PULLMAN – Home sweeps and road splits.
That’s often the rule of thumb for Pac-12 basketball coaches when they open their conference schedule, reckoning if their team can win almost every game it plays on its own court, and go 50-50 on the road – give or take a road win here, a home loss there – it’ll probably finish with anywhere from 10-14 league wins.
Laying out the blueprint is one thing, sticking to it is another.
For Ernie Kent and Washington State, winning outside of Pullman in 2018-19 has been mission impossible. After a pair of losses at Oregon State and Oregon, the Cougars (8-12, 1-6) dropped to 0-7 in true road games and 0-12 in games played away from the Palouse.