PULLMAN – The Washington State men’s basketball team had a brief courtship with disaster during the closing minutes of its 81-74 win over Lewis-Clark State College in an exhibition game Friday night.
The Cougars watched a 27-point second-half lead dwindle to single digits during the game’s final stanzas, doing just enough to keep the lead until the clock ran out on the Warriors’ comeback.
Self-inflicted errors hurt the home team over the final 10 minutes, in which LCSC outscored WSU 30-12. There were turnovers, such as an eight-second call on guard Ike Iroegbu and drives into the Warriors defense at the end of the shot clock that resulted in lost balls.