With three consecutive losses, Washington State’s basketball team may be limping into Pac-12 Conference play this week, but at least it’s only a figurative term for the now healthy Cougars as they travel to Seattle this Saturday for the league opener at Alaska Airlines Arena.
At this point, even those types of silver linings are important for a WSU team that went only 7-6 in its first 13 games – seven wins at home and all six losses on the road – albeit playing a nonconference schedule that ESPN ranks No. 336 in the country.
The Pac-12 schedule that now awaits the Cougars won’t be as thorny as it’s been in the past.