Arizona’s mid-afternoon flight out of Pullman last Saturday was only delayed by two hours due to brutal winter storms, but it felt like more.
“I don’t care if you have a direct flight that’s 30 minutes, anything feels long after you lost,” said head coach Adia Barnes.
Before the Wildcats shuttled through the snow to Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport, they dropped a winnable road game to Washington State, which Barnes deemed to be her team’s “worst loss of the year.”
The Wildcats (15-8, 5-7) got outmuscled on the glass and their usually-stingy defense got lit up for 90 points, as they missed a big opportunity to beat a 7-16 team and pick up a sweep in the Evergreen State.