this week’s home-opening series with CSUN
(Cal State Northridge) at Bailey-Brayton Field. The three-game series is now scheduled to
begin Friday at 1:05 p.m., continue Saturday at 1:05 p.m. and conclude Sunday
at 12.05 p.m.
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March 5: Test of WSU Alert Pullman emergency notification
system slated
March 4, 2019 from WSU News
PULLMAN, Wash. – A spring semester test of the WSU Alert
Pullman emergency alert system, including campus outdoor warning sirens, will
be conducted at 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, March 5, on the Pullman campus by the
Office of Emergency Management.
WSU Pullman also will test electronic door locking
capabilities with a 15‑minute door locking test
beginning at 11:45 a.m. This will be a full activation of the lockdown function
and may take some time to fully initiate. Electronic doors will lock completely
but if individuals typically have card access, entry will still be allowed with
card use during the duration of the test. Interior and exterior doors will
unlock at noon.
Please note, people will not be locked inside buildings and
if you need to exit a building, you may still do so at any time.
Faculty, staff and students associated with the Pullman
campus who have signed up for emergency notifications also will receive text
messages, phone calls and emails — all of which will be clearly identified as
test messages.
WSU has developed the WSU Alert Pullman system to
disseminate official information via email, text messages, telephone,
loudspeakers, Alert website and other means to notify the campus population of
emergencies or threatening situations.
Notifications may include such events as inclement weather,
violent actions and gas leaks. When such events occur, WSU will activate
appropriate components of the system to alert people to the situation and
provide them the opportunity to assess their individual circumstances and act
to take appropriate safety precautions. WSU encourages students, faculty and
staff to be personally aware of developing incidents, assessing each emergency
individually, and taking actions to ensure the safety of all.
All WSU Pullman students, staff and faculty can subscribe to
WSU Alert Pullman by visiting myWSU online to register or update emergency
contact information.
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WSU student discovers 2,000-year-old tattoo tool
Recently found artifact pushes back clock on practice in
North America by 1,000 years
By Scott Jackson, Moscow Pullman Daily News/ March 4, 2019
Slightly smaller than a pencil, the handle of the tool is
made from a twig of skunkbush sumac, a pair of prickly pear cactus spines
protrude from the business end and the base is wrapped with a strand of yucca
leaf.
The tool is the oldest evidence of tattooing in North
America, and it was discovered by a Washington State University graduate
student last year, beating out the next closest competitor by roughly 1,000
years.
About 2,000 years ago, an ancient tattoo artist, likely an
ancestor of the modern Pueblo people, dipped this tool in dark ink and stabbed
it into the skin of subjects to create indelible designs. Two millennia after
being discarded, the spines are still sharp.
Now a doctoral candidate with WSU’s archaeology department,
Andrew Gillreath-Brown, who found the artifact, said he constructed a replica
of the tool and successfully used it to tattoo pig skin. His research is now
published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
“Until this, there was really no evidence of actual tattooing,
especially that early,” Gillreath Brown said. “There’s another artifact from
Aztec ruins that dates to about 1100 or 1200 A.D. — but nobody’s really tested
it to say definitively whether it’s a tattoo artifact or not.”
Gillreath-Brown said he first came across the device while
he was helping organize a collection of artifacts unearthed almost 50 years
ago. He said he was tasked with sifting through and inventorying fossilized
garbage dug up in the 1970s. The artifacts he was sorting came from the Turkey
Pen site in southeastern Utah, a prehistoric trash heap filled with discarded
corn cobs, animal bones and fossilized feces. A paper was published about the
corn cobs in the Journal Nature last year.
“The site is a rock shelter area in the Greater Bear’s Ears
landscape, so it’s covered and doesn’t get subjected to rain and those
different things,” Gillreath-Brown said.
To be clear, such a site is a veritable gold mine to an
archaeologist, though the task of sorting the many items gathered, decades
after they were unearthed was not expected to yield anything extraordinary.
“I pulled out this artifact and had never seen anything like
it before,” Gillreath Brown said. “I took it out of the bag and noticed that it
also has black staining on the tips — the staining is what really piqued my
interest.”
While the tool does provide evidence tattooing was a
developed practice in ancient America, it’s difficult to say what the function
of these tattoos were. Gillreath-Brown said, as with other cultures around the
world, the practice seems to coincide with a shift from hunter-gatherer
cultures to agrarian and hints at an evolving social landscape. He said they
may have denoted social or spiritual status to a member of a tribe or possibly
signalled an individual’s membership to such groups. All researchers can say
with any certainty is there is now solid evidence tattooing was available
around 79 to 120 A.D.
As for himself, Gillreath-Brown has a sleeve of his own
tattoos but rather than indicating social status or membership of a tribe, his
body art traces his history as an archaeologist. A depiction of a turtle shell
rattle illustrates his early work as an undergraduate and a mastodon design
hints at time he spent brushing off bones from the late Pleistocene epoch in Tennessee.
He said he is now considering whether to add the Turkey Pen tattoo artifact to
his “archaeological CV.”
“It’s a huge find,” he said. “It’s really the first kind of
major collaborative project that I’ve published on.”
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Cal player sets Pac-12 rebound record in win over Cougars
Mar 4, 2019 Lewiston Trib
PULLMAN — Her point total was impressive enough. Her rebound
total was off the charts.
Kristine Anigwe, a 6-foot-4 senior, set a Pac-12 record with
30 rebounds Sunday while also scoring 32 points in Califonia’s 80-58 rout of
Washington State in a women’s basketball game at Beasley Coliseum.
“Well what do you say?” WSU coach Kamie Ethridge said. “I’ve
not seen a player that can get a 30-30 day, and (Anigwe) just creates a lot of
problems.”
Ten of her boards came on offense, and she also blocked
three shots. Her rebound numbers are especially amazing in that the teams’
shooting wasn’t horrible — Cal was at 50 percent and WSU at 39.
But the Cougars mustered only 22 rebounds.
“It’s not just her,” Ethridge said, “because she’s so good
you have to double, and they’ve just got really timely 3-point shooters and
people who can space the floor and make you pay when you do double and are late
on close-outs.”
Borislava Hristova scored 21 points for the Cougars, Alexys
Swedlund added 17 points and four steals, and Chanelle Molina had 11 points,
four assists and three steals.
CALIFORNIA (18-11)
Anigwe 14-22 4-8 32, Brown 4-8 1-2 9, Caldwell 4-7 0-0 11,
Smith 4-11 0-0 12, Thomas 2-5 2-2 6, Styles 1-1 0-0 2, Yue 0-1 0-0 0, Forbes 3-9
0-0 8, Mosley 0-0 0-0 0, Totals 32-64 7-12 80.
WASHINGTON ST. (9-20)
Hristova 7-14 6-8 21, Motuga 0-8 0-0 0, Kostourkova 0-2 1-2
1, Cha. Molina 5-12 1-2 11, Swedlund 6-10 2-2 17, Levy 0-1 0-0 0, Subasic 4-7
0-0 8, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Che. Molina 0-3 0-0 0, Cel. Molina 0-0 0-0 0, Totals
22-57 10-14 58.
California 25 17 18 20—80
Washington St. 12 18 16 12—58
3-Point Goals_California 9-26 (Brown 0-2, Caldwell 3-6,
Smith 4-9, Thomas 0-2, Forbes 2-7), Washington St. 4-17 (Hristova 1-2, Motuga
0-3, Cha. Molina 0-3, Swedlund 3-6, Che. Molina 0-3). Assists_California 18
(Thomas 7), Washington St. 12 (Cha. Molina 4). Fouled Out_None.
Rebounds_California 50 (Anigwe 30), Washington St. 22 (Kostourkova 6). Total
Fouls_California 12, Washington St. 16. Technical Fouls_None.A_713.
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Cougs fall to Cal, bid farewell to pair of seniors
Golden Bears beat WSU by 22 points in team's regular season
finale
By JOHN SPELLMAN, Evergreen March 3, 2019
It was a bittersweet Sunday afternoon at home for the WSU
women’s basketball team as the seniors were honored when the team took on Cal
in their final test before the Pac-12 Tournament.
The Cougars (9-20, 4-14) looked to send their two seniors
off on a high note in their last game at Beasley Coliseum. Unfortunately the
Golden Bears (18-11, 9-9) had other plans. Cal dominated WSU 80-58 to hand the
Cougars their fourth straight loss to close out the regular season.
Cal senior forward Kristine Anigwe had a historic day to
lead the Golden Bears. She scored 32 points and a Pac-12 record 30 rebounds.
Head Coach Kamie Ethridge said the team had a difficult time
defending Anigwe because if they tried to double-team her she would kick it out
to Cal’s three-point shooters.
“Well, what do you say?” Ethridge said. “I’ve not seen a
player that can get a 30/30 day, and [Anigwe] just creates a lot of problems.”
The first quarter started off even between the two teams
with the score tied at 10. Then Cal went on a 15-2 run to take a 25-12 lead
after 10 minutes.
The second quarter saw a similar theme as the Cougars were
unable to decipher the tight defensive scheme of the Golden Bears. Some key
defensive stops for WSU allowed the Cougars to cut into the lead, bringing it
down to six points with just under four minutes remaining in the quarter.
However, Cal returned to its dominant form and Anigwe
stepped up with three baskets in the final 2:12.
The Cougars got a three-pointer from senior guard Alexys
Swedlund, in her final game in Pullman, right before the half to make the score
42-30 in favor of the Golden Bears at halftime.
The Cougars and the Golden Bears each shot 44 percent or
better from the field in the first half. Redshirt junior forward Borislava
Hristova led WSU with 12 points and Anigwe had 17 points and 18 rebounds at the
break.
Cal didn’t slow down in the second half and held a 60-46
advantage at the end of the third quarter. The big difference between the two
teams was rebounding with Cal outrebounding the Cougs 40-18 after 30 minutes of
action.
WSU was able to get some momentum in the fourth quarter by
forcing some crucial stops and getting another big three-pointer from Swedlund
to cut the lead down to 10 with 7:46 remaining in regulation.
However, WSU was not able to capitalize on Cal’s missed
shots with the Golden Bears stranglehold on the rebounding category.
Despite a last-ditch effort by the Cougs to come back, Cal
held on for an 80-58 win on the road.
The loss may have been tough, but there was a heartwarming
moment when Ethridge pulled Swedlund and senior center Maria Kostourkova out of
the game with 40 seconds remaining. The crowd inside Beasley roared as the pair
stepped off the court for the final time at home.
“I appreciate what the seniors gave in their sacrifice and
their leadership,” Ethridge said. “They both are competitive people, and they
play with a lot of passion, and those are elements we need in our program, so I
hope they left an imprint of that to the younger players in our program.”
Hristova led the Cougars in scoring with 21 points, followed
by Swedlund with 17.
“I just wanted to do what was best for the team tonight and
there were a lot of emotions coming into the game,” Swedlund said. “I just loved
playing for the Cougs for the last four years, being able to play in Beasley
for the last time today was such a great honor for me.”
The Cougars turn their attention toward the Pac-12
Tournament at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. WSU is the No.
10 seed and will face No. 7 seed Cal for the third time this season in the
first round 6 p.m. Thursday.
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(Concerning the story below, RW, a News for CougGroup
subscriber said, “Cougar Country is gone. It is for sale and the owner said she
is retired.”)
Pullman's Cougar Country Drive-In could go up for sale
Posted: Mar 04, 2019 02:53 PM PST Updated: Mar 04, 2019
02:54 PM PST
PULLMAN. - Pullman's Cougar Country Drive-In remains closed
and could soon be for sale.
Owner Rhonda Witt-Miller closed the Pullman fixture in
February amid financial concerns.
At the time, Witt-Miller stated in social media post that
she would “... hire, retrain and open as soon as possible.”
Monday afternoon,
Witt-Miller confirmed to KXLY4 News that she has a real estate agent and was
considering all of her options.
While she said reopening Cougar Country remained an option,
Witt-Miller did not offer any sort of timeline for reopening or when the
drive-in could hit the real estate market.
Witt-Miller's parents opened Cougar Country in 1973.
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Mike Leach: The most important WSU concepts on offense &
defense
From Cougfan.com
3/4/2-19
MIKE LEACH INITIALLY looked at coaching football as a temp
job, something he ought to do early and get out of his system. That was more
than 30 years ago.
Leach, heading into his eighth season at Washington State,
talked about his early coaching days, the most important concept on WSU's
offense and defense, and more in a wide-ranging interview at the MIT Sloan
Sports Analytics Conference this past weekend with renowned author Michael
Lewis.
Leach said 46,000 people are interested in taking his and
Mike Baumgartner's upcoming Insurgent Warfare & Football Strategies
seminar.
And while pirates, Geronimo and other familiar fare was
discussed, among the other Leachisms:
The key component to WSU's offense: create space sideline to
sideline and about 30 yards downfield, which is about how long the protection
can hold up.
The most important defensive concept: "Every defensive
player should have a role and that defensive player's role should be
restricting space."
There are a lot of different ways to go about accomplishing
that but people tend to overcomplicate things.
"I have not successfully taken a (QB) from flat-out
inaccurate to accurate, ever."
Quick feet are more important than "fast" when it
comes to QB recruiting.
How do you teach a WR who doesn't have great hands to be
good at catching the ball? "You just keep firing objects at him
(laughs)."
What the NFL naysayers don't get: "If you can do it in
high school, with rare exception you can do it anywhere else ... it's all this
narrow-minded bunk where they say you can't do something because they're too
lazy or selfish to think about it."
"I don't know if I've ever met anybody that loved
football more than Gardner Minshew did."
To be good at anything you have to do it over and over. Once
you get good at it, resist the temptation to get bored with it and get even
better at it. Tom Brady is a great example of that.
At halftime, Leach says he's thinking about
1) how do we adjust offensively;
2) what needs to be
said to the team;
3) how best he can avoid the media interviewers
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WSU Cougars Men’s Basketball
Recap: WSU adds to embarrassment with 76-69 loss to Cal
The Cougars inherit the title of “worst high major team in
Division I.”
By Jeff Nusser Coug Center March 2, 2019, 7:14pm PST
There have been too many low points in Ernie Kent’s tenure
to count, but if someone was industrious and/or silly enough to actually put
such a list together, this weekend would undoubtedly be on it after the
Washington State Cougars lost to the California Golden Bears, 76-69.
Following up a 48-point loss to the Stanford Cardinal with a
seven-point loss to Cal certainly belongs in Kent’s pantheon of ignominy; the
Golden Bears (7-22 overall, 2-15 Pac-12) had roundly been considered the worst
high major team in the country, but WSU has now inherited that title thanks to
a typical display of Ernieball.
Against one of the worst defenses in the country, the
Cougars (11-18, 4-12) could only muster a paltry 0.91 points per possession —
the least allowed by Cal all season. WSU shot the ball OK, as it typically
does, but 20 turnovers committed by the Cougars neutered their 13-for-31 mark
from beyond the arc. The turnovers made up a full 27 percent of the Cougars
possessions, and most of those were of the lazy, live ball variety — which Cal
duly punished with layups at the other end. The Cougars’ 20 turnovers led to 30
points for Cal.
On the postgame radio show, Ernie went on and on about how
proud he was of the team’s bounce-back effort after the Stanford debacle, and proclaimed
that they were “right in it.” However, the Cougars were never within even two
possessions in the last five minutes of the game. They trailed by six with 5:31
to play after Robert Franks hit a three-pointer — one of his four makes from
deep — but the next three possessions went like this: Cal dunk —> WSU
turnover —> Cal layup. That pushed the margin to 10, and more or less ended
the game.
The Golden Bears actually tried their best to let WSU hang
around in the last two minutes, committing its own turnovers and missing free
throws, but the Cougars weren’t really all that interested in taking advantage.
WSU never led in the game and trailed by as many as 15
points.
The Cougars return home for their final two games of the
regular season, taking on the Oregon Ducks on Wednesday.
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