Cougs Back Home for Final Homestand of 2025-26 Season

Thursday, February 26

Pullman, Wash.

6 PM

Washington State University

Seattle University

Tickets From $6 - $26

Photo by: Dean Hare/WSU Photo Services

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By: Washington State Athletic Communications

WASHINGTON STATE (5-24, 4-12 WCC) vs. Seattle U (5-22, 1-15 WCC)
Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026 // 6 p.m. PT
Pullman, Wash. // Beasley Coliseum
Watch | ESPN+
Listen | WSUCougars.com/Pullman Radio KQQQ, 1150 AM (Steve Grubbs pXp)
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Washington State women's basketball returns to Beasley Coliseum to host Seattle U on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with Trevor Williams and Mary Murphy on the call.

Thursday's game will be WSU's annual Pink Game. The team will be wearing its pink jerseys when they take on the Redhawks. Fans are encouraged to wear the color pink to the game, and pink pom-poms will be given away to fans as they enter Beasley.

NEXT UP
The Cougars play their season finale, hosting Saint Mary's on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 12 p.m. noon. This will be the team's Senior Day game with the program's seniors being honored with a post-game ceremony immediately following play. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with Trevor Williams and Mary Murphy on the call.

ABOUT WASHINGTON STATE
WSU is 4-12 in West Coast Conference play and 5-24 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, Seton Hall and Miami (OH). As of Feb. 25, all eight of these teams that WSU faced are top 100 in the NET Rankings. Four are top 50, and two are top 25 in LSU (5) and Oregon (24) with Texas Tech just outside of that at 27.

RECORD BOOK CLIMBERS AND MILESTONE CHASERS
>> Eleonora Villa has 1,399 career points, 11th all-time in program history, 86 from moving up to 10th (1,485).
>> Thursday will be the 100th game of Villa's career.
>> Villa has 136 career made threes, 10th all-time at WSU and five away from 9th (141).
>> Villa has also made 552 career field goals, ninth all-time at WSU and 24 away from tying for seventh (576).
>> At 3,338 career minutes played, Villa is ninth all-time at WSU, and 57 from eighth (3,395).
>> Alex Covill has 146 career blocks, sixth all-time in program history and one block shy of fifth (147).
>> Covill also has 249 career rebounds, one away from 250, and 484 career points, 16 from 500.
>> Charlotte Abraham has 478 career points, 22 away from 500.
>> Abraham has 185 rebounds this season, 52 away from top-10 all-time at WSU in a single-season (237).

SERIES HISTORY
This will be the 14th meeting all-time between Washington State and Seattle U, dating back to their first meeting in 1978. WSU leads the all-time series 11-2, and has won each of the last eight meetings. The last time the Redhawks bested the Cougs was on Feb. 4, 1981 - 45 years ago - and Seattle U is 0-4 all-time against Wazzu in Pullman.

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 36th in field goal attempts (403), 37th in made field goals (185), 61st in total points scored (472) and 103rd in points per game (16.3). In the WCC she ranks first in field goal attempts, second in made field goals, third in total points, and fourth in points per game.

HOW RUUD
True Freshman Malia Ruud has burst onto the scene early, averaging 8.6 points over 24.8 minutes per game, including an impressive game-high 11 points against Stanford (11/14) and a career-best 19 against Oregon (11/19) and at San Diego (2/5). She is 102-of-227 from the field, shooting 44.9 percent with 109 rebounds, 12 blocks and 19 steals this season.

Entering Wednesday, Ruud's .449 field goal percentage (102-227) is 28th in the nation among all true freshmen with 102 or more made field goals.

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.

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

Eleonora Villa (10 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 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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