PULLMAN – Over the last 13 days, the Washington State Cougars had picked up a pair of critical road victories and taken the league’s top team down to the wire in undisputedly their best stretch of basketball this season.
Still, nobody would’ve classified WSU as the hottest team in the Pac-12 Conference. But defeating the rightful owner of that title may have helped the Cougars swing a few opinions.
Since Feb. 2, nobody had been better than Colorado, which took a five-game win streak into Wednesday’s contest at Beasley Coliseum. But it’s possible nobody’s been more confident than the Cougars, who stopped the Buffaloes in their tracks, winning 76-74 behind strong offensive games from Robert Franks and CJ Elleby.