WASHINGTON STATE (5-20, 4-8 WCC) at Pepperdine (14-9, 5-6 WCC)
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026 // 1 p.m. PT
Malibu, Calif. // Firestone Fieldhouse
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Washington State women's basketball is in Malibu to play Pepperdine on Saturday, Feb. 7 at 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with Joey Vergilis and Victoria Dennis on the call.

NEXT UP
The Cougars return home for a one-game week when they play host to Portland on Thursday, Feb. 12 at 6 p.m. in Beasley Coliseum. The game will be broadcast live on ESPN+ with Trevor Williams and Stephanie Freeman on the call.

ABOUT WASHINGTON STATE
WSU is 4-8 in West Coast Conference play and 5-20 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, Miami (OH) and Penn. As of Feb. 3, all 10 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 (22) with Texas Tech just outside of that at 29.

RECORD BOOK CLIMBERS AND MILESTONE CHASERS
>> Eleonora Villa has 1,369 career points, 11th all-time in program history, 116 from moving up to 10th (1,485).
>> Villa has 136 career made threes, 10th all-time at WSU and five away from 9th (141).
>> Villa has also made 539 career field goals, 10th all-time at WSU and four away from ninth (543).
>> At 3,209 career minutes played, Villa is 114 from top 10 all-time at WSU (3,323).
>> Alex Covill has 140 career blocks, sixth all-time in program history and seven blocks shy of fifth (147).
>> Covill also has 235 career rebounds, 15 away from 250, and 438 career points, 62 from 500.
>> Charlotte Abraham has 439 career points, 61 away from 500.
>> Abraham has 159 rebounds this season, 78 away from top-10 all-time at WSU in a single-season (237).
>> Abraham's 246 career rebounds puts her four shy of 250.

SERIES HISTORY
This will be the seventh meeting all-time between Washington State and Pepperdine. WSU has won each of their last five meetings dating back to 2005, and leads the all-time series, 5-1. Pepperdine won the first matchup on Dec. 17, 1983, the first and only win for the Waves over the Cougars.

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 19th in field goal attempts (361), 22nd in made field goals (172), 29th in total points scored (442) and 59th in points per game (17.7). In the WCC she ranks first in field goal attempts, and second in made field goals, total points and points per game.

HOW RUUD
True Freshman Malia Ruud has burst onto the scene early, averaging 9.0 points over 25.9 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 91-of-203 from the field, shooting 44.8 percent with 95 rebounds, 12 blocks and 16 steals this season.

Entering Friday, Ruud's .448 field goal percentage (91-203) is 21st in the nation among all true freshmen with 91 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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