College Basketball - Pacific 10 Conference
Washington State Cougars
| Location: Pullman, WA University Founded: 1890 Enrollment: 23,121  Nickname: Cougars Mascot: Butch T. Cougar School Colors: Crimson and gray Joined the Pac10: 1962 Varsity Teams: 15 U. President: Elson S. Floyd Director of Athletics: Jim Sterk Basketball Head Coach: Tony Bennett Conference Titles: Reg. Sea: 1917, '41 Basketball Arena: Beasley Coliseum Current Capacity: 12,058 First Year of Basketball: 1916 |
The University’s men's basketball team is known as the Cougars and they have won just two regular season conference titles in their 46 years with the Pac10.
Washington State Cougars’ main rivals are the Washington Huskies besides the Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State Beavers.
The team’s golden era was in the late 1970’s under the coaching of George Raveling who managed to transformed the team into one of the most successful ones in the Pacific 10 conference.
In the 2007-08 season, the Washington State Cougars overall game records stand at 26-9 and at 11-7 in the conference and the team was selected to play in the NCAA Tournament 2008 as an at-large bid in the #4 seed of the East Regional.
In spite of the transformation that needs to be done this 2008-09 season, Coach Bennett choose to stay one more year.
Bearing in mind that Bennett could have ended up at Indiana, the upgrading progression in Pullman looks very improved.
Washington State 2009/10 Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Time/Result |
| 13-Nov | Mississippi Valley State | W 94-66 |
| 16-Nov | Eastern Washington | W 67-61 |
| 19-Nov | IPFW | W 89-70 |
| 25-Nov | at Alaska Anchorage | W 87-68 |
| 27-Nov | vs. Nicholls State* | W 78-69 |
| 28-Nov | vs. San Diego* | W 93-56 |
| 2-Dec | at No. 16 Gonzaga | L 74-69 |
| 5-Dec | at Kansas State | L 86-69 |
| 9-Dec | Idaho | W 76-64 |
| 12-Dec | Air Force | W 75-68 |
| 19-Dec | Portland State | W 93-69 |
| 22-Dec | LSU | W 72-70 |
| 31-Dec | Oregon | L 91-89 |
| 2-Jan | Oregon State | W 65-60 |
| 8-Jan | at Arizona | W 78-76 |
| 10-Jan | at Arizona State | L 71-46 |
| 14-Jan | California | L 93-88 |
| 16-Jan | Stanford | W 77-73 |
| 21-Jan | at USC | W 67-60 |
| 23-Jan | at UCLA | L 74-62 |
| 30-Jan | at Washington | 3:30 PM ET |
| 4-Feb | Arizona State | 10:00 PM ET |
| 6-Feb | Arizona | 8:30 PM ET |
| 11-Feb | at Stanford | 10:00 PM ET |
| 13-Feb | at California | 4:00 PM ET FSN |
| 18-Feb | UCLA | 8:30 PM ET FSN |
| 20-Feb | USC | 5:00 PM ET |
| 27-Feb | Washington | 10:00 PM ET |
| 5-Mar | at Oregon State | TBA |
| 7-Mar | at Oregon | TBA |