HOT COUGAR ACTION: Basketball Recaps and Previews
by Mark Sandritter on Jan 15, 2012 6:00 AM PST
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PrintTrying to snap a 32 game losing streak to Washington, the Washington State women's basketball team hosted the Huskies last night but fell short, losing 60-51 and extending the streak to 33 straight. We have recaps and videos from the women's game below, then a few links previewing the men's game against the Huskies later today. And of course, Craig will be by later with the best preview of them all.
Cougars Come Up Short Against Huskies, Fall 60-51 - The Washington State University Official Athletic Site
PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University dropped a 60-51 decision to the visiting University of Washington in front of 1,310 fans at Beasley Coliseum Saturday evening. Senior forward Rosie Tarnowski led the Cougars (9-8, 3-2 Pac-12) with 14 points while senior guard April Cook chipped in with 11 and sophomore guard Sage Romberg added 10. Washington (10-5, 2-3 Pac-12) held WSU to 27.1 percent shooting and finished with a 48-38 rebound advantage.
Huskies make it 33 straight against WSU women - Spokesman.com - Jan. 15, 2012
PULLMAN – It’s supposed to be the simplest shot in basketball. Yet on Saturday night for the Washington State women, trying to convert an uncontested layup – just like trying to break a 16-year hex against its chief rival – was a tortuous experience.
Huskies | Washington women earn 60-51 victory over Washington State | Seattle Times Newspaper
PULLMAN — It didn't take long to spoil this Cinderella story. For 16 years — a span of 32 games — Washington State had lost to Washington in women's basketball. The Cougars appeared primed for a win on Saturday, however, with a better record in Pac-12 play and not having to deal with UW center Regina Rogers, who was out with a hamstring injury.
WBB: Highlights 1/14 (via WSUCougarAthletics)
WBB: June Daugherty Postgame 1/14 (via WSUCougarAthletics)
WBB: Postgame Sound 1/14 (via WSUCougarAthletics)
Cougs zero in on UW’s Wroten - Spokesman.com - Jan. 14, 2012
SEATTLE – The essence of Washington’s most dangerous player is captured via conversation with two players who must defend him this afternoon.
Huskies, Cougars Gear For Sunday Showdown | KING5.com Seattle
GAME: Washington State (9-7, 1-3, Pac-12) at Washington (10-6, 3-1 Pac-12). WHEN: Sunday, 4 p.m., Alaska Airlines Arena. MEETING: 273rd (Huskies lead 172-100). RANKINGS: Neither team ranked. TV: ROOT Sports. RADIO:KJR 950 AM, 102.9 FM.
Know your enemy: a scouting report for WSU | UW Huskies Insider - The News Tribune
My buddy Christian Caple has taken over the Washington State beat at the Spokesman Review. What’s odd is he’s a UW grad and covering the Cougs.
Harthun's time has come | MailTribune.com
Time is what Michael Harthun needed — and still needs — and that's exactly what he's been granted this season for the Portland State men's basketball team.
Mike Leach finalizes Wazzu coaching staff | CollegeFootballTalk
Days after Washington State coach Mike Leach announced Montana defensive coordinator Mike Breske would join the Cougars staff in the same capacity, Wazzu sent out a release finalizing Leach’s coaching staff — some of which were already known.
Leach completes his staff - Pac-12 Blog - ESPN
Washington State coach Mike Leach announced Friday that he has completed his coaching staff, reuniting with several coaches and players who have worked with or played for him in past years.
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Since Leach gets paid 25K as incentive for winning the Apple Cup
maybe Moos should put the same offer on the table for June Daugherty. 33 straight losses is kind of embarassing.
Around these parts, a man could get hurt for wearing purple.
Ya, it is.
In the first half the team looked a little bewildered and they didn’t play their game, they played the Huskies game
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by Neil Vincent Roberts on Jan 15, 2012 10:05 AM PST up reply actions
I am probably one of the few guys that admits they like women's basketball
But last night was a missed chance for this team. I don’t know, but I know its hard to get more fans to watch your team when you play like that. How many missed layups and point blank shots did they miss?
Did these girls get nervous playing on TV and in front of a decent crowd? The last few years when I have watched them play against UW they seem to play a totally different game than against other teams….they seem to get nervous, they make poor decisions and always miss easy shots.
Maybe the WSU women’s team isn’t ever supposed to be the Huskies.
Hopefully these ladies don’t let this bring the rest of the season down, this is a good team….GO COUGS!!!
by spokanecougar on Jan 15, 2012 10:38 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Random tangent (though I guess it is news of some sort)
It snowed an inch yesterday evening and throughout the night. And it is supposed to snow another inch today.
Good or bad for the major recruiting weekend?
I’m leaning towards good. Personally, if it is going to be 25 degrees outside either way, I’d much rather have snow than no snow.
by Something Snazzy on Jan 15, 2012 11:05 AM PST reply actions
Kinda what I was thinking.
If it’s going to be freezing cold, might as well have fun with snow. While I don’t think these kids have never seen snow, almost all of them are from California, so snow is still a fairly new thing.
by Kyle Rancourt on Jan 15, 2012 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
Apparently I'm one of the few who cares about a guy being kicked off the football team
I guess women’s basketball takes precedence here.
I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
It sucks that a guy was kicked off of the football team.
It MAJORLY sucks that the women dropped their 33rd straight to the the Huskies last night
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by Neil Vincent Roberts on Jan 15, 2012 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
There is a fanshot on the side to discuss it.
When Mark typed this up late last night there were no free articles to link to. There really isn’t a whole lot to talk about. The details haven’t been reported and everything else is just hearsay.
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by Craig Powers on Jan 15, 2012 12:08 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
And it happened late Saturday night.
Sunday morning is not prime time for people commenting on the internet.
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by Craig Powers on Jan 15, 2012 12:10 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
So you're saying women's basketball isn't important?
Not sure why you’re so upset.
by Kyle Rancourt on Jan 15, 2012 12:31 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Thank you for saying that better than I ever could
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by Neil Vincent Roberts on Jan 15, 2012 12:31 PM PST up reply actions
Not upset at all
I was just wondering why it didn’t get a mention.
Oh, and yes, I’m saying women’s basketball isn’t important. Hardly anyone watches it, and even less people go to the games. I root for the lady Cougs, but I don’t really take it to heart if they lose. Ratings for women’s basketball everywhere but Connecticut and Tennessee would support my assertion.
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There's a huge difference in a lack of fan support
and the women’s team in general not being important. And snarky comments like “I guess women’s basketball takes precedence here.” trying to devalue what we do by somehow insinuating that LOL WOMENS BBALL IS DUMB doesn’t really fly.
You don’t have to be a fan. But don’t devalue what they do.
by Kyle Rancourt on Jan 15, 2012 12:49 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
They still work their butts off for Crimson and Grey,
therefore they deserve our utmost respect
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by Neil Vincent Roberts on Jan 15, 2012 1:42 PM PST up reply actions
I'm the one who's upset?
Easy there, big fella.
1) Feel free to point out where I said women’s basketball was dumb. All I said was that it isn’t important, and I’m not sure how I’m wrong. It’s hardly on SportsCenter, it’s never on any network but ESPN2, it gets awful ratings, and it gets awful attendance. By any measure, the importance of women’s basketball within the parlance of sports fans in general, and college sports fans in particular, is near the bottom.
2) I’m not a teenage girl, thus I’ve never used the term “LOL” in my entire life.
3) As a daily reader, I’m willing to bet that most of my fellow readers of CougCenter are just as interested when Mike Leach kicks a player off the team as they are when the women’s basketball team loses to UW for the 33rd straight time. I’m not asking for an in-depth piece, but I think it bears mentioning. But I’m just a dumb reader who has no idea what it takes to write on a website. I’ll go back to my cave and not watch women’s basketball, like 99.9% of sports fans.
I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
On point number one.
We should probably stop covering any sort of Cougar sport then, because they hardly ever get mentioned on SportsCenter.
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by Craig Powers on Jan 15, 2012 1:09 PM PST up reply actions
It's your site
You can cover intramural Cougar softball if you want. It’s becoming apparent that dissenting views of content are frowned upon. As I said, back to my cave.
I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
I don't get this perception that we don't like dissenting opinions.
I love good debates. When your whole point of view is “Women’s basketball playing our rivals doesn’t deserve coverage over a redshirt freshman defensive tackle getting dismissed from the team for weed”, that’s a problem.
Again, you citing that ESPN doesn’t cover women’s basketball as a reason as to why it’s not important is still wildly missing the point. Because women’s basketball doesn’t get as much press means it’s not important? You’re devaluing what they’re doing because they’re females, and that’s both misogynistic and incredibly ignorant. Do I pay attention to women’s basketball? No, not really. But I don’t really like basketball in general. My personal feelings aside, I still think it’s important to cover. Why shouldn’t we? Because we’re not UConn or Tennessee or Baylor?
As a daily reader, you should know we strive to cover all aspects of WSU athletics, including the women’s teams. If you don’t want to read about it, don’t. Mark’s daily links post is a post for people to talk about random articles, stories, and general tidbits related to WSU. If you had a free article linking to the dismissal, you should have posted it. Otherwise, we’d be dealing in speculation. There was also a FanShot posted already.
When more comes out, I’m positive we’ll cover it. However, your first comment was completely unnecessary and offensive.
by Kyle Rancourt on Jan 15, 2012 1:54 PM PST up reply actions
This is too good
So now, I was not only mis-quoted as writing that women’s basketball is dumb (I said it’s not important, and there’s a difference), I’m also an ignorant misogynist. You merry band of brothers are on fire. How about this…I don’t consider college men’s tennis important. So, do I now hate men AND women? In your world, apparently I do. The two truly important collegiate sports are football and men’s basketball. Why? They’re the only ones that make money, and every other sport exists solely because of them. I guess you also overlooked the part where I wrote that I always root for the Coug women. Some misogynist. I root for all-things Coug, and that will never change.
When you write “we strive to cover all aspects of WSU athletics,” you probably mean it. I would consider a football player getting kicked off the team one of those aspects. It was reported by more than one other site last night, yet never got a mention here. Like I wrote before, I’m not asking for a 2,000 word in-depth piece. How about two sentences? I’ll write it for you: “Redshirt freshman defensive tackle TJ Poloai was dismissed from the team yesterday due to a violation of team rules. Further details were unavailable.” That’s all I asked for. I guess I’ll beg for mercy due to the fact that I didn’t scour every inch of the homepage to look for it. Instead I was bombarded with press conference clips from the women’s game.
As the owners of the site, you are entitled to write about whatever you want. I’ll be back tomorrow to read it because I enjoy your work. If you consider that first post on the subject offensive, I would ask that you scour message boards some more, and you’ll find some truly anti-woman, anti-everything, offensive viewpoints. I will not apologize for mine.
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Ok, well
I took what you said as demeaning and offensive. Obviously you believe your comments weren’t meant to be malicious or sexist, so we’ll just leave it alone and move on.
by Kyle Rancourt on Jan 15, 2012 3:22 PM PST up reply actions
I "believe?"
No, I KNOW that I didn’t mean for them to be sexist or offensive. I’m not really into someone who labels something I say ignorant and sexist, for all other readers to see. It may not be politically correct enough for you, but this world is FAR too PC for my sanity. It’s clear that we won’t agree, so I’m done. Maybe we should all launch into another thread about Tony Bennett, because that isn’t played out. I still enjoy what you guys do, regardless of what you decide to cover.
I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
I was hesitant to respond, because I don't want it to seem like Kyle, Craig and I are just ganging up on you, but since I wrote it I probably should.
When I wrote the post, the only link I saw on Poloai was the Cougfan link that was already in the fanshots. It’s a pay link which I try to avoid. But I’m sure I miss relevant links all the time which is why it is more than welcomed for people to post them in this thread.
If your first comment was something like “Poloai reportedly kicked off the team” with a link to one of the stories I missed, or one which came out today, this entire subthread is avoided.
As for women’s basketball coverage. If you don’t like being “bombarded” with links and videos of women’s basketball, I would suggest not reading the morning post on most Fridays or Sundays.
by Mark Sandritter on Jan 15, 2012 3:44 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Unfortunately on the internet
Intent isn’t what people read, it’s voice. In your initial post you sounded sexist and offensive. That may not have been your intent, but it was how I read it as well. And I’m not an author of the site, just a reader.
by 02Coug on Jan 15, 2012 6:43 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I was merely pointing out a hole that argument.
Too big to resist.
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by Craig Powers on Jan 15, 2012 2:18 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I understand your point of view
but even though women’s basketball isn’t important to you or the other 99.9% (you calculated) doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be reported. They work just as hard as the other athletes, so they deserve to get some pub and I like hearing about anything Coug related. To put a story about one person making a mistake above a whole team who works their butts off would kind of be rude.
Do we really need to talk about a football player who broke a team rule and got kicked off the team? What is there to really talk about? He was a redshirt, he is gone, we will recruit another player to fill his role. Do you want to know if he rolled it or put it into a brownie? Leach gave a zero tolerance rule, which is pretty self explanatory. It sucks a 19 year old just threw away a free $50,000+ scholarship/education from a good school. Not much else to talk about.
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by SoCalCoug on Jan 15, 2012 3:00 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
In addition
I was writing about women’s basketball in general not getting air, not WSU.
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