BERKELEY, Calif. – Only taking margin of defeat into consideration, Washington State’s 48-point loss to Stanford earlier in the week week still goes down as the most humiliating of the Cougars’ 2018-19 season.
But if other metrics and various advanced rankings are taken into account, Thursday’s dud at Maples Pavilion might have some company now.
WSU made a late push to avoid losing to the worst team in the Pac-12 – and arguably the worst in college basketball at the Power Five level – but buried underneath a pile of their own mistakes, the shorthanded Cougars suffered another embarrassing defeat in the Bay Area, falling 76-69 to California at Haas Pavilion.