WASHINGTON STATE (11-2) at AUBURN (9-2)
Wednesday, Dec. 20 at 12 p.m. PT
Auburn, Ala.
Neville Arena
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COUGARS HEAD SOUTH TO FACE AUBURN TIGERS
Washington State plays at Auburn to wrap up non-conference play this season on Wednesday, Dec. 20. Tip-off is scheduled for 12 p.m. PT on SEC Network+.
NEXT UP
After the holiday break, the Cougars will settle into Pac-12 competition with a trip to Stanford on Friday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. PT and California on Sunday, Jan. 7 at 12 p.m. PT.
ABOUT WASHINGTON STATE
WSU Women’s Basketball is 11-2, which is their best start through 13 games since the 1978-79 season when they started 12-1. The Cougars had five players score in double figures on Sunday for the fifth time this season, and has had 4+ in double figures in four of the last five games. WSU has eight players returned from last year’s Pac-12 Conference Tournament Championship team including three starters who won a program-record 23 games (23-11, 9-9 Pac-12) and were ranked as high as No. 22 in the AP Poll after capturing the program’s first Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Championship to clinch their third-straight trip to the NCAA Tournament. Kamie Ethridge, the 2022-23 National Coach of the Year by The Athletic, returns three All-Pac-12 players led by All-America guard Charlisse Leger-Walker.
COUGS RECEIVING VOTES IN THE RANKINGS
The Cougs received votes on the AP Top-25 this week after having been ranked as high as number 21 this season. Earlier this year, Washington State was voted to the Preseason Associated Press Top-25 Poll for the first time in program history, appearing at No. 24 in the preseason poll. WSU was picked to finish fifth by the Pac-12 Conference coaches and media, matching the best preseason pick in program history after also being picked fifth ahead of the 1991-92 season.
SERIES HISTORY
This will be the first meeting between the Washington State and Auburn women’s basketball programs.
CLIMBING THE RECORD BOOK, BEA CHASING MILESTONES
Charlisse Leger-Walker and Bella Murekatete continue to move their names up the Cougar record book.
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