It wasn’t until he arrived in Pullman last year and opened up to WSU basketball coach Ernie Kent that Conor Clifford, now a senior, was able to heal the deep wounds left by the loss of his mother, Julie, during his senior year of high school.
Conor Clifford had many scholarship offers coming out of Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif., in 2015.
That he ended up at Washington State is testament to not only men’s basketball coach Ernie Kent’s recruiting prowess, but also to the strong familial atmosphere Kent built in his first two seasons in Pullman.