WASHINGTON STATE (14-14, 5-9)
at Washington (13-15, 3-12) | Fri., Feb. 28 | 6 p.m.
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OPENING FIVE
> The Cougs head to the West Side to finish up the Boeing Apple Cup Series with Washington Friday. WSU won the opening game, 79-67, behind a 34-point career effort out of CJ Elleby.
> WSU fell to .500 on the year at 14-14 after dropping games to Cal and Stanford last week to close out play at Beasley Coliseum. WSU finished the regular season 12-5 overall at home.
> The 1,000 pt watch is officially on for CJ Elleby who is now 7 points shy of the milestone. He is on pace to become the 3rd fastest in program history to hit 1K.
> WSU has been without their starting point guard and second leading scorer, Isaac Bonton, the past three games due to injury. During that time the Cougs have scored just 55 ppg and shot just 30.0% (54-180) while hitting at a 19.7% (16-81) clip from behind the arc.
> Pac-12 seeding is beginning to flesh itself out with the Cougs sitting looking at the 10th seed (head-to-head win over OSU) and a date with Stanford in the 7-10 matchup. However, three-games left leaves plenty of room for movement.

GAME INFORMATION - VS WASHINGTON
WSU heads to the West Side for the second half of the Boeing Apple Cup Series with the Huskies. The Cougs won game one against UW, 79-67, thanks to a career day from CJ Elleby as the sophomore star scored 34 points. The Cougs last grabbed a season sweep of the Huskies in 2017 winning 79-74 in Seattle. In both games in 2017 the Cougs scored 79 points making it three-straight games in which WSU scored 79 points in Apple Cup wins. UW enters the game off a 35-point win over Cal, snapping a nine-game skid for the Huskies on the season.

LAST TIME OUT
STAN 75 - WSU 57 | Feb. 23, 2020 | Pullman, Wash.
The Cougs dropped their fourth-straight contest and eighth-straight against the Cardinal in the home finale. Playing without second-leading scorer Isaac Bonton for the third-straight game, the Cougs offense struggled to keep up with the hot shooting of the Cardinal, who pulled away in the games final 10 minutes after WSU cut the deficit to just four points. In the loss, the CJ Elleby came up with a third-straight double-double scoring a game-high 22 while grabbing 10 rebounds. Jervae Robinson, in his final game at Beasley, tied a career best with 14 points.

1,000 POINTS IN REACH FOR ELLEBY
Entering the week with 993 career points, sophomore CJ Elleby has his sights set on becoming the newest and 38th member of the 1,000 pt club. Needing just 7 points he is on pace to become the third fastest to reach 1,000 points in program history in just 61 games, coming in just in front of the legend Klay Thompson who achieved the feat in 63 games. 
The fastest all-time was legend Steve Puidokas (1974-77) at 52 games while Jim McKean (1966-68) needed 57 games.
Elleby's career 16.6 ppg ranks 5th all-time. His 117 3PT FG ranks just outside of the program's top-20 needing just four to tie Que Johnson's 121 (2014-16).

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