Women's Basketball Tips-Off Exhibition Play Monday

Monday, October 29

Pullman, WA

7:00 PM

Washington State University

Warner Pacific (Exh.)

October 28, 2018 | Women's Basketball

Game Notes (PDF)

The Cougs host Warner Pacific Monday night at Beasley.

By: Athletic Communications

WASHINGTON STATE
vs Warner Pacific | Mon., Oct. 29 | 7 p.m.
Live Statistics | WSUCougars.com

OPENING FIVE
> Washington State begins it's new era Monday with first-year head coach Kamie Ethridge. Ethridge takes over the Cougars after spending the last four seasons shaping Northern Colorado into a mid-major power.
> Last season the Cougars dominated their exhibition contest against The Masters Universtiy, winning 95-57.
> The Cougars return their top three scorers in Borislava Hristova, Alexys Swedlund, and Chanelle Molina. Overall, WSU returns six letterwinners from a season ago while welcoming five newcomers (four true freshman and one redshirt-freshman).
> Borislava Hristova, the Cougs' 2018 All-Pac-12 honoree from a season ago, enters the year on the Cheryl Miller Watch List as one of the top-20 small forwards in all of college basketball.
> WSU has a pair of players playing for their home countries as Chanelle Molina took gold with Team USA at the FISU America Games in Brazil over the summer while freshman Ula Motuga is currently with the U-18 Australian national team at the 2018 Asian Championships in India.

2017-18 AT A GLANCE
The Cougars finished the regular season with a 10-19 overall record, including a 3-13 mark in Pac-12 Conference play to finish 10th in the conference. They would fall 47-44 in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament to USC. WSU lost nine games on the year and were 4-9 in contests that were decided by two possessions (six points) or less. The biggest wins of the season came against Rutgers (63-60) and at Nebraska (73-61).

THE 2018-19 SCHEDULE
The Cougars hit the court for the first time Monday, Oct. 29 in exhibition play while the regular season begins Tuesday, Nov. 6. WSU and the rest of the Pac-12 will begin play conference play Sunday, Dec. 30 with Washington State heading to Seattle for the first part of the Boeing Apple Cup Series with rival Washington. In all, the Cougars will face 10 teams that played in the 2018 NCAA Tournament, four in nonconference play and six in Pac-12 competition. In addition, the Cougars will host three Elite Eight teams from a season ago with Oregon, Oregon State, and Stanford come to the Palouse.

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