WASHINGTON STATE (4-17, 3-5 WCC) at Pacific (7-11, 2-5 WCC)
Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026 // 6 p.m. PT
Stockton, Calif. // Alex G. Spanos Center
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Washington State women's basketball gets its first one-game week in conference play with a road bout at Pacific on Thursday, Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with Don Gubbins and Celeste Gehring on the call.

NEXT UP
The Cougars have a road-home split next week, starting at Santa Clara on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 6 p.m., then turning around to host Gonzaga on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. The games will be broadcast live on ESPN+.

ABOUT WASHINGTON STATE
WSU is 3-5 in West Coast Conference play and 4-17 overall after a difficult non-conference slate, and a few key injuries, put the team at 1-12 entering WCC competition. Starting center and leading shot blocker Alex Covill missed 13 games while transfer forward Lauren Glazier missed time early in the season, and starting guard and leading scorer Eleonora Villa was held to limited minutes in a pair of games due to lingering cramps.

On top of that, the difficult 13-game non-conference schedule included No. 5 LSU, (RV) Stanford, (RV) Texas Tech, Oregon, Missouri, BYU, UNLV, Seton Hall, and Miami (OH). As of Jan. 20, all 9 of these teams that WSU faced are top 100 in the NET Rankings, five are top 50, and two are top 25 in LSU (5) and Oregon (23).

RECORD BOOK CLIMBERS AND MILESTONE CHASERS
>> Eleonora Villa has 1,303 career points, 13th all-time in program history and 30 from moving up to 12th (1,333).
>> Villa has 132 career made threes, 1 away from joining the WSU all-time top-10 list (133).
>> Villa has also made 513 career field goals, 24 from joining the WSU all-time top-10 list (537).
>> At 3,068 career minutes played, Villa is 255 from top 10 all-time at WSU (3,323).
>> Alex Covill has 134 career blocks, seventh all-time in program history and 1 block shy of sixth (135).
>> Covill also has 225 career rebounds, 25 away from 250, and 419 career points, 81 from 500.
>> Charlotte Abraham has 391 career points, 109 away from 500.
>> Abraham has 141 rebounds this season, 96 away from top-10 all-time at WSU in a single-season (237).
>> Abraham's 228 career rebounds puts her 22 shy of 250.

SERIES HISTORY
This will be the eighth meeting between Washington State and Pacific after the Cougars went 3-0 against them last season. Prior to that, the two teams hadn't played each other since 1989. WSU is 5-2 all-time against Pacific after the Tigers won their first two meetings in Stockton in 1980 and 1983 - the last time Pacific beat WSU.

ELEONORA È ECCELLENTE!
Eleonora Villa has taken another step forward in her game this year, becoming one of the more dominant players in the nation. Among national ranks, the junior guard is 12th in field goal attempts (310), 18th in made field goals (146), 19th in total points scored (376) and 57th in points per game (17.9). In the WCC she ranks first in field goals and field goal attempts, and second in total points and points per game.

HOW RUUD
True Freshman Malia Ruud has burst onto the scene early, averaging 9.0 points over 26.9 minutes per game, including an impressive game-high 11 points against Stanford (11/14) and a career-best 19 against Oregon (11/19). She is 79-of-178 from the field, shooting 44.4 percent with 77 rebounds, 12 blocks and 15 steals this season.

Entering Friday, Ruud's .444 field goal percentage (79-178) is 16th in the nation among all freshmen with 79 or more made field goals, and 13th among all true freshmen.

20-20 VISION
The Cougars had 3 different players score 20+ points in their game vs. Santa Clara on Jan. 10, the first such game in program history since at least the 1999-2000 season. There have been only 18 such games in all of NCAA DI this season.

On the same note of 20-point games, WSU has had four different players record 20-point games this season:

Eleonora Villa (9 times)
Charlotte Abraham (2)
Alex Covill (2)
Keandra Koorits (1)

ROTATING ROTATIONS
Due to injury and youth this season, the Cougars have had 8 different starters this season, and seven unique starting lineups this season.

HOT START FOR KOORITS
Redshirt freshman Keandra Koorits scored 23 points in her WSU debut on Nov. 3, the most by a WSU freshman since Charlisse Leger-Walker (23 pts, 1/1/21). Koorits inaugural performance is also good for the fourth-most points in a freshman debut in program history, and the most since Lia Galdeira scored 33 at Minnesota in her debut on 11/10/12. Galdiera's 33 points stands as the most in program history both by a freshman, and in a debut.

YOUNGEST IN THE FAMILY
Freshman guard Malvina Haziri from Kosovo is the youngest active player in NCAA Division I basketball. After beginning her freshman season at the young age of 16 years old, she just recently turned 17 on Dec. 30, 2025.

PRESEASON POLL
The Cougs were picked to finish third by the WCC coaches and media this year, the second-best conference preseason pick in program history after being picked second ahead of last year's 2024-25 second-place prediction. Prior to that WSU was picked fifth in 2023-24 (Pac-12) and 1991-92 (Pac-10).

ETHRIDGE INKS EXTENSION
WSU Athletics announced on March 4, 2025 that Head Coach Kamie Ethridge has signed a one-year contract extension keeping her in Pullman through the 2030-31 season.

Single-game tickets for the 2025 women's basketball season are on sale now. Fans wishing to purchase tickets can click on the link HERE, visit wsucougars.com to order online, or call the WSU Athletics Ticket Office at 1-800-GO-COUGS.

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