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March 07, 2022
Wazzu News and Notes - March 7, 2022
- After getting off to a great start in the Frisco Classic, WSU baseball stumbled through the final two games of the tourney. Saturday afternoon the Cougs bats were silenced by Witchita State pitching, eventually falling 8-3. Along with weak-hitting, WSU pitchers issued five walks while the defense committed three errors. Not a good game for Wazzu.
Sunday afternoon Cougar (7-5) bats came back to life, but their rally in the ninth inning fell short giving Iowa (6-5) a 6-5 victory. Washington State put the tying run on base twice in the ninth inning but couldn't bring the tying run home. Cole McMillan started the game for Coach Brian Greene and looked sharp over the first five innings, striking out seven Hawkeyes in the process. He allowed just one earned run on three hits, however, McMillan walked three batters. The Cougs held a 3-0 lead over the first five innings when Iowa erupted for four runs in the bottom of the sixth. Wazzu came right back to tie things up with a run in the top of the seventh when Hyland Hall took a 2-1 pitch deep for a solo home run. Wazzu relinquished their opportunity pull ahead when Cougar relievers gave up two runs in the bottom of the eighth.
After playing the first three weeks on the road, the Cougars return to Pullman when they open Pac-12 Conference play against Top-10 ranked Oregon State beginning Friday at Bailey-Brayton Field. - For the fifth and final time in 2021-22, freshman Mouhamed Gueye was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Week as the first-year Coug took home his second-straight award of the season, this time for the week ending on March 6. Gueye became the second freshman this season to be named the top newcomer in back-to-back weeks after also earning the award the week prior for his play against the Huskies. His five awards are second-most in the conference trailing only Stanford's Harrison Ingram who has earned a league-best six weekly awards on the year while Gueye's four during Pac-12 play was the most of any freshman on the year.
No other Coug has earned more than two weekly awards in a single season in program history.
https://wsucougars.com/news/2022/3/7/mens-basketball-gueye-nabs-the-final-pac-12-freshman-of-the-week-award.aspx - The Cougs open the Pac-12 Men's Basketball Tournament March 9th when seventh-seeded Wazzu takes on tenth-seeded Cal at 6pm on the Pac-12 Network. WSU swept the season series with the Bears, who will be looking for revenge. It's difficult to beat a team three times in one season, but Coach Kyle Smith and his squad are playing their best basketball of the season and definitely want to play on.
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Wazzu News and Notes - December 14, 2022
- It seems fitting to put together a list of coaches who branch off of the Mike Leach coaching tree. Perspective on his football genius can easily be determined by a cursory glance:
Dave Aranda/Baylor head coach – Graduate assistant coach under Leach from 2000-02 at Texas Tech
Neal Brown/West Virginia head coach – Played under Leach in 1998 when Leach was offensive coordinator at Kentucky
Sonny Cumbie/Louisiana Tech head coach – Played under Leach at Texas Tech from 2000-03 and later served as a graduate assistant coach under Leach
Sonny Dykes/TCU head coach – Coached wide receivers and later was the co-offensive coordinator at Texas Tech under Leach from 2000-06
Josh Heupel/Tennessee head coach – Played under Leach at Oklahoma in 1999 when Leach was the offensive coordinator for the Sooners
Dana Holgorsen/Houston head coach – Coached alongside Leach as assistants at Valdosta State from 1993-95, then served as a wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator under Leach from ...
Wazzu News and Notes - December 13, 2022
- The news of former WSU Coach Mike Leach passing at the young age of 61 is very, very sad. I had the pleasure of writing about the Cougs when Leach was at the helm. To say that he was a unique person doesn't begin to describe the multi-faceted dimension of the man.
In terms of coaching football, Leach led his teams in a way that had most other coaches scratching their heads. His offensive creativity gave a multitude of defensive coordinators ulcers. To say that his techniques for molding student-athletes into football players were unusual would be accurate. Making guys run sprints in a sand pit named "Leach Beach" is a prime example. Crazy as that sounds, his players had fewer ankle injuries over the course of the season than any team in football. Only Mike Leach could get players to hit the beach. And if you look at the coaching tree that branches out from Leach, you'd find a myriad of men who owe him for their start in the profession.
When you examine the way Leach represented the schools ...
Wazzu News and Notes - December 11, 2022
- Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, so Wazzu's loss yesterday to UNLV by a score of 74-70 was just that, a loss. However, there were plenty of reasons to applaud both the performance and the progress the Cougs are making over the past few games. Let's get the bad observation out of the way. WSU turned the ball over a ridiculous 22 times. No one is going to beat many teams with such wreckless play, especially against a team that posted a 9-0 record going into the contest. Some of those errors might be attributed to Coach Kyle Smith going with a different lineup almost every game because of player injuries. Facts are facts and when there isn't a steady lineup, players struggle to play team ball. On the bright side, Wazzu shot a respectable 54.2% from the field, coupled with a very nice 56.5% from behind the arc. On defense, WSU held UNLV to just 30.4% from behind the arc and 50.9% overall. The Cougs outrebounded the Rebels by a margin of 33-20. Despite being down by ...
